Cathedral Choral Society
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Cathedral Choral Society is a 240-voice concert chorus based at the Washington National Cathedral. Presently its music director is J. Reilly Lewis, who has been in the position since 1985. Paul Callaway founded the group in 1941 and directed it through 1984. The society performs regularly at the Kennedy Center and Wolf Trap in addition to the cathedral with groups including the National Symphony Orchestra. Six of its recordings are still available and its flagship recording Hymns through the Centuries, recorded in 2000, was still achieving a 5,300 Amazon.com sales rank as of June 2005.
