The Fredösphere

I'm late with this, but NPR has noticed the Summer Sing phenomenon.  Choristers from Washington, D.C. take a bite out of the Verdi Requiem. "The Verdi Requiem is the Mount Everest of great choral works."  Yes, just like all the rest of them. "Washington is considered one of the choral capitals of the world ." Weird, I didn't realize Washington is a Lutheran town.  You learn something new every day. I know it's a bourgeois town, but still....