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- ↑ Fundraiser helps the Capitol Hill Chorale make music, Washington Post, Capitol Business, Monday, May 24, 2010.
- ↑ Our Choral Capitol, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, WAMU 88.5 Radio, Washington, December 9, 2010.
- ↑ Libresco, Leah (March 26, 2014). "Hope without Sentimentality". Unequally Yoked. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
- ↑ Solash, Richard, Forgotten Work By Master Georgian Composer Reincarnated By U.S. Chorale, Radio Free Europe, October 26, 2010.
- ↑ Weinstein, Elizabeth (October 24, 2014). "Capitol Hill Chorale Revives Lost Georgian Masterpiece". WAMU American University Radio. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
- ↑ "Capitol Hill Chorale Announces Kevin Siegfried as Resident Composer". ChoralNet. March 21, 2014. Retrieved December 23, 2015.
