One hundred members of the 225-member group were invited to sing with Josh Groban and Heather Headley at the Lincoln Memorial for the historic “We Are One” concert. The performance of “My Country Tis of Thee” recalled and paid tribute to Marian Anderson’s concert opening with that song at the Memorial in 1939.
The appearance was among important firsts: the inclusion of the chorus and the invocation by openly gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson. The president-elect mentioned lgbt people as an identity group in his remarks as he had done at the beginning of his whistle-stop tour. It’s unfortunate that the producers and HBO did not include any identification of the group, but word has gotten out that our singers were there. Also many who were there are perplexed why Bishop Gene Robinson’s Invocation was not even broadcast.
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