Sumter High Choir performs at Lincoln Center

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Sumter High School Choir students, under the direction of Ashlee Poole, performed "Mass in Blue" by English composer Will Todd this past week at the Lincoln Center in New York. They had the opportunity to work alongside the composer himself and University of South Carolina's newly appointed Director of Choral Studies Dr. Alicia Walker. Sumter High Choir became part of a choir of more than 200 singers from around the world including, but not limited to, choir members from USC, Blythewood High School, Portage Northern High School, Brookland-Cayce High School, Scotland's Helensbrugh Oratorio Choir, Dreher High School, Gilbert High School, Irmo High School, UK's Weston Choral, Caledonia High School, Denver's Kantoreir, Virginia's Williamsburg Women's Chorus, Louisburg High School, Toronto's Skule Choir, Rhode Island's Newman Congregational Church Choir, Trumbull High School, Florida's Church by the Sea and Scotland's University of Dundee Choir.