City Choir delivers an operatic, drama-filled Mozart's 'Requiem'

Robert Shafer, director of the City Choir of Washington, knows how to program choral concerts by coupling new music with monumental staples of the past. Now in its eighth season, his 140 singers can deliver both chamber and symphonic works with equal success. Shafer also enlists superb vocal soloists and a fine orchestra, forces that regularly draw a full house, as they did at a Sunday concert at the expansive National Presbyterian Church. The afternoon opened with an intriguing new work, "Tript...