Accession Number: 2021-011-09
Original work: Drawing Scratchboard
Original size: 12 by 9 inches
Depicted is a vocal soloist with the United States Navy’s official chorus, the Sea Chanters. The ensemble performs a variety of music including traditional choral music, sea chanteys, patriotic fare, opera, Broadway and contemporary music. The Sea Chanters perform for the public regularly on national tours and in Washington, D.C. While in the nations capital they perform for the president, vice president and numerous congressional, military and foreign dignitaries.
In 1956, Lt. Harold Fultz, then the band’s assistant leader, organized a vocal group from the Navy School of Music to sing chanteys and patriotic songs for the State of the Nation dinner. Recognizing the ensemble’s immediate success, then CNO Adm. Arleigh Burke transferred the group to the Navy Band, gave them their current name and tasked this all-male chorus with perpetuation the songs of the sea. In 1980 the group added women to its ranks and expanded its repertoire to include everything from Brahms to Broadway.
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