In 1998, with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington Men's Camerata established a national lending library of men's choral music. Named for the founder and first chief librarian of the Royal Library at Alexandria, The Demetrius Project continues has grown to include over 3,300 titles and approximately 200,000 individual scores.
The goals of the library are to preserve choral collections from inactive community and university choruses, and to provide sheet music as a resource for those looking to explore and discover tenor and bass repertoire. The holdings of the library come from 18 universities including Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, Temple, Colgate, Davidson, Georgetown, Lafayette, Pomona, SUNY at Albany, and Michigan as well as U.S. Army Chorus, Measure for Measure, the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC, and the University Glee Club of Philadelphia. Contained in the collection are many "hidden treasures," including original works and arrangements by Charles Ives, Marshall Bartholomew, Fenno Heath, Darius Milhaud and other American composers and choral conductors.
For more info or to volunteer or support The Demetrius Project, please email info@camerata.com or call (202) 364-1064.
An ongoing series of recordings helps to preserve and promote the various “classics” that comprise The Demetrius Project. Brothers Sing On! Classics for Men's Chorus was released in 2006, followed by When I Was a Young Man: More Classics for Men's Chorus in 2009. Explore Camerata albums at camerata.com/shop