"That's like preaching to the choir," said Ms. Mayer, a Florida resident.
Ms. Bassett, who grew up singing in a church choir, said she immediately agreed when Ms. Lemmons approached her about the role.
Mary Rogers, the director of the church's choir, said she saw the Ahrlichs at a Thanksgiving eve service.
"He's preaching to the choir," said Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, once a staunch Clinton backer, "and we're ready to sing".
"The people who are in the hall — they've already been sold, they are the choir," said John C. Danforth, a former Republican senator from Missouri.
"I was stood in front of a big orchestra, with 90 musicians and 90 people of the choir," says the 87-year-old maestro.
This is an early Latin Mass, probably 15th-century Italy, and the minute you pick it up in Latin -- even the choir said: 'Wow!
"The architectural elements of its facade envelop the altar and the choir," said Mr. Newman, 67, the director of music at St . Matthews Episcopal Church in Bedford.
In a gesture that did not go unnoticed, the archbishop "turned to thank the music director and the choir," said Joan Cavanagh, associate director of campus ministry.
Hoffman, currently starring in drama The Choir, said he was struggling to find his next directing role after making his debut on 2012's Quartet.
During a rehearsal in a room decorated with fading photos of Georgian bishops, Nino Naneishvili, 26, director of the female Ialoni choir, said that young people are increasingly discovering the chants by attending church.
