The Wartburg Choir performs sacred music from all historical periods and styles and often premieres new works by contemporary composers.
[2] The Wartburg Choir has been invited to perform at several national and divisional conventions of the American Choral Directors Association.
[3] As part of that trip to Washington, D.C., the choir also sang at the National Cathedral's Bethlehem Prayer Service, which was simulcast worldwide.
[4] The Wartburg Choir travels internationally every 3 years and has performed in over 21 European countries, three Canadian provinces, Scandinavia, and South Africa.
The choir has also performed with Simon Estes, a world-renowned opera star who also served as a distinguished professor and artist-in-residence at Wartburg College.
Already in the 1940s there were radio broadcasts, originating from the college campus, featuring the choir — along with other music groups and, on occasion, speakers and lectures.
"His singers toured Europe in 1974 and began the tradition of performing at the Wartburg Castle, the college's namesake in Eisenach, Germany.
"[6] "A prolific composer, Fritschel left a lasting mark on the choir and college traditions with a disarmingly simple composition.
Taking the text of a four-line poem, penned years earlier by college English professor (and American Lutheran Church poet laureate) Gustav J. Neumann, the composer set words to music of his own creation.
The Washington Post described the choir as "a Mighty Fortress of Skill" in headlining a review of the 2004 Kennedy Center concert by music critic Cecelia Porter.