Bob photo gallery — The City Choir of Washington

Bob, age 2

Bob, age 3

Bob, age 4 or 5

In Germany, 1953

In Germany

With Granddad Charles Shafer

With Little League team, Vienna, Virginia. Bob is front row, far right

In 7th or 8th grade, Bob (back row, 2nd from left) was 3rd place winner in the Bach International Keyboard Festival, Washington, D.C.

Bob & Sharon in Jan. 1965 at Holy Name Academy, Silver Spring. Bob was Sharon's accompanist for her senior recital, but they had only been on a few dates at that time.

Bob & Sharon's wedding, June 1967

With Nadia Boulanger, 1971

With the Madison Madrigals at the White House, 1972

With Gunther Schuller at the Kennedy Center, in preparation for "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny," 1972

At St. Matthew's Cathedral, 1974

With the Oratorio Society at the Kennedy Center, 1974. Sharon Shafer & Gene Tucker were the soloists.

With Aaron Copeland, 1975

With Mstislav Rostropovich, 1980s

with Amy Antonelli & Rostropovich, c. 1982

With the Shenandoah University Conservatory Choir, Rome, 1997

With the 2000 Grammy for best choral performance (Britten's War Requiem), Feb. 2000

With Grammy, and Marv & Elaine Wunderlich, Feb. 2000

With Gen. Henry Hugh Shelton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (center) & Peter Latona (left, music director of the National Shrine) at a 2001 TWC performance to benefit families of 9/11

TCCW's inaugural concert, Solomon, 2007

With Norman Scribner, 2009

With J. Reilly Lewis, 2011

With Sir John Tavener at TCCW's 2013 Diamond Jubilee concert at Washington National Cathedral

Warming up for The Lord of the Rings at Wolf Trap, Sept. 2013

"Silent Night," Dec. 2014

70th birthday celebration, Jan. 2016

With pianist (and college roommate) Frank Conlon, Jan. 2016

With Shenandoah University Conservatory colleagues Byron Jones, Aime Sposato, Karen Keating, and Michael Forest, in honor of Bob's retirement from SU in April, 2016

With Bill Doepkens (left) & Sharon at TCCW's 10th Anniversary Celebration, Sept. 2016

With founding members of TCCW at the 10th Anniversary celebration, 2016 [from left: James Hutchinson, Jr., Kathryn Tidyman, Elaine Wunderlich, Carol Edison, Meg Hemingway & Barbara Ilacqua]