David Hogan was a composer and musical director of CIGAP -- Le Choeur Int'l Gai de Paris -- a choir made up of men who loved music and wanted to show pride in their identity as gay

Gay

Gay is a word that refers to a homosexual person, especially a homosexual male. For homosexual women the specific term is "lesbian"....

 men.

A native of Virginia, Hogan graduated from the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...

 with a bachelor's degree in 1971, and would go on to earn a master's degree in voice in 1975. He would later help found The Walden School

The Walden School

The Walden School is a private summer music camp situated on the campus of the Dublin School, in Dublin, New Hampshire, USA. It is a five-week residential program which hosts approximately 45 students aged 10-18 and focuses on developing musicianship through composition, improvisation and choral...

, a summer program based on the campus of Dublin School

Dublin School

The Dublin School is a preparatory private high school with a small student body. It is located in Dublin, New Hampshire, near Dublin Pond and Mount Monadnock. The school enrolls around 130 students per year.-History:...

 in Dublin, New Hampshire

Dublin, New Hampshire

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.

When the previous musical director of CIGAP resigned three weeks before its auditions, Hogan was tapped to fill in the position. During his tenure, he whipped CIGAP members into shape, chorally and vocally.

During his career, Hogan had also been tenor

Tenor

The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...

 soloist

Solo (music)

In music, a solo is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung by a single performer...

 with the Washington National Cathedral

Washington National Cathedral

The Washington National Cathedral, officially named the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, is a cathedral of the Episcopal Church located in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. Of neogothic design, it is the sixth-largest cathedral in the world, the second-largest in...

 (Episcopal) in Washington, DC.

Hogan and CIGAP baritone

Baritone

Baritone is a type of male singing voice that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice. Originally from the Greek , meaning deep sounding, music for this voice is typically written in the range from the second F below middle C to the F above middle C Baritone (or...

 Jean-Paul Galland were killed when TWA Flight 800

TWA Flight 800

Trans World Airlines Flight 800 , a Boeing 747-131, exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 20:31 EDT, 12 minutes after takeoff, killing all 230 persons on board. At the time, it was the second-deadliest U.S...

exploded off the coast of Long Island, killing all 230 passengers and crew on board.

External links

• Obituary from the Washington Post