[Choir] No new music but other Bogoroditse recording

[Kellie Hart]

Hi All: Tonight for our chalice lighting I will be sharing a version of a
piece I would like us to do for Christmas Eve.  But I haven't yet received
permission from the publisher to do a Virtual Choir version, so we won't
start rehearsing it yet and I don't have any new music to send you yet.
Just a bit of a preview -top secret -revealed tonight...

And I did find the Grammy-award winning version of the piece we listened to
last week, so have attached it to this email.  And below is also the info I
wrote up about the piece:

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1942) was born in Russia and studied music at the
St. Petersburg Conservatory and the Moscow Conservatory.  He was equally
famous as a pianist, composer, and conductor.  In 1917 he moved to
Stockholm, then Copenhagen, to escape the Russian Revolution.  In 1939 he
moved to the US to escape the Nazis in World War II.  He wrote the Vespers
in 1915 in only two weeks during World War I, and it was first performed to
raise money for war relief. The vespers is a night-long service celebrated
in Russian orthodox churches on the eve of holy days, and this piece is
considered a crowning achievement in Russian choral music of the Russian
Orthodox Church, and was Rachmaninoff’s last and greatest liturgical
composition.  The combined Phoenix Chorale and the Kansas City Chorale won
a grammy in 2015 for Best Choral Performance with this recording. This
particular movement is based on an Ave Maria text, but in Russian.


See you soon! -Kellie


On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 6:27 PM Kellie Hart <hartsongsmusic at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All: Just a reminder that we have our Zoom Choir Rehearsal again
>> tomorrow night, Thursday October 29th from 6:30 to 8pm.  The Zoom info is
>> the same, as usual, which I've pasted in again at the end of this email.
>>
>
> My Mac computer died suddenly yesterday (perhaps not entirely unexpected,
> as it was 8 1/2 years old!), so I've been scrambling to get a new one and
> be ready for tomorrow night.  It was going to take up to 2 weeks to get a
> new one ordered and delivered through my local computer store, but luckily
> I was able to find one at Costco.  I now have most of what I need set-up so
> I can run the Zoom meeting tomorrow evening, YAY!  I may or may not have
> new music ready for tomorrow night to send to you -just check email again
> tomorrow afternoon in case I do.
>
> I have not yet transferred all my music to my new computer, but here is a
> link to a different recording of the beautiful Rachmaninoff we listened to
> last week for our Chalice Lighting and closing of rehearsal:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tu9moIJ3uM
>
> I'm glad you all seemed to like this piece, as it is one of my favorites.
> It really helps me find some calm and peace during this crazy time.  Enjoy,
> and I'll "see" you tomorrow on Zoom!  -Kellie
>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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