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Posted on April 25, 2019April 25, 2019

#ChoralMarch – the playlist

Not sure how many people care but here are the Choral March selections of, um, choral music in playlist form..

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Posted on March 15, 2019March 10, 2019

#ChoralMarch, March 15th: “Bogoroditse Devo” from All Night Vigil, Sergei Rachmaninov performed by St Petersburg Chamber Choir

On this day in 1915 Rachmaninov’s All Night Vigil was first performed. Back in 2013, I conceived of a grandiose plan that performances of this piece could be held contemporaneously…

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Posted on March 4, 2019February 17, 2019

#ChoralMarch, March 4th, “The Besoms”, Male Choir of the Moscow Academy of Vocal Arts

If there is a vocal tradition I am most drawn to, it is the Russian. Around 2000 I saw the UCD Choral Scholars (more of which later this month)  in…

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