On Monday morning, March 11 WXXI welcomes the Yale Russian Chorus to the Henry Epstein Studio for a special live broadcast on Classical 91.5. Brenda Tremblay will speak with Music Director Brooks Chupp, and the ensemble will perform sacred and secular Slavic choral music.
The Yale Russian Chorus (YRC) is a tenor-bass a cappella choral ensemble made up of Yale University students from a variety of academic disciplines. Founded during the Cold War in 1953, the YRC is recognized as one of the world’s premier performance ensembles of Slavic music today. Their repertoire spans the twelfth century to the twenty-first, and stretches across Eastern Europe from Slovakia to Georgia.
The chorus has performed at many venues in Russia and Ukraine, and at many places in the United States, including Carnegie Hall and The White House and has been heard on the public radio programs Performance Today and A Prairie Home Companion.
YRC is in Rochester to perform concerts at West Bloomfield United Church of Christ and Calvary St. Andrews in Rochester on Sunday, March 10, and at St Luke’s Episcopal Church in Brockport Monday, March 11. They will join Brenda Tremblay on Classical 91.5 just after 9:00 on Monday morning.
Listen to the Yale Russian Chorus sing Shen Khar Venakhi, Thou Art a Vineyard, a medieval Georgian hymn.
