We note the occasion of Russian Orthodox Christmas Day with a Russian vocal ensemble called Svetilin (svet-EE-lin). The ensemble came by the Performance Today studio to sing a handful of ancient ...
LENOX — For decades after the Bolshevik Revolution, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s reinvention of sacred music from the Russian Orthodox Church went unheard. Tchaikovsky’s composition was a departure from ...