The Yale Russian Chorus is a tenor-bass a cappella choral ensemble 

specializing in sacred and secular Slavic choral music. The members are

Yale University students and community residents from a variety of

academic and professional disciplines. Founded in 1953 by Denis

Mickiewicz, who was a Yale student at the time, the Yale Russian

Chorus sings music of the twelfth to the twenty-first centuries, including 

settings of traditional sacred and secular songs and major choral works

by Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Stravinsky, and Rachmaninoff. In

1998 and 1999 the chorus performed at Carnegie Hall. Other prominent 

performance venues have included the White House, the internationally 

acclaimed Saint Petersburg Festival at New York’s Winter Garden, the

Hermitage exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, and the Russian 

Cultural Center in Washington, DC. The chorus has also toured Ukraine,

the Russian Republic, and the United States. One of its CD recordings, 

Chants and Carols, received notable international press coverage and

glowing reviews. In addition, The Yale Russian Chorus has promulgated 

major events for the performance of Slavic choral masterpieces, such as

the Slavic Choral Festival at Yale.

Mark Bailey was appointed artistic director of the Yale Russian 

Chorus in 1995. He also conducts the New Haven Oratorio Choir and

Orchestra and the Manchester Symphony Chorale. Bailey is noted as a

leading expert in Slavic sacred music and conducts both sacred and

secular Russian/Slavic music extensively. He is also the founder and

artistic director of the Slavic Choral Festival at Yale University. A

graduate of the Eastman School of Music and the Yale School of Music

Sacred Music Institute, Bailey serves on the faculty of Saint Vladimir’s

Orthodox Theological Seminary in Crestwood, New York.

Program notes by Elmer Booze

Selectionsfrom concerts at the Gallery

can he heard on the second Sunday ofeach month

at 9:00 p.m. on WGMS, 103.5 FM.

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The Sixtieth Season of

THE WILLIAM NELSON CROMWELL and

F. LAMMOT BELIN CONCERTS

National Gallery of Art

2400th Concert

THE YALE RUSSIAN CHORUS

MARK BAILEY, artistic director

Sunday Evening, 9 December 2001

Seven O'clock

West Building, East Garden Court

Admission free
PROGRAM

Arr. Mark Bailey Canon in Honor of Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)

(b. 1963)

Znamenny Chant Dnes spaseniye miru bist

(Today Salvation Has Come)

Kieven Chant Ninye otpushchayeshi (Saint Simeon’s Prayer)

Russian-Greek Chant Vzbrannoy voyevode 

(To Thee, O Victorious Leader)

Yepifany Slavinetsky 

(d. 1675)

Kako vozmozhem dostoyno hvaliti 

(How May We Worthily Praise Thee)

Mark Bailey Holy God

Archimandrite Joseph Yako da tsaria fseh podimen 

(That We May Receive the King)

from the Cherubikon

Adapted from B. Kazan Saint Simeon’s Prayer 

Byzantine Chant, Tone 6

Aleksandr Fateyev

(Flourished late 19th century)

Cherubikon

Smolensky-Bailey Christ Is Risen

Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov 

(1859-1935)

Blagoslovie, dushe moya, Ghospoda 

(Bless the Lord, O My soul)

Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky 

(1840-1893)

Sviatiy Bozhe

(Holy God)

INTERMISSION

Ukrainian Carol, arr. Kirill Stesenko

Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakoff

(1844-1908)

Tchaikovsky

Anonymous

Georgian Chant

(c. 12th century)

Nebo i zemlia 

(Heaven and Earth)

Tebe poyem

(We Sing Hymns to Thee)

Chorus from the Opera Oprichnik

Polna, polna vam, rebiata, chuzho pivo piti

(Lads, Stop Drinking Other People’s Beer!)

Shen khar venakhi

(Thou Art a Vineyard)

Aleksandr Vasilyevich Sveshnikov 

(1890-1980)

Kak poidu ya na bistruyu rechku

(When I Go to the Swift River)

Ukrainian Folk Song, arr. Mickiewicz-Bailey 

Arr. Denis Mickiewicz

Georgian Folk Song

Dmitri Bortniansky 

(1751-1825)

Dunya

Borodino

Pa maryam

Satrpialo

Mnogaya Lyeta 

([May God Grant You] Many Years)

The use ofcameras or recording equipment during

the performance is not allowed.

For the convenience ofconcertgoers

the Garden Cafe remains open until 6:30 p.m.