After Antolini, an extremely different life began at Moscow University. This all happened at a pivotal time. It was essential that everyone hear this music, and no one knew exactly why it was so essential. But it all started with the liturgy of Rachmaninoff and it came at exactly the right moment. Nancy Reeves, producer of Rediscovering Rachmaninoff , is a Cabrillo Slavonic Chorus member who felt compelled to record the story of Antolini's discovery, and the choir's journey, on video.
Reeves says people in Russia wept as they listened to the liturgy, unheard for so many years.
The service was celebrated by Metropolitan Alexei, now Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. Produced in conjunction with Videofilm, Moscow. Funding for Rediscovering Rachmaninoff was provided by The Bay Area Video Coalition, the Xerox Foundation, the Cabrillo Foundation, Hewlett-Packard, and more than 300 individual donors.