Cantilena Chamber Choir kicks off season with Tchaikovsky sacred choral works and Russian folk songs
The Cantilena Chamber Choir returns for its 22nd season with "Rutter & Tchaikovsky," on Oct. 19 at 3 p.m. at Trinity Church in 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 the norm for Russian composers, said Andrea Goodman, founder and director of the Cantilena Chamber Choir.
many of his contemporaries used European models of composition after studying in Italy.
Author's summary: Cantilena Chamber Choir starts season.