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Summer
1971: Photo, 8x10 - Leningrad Kapella
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YRC conductor Dan Godfrey leading
the Chorus in a formal concert in the Leningrad Kapella in
the summer of 1971. In the 1970s the YRC increasingly tried
to arrange formal concerts in the USSR, often joint events
with Soviet singing
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March
1973: Photo, 8x10 - National Gallery
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Senator
Hubert Humphrey continued his association with the YRC. Here
he met with the
Chorus after it sang in March 1973 for the opening of an exhibit in the National
Gallery of Art in Washington DC consisting of art lent by Soviet museums. |
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| September
1973: Program - 20th anniversary concert |
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Program for the 20th anniversary
concert in Woolsey Hall in September 1973, directed by Brock
Holmes and Denis Mickiewicz. |
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| March
1977: Photo, 5x7 - Leningrad Bronze Horseman |
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In
March 1977 the YRC, working with the help of the Citizens
Exchange Council, toured Leningrad,
Moscow, Kiev and Tbilisi. The photograph shows the YRC
gathered in the snow in front of the "Bronze Horseman", the statue
along the Neva River in Leningrad commissioned by Catherine the Great to
honor Peter the Great. |
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| March
1977: Photo, 8x10 - Nevsky Theological Seminary |
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The March 1977 tour included a
concert at the Alexander Nevsky Theological Seminary in Leningrad
with Alex Kuzma conducting. |
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| September
1978: 25th anniversary concert (Woolsey Hall) |
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The YRC gave two 25th anniversary
concerts, the first in Woolsey Hall on September 17, 1978 and
the second, one day later, in Carnegie Hall. Over 120 singers
appeared. |
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| September
1978: Program - Carnegie Hall |
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The
25th anniversary concert in Carnegie Hall was the YRC's first
appearance in that hall, with Denis Mickiewicz and Dan Gsovski
conducting. There were over 120 singers. |
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| December
1978: Poster - YRC/YSC Christmas concert |
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The
Yale Slavic Chorus began in 1969 as a women's spin-off group,
related in spirit to the YRC but with its own repertoire
consisting mainly of Balkan songs. The two groups gave many
joint concerts. |
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| May
1979: Photo, 5x7 - Leningrad University Student Club |
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The
1979 tour to the USSR included this appearance at the Student
Club of Leningrad University, with Steve Lipsitt conducting. |
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| July
1979: Newsletter with Leningrad poster |
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In
the late 1970s the YRC started publishing a newsletter to
keep members and alumni informed of concerts, plans, new
officers and conductors and so forth. This July 1979 issue
features the poster for one of the May 1979 Leningrad concerts
with Steve Lipsitt conducting. |
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