Choir archive
The conventual divine services are embellished with choir singing which, with
a blessing of the Metropolitan, participated in many significant concerts
and solemn divine services: in the Assumption cathedral of the Moscow
Kremlin during patriarchal worship service, in the Christ the Savior
cathedral on its consecration day on August, 19, 2000, on Glorifying of
the Assembly of new Russian martyrs
and confessors day on
August, 20, 2000, and also during many worship services headed by
Metropolitan of Krutitsy and Kolomna Yuvenaly
in monasteries and
churches of the Moscow region.
Concert
performances of the choir during Saxony-Bohemia festival in
Germany in June 2000 under the invitation of the Russian international
center of cultural and scientific cooperation in Berlin, Dresden,
Vrotslav acquainted
foreign audience with the beauty of divine service motets of the Russian
Orthodox Church.
Participation
in the following concerts is also significant: at the All-Russia congress
of precentors in the Moscow Spiritual Academy in 1999, in the Kremlin
Palace of congresses in an anniversary concert in honour of the
2000th-anniversary of the Nativity of Christ in 1999, in a
concert hall "Russia" in an anniversary concert in honour of the
10th-anniversary of
the Most Holy Patriarch
Alexy II’s enthronement, and also in the Hall of Church Councils in the
Christ the Savior cathedral in a concert in the framework of
Bishop’s Council in August, 2000; in
Moscow regional festival of choral art in May, 2004.
With special
awesomeness and diligence sister prepared for a concert devoted to the
75th-anniversary of Alexy II, the Most Holy Patriarch of Moscow
and All Russia.
Performance
of "Bell vesper" and harmonized by the convent “Glorious island of Valamo”
attracted everyone’s attention by great skill and sincerity. The response
of the Most Holy Patriarch was both an estimation of singing art of
sisters, and a blessing for their further work in glory of the Russian
Orthodox Church.
“Your
Reverence, Right
Worthy
Mother
Hegumene!
I
heartily give thanks
to you and conventual choir headed by you for participation in the
celebratory concert on June 11, this year in the Hall of Church Councils
of the Christ the Savior cathedral on the occasion of our
75th-anniversary and the Day of Patriarchal enthronement
commemorating.
With your
great skills you made that evening a real feast of spiritual unification
of both clergy, and secular people. The concert made indelible impression
on all the
visitors, and became a true
culmination of anniversary celebrations.
I hope, that
common efforts of the Church, the state, businessmen, art workers,
intelligence will be further directed to creation of spiritually strong
and morally healthy society, will serve to strengthening of peace and
harmony in our Fatherland.
Expressing my
gratitude to you for the work you have done, I wish you strength of
spiritual and bodily forces, creative inspiration and success
in all good intentions
and undertakings.
Alexy II,
Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia”.
Convent choir
