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The Yale Russian Chorus is a tenor-bass choral ensemble at Yale University , established in 1953 by Denis Mickiewicz , a student at the Yale Music School, and George Litton, president of the Yale Russian Club. http://www.yale.edu/yrc/ < http://www.yale.edu/yrc/> The group sings a variety of secular and sacred Slavic choral pieces, from the 12th century onward, including folk songs of Russia and Eastern Europe . The current musical director is Mark Bailey (Composer and Conductor)|Mark Bailey .
The YRC was the first American group to visit the Soviet Union as a private initiative, touring the country in 1958 following the signing of the Lacy-Zarubin Agreement on cultural exchange.Scherer, Barrymore L. "The Yale Russian Chorus, Diplomats of Song." The Wall Street Journal 23 Oct. 2003. ProQuest . The YRC made 16 tours to the USSR before the union dissolved in 1991. The ensemble tours domestically every spring.
The chorus rehearses for two and a half hours every week, holds concerts in and around New Haven throughout the academic year, and goes on an annual spring tour. Although the majority of its members are Yale undergraduate students, auditions are open to the entire New Haven, Connecticut|New Haven community. As a tenor-bass chorus, membership is primarily male, but the chorus has also admitted women to sing in the tenor section.
The chorus has performed at many venues in Russia and Ukraine , and also many places in the United States, most notably:"Yale Russian Chorus - About Us." Yale Russian Chorus . 10 Nov. 2006. 21 Dec. 2006 http://www.yale.edu/yrc/ < http://www.yale.edu/yrc/>.
The Metropolitan Opera (in a performance of Glinka 's Ivan Sushanin with Martti Talvela )
Musical examples from a concert in November, 2009 of the Alumni of the Yale Russian Chorus include http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=GiHX8GhcUTA Akh ty Stiep' shirokaya (??, ?? ?????), http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=HIhnWWNVjpY Blazhen Muzh (?????? ???), http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=fidlTS8o-Vc Borodino (????????), http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=D-T4tGIHEpo Kas Tie Tadi (Who Are They), and http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=G0uSbMU6MGc Zhilo dv'enadstat' razboin'ikov (???? ?????????? ???????????).
