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Choir tour July 2008, with performances in Helsinki, Tallinn, and St. Petersburg
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While many of us returned to Santa Rosa from St. Petersburg in mid-July, some folks went on to Moscow.
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The choir performed in all kinds of conditions on this trip - with too many microphones or no microphones, indoors or outdoors, rain or shine. Here they are, singing the last performance of the tour at the flower festival on the grounds of Czar Paul's palace in Pavlosk, near St. Petersburg.
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Sunday morning, July 13, choir rehearses in the split-level church in St. Petersburg. The Swedish Lutherans hold services on the original floor of the church and the Anglican congregation has services at the same time up on an added floor, beneath the original ceiling of the church. One young couple in the congregation had visited Santa Rosa on their honeymoon!
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The Academic Choir performing in Cappella Hall, St. Petersburg. They were awesome!! We met with them after the performance and, when we introduced Bob Ryan as our oldest choir member, at 91, they introduced their oldest member - not older than Bob, but with 52 years in the choir, the more senior chorister in another sense. Their director is Yana Volkonskaya.
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These young women from St. Petersburg, under the direction of Ludmila Krasilshikova, sang in English, with jazz and barbershop-style arrangements for many of their songs. They were a real kick!
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In the crowning performance of the tour, the FUMC Santa Rosa choir performed in Cappella Hall, St. Petersburg. The hall was built especially for choral music and is several hundred years old. It was like the soundboard of a prized cello.
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Members of the choir during the Cappella Hall concert in St. Petersburg.
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Looking toward Peterhof Palace outside of St. Petersburg. The large park surrounding the palace is beautiful, shady, and full of fountains.
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The Choir leaves the Peterhof Palace and begins a walk in the garden.
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Dancers (who also sing beautifully!) at the Russian folk concert attended by the choir.
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The St. Petersburg Quartet singing as the opening act of a wonderful Russian folk music and dance show in St. Petersburg.
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This building is the first of many being built as part of a new Chinese-Russian development west of St. Petersburg. It is being billed as "The New Downtown." Our guide, Svetlana, was doubtful about that being very likely.
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The main street of St. Petersburg - Nevsky Prospect. (The Neva River is also the main street, but for boats only).
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