For our 2016 fall concert we are inviting back LYRA to St. Peter’s on Friday, Sept 23 at 7pm. They were last here in 2014. These concerts are another form of outreach to "nourish the soul."
Help us to Advertise the Concert!
Distributing our press release and posters-
Here are links you can download, print and distribute to friends, families, businesses,etc
1. Press release – http://www.churchsp.org/lyra/pressrelease.pdf
2. Full size poster – http://www.churchsp.org/lyra/poster.pdf
3. Half size poster – http://www.churchsp.org/lyra/halfsizeposter.pdf
A possible email script:
Subject – "Local Caroline County church hosts Russian choral quintet, Friday, Sept 23"
Text – "St. Peter’s Episcopal, 823 Water Street Port Royal is announcing a special concert on Friday, Sept. 23, 7pm – an evening of Russian choral and folk music from Russia . Lyra is a collective of over 20 conservatory-trained musicians in St. Petersburg Russia established in 1994. We wil have a quintet at St. Peter’s.
"LYRA’s main goal is exploring and popularizing Russian choral music from the ancient songs of the Orthodox Church to works of the 18th–20th centuries. They also perform folk songs from Russia’s musical past in costume.
"The concert is free with donations encouraged so that we can continue our annual concerts, this being the 4th one. It is part of our outreach to the community and a unique opportunity to hear this music ."
From 2014 – article and pictures.
The concert is free but we are encouraging donations. So please tell your friends and associates about the concert and consider a donation to the "concert fund" to continue these annual concerts.
Key points from the Lyra website
1. LYRA is a community of professional musicians in St. Petersbuirg Russia of about 25. They break up and take ensembles to different parts of the world. At. St. Peter’s there will be 4.
2. Most of our them are students or postgraduates of Saint-Petersburg Conservatoire, working in different choirs, theatres of Saint-Petersburg. There are singers, conductor, instrumanetalists . "We are all united by love for choir and ensemble singing.
3. The main goal of LYRA“`s activity is "exploring and popularizing Russian choir music. Through our performances, we want to introduce enormous musical heritage of the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as traditions of Russian folk music to all people who are interested in Russia, its history and culture."
4. "In 2001 we were awarded the Montreux (Switzerland) international choral festival diploma. In 2005 our group was also a winner of Coleraine International Choral Festival."
5. They have made recordings and their performances can be found on YouTube.
We have several articles: