From November 14-19, 2022, the ELCIR Theological Institute taught the Cantor Course, Class Period 2. The Cantor Course is a one-week crash course in all things that a church cantor/church organist/choir director/director of musical ministry must know. The course gathered 20 inspired, motivated, talented musicians from different ELCIR … [Read more...]
Kondopoga Lutheran Church hosted sacred music festival
The city of Kondopoga, Karelia, hosted Karelia's Open Festival of Sacred Music on November 11-12, 2022. The event opened with a concert of church choirs at the Lutheran Church of Kondopoga. On the second day, professional secular and religious vocal groups performed at the Palace of Arts of the Karelian State Philharmonic … [Read more...]
Murmansk Lutheran Church hosts German culture event
On October 29, 2022, the Lutheran Church of Murmansk held a German Culture Evening in connection with Day of Reformation. In his greeting and introductory comments, Rev. Aleksandr Volchok, senior pastor of Holy Cross Lutheran Church, said, “This event tonight is meant to help foster a tolerant attitude to people even if they have a different … [Read more...]
Darya Shkurlyatyeva explains Lutheran church organ, introduces Ingrian music instruments to university students
On October 23, 2022, students from the Department of Media Technologies of the State University of Film and Television, St. Petersburg, traveled on an ethnographic TV expedition to Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast. As they toured the city, the highlight of their trip was a meeting with Darya Shkurlyatyeva, a member of Sts. Peter and Paul Lutheran Church of … [Read more...]
Psalmodicon in use in Vyborg
The Lutheran Church of Vyborg, Leningrad Oblast, continues the tradition of singing to a psalmodicon. In Karelia and Leningrad Oblast, this instrument has also been known as virsikannel and jouhikkokannel. While there is a psalmodicon in a showcase at Russian National Museum of Music in Moscow, the Vyborg congregation lets you hear it … [Read more...]
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