In October of both 2013 and 2014, the St Petersburg Resurrection Choir, under the baton of Jurij Maruk, visited us in aid of our appeal.  Their sound filled the building and was appreciated by a small but dedicated audience!

   2014                                                                  2013

 

Visit their website at:

http://voskresenije.blogspot.co.uk/p/in-performance_9282.html

 

It was  a very interesting experience to eat and socialise with the members of the choir, following the event. Broadly speaking, the choir was composed of two different categories of members, separated by age; a few, like myself, had been brought up during the Cold War, when we regarded the Russians as ‘the enemy’ and they us likewise. But what lovely people they were! The majority were far younger, however, and had no real conception of this conflict of attitudes which lay in our common history. They. too, were a delight to have with us. I am updating this post to the background of Russia’s on-going conflict in Ukraine but it just shows that we have far more in common than that which is seen from the political ideals which separate and polarise us!