{"id":9369,"date":"2012-02-26T08:10:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T15:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=9369"},"modified":"2025-10-24T07:38:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T14:38:36","slug":"the-russians-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/the-russians-are-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russians Are Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9371\" title=\"ch\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ch-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ch-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ch.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Russian  composers are among some of the most beloved musicians in history.  Their music has a romantic and intense quality that can simultaneously  touch and break your heart. On Monday February 27, Utah Chamber Artists will present their \u201cPsalms &amp; Symphonies\u201d concert. On the program is Igor Stravinsky\u2019s famous \u201cSymphony of Psalms\u201d which Time  magazine called \u201cthe most important work of the 20th Century.\u201d Very few  choral groups attempt this piece as it is very difficult. Stravinsky  said himself that his music is difficult. He once remarked that it isn\u2019t  the notes in his music that make it difficult, it\u2019s the rests.<\/p>\n<p>But  Igor isn\u2019t the only Russian composer on the program that evening. In  the first half of the concert the choir will sing a variety of psalms.  Two of which are by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Pavel Chesnokov, both 19th  Century composers. These a capella pieces are both called \u201cWe Hymn Thee\u201d  and are different than psalms taken from biblical texts. They are  called <em>psalmi idiotici<\/em> and are private psalms, meaning compositions by individuals in imitation of the biblical Psalter.<\/p>\n<p>The  music is haunting, a little dark and utterly heartbreaking. One might  be grateful that they simply get to hear such lovely music rather than  live during a time of such strife and oppression that facilitated such  devastatingly beautiful writing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What: <\/strong>\u201cPsalms &amp; Symphonies\u201d<br \/>\n<strong>When:<\/strong> Monday, February 27, 7:30 PM<br \/>\n<strong>Where:<\/strong> Libby Gardner Concert Hall<br \/>\n<strong>Why:<\/strong> To embrace your modernism and hear the most important work of the 20th Century.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for students. You can buy tickets at the door or online at <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kingtix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.kingtix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below  is a rehearsal clip with Utah Chamber Artists Artistic Director Barlow  Bradford attempting to get the choir to channel their 19th century  oppressed Russian while singing Chesnokov\u2019s \u201cWe Hymn Thee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>embed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian composers are among some of the most beloved musicians in history. Their music has a romantic and intense quality that can simultaneously touch and break your heart. On Monday February 27, Utah Chamber Artists will present their \u201cPsalms &amp; Symphonies\u201d concert. On the program is Igor Stravinsky\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bytes","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ch.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 09:30:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9369"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97387,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9369\/revisions\/97387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}