Russia: American Choral Music
Russia, February 2005
American Choral Music at Moscow Conservatory
In a concert attended by an adoring audience, American Voices presented the first American choral project ever at the Moscow Conservatory. Moscow audiences are known to be hard to please, but they were clamoring for more as the concert ended with Gershwin's 'It Ain't Necessarily So' from Porgy and Bess. American Voices artists Ira Spaulding and John Ferguson continued on to Nizhny Novgorod, a former closed city southeast of Moscow, where they performed an American program the next night with the Symphony Orchestra in a program attended by the U.S. Ambassador, the mayor and provincial governor.