Rediscovering Rachmaninoff
Stephen Longstreth, Nancy L. Reeves, Anthony Antolini, Lise Rubenstein, Blake McHugh, Lou Sinclair, Bay Area Video Coalition (San Francisco, Calif), KTEH-TV (Television station : San Jose, Calif), Vsesoi︠u︡znoe proizvodstvenno-tvorcheskoe obʺedinenie "Videofilʹm.", PBS Video, Cabrillo Slavonic Chorus
Tells the story of an all-volunteer American choir who traveled to the former Soviet Union in 1987 to perform a sacred Russian Orthodox choral composition banned from public performance there for seven decades. The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, a unique choral composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff, fell into obscurity after the composer fled Russia in the wake of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. Dr. Anthony Antolini, a professor of music and Slavic languages at Cabrillo College in Santa Cruz, California, painstakingly reconstructed the score from fragments found at St. Vladimir Monastery in Crestwood, New York and the Library of Congress, taught it in Slavonic to the amateur Cabrillo Slavonic Chorus and arranged for a tour of performances of the work in Russia. The documentary includes footage of these performances and also tells of the life and times of Sergei Rachmaninoff
VHS Video, English, [1992]
[PBS Video [distributor], [Alexandria, Va.], [1992]