Jan sends along this release…

Decatur High School 2009 graduate Anna Rose Gable brings her singing group, the Yale Women’s Slavic Chorus, here Saturday for a week-long concert tour. As described on the chorus’s web site: “The group was established at Yale in 1969 and performs music from all over the Balkans and Eastern Europe. The Slavic Chorus prides itself on maintaining a diverse repertoire of complex and traditional arrangements. A single concert might see fast-paced Russian songs, soft and mysterious Croatian lullabies, brassy Bulgarian favorites, and many more. We are entirely student-run and -directed, learning from singing masters, sheet music, source recordings, and one another. We strive to do justice to the unique dissonances, rhythms, and vocal qualities of the music we sing, and have even begun to add some traditional folk dancing to our performances!”

When the group performs at the Decatur Library at 2 p.m. Sunday with Ensemble Kalinka, a Russian children’s singing group, Anna Rose will have come full circle. She discovered Slavic music there while in high school, when she checked out a CD of The Bulgarian Women’s Choir. After going online to find out more about the choir, she found video of Yale’s Slavic Chorus and was hooked. Now a Yale senior, Anna Rose joined the chorus as a freshman and acted as its director last year, overseeing production of the group’s latest CD.

Here’s an article about the chorus from the 2012 Yale Daily News | WEEKEND.

Full schedule below.

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