{"id":15001,"date":"2020-08-26T20:14:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T10:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocor.org.au\/?p=15001"},"modified":"2020-08-27T10:27:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T00:27:10","slug":"russian-orthodox-male-choir-of-australia-participated-in-the-moscow-multicultural-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/?p=15001","title":{"rendered":"Russian Orthodox Male Choir of Australia participated in the Moscow Multicultural Music Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"highslide img_1\" href=\"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/romca_mmmf_3.jpg\" onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15004\" src=\"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/romca_mmmf_3-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/romca_mmmf_3-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/romca_mmmf_3-160x85.jpg 160w, https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/romca_mmmf_3-1024x545.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/romca_mmmf_3-768x409.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/romca_mmmf_3.jpg 1191w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian Orthodox Male Choir of Australia went virtual with choristers recording their parts from home, the conductor Nektary Kotlaroff and chorister Adrian Metlenko merging the audio and visual of each clip together to produce the final recording, and finally releasing on ROMCA\u2019s social media channels. The videos produced sparked interest from musicians all around the world, in particular conductors and composers from Russia.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the month of May, ROMCA was made aware that a well-known music festival in Russia \u2013 the \u2018Moscow Multicultural Music Festival\u2019 was taking place virtually due to the global pandemic. ROMCA submitted the virtual choir recordings of \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TnREkv8_J-Y&amp;t=40s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyrie Eleison<\/a>\u2019 and \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G2IUT0dgUUU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Those were the days my friend<\/a>\u2019 and was placed in the \u2018A category\u2019. In June, the results were announced that out of hundreds of submissions, ROMCA\u2019s recording of \u2018Those were the days my friend\u2019 won the \u2018A category\u2019 and \u2018Kyrie Eleison\u2019 was awarded the \u2018Grand Prix\u2019 \u2013 being selected by the jury panel as the best overall submission in the competition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"highslide img_2\" href=\"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/romca_mmmf_2.jpg\" onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15002\" src=\"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/romca_mmmf_2-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/romca_mmmf_2-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/romca_mmmf_2-112x160.jpg 112w, https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/romca_mmmf_2.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"highslide img_3\" href=\"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/romca_mmmf_1.jpg\" onclick=\"return hs.expand(this)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15003\" src=\"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/romca_mmmf_1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/romca_mmmf_1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/romca_mmmf_1-107x160.jpg 107w, https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/news25\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/romca_mmmf_1.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/romca.co\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian Orthodox Male Choir of Australia went virtual with choristers recording their parts from home, the conductor Nektary Kotlaroff and chorister Adrian Metlenko merging the audio and visual of each clip together to produce the final recording, and finally releasing on ROMCA\u2019s social media channels.<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/?p=15001\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,5],"tags":[218],"class_list":["entry","author-protodak","has-more-link","post-15001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-diocesan-news","category-english","category-photos","tag-romca"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15001"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15011,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15001\/revisions\/15011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rocor.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}