TY - JOUR AU - Myers, Gregory PY - 2019/11/19 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - From out of the drawer: Faith, ritual and Russian Orthodoxy: Nikolai Korndorf's setting of the Divine Liturgy JF - Journal of the International Society for Orthodox Music JA - JISOCM VL - 1 IS - 0 SE - Peer-reviewed Articles DO - UR - https://journal.fi/jisocm/article/view/87617 SP - 20-32 AB - <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="section"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p>The centerpiece of this study is a remarkable exemplar of sacred music composition literally extracted from the drawer: a complete setting of the Russian Orthodox Divine Liturgy by the late-twentieth-century Russian-Canadian composer, Nikolai Sergeevich Korndorf dated 1978.2 It has a two-fold purpose: (1) to explore some of the circumstances of its creation (how, why and when?) and, (2) to use it to frame a commentary on the impact of the Russian Orthodox Church on Russian music composition in general, looking to nineteenth-century precedents for lingering/prevailing attitudes towards it, posing the questions: Why has the Russian Orthodox Church been largely overlooked in Russian music production and why has it assumed a role in recent years?</p></div></div></div></div> ER -