Over One Thousand Attend St. Matthew Passion Premiere

7/2/2011 NEW YORK, NY [SVOTS/OCA] — Over 1,000 people streamed into Saint Paul the Apostle Church here on Monday evening, February 7, 2011, to hear the St. Matthew Passion, composed by His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion [Alfeyev] of Volokolamsk, an episcopal member of the Board of Trustees of Saint Vladimir’s Seminary and chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations. The performance — the US English-language premiere of the opus — was hosted by the seminary in cooperation with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York

7/2/2011 NEW YORK, NY [SVOTS/OCA] — Over 1,000 people streamed into Saint Paul the Apostle Church here on Monday evening, February 7, 2011, to hear the St. Matthew Passion, composed by His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion [Alfeyev] of Volokolamsk, an episcopal member of the Board of Trustees of Saint Vladimir’s Seminary and chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations. The performance — the US English-language premiere of the opus — was hosted by the seminary in cooperation with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York

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Over One Thousand Attend St. Matthew Passion Premiere

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