Talk:Russian Easter Festival Overture

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what does a German Easter pagan ritual have to do with Russian Easter? (question from anon)
 * Good point. Different nationalities, different christianities, different pre-christian peoples too.  I removed it.DavidRF (talk) 19:02, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

spell out instrumentation
Could we please spell out the instrumentation. A full list would only take two-three lines of prose and would be much more helpful than the cryptic code that is currently there. Thanks.DavidRF (talk) 20:45, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I just did this myself from the IMSLP score.DavidRF (talk) 19:02, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

"Russia went by the Julian Calendar which means that Easter would be celebrated ten to eleven days before it would have been in Western Europe"
???? Eastern Orthodox Easter, when it does not fall on the same day as Western Easter (as it does about one quarter of the time), always falls AFTER it. Kostaki mou (talk) 03:35, 13 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Yes, that is so, but what we had in the article is complete BS. It's a lot more complex than a simple translation between the Gregorian and Julian calendars.  The entire basis of calculation is different between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Western Christian Church,and then there's the calendar difference on top of that.  See List of dates for Easter for some info on this.  --   Jack of Oz   [Talk]  05:03, 13 March 2013 (UTC)