Name: Songs from the war years
Start: 2022-05-06T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-05-06T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre

Organization

Sopran

Alena Diyanova

Anastasia Kikot

Maria Suzdaltseva

Mezzosopran

Irina Kolodyazhnaya

Tenor

Alexei Kostyuk

Roman Krukovich

Alexei Smirnov

Baryton

Alexei Bublik

Marat Mukhametzyanov

Dmitry Nelasov

Sergei Pleshivtsev

Pianista

Marina Repina

Alexey Tikhomirov

Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre

Songs from the war years

Władywostok

Rosja

Songs from the war years: Concert

Public

Koncert

Approved

Instrumentalist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

hornist

Oboist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Trombonist

Harper

Saxophonist

Harpsichordist

Accordionist

Bassist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da Gambist

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Kompozytor / -ka

Dyrygent

Reżyseria

Libretto

Scenografia

Kostiumy

Choreografia

Reżyseria światła

Taniec

Aktor

Przygotowanie chóru

Wideo

Dramaturgia

Tłumaczenie

Realizacja dźwięku

Korepetytor /- ka

Makijaż

Produkcja wykonawcza

Fryzjer

Other

Stage Manager

Chór

Orkiestra

Poet

Vocal coach

Teacher

Photographer

Broadcasting

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Illustrator

Extra

Singer

Kontralt

Kontratenor

Bas - baryton

Spoken

Głos dziecięcy

Silent

Alto

Continuo

The compositions created during the hard time of the Great Patriotic War are a distinct mine in our cultural heritage. The songs, which helped to bring our soldiers through the war, and the lyrical pieces of music, which were written by poets and composers in the postwar years, have by now typified anguish of the war era.

The chamber program “Songs from the War Years” at the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre is a tale of one night halt of a partisan party around a fire. Each fighter has his own story which is told in the music language.

The artists sing some songs that once sounded in the field and in the lines. It may seem wonderful, but these songs were often based on dance music patterns such as a tango in “The Light”, a foxtrot in “My Little Mary” or a waltz in “The Blue Scarf”, “In the Frontline Forest” or “Accidental Waltz”. Included in the wartime repertoire as an echo from the past peaceful life, these songs reminded of such life and helped to banish sorrow. The other songs were written in wartime to be immediately performed to the accordion before soldiers. “In our lyrical songs written in wartime, we wanted to give every soldier an opportunity to “keep in touch” with his kin and speak his inner thoughts to his girl, bride or wife, who was deep in the rear, miles and miles away,” the famous composer Matvey Blanter said. That was why the nostalgic heart-to-heart songs such as “Dark Is the Night” from the feature film “Two Soldiers” (1943) were just as much popular.

During the postwar period, the creative reflection on the tragic bygone events went on. In the 1960s and 1970s, the war songs such as “Cranes” began to speak for those who lost their friends and relations in wartime. Among the authors there were war children who proved the extreme depths of poverty and felt grief and experienced horrors of war, for example, Valentin Gavrilin, who composed music for “The Two Brothers” and “Love Will Stay”. The songs, which were first performed in the feature films “Only Old Men Are Going to Battle”, “Minute’s Silence”, “The Great Patriotic”, “The Moscow Saga” and many more, were much sought after. Such songs often outlasted the very films they came from. In all war songs there are few unchangeable things: their humanistic contents, lust for life and love for the country.

Apparently, war songs have been written in blood or lifeblood. While hearing them people cannot yet hold their tears – even those who have never seen the war and know about it from textbooks or narratives of their older relations.

Natalia Rogudeeva

English

Songs from the war years by Various, od (2022/2022), Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, Władywostok, Rosja

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