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This section of the Internet portal of artists Artist.ru "Folklore" provides information from artists and creative teams working in the genre of Russian folklore.
Folklore is folk art, by means of which one can understand the psychology of the people in these days. As a rule, the most important values of a person and his life are reflected in the works of folklore: family and work, public duty and love for the motherland. Knowledge of the folklore of a particular country will give an idea of its people and history, as well as culture. By inviting a folklore ensemble to the holiday you are organizing, you will thereby culturally enrich the event.
Folklore Ensembles of Moscow
Folklore ensembles in Moscow can perform a wide variety of programs: folklore for children and musical folklore, modern folklore and wedding. Russian folklore will be indispensable when organizing an entertaining show program for foreign tourists. Foreigners will appreciate both ditties, nursery rhymes and dances, as well as lyrical Russian folk songs. Russia, being the largest country in the world, is rich in living Russian folklore. Folklore ensembles of Moscow not only perform works of Russian folklore, but also have absorbed the centuries-old traditions of their performance. As any primordially Russian feast is not complete without singing songs, so the holiday can be enriched by the performance of the folklore ensemble of Moscow at it.
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The most important component of any holiday is the right musical accompaniment. And it is better to take care in advance about what music will be played at your wedding, birthday, anniversary, corporate event. And of course, the best choice There will be a selection of live music. You can invite the group, the performer, who is closest to you in his work and will match the tastes of all your guests. By the way, it’s also right not to make a mistake here, because we are all different, and accordingly we love different music. Therefore, if you do not want to make a mistake and, in addition, respect traditions, the best option for you will be the invitation of the folk ensemble of Russia.
Believe me, today our modern stage offers us a huge selection of Russian folk choirs and ensembles. They have always been distinguished by adherence to Russian traditions, excellent vocal abilities, a variety of instrumental accompaniment, and, of course, unique outfits. Therefore, each performance of the folk ensemble is practically theatrical performance. They will captivate you with their melodies, lure you into their dances. Well, remember what songs you most often perform at the table. Of course, Russian folk.
The Moscow Cossack ensemble with the name "Russian Will" is a choir of very talented musicians and singers, which includes laureates of international and all-Russian festivals and competitions. The repertoire of the ensemble includes Don, Terek, Siberian, Kuban songs of the Cossacks, beloved by everyone, as well as well-known Ukrainian and Russian folk songs of various genres (lyrical, marching, comic, dance and others), including ditties and epics. Thanks to the performances of the group, the general public has the opportunity to enjoy the most real Cossack songs and dances, as well as take part in traditional fun and games, see with their own eyes the old wedding ceremony of ransoming the bride, get acquainted with different elements hand-to-hand combat, as well as to see virtuoso work and tricks with a real (combat) Cossack saber. The Russian Volya Cossack ensemble from Moscow is very different from most other ensembles. Its main advantage lies in the fact that the whole team is trying very hard to preserve and convey this archaic choral sound of folk songs, but at the same time they are trying to adapt it for modern listeners by mixing it with the current rhythm and arranging. In addition, the real sound of the songs is achieved through the widespread use of a large number of ancient folk instruments, which the artists masterfully play. Artists play the accordion, balalaika, guitar, harp, lyre, ocarina, horn, tambourine, drums and other instruments.
Folklore Cossack ensemble "Russian Will" is a team of creative people who act as carriers of Russian culture and traditions. Their goal is to revive and strengthen national cultural values, mainly the song traditions of Cossack folklore. The ensemble "Russian Will" constantly participates in city holidays, folk festivals, city days, private events and other holidays.
One of the most important tasks of the current Russian society is to preserve and develop the national culture, the roots of the people, this task requires a very careful attitude to cultural and historical monuments, to folk art. The revival of folklore rituals, holidays, folk customs and arts and crafts, as well as fine arts is an urgent problem of the current generation. Folklore itself, as well as its methods, genres and means, represent the most complete and significant basis of folk life, they create a vivid picture of folk life, its spirituality and morality, reveal the folk soul, its real features and characteristics.
Can you imagine a holiday without dancing, different games, music and songs? It must be very difficult for you, especially if you are a Russian person. No wonder there is an expression among the people - "celebrate on a Russian scale!". But, it’s true, in Russia at all times they organized festivities, celebrations and feasts on a very large scale. Here, for example, take a holiday that everyone has long been very fond of - “Shrovetide”, or rather “ wide carnival". And today, following all the customs and traditions of our ancestors, we are trying to make this holiday fun, memorable and very bright. We invite folk groups to the celebration to sing songs, dances, round dances, games and fun in the traditional style. And try to arrange a wedding in the Cossack style. In recent years, the ransom of the bride according to all ancient customs has gained great popularity. Just for such a ransom, the Russian folk Cossack folklore ensemble "Russian Will" is very often invited. In fact, this is not even a ritual, but a real theatrical and interactive performance that includes songs, dances, jokes and games that involve a large number of friends and guests. The "Russian Will" team can spend the whole holiday as the only thread of an entertaining story, with the participation of a host or toastmaster. With all this, the actions may well develop both on the stage and in the hall, among the laid tables, in which invited guests participate. The holiday can also be held in the open air: in this case, the river bank, country house, forest or street will act as festive decorations. The folklore ensemble "Russian Will" can spend the holiday as well as no one else can.
The ensemble uses folk songs and dances in its repertoire, all this makes the holiday truly unforgettable. With the help of jokes and jokes, the celebration will play with rainbow colors that will cheer everyone up, and cheerful, saturated with national motives, music will make the legs rush into the dance. The folklore ensemble "Russian Will" spends the holidays with fun and enthusiasm, it more than provides its entire arsenal of folk festivals and entertaining entertainment. This team will entertain guests, hold a holiday, fill the hearts of the guests with pleasant impressions, and leave a very bright imprint in their memory. Even if there are a large number of guests at the event, the team will provide each invited guest with the opportunity to participate in a wonderful interactive folklore performance. Each performance of the folklore ensemble has a different duration, it all depends on the wishes of the customer. The team can, for example, meet their guests according to a real Russian folk custom, traditionally presenting a cup of bread and salt. Basically, this procedure takes them a little time: about twenty minutes. They can also hold a corporate evening with company employees or a wedding evening in a few hours. And if this is a city holiday with traditional festivities, then it can generally be held for several days. "Russian Will" fills people's lives with real ancient music, it also revives the traditions and culture of Russia.
The folklore ensemble "Ladanka" began to operate in 1991 at the Moscow Theater "Group of Citizens", then Lyubimov A.G. was its director, and then Sizova Natalya Vladimirovna was appointed artistic director. After the theater "Group Citizens" was disbanded, the ensemble ends up in the Moscow Center for Performing Arts "ApARTe". And after this Center was liquidated in 1995, the folklore-ethnic ensemble "Ladanka" begins to lead an independent creative career. The folklore ensemble "Ladanka" involves professional artists who graduated from secondary and higher musical institutions in the city of Moscow (the Gnessin Academy, Moscow State University of Culture - the University of Culture, the Gnessin Secondary Music School and the College of Culture, as well as actors (GITIS)).
The creative ensemble draws its creative material from various expeditions, in which all members of the team go once or twice a year. The team has a large video, photo and audio archive, which contains the most valuable materials of Russian folk art. They have a large archive of information about Russian folk songs, folk dances, instrumental and oral ritual creativity (stories, memories of rituals, living conditions of the Russian people) in all regions of Russia. The team has collected a collection of old costumes, some costumes are over a hundred years old. The ensemble began its creative activity very actively. Back in 1991, they showed the premieres of two performance programs: “The bells rang” and “Dunya was born good”, these performances were shown in the CDSA and the Central House of Arts. Already in 1993, the team completed and staged on the stage of the Moscow Drama Theater named after Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin a great creative work: the People's Opera in three scenes "Indian Field" (on the fifteenth, eighteenth, twenty-first of June 1993). Since 1992, "Ladanka" has been a frequent guest on television, for example, the program "LAD", which hosted various programs of the ensemble "Ladanka", mainly according to the folk calendar: "Old New Year”, “Christmas time” and “Christmas”, as well as “Easter” and others, since 1993. The folklore ensemble "Ladanka" was the representative of the city of Moscow at the international festival of folklore of Siberia in the city of Omsk, this group received the Diploma of the Festival. The folklore ensemble "Ladanka" has a couple of programs in which they show regional dances, regional features of singing, this is a very good, visual and practical guide for groups that are just starting to try themselves in this area of \u200b\u200bcreativity.
The team also received the attention of the newspapers "Evening Club", issue dated June 1, 1993, "Salvation" (the article "what Ladanka keeps"), the magazine "Folk Art", issue dated January 1, 1994. In 1995, the folklore ensemble "Ladanka" received a diploma, and also became the Laureate of the All-Russian Festival of Folk Art with the name "Salute of Victory". And in 1996, the ensemble took part in the folklore and ethnic festival, which was held in the city of St. Petersburg. They showed many concert folklore programs for children, and they also performed at the Academy of Culture in St. Petersburg, they gave performances for teachers and students of the music department. Then they also gave a couple of concerts in the suburbs of St. Petersburg, in particular in the city of Sosnovy Bor. In May 1996, the folklore ensemble represented Russia at the festival of Slavic writing and culture in Moldova.
For the first time, the family folklore theater "Radonitsa" was heard in Novosibirsk in 1990 (in February-April), it became the very first family folklore ensemble in the entire Russian Union among amateur folklore ensembles. Until 1994, twelve families participated in the team. Parents and children (aged from ten months to twelve years) took part in it. All participants traveled together on ethnographic expeditions to the villages and villages of the Russian regions. In particular, they visited the Kemerovo, Surgut, Novosibirsk, Tyumen, Perm, Volgograd, Pskov, Vologda, Gomel regions, but this is not yet full list, they also visited the Altai Territory. In the villages and villages of the Novosibirsk region, they organized and held various calendar holidays, in accordance with the rituals and customs of grandfathers and great-grandfathers, actively participated in all Russian folklore festivals.
We visited Yekaterinburg, Kaluga, Vologda, Barnaul, Moscow, Chelyabinsk, Krasnodar, Vladivostok, Perm, Nizhny Tagil, St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Vilnius and Ust-Kamenogorsk. From the very first months of its creative development the family ensemble had the good support of the folklore leaders of Novosibirsk, among them: candidate of philological sciences, professor of NGPU M.N. Melnikov, Candidate of Arts, Professor of the Glinka Oil and Gas Academy (Academy) N.V. Leonova and vice-president of the RFU (Russian Folklore Union) V. V. Aksanov. The folklore ensemble "Radunitsa" is the ancestor of the revival of real Russian folk calendar Siberian holidays in the 1990s. The first village Maslenitsa came out very successful, they were ethnographically reliable from the entire year-round cycle " holiday calendar Siberia" (in 1990, the village of Mirny, Toguchinsky District, and in 1991, the village of Balman, which is located in the Kuibyshev District of the NSO). Everything they had was historically and ceremonially correctly built: everything was built as a reconstruction of the Shrovetide festivities, which is typical for the villages of the Tomsk province in Siberia, they strictly observed the ritual of each Shrovetide day, built slides, staged a wall-to-wall fist fight, took a snowy town. They also rode "troikas" and rode horses, staged a "fun performance" of Maslenitsa with Banya and Voyevoda in the snow, and also threw cold water on them. It is this "model-program" for the celebration of Maslenitsa that has become the main one in the scenario of most folklore groups in Siberia today. In 1994, several more young members came to the family folklore ensemble - students of the NMK named after A.F. Murov. Thanks to the performing musicians - pianists, violinists, pop and wind players - youthful enthusiasm appeared in the creative activity of "Radonitsa", musical interest in the quality of the performance of all ethnographic material, professional, very deep and serious attitude to the song, instrumental genres and choreography.
The folklore ensemble "Radonitsa" is unique in that for twenty years it continues, and most importantly, develops its own tradition of the Kutafin-Borodin family (songs from the village of Lokti, which is located in the Moshkovsky district of the NSO and wedding rituals). They also study other Siberian authentic traditions, for example, they study the songs of the families of Transbaikalia and the quadrille (a kind of dance) of the Kerzhaks (an ethnographic group of Old Believers) of the Novosibirsk region. Over a twenty-year period, thirteen wedding couples danced, sang and got married in the ensemble. Two families had five children each, who are brought up by their parents according to all the "folk and spiritual traditions of Russian Siberians." In 1998, students of the Department of Folklore and Ethnography of the NOKKiI successfully “joined” the ensemble team. In 2004, "Radonitsa" became a creative workshop for many NSPU students who studied at the Faculty of Culture and additional education, and since 2006 - for young people who participated in the NGI folklore studio. "Radonitsa" is the first in Siberia (and one of the few in all of Russia) a team that since 1990 has been passionate about the purposeful collection of many samples of Siberian national choreography. They carefully preserve in their unchanged repertoire the favorites recorded and already learned by the members of this folklore-ethnic ensemble during a large number of expeditions - fifteen Siberian quadrilles, twenty-five dances, various ornamental round dances, game evening songs - in total they have one hundred and twelve titles of the author's collection. That is why today all members of the team are the creative "core" for the Novosibirsk youth club of Russian ethnic (folk) dance "Krutuha", which appeared in May 2009 in the October Revolution Palace of Culture.
As a result of serious scientific and practical, educational and research work they have earned many awards and expanded their repertoire big amount ethnic material. They have a collection (ethnographic description) of eleven Siberian traditional games, which are included in the Encyclopedia of Folk Games and Toys of Russia; held more than three hundred charity evenings, creative meetings and performances in orphanages, schools, orphanages, as well as at festivals of the RFU (Russian Folklore Union). The team organized together with the vice-president of the Russian Folklore Union Asanov V.V. children's folklore subscription "People's Holiday": every month a free concert is held, which is held by children's folklore groups of Novosibirsk and the Novosibirsk region. Members of the ensemble together with V.I. Baytunganov created the first in Novosibirsk "School of Russian folk culture"in the Palace of Culture named after Kalinin, it existed for a relatively short time, only a year: from 1992 to 1993
The folklore ensemble "Radeya" studies and popularizes the Traditional Slavic culture through songs, dances, games, rituals, round dances and music. The basis of their programs is traditional Russian and Ukrainian folklore, including the material that they have collected in frequent folklore expeditions. The folklore ensemble "Radeya" offers people to hold any holiday in folk style. They create and promote programs in authentic folk style. Their holidays-actions are designed for completely different audiences, no matter what audience (children or adults) and no matter what space is provided (stage, indoor, outdoor area, natural environment) - everyone will receive good mood and real action. They can participate in a ready-made concert program or hold your own holiday program. The team takes part in the celebrations of Kolyada, Shrovetide, Meeting of Spring, Easter, Trinity, Kupala, the Harvest Festival (stubble), weddings and other modern holidays (birthdays, anniversaries, and so on). From the performance of the ensemble, people of Slavic culture receive joy from “memories of themselves”, from participating in their programs, an uplift of spirit, a good mood, as well as a sense of belonging to traditions, pride in their country and for themselves, for the people.
People of other cultures get extraordinary amazement from the beauty and depth of Slavic culture, acquaintance with the previously unknown world, a huge amount of positive impressions, vivid memories and emotions. People who love and study Slavic culture will receive from their performances a deeper and sensual penetration into the world of Slavic traditions, they will live this Festive Action of rituals that unite the world of Nature and Man, the Creator and the Universe. During the performance of the group, listeners experience positive feelings: surprise, energy, admiration, delight, curiosity, enthusiasm, a pleasant feeling that such art exists, and many others. The uniqueness of the group lies in the fact that it has a large number of Russian and Ukrainian folk songs (more than two hundred), which they collected in folklore and ethnographic expeditions. The performance of the folklore ensemble "Radeya" is a great chance to get acquainted with the amazing wealth of Slavic culture. The sounds of folk songs performed by the ensemble are unique vibrations that penetrate the listener from the very feet to the head, they have a healing effect and harmonize the soul, spirit and body of a person.
Each program of the team is unique and individual. The ensemble has a huge repertoire and extensive experience in conducting programs, thanks to which the team can easily improvise directly during the celebration. The ensemble was formed on November 10, 2004, but all members of the ensemble have known each other for a long time. Participation in the student folk group of the Donetsk National University "Divina" made friends and brought together all the participants, in whose leadership the ethnic musicologist Elena Vitalievna Tyurikova is still in charge. It was she who instilled a great love for musical folklore in all members of the ensemble. After they left the university team, the girls got together again after a couple of weeks, because it turned out that they could no longer live without song and singing. It was that date that they began to consider the birth of the Radeya ensemble, which changed more than one place of its rehearsals and did not immediately receive such a name. The team came up with the name only the third time, the members of the ensemble like that the ancient word “Ra” sounds in the name, which means “radiance of sunlight”, “deya” means action and “I” means me. The name together stands for "I act under the radiance of the light of Ra, in the radiance of the light of the sun and in the radiance of light" ...
The collective wants its activity as a folklore ensemble and in general work in the field of folklore study to be the multiplication of a bright beginning in the life of every person. The ensemble studies the existing, that is, authentic folklore of its region, goes on expeditions, studies folklore directly from living carriers - “grandmothers”. Grandmothers are very generous, they help them in many ways. The current composition of the Radeya team includes six people: Olga Zapalskaya, Olga Suprunova, Natalya Dutova, Olga Melnik, Dmitry Borisenko and Irina Borisenko. All participants have different education and different outlooks on life, but they all love to sing together, and this gives them common goals: performances, new thoughts and ideas, and the study of folklore.
The folklore ensemble called "Origins" appeared in 1978 in the recreation center "October" in the city of Podolsk, which is located in the Moscow region, it was created by Bessonova Elena Vladimirovna. The main goal of this creative team is to recreate and master the cultural traditions of their region. Starting from the 1980s, the ensemble began to go on frequent folklore expeditions throughout the Podolsk region. Creative activity Ensemble is growing all the time, among it there are research, teaching, performing activities. Thanks to this, in 1944, on the basis of the ensemble, the Center for Traditional Culture of the Southern Moscow Region was created with the name "Origin".
For all its twenty-five years of work on the stage and not only, the folklore ensemble "Istoki" has really found its own style and is a real bearer of Russian culture in the Moscow region. The name “Origins” perfectly reflects the activities of the Center, because the purpose of the Center is the revival, research and search for all that beauty that our ancestors once owned and knew how to do. The Center "Istoki" has many different ensembles, and all of them are very active festival and concert activities. More than once the ensemble has become a laureate of the largest international competitions and festivals. In 1920 he was at the International Festival in Italy, the city of Ascoli Piceno, in 1992 the ensemble was present at the International Competition of Folklore Ensembles in Belarus with the name "Simon Music", also in 1992 he was seen at International Children's Folklore Festival in Romania, the city of Tulcea. In 1995, the team attended the International Festival "Folk Art" in Slovenia, the city of Maribor.
In 1999 and 2000, the ensemble attended the international festival " Golden autumn" in the city of Podolsk, in 2002 they were at the International Folklore Festival "Baltic - 2002" in Lithuania, the city of Vilnius. Also, the team was a participant in the All-Russian folklore festivals, which were held in cities such as Novosibirsk, Omsk, Perm, Vologda, Yekaterinburg, Volgograd, Samara, St. Petersburg and others. In addition to their concert activities, "Origins" also collect folklore in various folklore expeditions. They have a lot of scientific material on song folklore, folk customs and rituals of the Tula and Moscow regions. Reconstructed many rituals and customs folk calendar: Trinity, Christmas celebrations, Maslenitsa and many others. Thanks to the collected materials, eyewitness accounts, the ensemble completely restored the wedding ceremony, which took place in Tula region(regions of the middle reaches of the Oka). Very interesting are: "lamentations of the bride", "maiden" songs, songs "to the crown", as well as "reproachful" and "magnificent" songs, which are present in large numbers, and even with full detailed texts. Ritual songs are also quite widely represented: “playing”, “passing”, “round dance”, “to the meadows”, “running”, “Christmas” and “Glorification of Christ”. Based on these materials, the ensemble tried to recreate all the fragments of the rituals. At the moment, "Istoki" is cooperating with leading Russian organizations that work in the field of ethnography and folklore. All the materials found and collected by the expedition are subjected to a very serious study, recorded, and then systematized and deciphered.
Thanks to the results of the first expeditions, the content of the work of the "Istoki" team has changed a lot. The ensemble's repertoire includes dances and songs of the local tradition. Also changed appearance all members of the team: they restore and reconstruct the traditional folk clothes of their very distant relatives. They also sew costumes for themselves from fabrics that are very similar to the past, they cut beads, embroider, weave belts and make hats. Thanks to this and the development of artistic crafts, the team members really create an ensemble in which everything is so harmoniously connected: appearance, song and dance. That is, the ensemble does not recreate and revive a separate work and type of folk art, it revives its main principle: the interaction of external material life and its internal spiritual manifestation, as well as the organic nature of the lifestyle itself. More than two hundred children study at the Origins Center. All of them study: ethnography, the history of Russian folk costume, folklore singing, folk instruments, folk dance, arts and crafts, embroidery. All classes take place on the basis of and thanks to the material collected during multiple expeditions. Training is carried out according to the program, which was developed and based on 20 years of experience in the activity of "Istoki" in the field of pedagogy. At the heart of the teaching staff are graduates of the same Center, at the present time graduates of higher cultural and pedagogical educational institutions. The Origins Center is one of the organizers of the already traditional International Folklore Festival, which is called Golden Autumn, it takes place in the city of Podolsk. The symbol of this festival is a sheaf of wheat, which is decorated according to an old custom. To decorate it, many folklore ensembles from all over great Russia come together.
"Altai-Kai" are virtuosos of throat singing, who skillfully master all its styles, as well as varieties of kai and ordinary musical instruments. Low, velvety sounds of karykyra, incredible khoomei and musical sygyt-sybysky, very naturally transmitted sounds of nature - the murmur of a stream, the singing of birds, the voices of predators, as well as very gentle female throat singing and just female singing, the melodiousness of komus, accordion and topshur - this is exactly what everything is the music of "Altai-Kai". Comic tunes, dance melodies and shamanistic mysteries are combined with traditional Altai songs about the native land, its beauty, heroes and their former Strength, about the native people. The narrators of kaichy are the performers of traditional, sacred in Altai heroic tales and epics. The folklore ensemble "Altai-Kai" was born in 1977, thanks to Urmat Yntaev, and the goal of this group immediately became the development and preservation of the traditional culture of the Altai Republic.
The folklore ensemble is a laureate of international and all-Russian competitions and festivals. He was noted in the Guinness Book of Records and Achievements for the longest performance of throat singing in 2003. The ensemble has a gold medal, which it won at the Delphic Games in Moscow in 2000. He also has a gold medal, which he won at the international throat singing festival called "Breath of the Earth", which was held in the city of Ulan-Ude in 2005. The ensemble is also a laureate of the G.I. Choros-Gurkin of the Altai Republic. "Altai-Kai" is a member of the folklore union of the whole Russian Federation, member international organization Folk Art IOF UNESCO. And in 2007, the folklore ensemble "Altai-Kai" became part of "WOMEX" - the organization of World Music, which is located in Spain. The ensemble has a very wide map of touring activities, they travel: in Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Mongolia, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, Norway, Switzerland, Finland, Turkey and the United States of America. The team also took part in various television programs, for example, in the ORT program " Good morning"and in the program" Big Wash ". And on the channel "Independent Planet" they showed a live broadcast with the performance of the ensemble.
Also, the folklore ensemble "Altai-Kai" performed on the central television of the Czech Republic, for one and a half hours, and even live. Thanks to the organization of Urmat Yntaev, as well as the Altai-Kai ensemble itself, three successful throat singing festivals were held, which were called "Altyn-Taiga", many representatives of Khakassia, the Republic of Tuva, far abroad Japan, the United States of America and England took part in it. At the present time, the folklore ensemble is engaged in improving and updating the repertoire, as well as promoting Altai throat singing and improving the technique of performing kai.
Rusichi is an ensemble of folk improvisation and ancient Russian music, which was founded in 1980 as the Krug studio, it was at the Dukat factory (the leader was Boris Bazurov). A little later, the male composition of the "Circle" forms the folklore ensemble "Moscow Horn Players" - it is the prototype of the future folklore ensemble "Rusichi", this name was first heard in 1985. From the very first day of the formation of the ensemble, Vitaly Vladimirovich Galitsky has been its constant participant and leader - it is he who is the author of all the productions that the ensemble performs, the master who recreated the most unique Russian musical instruments of the eleventh - fifteenth centuries.
All members of the folklore ensemble now own these instruments, among these instruments are the pipes of the Kalyuka, the harp, the shepherd's pipes, the whistles, the Don snouts, the hurdy-gurdy, and the lute. The ensemble began to perform as a professional group in 1983 (then they worked in the Moscow Philharmonic, and since 1986 in the Vladimir Philharmonic). They gained their great fame thanks to participation in the folk song contest, which was held in the city of Krasnodar, participation in the All-Russian competition of performers on folk instruments, which was held in the city of Tula, as well as participation in the filming and production of the film "Original Russia". At this very time, the company with the name "Melody" released the first disc, which is called "Rusichi". In 1991, the folklore ensemble participates in the Cannes Film Festival, it tours with a large number of concerts the cities of Germany, Italy, France, Poland, Malta, Austria, Cyprus and Israel. And everywhere - both in the United States of America, and in Europe, and at home - the Ensemble was met as something unique, something that is one of a kind, as a real phenomenon of Russian culture.
To participate in the process of filming the film "Quiet Flows the Don", the greatest Russian director Bondarchuk Sergey Fedorovich invited none other than "Rusichi". Another important stage in the development of the folklore ensemble is participation in a large number of dramatic productions of the Moscow Theater on Malaya Bronnaya (this is the period from 1993 to 1998). In 1998, the ensemble became a laureate of the award, which is called the "Angelic Voice of Russia". Long-term research, expeditions to distant villages, the study of ancient Russian spiritual culture - it is thanks to this that the ensemble can restore a lost piece of culture and present its viewers and listeners with real masterpieces of military and historical songs of the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, ancient Russian ballads and epics, Cossack folk dramas, which are based on the traditions of Russian folk Orthodox chanting. The ensemble released a couple of CDs - “We will not disgrace the Russian land”, “Rusichi”, “Freemen”, “Unique music of ancient Russia”, “We went to save the Motherland” and “There were fun days”.
On December 26, 2011, on the stage of the Crimean Tatar Music and Drama Academic Theater, the Crimean Tatar folklore ensemble called "Kyrym" presented its New Year's program. The artistic activity of this Crimean Tatar folk ensemble embodies the centuries-old traditions related to the creativity of the people, to its highest spiritual culture. The team began its activity in 1990 in the city of Simferopol, then the director and artistic director was and now is the Honored Art Worker of the Republic of Tatarstan Server Kakura and Ukraine. The main goal of the folklore ensemble "Kyrym" is to revive, develop, preserve and popularize the national, vocal and choreographic art of the Crimean Tatars, and the main task is to educate the highest morality in the generation that is growing up. The total staff of the folklore ensemble is fifty people, thirty-six of them are in the creative composition of the team. The repertoire of this Crimean Tatar ensemble is quite rich and varied.
The performances of the ensemble are such a spectacular sight, all the artists are dressed in colorful attire. national costumes. On the basis of Crimean Tatar folk dances and songs, legends and tales, many highly artistic vocal and choreographic compositions have been created, for example: “Yavluk”, “Dyugun”, “Agyr ava ve Khaitarma”, “Choban”, “Tym-tym” and many others , which very clearly convey the aesthetic ideals and traditions of the Crimean Tatars. All members of the folklore ensemble bit by bit collect the priceless musical heritage of the Crimean Tatar people, a common feature of which is great losses, which subsequently led to a large number gaps, to the loss of entire epochs. The orchestra of the ensemble has a wonderful sound, probably due to the fact that the participants use the national Crimean Tatar instruments, such as: oud, dare, chubuk-davul, zurna, saz - they convey the unique color and picturesqueness of folk music. In the repertoire of the folklore ensemble "Kyrym" there is a professionally presented genre, which today is almost unexplored - this is the spiritual chant "ilakhi", which has never been heard on the pop professional stage before.
The team performs already forgotten songs by almost everyone, which have great artistic value, people have been creating them for centuries, while putting their most cherished feelings into them. The ensemble performs many Crimean Tatar songs, such as: “Ay, kara kyyz”, “Meni de gadaman…”, “Arabalar gelip de gecher”, “Gudin, bulutlar”, “Nogay beitleri” and many others. These songs are heard from the lips of such soloists of the ensemble as Honored Artist of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea Asie Sale, Emmina Mustafaeva, Yunus Kakura and many others. Working in the ensemble, the most famous singers, Honored Artists of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea Edie Ablae, Rustem Memetov, Dilyaver Osmanov, as well as the host of programs and Honored Artist of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea Resul Halli made a huge contribution to the development of the folklore ensemble "Kyrym". A significant role in the creative development of the ensemble was also played by choreographers - Honored Artist of Ukraine Dzhemile Osmanova and artist Munir Ablaev, Honored Artist of the whole of Tajikistan Remziye Bakal, as well as the very first head of the folklore ensemble, a talented musician, as well as Honored Artist of Uzbekistan Dilyaver Bekirov. It should also be noted Ismet Zaatov, who today is the Deputy Minister of Culture of the ARC.
On the fourteenth of October at eight o'clock in the evening in a tea house called "Yurta" a wonderful concert of the folklore ensemble "Tyva" took place - they are one of the best neckers of Tuva. From the very first minutes of the existence of the ensemble, the basis of its program is throat singing in different techniques(kargyra, sygyt, borbannadyr, khoomei, ezengileer), when the performer extracts two or more sounds at the same time. This is the very first creative team in the entire republic, it was formed in 1988, its goal was to revive the national culture of Tuva, its cultural self-identification, they want to preserve the performing traditions of throat singing in Tuva, make a great contribution to the evolution of the art of throat singing in Tuva. The ancestors of the Tuvans, who previously inhabited Tuva, found and preserved the art of throat singing, all its types, as well as all types of musical instruments of nomads. Tuva is a place where the Scythians, Sarmatians, Turks, Huns, Uighurs and Kirghiz lived. All this is present in the songs of the folklore ensemble "Tyva". This just explains the widest range of topics of this group: they perform music from meditative contemplative to pathos. The ensemble has a rather diverse repertoire, it includes ensemble and solo throat singing in all its five styles, instrumental playing on traditional instruments, epic poetry, as well as original Tuvan folk and author's songs.
We can say that "Tyva" is a fundamental, basic composition, from which many "currency" folk groups, such as "Yat-kha", "Alash" and "Khuun-khur-tu" appeared. The folklore ensemble "Tyva" is the only throat singing ensemble that constantly tours and performs khoomei in all remote corners of Tuva. This ensemble was recognized by the public not only in Tuva or Russia, but also in many other countries of the world. In 2003, the team was awarded the Grand Prix at the music festival "Melodies of the East" in the city of Samarkand, which was held under the auspices of UNESCO. In 2008, the folklore ensemble "Tyva" participated in the filming of a documentary film about throat singing in Tuva, the film was produced by the Turkish National Television Company. It should also be added that the Tuva folklore ensemble toured the cities of Belgium, Germany, Mongolia, Sweden and Taiwan with great success. The ensemble also gave concerts in countries such as Norway, the United States of America, Japan and in most other countries.
The folklore ensemble of Dmitry Pokrovsky is a unique singing group, which was formed in 1973 in the city of Moscow under the Folklore Commission, the so-called Union of Composers of the RSFSR. For twenty-three years, the team was led by Dmitry Viktorovich Pokrovsky (born in 1944, died in 1996), he was a laureate of the USSR State Prize, chairman Russian branch international folklore organization UNESCO. He is the first, and to date the only person who was really able to combine the professional performance of folklore and its scientific study, modern musical culture - with the tradition of folk music. Throughout its existence, the folklore ensemble has been a laboratory headed by Pokrovsky, it has been engaged in activities aimed at the revival, preservation and, of course, the development of national folklore and Russian culture. Ensemble contributes aesthetic education society, the worldwide dissemination and popularization of folk art, the development of cultural ties between peoples, as well as the promotion of Russian national culture in the West. The Pokrovsky Folklore Ensemble was engaged in the collection and systematization of folklore materials, the development of computer programs; he conducted a huge research and expeditionary work.
Today, when the main task is the development of a national ideology, the development of folklore in completely new conditions of society, the influence and role of this kind of activity is increasing more and more. The repertoire of the Pokrovsky folklore ensemble includes more than 2,000 folk songs, ritual dances and melodies; The ensemble collected a valuable collection of real traditional folk musical instruments and costumes - more than one hundred and sixty items: created a huge archive with video, audio and musical notations of talented folk performers. The ensemble team has accumulated the most unique expeditionary and theoretical material, acquired a lot of stage experience. The ensemble collected and studied folklore, mastered various technologies of folk singing, worked with serious contemporary composers - E. Artemyev, A. Schnittke, V. Dashkevich, S. Gubaidullina, V. Martynov, A. Batagov, V. Gavrilin, V. Artemov , V. Nikolaev and others. Members of the ensemble have extensive experience of cooperation with theaters - they participated in the productions of A. Vasiliev, Yu. Lyubimov, M. Levitin, S. Yursky, K. Ginkas, I. Raihelgauz, G. Chernyakhovsky, A. Ponomarev, N. Sheiko and L Dodina. The ensemble team was engaged in dubbing more than thirty cartoons and films, participated in the filming of D. Asanova, N. Mikhalkov, M. Schweitzer, E. Klimov, I. Povolotskaya and S. Talanov. The ensemble was also engaged in research activities - the main circle of interests of the folklore ensemble has no analogues. The folklore ensemble of Dmitry Pokrovsky is one of the most significant contributions of Russia, which she made to the musical culture of the 2nd half of the twentieth century.
The music performed by the Dmitry Pokrovsky Ensemble is very different: songs of various traditions and different styles Russian villages, among them: Arkhangelsk, Belgorod, Vologda, Kaluga, Kursk, Pskov and Smolensk regions, Don, Kuban, Nekrasov Cossacks and others. Sacred music includes Old Believers, Church Orthodox, chants of Molokans and Doukhobors. The ensemble has programs that are dedicated to peasant holidays, wedding ceremonies, Russian traditional theater, folk dramas and so on. The group's repertoire also includes works by many classical composers, among them - M. Mussorgsky, I. Stravinsky, D. Shostakovich, R. Shchedrin. When in 1994 the premiere of I.F. Stravinsky's Les Noces took place in the city of New York in the hall of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which was performed by the ensemble, it became a genuine, real sensation in the entire musical world. The unconventional vocal and stage performance of a very complex innovative composition was supported by a huge scientific discovery, which concerned the folklore roots of avant-garde music of the beginning of this century, forced a new look at all the work of I.F. Stravinsky. The arsenal of the Pokrovsky folklore ensemble includes 6 discs that were released in the USSR, Europe and the United States of America. The ensemble team toured with constant success in their native country and abroad, in particular, he visited such countries as the USA, Australia, Japan, Canada, Germany, England, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Finland, Bulgaria.
The ensemble represented Russia with dignity at the largest international festivals - "Creating Music Together", "Documenta - 9", "Vomad", as well as at the World Environmental Forum and so on. Only in the United States, the folklore ensemble played about five hundred concerts of various kinds. The ensemble performed in the best halls of the country, held various charity events, including performances at the National Library of Congress in Washington and the White House, a concert for the Dalai Lama in Los Angeles. The ensemble gave a concert in honor of the opening of the (air) bridge between Alaska and Chukotka, as part of the international movement of environmentalists - a concert in the Grand Canyon, and so on. The ensemble also performed joint American-Russian pre-Christmas performances in Washington DC, San Francisco, Texas, New York and Boston.
Also, the Dmitry Pokrovsky Folklore Ensemble took part in American education programs in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Alaska, California, Colorado and other states. They introduced American schoolchildren to real Russian culture, the ensemble team wanted to achieve mutual understanding and rapprochement between the peoples of these two countries. The ensemble introduced Russian traditional music to Western audiences, thereby making it the property of the entire world musical culture.
