From: ari@kodltd.msk.su (Abdryashitov R.I.)
Subject: Tatyana Gromova's choir music ensemble
Reply-To: ari@kodltd.msk.su
Organization: Firm KOD Ltd
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 92 19:34:20 +0300

          TATYANA GROMOVA' S CHOIR MUSIC ENSEMBLE.

   Tatyana Gromova's  choir music  ensemble is  a  universal
group. It was created recently but it proved already that it
can sing  church songs  with a  deep feeling of style, to be
included into atmosphere of theatre performance with a great
artistism,  to   interpret  delicately   compositions   just
written, to  fulfil complicated  experimental tasks. It's so
natural: every  ensemble  is  young,  talented  and  strong,
everybody is  a high class professional, irreproachable in a
choir party  of any  complication and  capable of  being  an
artist, a  creator. Tatyana  Gromova, a graduator of Russian
Music Academy is a soul of this fellowship: her strong will,
her devotion  to music  and to  her vocation  connected  the
young ensemble unseparately
   Premiere of  the ensemble  took place  in Russian musical
theatre which  revived beautiful  theatrical "games"  at the
Russian  tsars   courts  in   XVII  -   XVIII  c.   Original
performances: "Artaxerx's  action", the  first Russian drama
written for Alexey Mikchailovich in the last part of XVII c,
and "Cefalus  and Procris",  the first Russian opera created
by the  remarkable Russian poet Dmitry Sumarocov and Italian
composer Francesco  Araya  for  the  theatre  of  Peter  The
Great's daughter  Elizabeth,  -  were  highly  evaluated  by
critics.  The   ensemble  continued   its  career   in   the
performances of  the oldest  Moscow theatre - Stanislavsky's
Drama theatre.
   And another  good example to show the capabilities of the
young  group   is  the  "Heritage"  musical  assembly.  This
festival is very noticeable among many cultural movements of
Moscow with its creative and patriotic character: its aim is
a revival  of forgotten  and less-known creations of Russian
music in all epoches. Tatyana Gromova's ensemble fulfilled a
premiere  of  Protopopov's  concert  fantasy  for  a  choir,
soloists, readers  and two  pianos on  Alexander  Skryabin's
"Preliminary  action".   The  Protopopov's   fantasy,   very
scaleful and complicated, is the act of deep devotion of her
author to  the cosmic  ideas of  the great  Russian  musical
mystic Scryabin.  It took  many efforts of the choir and its
leader to realise this unique composition: a synthetic genre
of the  composition, an unusual language, free passages from
singing to  choir declamation and reading and also necessity
to bring  the sense  of philosophical ideas of Skryabin in a
bright artistic  form! This  extremely interesting  premiere
wouldn't take  place without Tatyana Gromova: no one another
group dealt with this performance.
   But "Preliminary  action was  performed -  and  performed
excellently: in  Glinka's musical culture Museum and then in
Skryabin's house-museum where the idea of this cosmic action
appeared.
   The experts of Skryabin's museum:

   Now the  prospects of  "Heritage" musical  assemblies are
unseparately connected with this choir.
   One of  the constant  directions in their activity is the
work in  record studio.  They recorded  a big  choir concert
"Apotheosis to a sonnet" by Krivitsky.
   The invitation  from "Helicon"  theatre -  the young  and
experimenting group as well - is a convincing proof of their
creative growth.  Amazing dynamism  of this opera group - 14
new performances  in a  season and  almost all  of them  are
premieres in Russia, middle age of her singers is 26 years -
are well  combined with  ensembles' fondness  in  everything
new. By  the way  the oldest  ensemble is  26 years  old. It
looks like this co-operation is going to be very fruitful.
   Choir's concert  repertory is very wide. It includes high
examples of  Russian church  music of XVII - XX c: psalms of
tsars' singer  Vasily Tytov,  selected  songs  by  the  most
famous  before  -  classical  composer  Dmitry  Bortnyansky,
church  choirs   by  Russian   classics  like   Tchaikovsky,
Balakirev, Lyadov and compositions by masters of our century
such as  Pavel  Tchesnokov,  Konstantyn  Shvedov,  Alexander
Tcherepnin and others.
   The  old-fashioned   Russian  folk   songs  in  a  modern
arrangement  are  well  combined  with  psalms  and  "golden
classic"  of   Russian  secular  choirs  :  compositions  by
Alyabyev, Dargomyzhsky,  Kuis, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov,
Rakhmaninov, Taneyev,  Kalinnikov, Gretchaninov.  The modern
Russian music  is  represented  by  Sviridov's,  Schedrin's,
Sidelnykov's choirs.
    Very  original Russian  music is  an organical  part  of
world musical  culture: that's  why  the  ensemble  includes
masterpieces of  West-European classical  music  -  immortal
Pergolesy's "Stabat  Mater" and Vivaldy's "Gloria", Mozart's
and Schubert's masses, Foreus's "Requiem.



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