What folk ensembles do you know the names of. "People's Collective" Choir of Russian Song "Springs of the Soul"

What songs are front-line,

The past is created by war.

Feelings are vibrant in them.

For everyone, for us! Living - on Earth.

POSITION

On holding the Thirteenth All-Russian

Competition - festival

"Songs of the War Years", dedicated to the 72nd anniversary of the Victory

In the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945

Among the memorable dates celebrated by the people of our multinational Motherland, Victory Day occupies a special place. The Great Patriotic War was a truly nationwide struggle, where people of different nationalities and religions fought shoulder to shoulder with the enemy and selflessly worked in the rear. It was this unity that became the main factor in the victory in the fight against fascism. The accomplishments of our peoples in the Great Patriotic War are one of the brightest and unforgettable pages of our national history.

During the Great Patriotic War and after it, many songs were written, their authors were well-known composers who went to fight as young soldiers. It was their songs that became real symbols of the war, because they were written at the call of the heart.

Songs of the war years ... How many of them, beautiful, and unforgettable. And each has its own story, its own destiny. Together with the Fatherland, with all the Soviet people, the song entered the soldier's ranks. From the first days of the war, the song accompanied the soldiers along the dusty roads until the very Victory.

the Thirteenth All-Russian competition - festival "Songs of the War Years", dedicated to the 72nd anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, will take place.

Organizers of the Competition-Festival:

Department of Culture and Historical and Cultural Heritage

Administration of the city of Vologda;

MAUK "Park of culture and recreation" Labor Veterans ";

The competition-festival is organized with the support of:

Public chamber of the Vologda region;

Department of Education of the Vologda Oblast;

Department of Education of the Administration of the city of Vologda;

All-Russian public organization "Officers of Russia"

Regional scientific and methodological center of culture of the Vologda region;

Vologda local city branch of the All-Russian political

party "United Russia";

Vologda city public organization

"Union of Defenders of the Fatherland";

MUK "City Palace of Culture" in Vologda;

BUK "Cultural and leisure center" Care ";

Goals and objectives of the Competition-Festival:

The goal is to promote the best examples of military-patriotic songs

To promote the formation of a high patriotic consciousness among young people, loyalty to their Fatherland, respect for the heroic history and military glory of the Fatherland;

Improving the performance skills of participants;

Creation of a high artistic repertoire of civil-patriotic, historical themes, increasing interest in the musical heritage of military subjects;

Identification of new talents, support and stimulation of the creative activity of young people;

Active participation of performers and creative teams in events dedicated to the celebration of the 72nd anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Conditions and Procedure for the Competition-Festival:

The competition-festival is dedicated to the celebration of Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

Vocalists - soloists and creative vocal, choreographic, instrumental, artistic groups of institutions of additional education (music and art schools, art schools, houses of children's creativity) cultural institutions (Palaces of culture, houses of culture, libraries), children's and youth creative studios, students and teachers of professional educational organizations, students of secondary schools, pupils of preschool educational institutions, workers of industrial enterprises and institutions, creative teams of veteran organizations without age restrictions.

Venue of the Competition-Festival:

MUK "City Palace of Culture" in Vologda (Lenin St. 17)

BUK Cultural and Leisure Center "Care" (St. Maria Ulyanov, 6)

The competition-festival is held in 3 stages:

nominations: vocal (choirs, ensembles), choreographic compositions

nomination: literary and musical compositions, instrumental art (folk instruments, ensembles, orchestras)

vocal nomination (solo, ensembles);

nomination: vocal (solo, ensembles)

Stage 2 - Gala concert and awarding the winners of the competition - the festival "Songs of the War Years"

The venue is the concert hall of the MUK "City Palace of Culture" Vologda

May 2017

Stage 3 - participation of the winners of the Competition - festival in the celebrations dedicated to the 72nd anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945

Venue - Victory Park, Revolution Square, scenic venues in the city of Vologda

Nominations of the Competition-Festival:

1.Vocal (folk, academic, pop)

Ensemble (divided into duet, trio, quartet, etc.)

2. Musical and literary compositions

3. Choreographic compositions

Evaluation criteria for nominations:

Vocal - academic, pop, folk (solo, ensembles, choirs)

(2 pieces, total duration of 2 numbers no more than 8 minutes)

Embodiment of the military-patriotic theme

stage culture

The complexity of the repertoire

Performing skills

2. Musical and literary compositions:

(one song no more than 10 minutes long)

- completeness and expressiveness of the disclosure of military-patriotic topics

Artistry, disclosure of artistic images, performing level

Diction, compositional construction

Stage performance (costume, props, performance culture)

Musicality, purity of intonation and sound quality

Difficulty of performance and compliance with age characteristics

Semantic and genre-compositional completeness

3. Instrumental creativity (folk musical instruments, orchestras, ensembles, duets, solo)

(1-2 works, the total duration of 2 numbers is no more than 8 minutes)

Musicality, artistic interpretation of a musical work

Purity of intonation and sound quality

The complexity of the repertoire

Compliance of the repertoire with performing abilities

Embodiment of the military-patriotic theme

4. Choreographic compositions:

(1-2 compositions, total duration no more than 10 minutes)

The expressiveness of the disclosure of military-patriotic themes,

Artistry, disclosure of the artistic image

Musicality, performance level

Compositional construction of the number

Stage performance (costume, props, performance culture, plasticity)

9. Mixed formulations

Creative teams and individual performers take part in the competition, the age of the participants is not limited.

Technical requirements:

Be sure to indicate the timing of the phonogram or the duration of the sound of this work;

The carriers of phonograms are flash cards, mini discs and compact discs with high sound quality;

Each sound recording must be on a carrier indicating the title of the work, the author of the music, the author of the text, the name of the ensemble or the name of the performer, as well as the duration of the sound of this work;

The phonogram should be set to the beginning of the recording;

Vocal groups larger than 4 people are allowed to use their own radio microphones or headsets;

It is forbidden for vocalists to perform under the “plus” phonogram;

It is forbidden to use phonograms in which the main part of the soloist is duplicated in backing vocal parts. It is allowed to have back vocals in the form of harmonic support, pre-recorded with the “Minus One” phonogram.

The textbook covers the main issues of working with the Russian folk choir. This edition has been revised and supplemented. Intended for teachers and students of departments for the training of leaders of the folk choir of music universities.

FOREWORD
With the development of Soviet choral art, interest in national traditions, including folk choirs, is growing more and more. With their versatile concert and creative activities, folk choirs have won a firm place in Soviet performance, as they represent an independent type of choral art with the deepest traditions. Based on the generalization of the creative practice of these groups, it became possible to create a methodology for working with the Russian folk choir, and the need arose for professional training of specialists in this area of ​​managing folk choirs.
In 1966 (for the first time in Russia!) at the Department of Choral Conducting of the State Musical and Pedagogical Institute named after Gnesny, a department for training leaders of Russian folk choirs was opened. In parallel, such a department began to function in the Saratov, and later in the Urals conservatories. After that, there was a sharp turn in the system of professional music education: a network of folk choral departments arose and continues to grow in cultural institutions, music and cultural educational schools. Folklore classrooms of Russian music, clubs of Russian folk songs are being created at educational institutions. All this should bridge the gap that has existed for a long time between professional education and the practice of folk music, and prepare choir conductors of a wider profile who meet the requirements of life.

The upbringing of folk singers in choirs is carried out in a practical way, so the methods of educational and artistic work in them are diverse. Nevertheless, the basic methodological principles are the same and can be studied in a special course. At the same time, it should be taken into account that the folk performance of our days continues to develop: the features of the style of the modern Russian folk choir, its vocal and choral organization and methodological principles are still being studied and systematized. This will create a certain difficulty in studying the methodology of working with the choir.
The purpose of this course is to give future choir conductors knowledge in the field of leading a Russian folk song choir, to instill the necessary ability to navigate the stylistic features of this choir to apply them in their performing activities, as well as an interest in various forms of work in a folk choir. This course consists of lectures, seminars and prepares students for the practice of working with a folk choir.

The textbook covers the main issues of the lecture course: organization of the choir and selection of performers, repertoire and singing education, improvisation, work on the content and performance of songs and others.
Some of the sections are not strictly methodological, for example: style features of the Russian folk choir, vocal and choral structure, score. Nevertheless, consideration of them is necessary to understand the theoretical foundations of the folk choir, since we still do not have a scientific development of choral building and choral management in the field of folk singing performance. Only a few works devoted to these issues are known.
In the section "Score of the folk choir" only some regularities of folk choral scores are analyzed and the issues of arrangement are almost not touched upon, since the methods of processing and arrangement for compositions of folk choirs require special study.

The experience of the folk choir departments of music universities led the author to the need to add a chapter on professional folk choirs to the second edition of the textbook. Some of them are known only from newspaper and magazine reviews of individual concerts. We have collected and systematized the material of the last years of the creative activity of all twelve choirs. The sheet music appendix contains the characteristic scores of these choirs. This edition includes another new chapter - "Instrumental accompaniment in the folk choir", which is also necessary for future team leaders.
The list of literature given at the end of the textbook is given with recommendations for individual chapters.

Foreword
1. From the history of the formation of the Russian folk choir genre.
2. Genre features and performing forms of the modern Russian folk choir
3. Repertoire.
4. Vocal-choral structure
5. Score of the Russian folk choir
6. Organization of the folk choir and selection of performers
7. Singing education
8. Work on songs with elements of movement
9. Issues of improvisation Collective creativity
10. Work on the content and performance of the songs
11. Organization of performance
12 Instrumental accompaniment in folk choir
13. Musical and educational work in the folk choir.
14. Features of the activities of the head of the folk choir.
15. Professional Russian folk choirs
Literature

Music application:

AY, YES YOU, NIGHTS Folk song of the Moscow region.
ON THE HILL, ON THE SHORE. Words and melody by A. OLENICHEVA. Arranged by V. ZAKHAROV
WHITE SNOW. Words and melody by A. OLENICHEVO. Arranged by A. KOLOSOV
MOSCOW LYRICAL. Words by V. BOKOV. Music by N. POLIKARPOV
Oh, YOU MOUNTAINS. Ural folk song. Chant of the Ural Choir
NOT WHITE DAWN. Penza folk song. Arranged by N. KUTUZOV
VOROBYOVSKIE MOUNTAINS. Russian folk song
MOMMA SCREAMS. Folk song of the Krasnoyarsk Territory
HAVE THE EAGLE WITH THE SWAN BATHED. Folk song of the Moscow region.
NOTHING I CAN DO WITH MYSELF. Words and music by N. POLIKARPOV
NOISE, NOISE, DUBRAVUSHKA. Music by A. ABRAMSKY. Words by N. GERASIMOV
FROM SIBERIAN SPACIOUS FIELDS. Melody and words of the Krutinsky choir. Chant of the Omsk choir
IN ORESHIN'S FIELD. The chant of the folk choir
YOU, SIBERIA, NATIVE SIDE. Chant and lyrics by A. OLENICHEVA
BAND. Folk song of the Voronezh region.
ALSO I AM, YOUNG. Words by N. GERASIMOV. Music by A. ABRAMSKY
THERE IS A SEA IN THE FAR EAST. Folk song of the Irtysh Cossacks. Recorded and edited by E.Konkov
IT WAS WELL, BROTHERS, IN THE DEPARTMENT. Folk song of the Krasnodar Territory
FLOWERS, MY FLOWERS. Folk song of the Rostov region
Scores of the State Russian Folk Choirs
SIT VETERANS. Music by A. PAKHMUTOVA. Words by M. LVOV Arranged by V. Levashov. From the repertoire of the choir. Pyatnitsky
FOR THE DVINA, FOR THE NORTH. Words by V. BOKOV and POLIKARPOV. From the repertoire of the Northern Folk Choir
OH YOU, FROSTS Folk song of the Rostov region. From the repertoire of the Ensemble of the Don Cossacks
EH, YES WHAT YOU, FIELDS. Arranged by K. MASSALITINOV. From the repertoire of the Voronezh Folk Choir
ON THE MOUNTAIN, ON THE GORONKA. Folk song. Processing V. HOT. From the repertoire of the Ural folk choir
WHAT IS BURNING IS BURNING. Arranged by V. LEVASHOV From the repertoire of the Siberian Folk Choir
I DID NOT KNOW, I DID NOT KNOW. Arranged by N. KUTUZOV From the repertoire of the Radio Russian Song Choir
YOU, MY NIGHT. From the repertoire of the Ryazan Folk Choir Arranged by E. POPOVA
SIBERIAN SUFFERINGS. Arranged by E. KALUGINA. From the repertoire of the Omsk Folk Choir
OH, STAFF, THE RESED WIRED. Arranged by M. CHUMAKOVA. From the repertoire of the Volga Folk Choir
WIDE YOU, STEPPE. Russian folk song. Arranged by A. KOLOSOV From the repertoire of the Orenburg Folk Choir
OH, POLY HAS THREE TRACKS. Song of the Black Sea Cossacks. Arranged by Y. ZATSARNY From the repertoire of the Kuban Cossack Folk Choir

On November 29, 2016, in the GDK "Aviator", within the framework of the children's musical philharmonic society of the Airport Children's Music School, a concert-presentation of the teacher's project will be held Biserova Anastasia Viktorovna "FOLK CHOIRS OF RUSSIA".

The project was attended by choirs of the choral and instrumental departments (teachers - Biserova A.V., Maltseva L.Yu., Abanshina S.M., accompanists - Biserov S.I., Rtishchev P.A., Sharkova I.N. , Avdeeva Yu.A.)

I represented the Northern Russian Folk Choir.

The idea of ​​this event was as follows.

Students of the Airport Children's Music School made a report on this or that state folk choir. Then the choir, ensemble or soloists of the music school introduced the audience to the repertoire of this choir or performed a song from the region to which the folk choir belongs. The speaker was encouraged to present a typical (possibly stylized) folk costume of a given region of Russia.

In total, the students of the music school prepared 12 presentations on state folk choirs:

1. Ensamul of the Don Cossacks. them. Kvasova,
2. Volga Folk Choir named after P.M. Miloslavova
3. Voronezh Folk Choir named after K.I. Massalitinova
4. Kuban Cossack Choir
5. Omsk folk choir
6. Orenburg folk choir
7. Ryazan Folk Choir named after E.G. Popova
8. Northern Folk Choir
9. Siberian Folk Choir Ural Folk Choir
10. Choir named after M.E. Pyatnitsky
11. Mikhail Firsov State Vocal and Choreographic Ensemble "Rus"

State Penza Folk Choir

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Here is the text of my presentation report on the Northern Russian Folk Choir.

March 8, 1926 is considered to be the date of creation of the State Academic Northern Russian Folk Choir.

The ensemble was originally formed from an amateur art circle, which was organized in 1919 by Antonina Yakovlevna Kolotilova, a rural teacher from Veliky Ustyug. At first it was an amateur ensemble, then an amateur choir.

In 1931, Antonina Yakovlevna moved to Arkhangelsk, which became the new home of the Northern Choir.

In 1936, the Northern Choir took part in the All-Union Radio Festival and became its laureate.

It is worth noting that throughout this time, since 1919, the members of the ensemble were ordinary people, often not knowing the notes, who worked their shift at their main job and gathered together in the evening to sing a folk song. AND I. Kolotilova, having an education, experience in pedagogical work, only gave the raw folklore material an academic form, elevating the folk song, dressing it in a stage image.

After all, performing in an ensemble is still difficult because in a team, in addition to your personal vocal abilities, you need to be able to listen and hear others, support other voices, yield, advance with your voice where necessary. Otherwise, it will turn out like in I.A. Krylov’s fable “Swan, Cancer and Pike”. Each vocalist pulls the blanket over himself, and there is no result in the form of a beautiful song composition. Collective performance is always more difficult than solo performance, but it is also more interesting.

The fact that A.Ya. Kolotilova managed to find such people, put together a team, testifies to how much the song was still intertwined with the life of an ordinary person some 100 years ago.

February 2, 1940 - the group is given the status of a professional, which allows you to immediately create a dance and orchestral group.

The northern choir has become a prominent representative of one of the main stylistic geographic zones in Russian song folklore - northern Russian. Geographically, it is distributed in the territories of modern Novgorod, Arkhangelsk, Leningrad and Vologda regions.

In the North, there are still all genre varieties of ritual and everyday song lyrics: wedding reprimands, laudatory songs, dance songs, buffoon songs, carols, "grapes" and Shrovetide songs. The most iconic, characteristic of the north is the genre of round dance songs.

The originality of folk songs is given by the northern dialect. It is generally accepted that the "northern speaking" is okaya.

A distinctive feature of the northern choral performance is a soft, unobtrusive sound. This is due to the fact that in the North, due to climatic conditions, women sang a lot indoors. Hence, many researchers call northern singing so - hut.

Folk songs performed by the Northern Choir cannot be confused with anything else. Everyone can recognize their costumes. The choir embodies in its images the folklore traditions of a typical northern costume complex. With his sundresses, shower warmers, rich headdresses. Throughout its history, the Northern Choir very carefully collected and conveyed to the viewer the features of northern songs.

The Great Patriotic War found the choir in Veliky Ustyug. Trips to military units and hospitals of the Volkhov, Leningrad and Karelian fronts began. During this time, the artists gave 1,100 concerts in the field.

The entire post-war period, until 1961, was a period of resounding success for the Northern Choir. AND I. Kolotilov and the staff of the Northern Choir received many state awards and titles during this time.

From 1961 to 2008, Nina Konstantinovna Meshko (People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of the Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR, professor at the Department of Choral and Solo Folk Singing of the Gnessin Academy of Music) became the artistic director of the Northern Choir.

In December 2008, Svetlana Konopyanovna Ignatieva became the artistic director of the Northern Choir. , who holds this position to this day.

The entire career of the Northern Choir and its leaders, especially A.Ya. Kolotilova is a vivid example of how a simple person, thanks to his work, is able to leave behind an imperishable trace for future generations. This year the Northern Choir turned 90 years old. The person is no longer alive, the first members of the ensemble are no longer alive, but the collective is working, carrying a folk song to people. Perhaps this is true immortality! When the result of your work, even after you are gone, continues to benefit people.

Northern suit.

A costume representing the Russian north, my mother and I have been sewing since August. The basis for the costume invented, compiled and sewn by my mother and I were samples of costume complexes from the collections of the State Historical Museum, the Russian Ethnographic Museum, the State Russian Museum, Sergei Glebushkin.

Northern Russian folk choir - the soul of the White Sea

The Arkhangelsk Pomors are the descendants of the ancient Novgorodians who settled this region in ancient times. Their art is still preserved in its original form. This peculiar artistic world with its own laws and concepts of beauty. At the same time, in the songs and dances of the North, the humor, enthusiasm, and inner temperament characteristic of the Pomors are clearly manifested. Northern song art is special, it is distinguished by the severity of style, chaste purity and restraint, all this is combined with a courageous epic and strong-willed beginning.
The Northern Choir is rightly called the pearl of Russian culture. For 85 years of its existence, it has never changed its role. Each performance is a special artistic world and a vivid dynamic performance: large plot performances, vocal and choreographic compositions, pictures of folk holidays. All the sound shades of northern nature are heard in the song polyphony of the choir: the pensive dialect of the taiga, the smooth chastity of the rivers, the echoing depth of the ocean and the transparent quivering of the white nights.

Antonina Yakovlevna KOLOTILOVA - founder and artistic director of the State Academic Northern Russian Folk Choir (1926 - 1960), People's Artist of the RSFSR, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, laureate of the State Prize of the USSR

“He who does not love his native song does not love his native people!”(A.Ya. Kolotilova)

Antonina Yakovlevna Kolotilova (Sherstkova) was born in 1890 in the village of Zhilino, not far from the ancient city of Veliky Ustyug.
In 1909, Kolotilova graduated with honors from the Veliky Ustyug Women's Gymnasium and went to teach at a rural school in the village of Pelyaginets, Nikolsky district, Vologda province. It was in this village that Antonina Kolotilova began to show her professional interest in folklore. She always watched the northern ceremonies with interest, listened to songs, she herself learned to lament, magnify, mastered the manner of movement of girls and women in round dances, quadrilles, and bows.
Kolotilova, born and raised in the North of Russia, deeply loved her native land, especially the expanse of flood meadows at the time of flowering grasses.
In 1914, Antonina Yakovlevna got married and moved to Nikolsk. There she works as a teacher in a folk school and continues to collect and record local songs, tales, ditties. The inborn artistic talent helped the young girl to easily master the culture and manner of performance.
After 5 years, the Kolotilovs moved to Veliky Ustyug. It is in this ancient Russian northern city that the history of the Northern Choir begins. Here Antonina Yakovlevna organizes an amateur female ensemble, which performs in clubs, and a little later at a broadcast radio station that opened in the city. I must say that the first members of the team were mostly housewives. They easily came to her apartment, arranged collective rehearsals, studied the songs that interested them. The concerts of the young choristers were greeted with approval by the listeners, and the radio performances made the group very popular. At that time, there were about 15 people in the amateur choir of Kolotilova.

“Antonina Yakovlevna fully deserved the love of the people and the glory of herself, for she gave all her strength and thoughts, inexhaustible energy and passion of her soul to folk singing and the choir she created ... If this wonderful woman had not been in the world, there would not have been our Northern Russian folk chorus!"(Nina Konstantinovna Meshko)

Birth of the Northern Choir

In 1922, in Moscow, at the recording studio, Antonina Yakovlevna met Mitrofan Pyatnitsky. It was this meeting that became a landmark for Kolotilova. Acquaintance with the work of the Pyatnitsky choir served as an impetus for the creation of their own folk choir of northern songs. On March 8, 1926, a small amateur group performed for the first time at the House of Education Workers. This day became the birthday of the Northern Russian Folk Choir.
At first, the choir was ethnographic, but then the conditions of stage life demanded an organizational and creative restructuring: a dance group and accordion players appeared. In 1952, an orchestral group was organized as part of the choir through the efforts of the composer V.A. Laptev.
In the team then there were only 12 singers. The outfits of mothers and grandmothers served as costumes - real peasant sundresses and blouses. The first harmonists were the Tryapitsyn brothers Boris and Dmitry, as well as the younger brother of Antonina Yakovlevna Valery Sherstkov. The parties at rehearsals were taught from the voice of the artistic director. Antonina Yakovlevna not only showed how to sing, but also how to move correctly, bow and behave on stage.
The newly created choir was always warmly welcomed at the enterprises of the city, in educational institutions, surrounding villages. The status of an amateur group did not prevent Kolotilova from working seriously, carefully treating the northern song and accurately reproducing the manner of her performance! She never changed these requirements in the future. In the early years, the choir performed mainly old folk songs, which the singers - former peasant women, indigenous inhabitants of the North - knew from childhood, possessed not only performing skills, but also folk improvisational style. It is not for nothing that the Northern Choir has long been considered the most ethnographically authentic, consistent in its creative line, preserving the traditions of the northern song, and the singers of the choir have always been distinguished by the ability to penetrate into the depths of the musical image and embody it in unique beauty.
In 1931, Kolotilova organized a choir in Arkhangelsk on a larger scale, both in terms of the number of participants and the volume of the repertoire. The concert programs include songs from Pinezhye, Northern Pomerania, dances and everyday scenes. The richest musical material Kolotilova collects herself during her trips to various regions of the Arkhangelsk region. At the same time, costumes for the choir members were purchased.
In 1935, while traveling around Pomorie, Antonina Yakovlevna met Marfa Semyonovna Kryukova, a famous storyteller. Kolotilova made sure that Kryukova participated in the first All-Union Radio Festival (1936). In the future, Marfa Kryukova traveled with the Northern Choir to Moscow, where, together with Antonina Yakovlevna, she worked on the first tales.
In addition to epics, the choir's programs always included funny, dancing, comic songs-buffoons, leading from the art of wandering musicians-buffoons, and drawn-out lyric songs, which the singers performed in a touching and sincere manner.
During the war, the team gave a lot of concerts. They traveled in vans, lived from hand to mouth, lacked sleep, and now and then fled from the bombings. They went to the Northern Fleet, to Murmansk, the Arctic, to the Karelian-Finnish front, to the Urals. In 1944 they left for six months to the Far East.

Antonina Kolotilova: “I love my native North and I sing songs to it!”

Until 1960, Antonina Yakovlevna remained the artistic director of the group. All the years of Kolotilova's work were filled with tireless, hard work and creative burning, a sincere desire to preserve and convey to contemporaries the depth of originality and beauty of the folk art of the Northern Territory, a constant search for new stage forms and performing means. Kolotilova's life was a true creative feat, and the traditions laid down by her are alive in the team.

Source: Prominent Vologda Residents: Biographical Sketches/
Ed. council "Vologda encyclopecia" - Vologda:
VSPU, publishing house "Rus", 2005. - 568 p. - ISBN 5-87822-271-X

In 1960, People's Artist of the RSFSR, laureate of the State Prize Antonina Yakovlevna Kolotilova handed over the leadership of the group to a graduate of the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory, an experienced teacher and choirmaster Nina Konstantinovna Meshko. The new period in the life of the team is marked by the growth of professionalism and stage culture.

Nina Konstantinovna Meshko - People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of the State Prize of the RSFSR named after Glinka, artistic director of the northern folk choir from 1960 to 2008, academician of the IAU, professor of the department of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Gnesins

“The people are based on their traditional, indigenous culture!”(Nina Meshko)

Nina Meshko was born in 1917 in the village of Malakhovo, Rzhevsky District, Tver Region, in a family of teachers, where they were very fond of songs. Mom, Alexandra Vasilievna, had a wonderful voice, and her father, Konstantin Ivanovich, not only led the school choir, but also loved to sing in the local church.

From the memoirs of N.K. Meshko: “I don’t remember how old I was, maybe even less than a year ... I was wrapped in a downy scarf, and someone was holding me in their arms. In the kitchen, people were sitting around a large wooden table, and everyone was singing. And at the same time I experienced some completely inexplicable bliss ... "

Little Nina independently mastered playing the piano, studied elementary music theory, solfeggio. And she was so captured by the world of music that she decided: only music and nothing else! And therefore, without any doubt, Nina Meshko enters the music school named after the October Revolution, and after graduating from the Moscow Conservatory to the conducting and choral faculty. It was there that Nina Konstantinovna first heard the Northern Choir. He made a very strong impression on her.
And then Nina Meshko was offered to create a folk choir of the Moscow region. It was after this work that Nina Konstantinovna finally decided: only folk singing and nothing else.

From the memoirs of N.K. Meshko: “Some kind of obsession literally burst into me to revive the folk culture of singing. Because she was the best! This is such a skill! This is evidenced by the records, especially the northern ones.

After the Moscow Choir, Nina Meshko worked with the Russian Folk Song Choir of the All-Union Radio, and then an invitation to lead the Northern Choir followed. The North conquered her and made her fall in love with herself.

From the memoirs of N.K. Meshko: “Performing a song like in the North can be done by people who are remarkably familiar with the culture of singing, having beautiful, flexible, free voices.”

For almost 50 years, Nina Konstantinovna Meshko led the Academic Northern Russian Folk Choir, known not only in Russia, but also far beyond its borders. She took over this baton from her teacher Antonina Kolotilova. Under Nina Meshko, the choir became a laureate of various international competitions. Meshko was the founder of the Gnessin School of Folk Singing. "School Meshko" brought up a galaxy of teachers, choirmasters and folk song performers. Among them are Tatyana Petrova, Nadezhda Babkina, Lyudmila Ryumina, Natalya Boriskova, Mikhail Firsov and many others. Lyudmila Zykina considered her to be her teacher. Meshko developed her own choral technique, which is now used by her numerous students.

From the memoirs of N.K. Meshko: “Song art is a chronicle of the life of the entire Russian people. It is unique, extraordinarily rich, as the Russian language is unsurpassedly rich. And then it is alive, continuously developing, renewing, reborn from the ashes ... The people are based on their traditional, indigenous culture.

Confession

Forgive, forgive me Lord
For what I couldn't do
And in the hustle and bustle of the day
I didn't have time to pay off my debts.
I didn't have time to give
Someone look, someone caress,
One did not ease the pain,
She didn't tell the story to others.
In front of relatives in a mournful hour
Didn't repent
And the beggar in the bag more than once
Didn't give alms.
Loving friends, often their
I involuntarily offend myself
And seeing the sorrows of others,
I run away from suffering.
I rush eagerly to the sky,
But the burden of worries attracts to the earth.
I want to give a piece of bread -
And I forget on the table.
I know everything I should
But she didn't fulfill her promise...
Will You forgive me Lord
For everything, for everything, for everything for this?

N. Meshko

Irina Lyskova,
Press Secretary of the Northern Choir

The originality of the repertoire and attention to the song richness of the region

The leading group of the collective - the female choir enchants the listener with a unique timbre, the beauty of original chants, the purity of the sound of women's voices a cappella. The choir maintains the continuity of the singing tradition. The northern choir, which is distinguished by a high singing culture and unique originality, stably preserves the traditions and the priority of high spirituality in performance.
The costumes of the Northern Choir deserve special attention. Created by professional costume designers, based on the best samples from the museum collections of Arkhangelsk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, they are a collective image of the Russian national costume of the northerners. During the concert, the artists change costumes several times - appearing before the audience in festive, everyday or stylized costumes created specifically for concert numbers.
The group consists of three groups - choral, dance and orchestra of Russian folk instruments. Back in 1952, an orchestral group was organized as part of the choir through the efforts of the composer V.A. Laptev. In the sound of Russian folk instruments of the orchestra there is an amazing sincerity and warmth. The originality of the repertoire and attention to the song richness of the region, modernity and a high level of performance bring the choir a well-deserved success!
The viewer's attention is constantly riveted to the stage: cheerful buffoons alternate with lyrical lingering songs, fervent quadrilles replace sedate round dances, a cappella singing alternates with musical works.
The Northern Choir pays special attention to the education of its listener, its viewer, so many of its programs are dedicated to children, teenagers and students. The choir actively continues its concert activity in Russia and abroad.
In 1957, the team became a laureate of the festival of youth and students in Moscow. This event opened the way for the choir abroad. A new stage in the activities of the collective has begun, in order to achieve recognition abroad, the choir must be special.
Since 1959, the choir has traveled to Poland, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, China, India, Afghanistan, Japan, Tunisia, and the USA. The team went to Finland several times with concerts, visited Sweden and Norway. Prepared the program "Arctic Rhapsody" together with the folklore dance ensemble "Rimpparemmi" in Finland (Rovaniemi). He worked in 2004 and 2007 in Damascus (Syria), where the Days of Russia were held in the Russian-Syrian center. In 2005, the team is invited by the museum association of the city of Varde (Norway) to celebrate the anniversary of the city. In the autumn of 2005 the team takes part in the festival of Russian culture and cinematography in Nice. “The most intimate corners of the French soul were touched by artists - northerners from Russia, having received a powerful emotional response, the audience did not let the artists go for a long time, applauding with tears in their eyes. This is the triumph of Russian national folk art!” - this is how the performances of the choir were assessed by the French media. In 2007, the Northern Choir was officially invited by the Ministry of Culture of Syria, the Representative Office of the Roszarubezhcenter in the Syrian Arab Republic and the Russian Cultural Center in Damascus to the folklore festival in Bosra.
The Northern Choir is a regular participant in big events in Russia, so in the spring of 2004, the team took part in the Easter Festival in Moscow, in 2005, together with the Honored Artist of Russia, a student of N.K. Meshko T. Petrova and the National Academic Orchestra of Folk Instruments of Russia named after N.P. Osipova took part in the celebration of the 250th anniversary of Moscow State University.
The Northern Choir successfully combines the author's music of contemporary composers with traditional folk melos, achieving stage truth and northern flavor in the performance of the artists. The repertoire of the choir includes songs based on poems by: Sergei Yesenin, Olga Fokina, Larisa Vasilyeva, Alexander Prokofiev, Viktor Bokov, Arkhangelsk poets Dmitry Ushakov and Nikolai Zhuravlev, Oleg Dumansky.

Awards and titles of the northern choir

For its 85-year creative life, the team has been awarded high titles and awards.

1940
The team was given the status of a professional state team.

1944
1 prize at the All-Russian review of choirs (Moscow)

1957
Laureate and Big Gold Medal of the VI World Festival of Youth and Students (Moscow).
Laureate and Diploma of the 1st degree (secondary) in the second All-Union Festival of Musical Theatres, Ensembles, Choirs (Moscow).

1967
Diploma of the All-Union review of professional art groups.

1971
Laureate of the VI International Folklore Festival in Tunis.

1975
Laureate and Diploma of the 1st degree in the All-Russian Review of Professional Russian Folk Choirs.

1976
By order of the Minister of Culture, he was awarded the title - "Academic".

1977
Laureate and Gold Medal of the Magdeburg Festival of Soviet-German Friendship.
Laureate of the competition of artistic groups of Russia.

1999
Laureate of the IV festival "Folklore Spring" and the 1st All-Russian Festival of National Culture.

year 2001
Laureate of the International Folklore Festival in Saint-Ghislain (Belgium).

2002
Laureate of the International Folklore Festival in Rovaniemi (Finland).
Laureate of the All-Russian Moscow Festival of National Cultures.

2003
Laureate of the Russian Festival of National Cultures (St. Petersburg).
Laureate of the congress and festival of national cultures of the peoples of Russia (Nizhny Novgorod).

2007
Laureate of the festival of folk art in the city of Bosra (Syrian Arab Republic).

2010
Laureate of the I All-Russian Festival of Folk Singing Art "Eternal Origins" (Moscow).

2011
On March 8, the concert program "Northern Choir for All Times" marked the 85th anniversary of the Northern Choir.
The Northern Choir was given the status of "Especially valuable object of cultural heritage of the Arkhangelsk region".
Laureate of the International Christmas Festival in Italy. As part of the competition, the team received two gold diplomas in the nominations "Stage Folklore" and "Spiritual Singing".

year 2012
Laureate of the festival of professional choirs "Slavic round dance" (Ryazan).
Organizer of the II All-Russian Festival in memory of the People's Artist of the USSR, artistic director of the group Nina Konstantinovna Meshko.

Leaders of the Northern Choir

Choir Director: Natalya GeorgievnaAsadchik.

Artistic director: Honored Artist of Russia, Professor of the Gnessin Academy of Music Svetlana Konopyanovna Ignatieva.

Chief Conductor: Honored Artist of Russia Alexander Mikhailovich Kachaev.

Chief choreographer: Honored Artist of Russia Selivanov Alexander Petrovich.

• Red Banner them. A.V.Aleksandrov Song and Dance Ensemble of the Soviet Army under the direction of B.A.Aleksandrov perform revolutionary songs "Orelik", "Listen", "Black Raven", the songs "Along the Narrow Bridge" by K.Akimov, "The Holy Leninist Banner » A.V. Aleksandrova, “Song of Pilots” by B.A. Aleksandrov, “At the camping halt” by L.O. Bakalova, “Goodbye, cities and huts”, “Song of Shchors”, “Under our banner”, “ Soldier's service", "The sun hid behind the mountain", "Fast tanks" by M.I. Blanter, "The Black Sea sun is burning" by A.P. Dolukhanyan, "Naval guard" by Yu. » B.A.Mokrousova, “Russia”, “Smuglyanka” by A.G.Novikov, “Near the Garden” by G.N.Nosov, “Song of Anxious Youth” by A.N. » Yu.M. Slonova, “On the Road”, “On a Sunny Meadow” by V.P. you”, “We are for peace”, “My beloved Motherland”, “I left for the army” by S.S. Tulikov, “There is a good town in the north” by T.N. Khrenni kova.
• The VR Song Ensemble under the direction of A.S. Andrusenko performs the songs “As at Dawn” by N.P. Budashkin, “Equestrian Budyonny” by A.A. Davidenko, “My Komsomol Youth” by A.P. Dolukhanyan, “Song of Past Campaigns” Z .L.Kompaneytsa, "We went hiking" by K.Ya.Listov, "Song of Voroshilov" by F.Sabo, "Song of Lazo" by F.Sadovoy, "Spaceful expanses" by A.G.Flyarkovsky, "Waltz of Friendship" by A. I. Khachaturian, "Song of the Don Cossacks" by N.K. Chemberdzhi.
• The State Russian Folk Choir named after M.E. Pyatnitsky under the direction of P.M. Kazmin performs the songs “The Song of Our Youth” by P.S. V.G.Zakharova, "Keep up with friends" by Z.L.Kompaneyts, "Let's be friends", "Raise the banner of labor", "The party is true to the people" by A.G.Novikov, "Soviet Russia" by S.S.Tulikov.
• The State Russian Folk Choir of the Northern Song under the direction of A.Ya.Kolotilova performs the songs "Belomortsy" by V.A.Laptev, "Clear Moon" by A.G.Novikov.
• The VR Russian Song Choir conducted by N.V. Kutuzov performs the songs “Why We Love Our Homeland” by P.S. Akulenko, “Festival Podmoskovnaya” by G.N.
• The State Siberian Russian Folk Choir conducted by V.S. Levashov performs V.S. Levashov’s songs “I sat under the window”, “The sea spilled without edge”, “Wide steppes”.
• The Voronezh Russian Folk Choir under the direction of K.I.Massalitinov performs the songs of K.I.Massalitinov “They say that my good”, “The nightingale has flown away”.
• The Volga State Folk Choir under the direction of P.M. Miloslavov performs the songs of G.F. Ponomarenko “Saratov choruses” and “We near Kuibyshev”.
• The ensemble "Birch" under the direction of N.S. Nadezhdina performs the song by I.O. Dunaevsky "Oh, the viburnum is blooming."
• The Chuvash State Song and Dance Ensemble under the direction of F.M. Lukin performs the songs “Favorite Party” by F.M. Lukin, “Glory to the Native Party” by G.Ya.
• The VR Grand Choir under the direction of K.B. Ptitsa performs the songs “Secular Dawn” by A.A. Babaev, “Resort Song”, “Fly Pigeons” by I.O. power” by D.B. Kabalevsky, “Country of October” by F.I. Maslov, “Glory to our native state” by K.V. » S.S. Tulikov, “Glory to the great Soviet Union” by A.N. Kholminov, “The sun shines on us” by R.K. Shchedrin.
• The State Academic Russian Choir of the USSR under the direction of A.V. Sveshnikov performs revolutionary songs “You fell a victim”, “We are blacksmiths”, A.G. Schnittke’s song “Wherever you go, you go”.
• The Ural Russian Folk Choir under the direction of L.L. Christiansen performs G.I. Vekshin's song "Groom".
• The VR Song Ensemble under the direction of V.V. Tselikovsky performs the songs “We are going friends” by V.I. Muradeli, “The Komsomol of the Soviet Country” by S.S. Prokofiev.
• The Children's Choir of the Moscow City House of Pioneers and the orchestra conducted by V.S. Loktev perform the songs “Fly the Breeze” by V.S. Loktev, “Pioneer” by A.I. Ostrovsky.
• The Ryazan Russian Folk Song Choir under the direction of E.G. Popov performs E.G. Popov’s songs “Birch”, “In the meadow, on the shore”, “Russian snowstorm”.
• The State Belarusian Folk Choir under the direction of G.I. Tsitovich performs the songs of A.G. Flyarkovsky “Autumn Lines”, “After the Rain”.
• The State Academic Choir of the BSSR under the direction of G.R. Shirma performs the song of G.K. Pukst “My beloved land”.
• The State Ukrainian Folk Choir under the direction of G.G.Verevka performs G.G.Verevka's song “Miner”.
• The Soviet Song Ensemble of the Latvian Radio, conducted by T. Kalninsh, performs the songs "Zhiguli" by B.A. Mokrousov, "Long Live the Moscow Festival" by A.I. Ostrovsky, "Love and Friendship" by S.S. Tulikov.
• The State Choir of the Lithuanian SSR, under the direction of K. Kavyackas, performs the songs of K. Kavyackas "The earth cried in the evening twilight", "The song of the fisherman".
• The vocal and instrumental ensemble "Werner" (GDR) performs the songs "Only eleven years old" by H. Bata, "Kiss me" by B. Davy, "Song of love" by I. Riadon, "Say" by S. Fein, "About the first meeting" .Eichenberg.
• The vocal quartet "Cheyanda" (Poland) performs the songs "Your eyes in love" by A. Belostotsky, "I'm in love with my Warsaw" by E. Wieler, "A song about the Vistula" by V. Gan, "Under the sky of Paris" by Z. Giro, "Your heart with me” by N. Zemensky, “Lighthouse” by T. Kucher, “Blind Man's Bluff” by A. Mushinsky, “Captain”, “Don't Teach Me to Dance” by V. Shpilman.