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The Russian song "Kalinka" (The Little Snowball Tree) is performed by the Yale Russian Chorus and Alumni at the 70th Anniversary Concert.
Arranged by Denis Mickiewicz, founding conductor of the Yale Russian Chorus.
❗️ Interesting: Denis Mickiewicz first arranged this song in 1955. Later, the Yale Russian Chorus included "Kalinka" in its first commercial album (the Philips album of 1962), and has performed and recorded it many times since. We have performed "Kalinka" for Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev, Boris and Naina Yeltsin, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and for tourists in Red Square.
Conductor: Steven Lipsitt.
Soloists: Richard Williams, Gabriel Mesa, Joseph Finetti.
Filming & editing: Emma Kazaryan.
September 9, 2023, Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
🎶 This song and the entire album "Mnogaya L'eta: 65 Years of the Yale Russian Chorus" are available for listening on various streaming platforms: band.link/Gtnqu
🎼 Download the score of the song "Kalinka" (arranged by Denis Mickiewicz, founding conductor of the Yale Russian Chorus) on our VKontakte page or in our Telegram channel.
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The song "Kalinka" was written in 1860 by I. Larionov (1830-1889). The popularity of the song began with its performance by the "Slavianskaia Kapella" choir, founded in 1862 by D. Agrenev-Slavyansky. And the song became world famous in the arrangement of A. Alexandrov (1883-1946), thanks to the performance of "Kalinka" abroad by the Alexandrov ensemble. Often the song is perceived as folk.
The song describes the unique and inimitable state of the mysterious soul of the Russian people. Here dance rhythmicity is compared with a gloriously lyrical melody, and sweet raspberries with bitter viburnum. From the beginning to the end of the song, the words are filled with boundless joy and deep love for everything that is valuable for each of us.
📌 Lyrics:
Oh, my snowball tree,
In the garden, berries are growing on my raspberry bush!
Underneath the green pine tree,
Lay me down to sleep.
Oh, my snowball tree,
In the garden, berries are growing on my raspberry bush!
Oh, my beauty, my fair one,
Give me your love!
Oh, my snowball tree,
In the garden, berries are growing on my raspberry bush!
Dear pine tree, green pine tree,
Do not rustle above me!
Oh, my snowball tree,
In the garden, berries are growing on my raspberry bush!
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Friends, welcome to our channel!
The Yale Russian Chorus is the oldest singing group in the New World dedicated to the music of Russia and nearby countries. The YRC was founded 1953 at the height of the Cold War. Founders: Denis Mickiewicz and George Litton.
Singers join while students at Yale, and many stay active throughout their lives. Every year or so we hold a major concert in which students and alumni sing together. Many alumni also join the students on tours to Russia.
Without a doubt, each of us had our own motivation to join the Russian choir. But we offer you a quote from one of the members of our choir, which unites us to some extent and explains a little the meaning of the choir in our lives: "Singing the music of the YRC in the style we sang it, was an antidote to the intellectualism that got many of us into Yale in the first place, but that could be so restrictive to the heart and spirit".
The singers are not Russians, or emigrants from Russia, but are students and former students who share a passion for the music and a belief in the power of music to build connections between people of different countries.
Thanks to KZbin, we are pleased to share these recordings with online audiences around the world who share our passion for this music.
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We have toured Russia and Eastern Europe many times, and we really hope that we will be able to hit the road again when the time comes 🌿
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