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The budget was limited or controlled: as a Red Army choir, its budget вЂ“ however bountiful in its 1950s/1960s heyday вЂ“ possibly covered the wages and expenses of army personnel only, and perhaps any extras had to be justified within army regulations.

There are several possible reasons for this refusal: Alexander Alexandrov several times applied to his superiors for permission to include boy singers, but was refused. However, for most of its history, the choir has consisted only of basses and tenors.

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Petersburg, which no doubt had a choir with the full vocal range. Alexander Alexandrov, its first director, began his training at Kazan Cathedral, St. In an ideal world any composer, considering arrangements on such a grand scale as many of those recorded by the Alexandrov Ensemble, might reasonably demand the full set of basses, tenors, altos and sopranos, to allow the full range of tonal effects. Д¬ompositions and arrangements for the choir A fine example of this would be the choral arrangement which complements Stanislav Frolov singing Song of the Dnieper (Russian: РџРµСЃРЅСЏ Рѕ Р”РЅРµРїСЂРµ). However, without the Alexandrovs' showmanship via choral arrangement to provide a framework and showcase for these soloists, there would be no stars. It showcases the singing stars: in the Ensemble, the soloist singers are the stars who are named on recordings, as they are the only personnel to be given solos for the length of a song or act.Popular music in his day (1920sвЂ“1940s) could involve a choir, but opera and oratorio need a choir or chorus, if the full range of composition, arrangement and performance is to be allowed. Alexander Alexandrov had to compose and arrange songs in a variety of musical styles, from folk song and popular music to opera and oratorio. It allows a full range of genres in performance: in the Soviet era, the Alexandrov Ensemble represented the Soviet Union's musical culture at home and abroad.So the orchestra, soloists and dance troupe alone could not be seen to be representative in the same way. To the audience вЂ“ when the choir is 80-strong вЂ“ it can sound like the voice of the masses.

It represents the army and the people: from the start, the choir has represented not only the Red Army but also, in the early days, the Soviet Union's socialist ethos.There are several possible reasons for this: The central importance of the choir Д«efore he died in 1946, Alexander Alexandrov made it clear to his son Boris that the choir was central to the Alexandrov Ensemble, and that without the choir there would be no Ensemble. 2 Compositions and arrangements for the choir.

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