MININ's CHOIR at the Moscow Day-2017

01.09.2017
MININ's CHOIR at the Moscow Day-2017
Moscow Chamber Choir will take part in the performance of "The Way of October" cantata with the First Symphony Ensemble of the Moscow Soviet (Persimfans). The concert will begin on September, 9 at 20:00 on the Moscow building site (Tverskaya Street, opposite to the Central Telegraph).

Persimfans ensemble, created in Moscow in 1922, became famous worldwide by performing without a conductor. Subsequently, his counterparts were created in Germany and the United States.

"The Way of October" (1927) is one of the most famous Soviet cantatas. The work, based on the poetry of Alexander Blok, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Nikolai Aseev and others, was the first application for solving a major historical and revolutionary theme in the oratorio genre. The cantata was written in 1927 in honor of the October Revolution 10th anniversary by the PROKOLL association (the production collective of the Moscow Conservatory composers), whose participants sought to made a sound-recreations of the Soviet reality images, which will be understandable to the mass audience.