Melody encore: “Tavrichesky” plays popular music from american and soviet movies
More than 1,300 music and movie fans came to the ExpoForum on 9 March. The State Symphony Orchestra of the Leningrad Region “Tavrichesky” performed here for the first time with “The Film Music Chefs d’oeuvre” concert.
The youngest orchestra inRussia, whose musicians are 23–24 years old on average, played hit songs from well-known American Oscar-winning movies and Soviet classical movies, loved by many generations of Russians, for their audience. And while the changing videos showed breath-taking scenes on the screen, the orchestra provided live sound, obeying its enthusiastic artistic director and chief conductor, People’s Artist of Kabardino-Balkaria Mikhail Golikov.
During the first part of the concert, the boy fought robbers (“Home Alone”) to the music played, agent 007 seduced beauties (“Agent007”), melodramatic passions boiled over (“MoonRiver”, “Love Story”), and Broadway stages and a women’s prison united the female characters in glory and sin (“Chicago”). The story of the young magician brought dismay and horror (“Harry Potter”), Al Pacino’s character danced the famous tango Por una cabeza (“Scent of a Woman”) and then courageous characters attracted the attention and captivated the audience – “Pirates of the Caribbean” engaged in the search for treasure, sea battles, chases and love dramas.
Mikhail Golikov’s orchestra dedicated the second part of the concert to chefs d’oeuvre of Soviet music for movies. Georgy Sviridov (“Time, Forward”) led the call to struggle with newsreels of the 1920–1930s as a background: the new young country was built to the accompaniment of the noise of factories and fire crackling in ovens. The audience was given a chance to dream about sea voyages with Isaac Dunaevsky (“Captain Grant’s Children”), feelSt. Petersburgwith Yevgeny Schwarz (“Melodies of the White Night”) and meet the characters of “A Common Miracle” in love to the music of Gennady Gladkov.
It turned out that it is possible to hear unheard underwater sounds thanks to Andrey Petrov (“Amphibian Man”) and return to the long-drawn-out reality of meetings with him as well – with “Tango” from “The Garage” and race along the roads with the car mechanic (“Beware of Cars”). The audience yearned for a beautiful rose with Mikhael Tariverdiev’s little prince (“A Passenger from the Equator”) and easily returned to the Soviet-style “office” when “The Morning” from “Office Romance” sounded.
The musicians of the orchestra expressed the fundamental topics of love, friendship, human progress in their heartfelt performance of compositions by Eduard Artemyev (“At Home Among Strangers”) and Andrey Petrov (“Fire Conquering”) – the audience answered with a storm of applause.
The Symphony Orchestra of the Leningrad Region “Tavrichesky” will give its next concert at the ExpoForum on 15 April, presenting cantata “Carmina Burana” by Carl Orff. Five performances by the orchestra are planned from March to November.