A festive concert dedicated to Victory Day was held today, May 7, at the Makhtumkuli National Musical and Drama Theater. The event was organized by the Ministry of Culture of Turkmenistan and the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ashgabat. Among the honored guests of the evening were veterans of the Great Patriotic War, ambassadors of different countries.
Before the start of the performance, the guests were greeted in the foyer of the theater by teenage high school students – boys in military clothes of those times, and girls in dresses of pre-war cut. This is the generation of those guys who literally went to the front from school.
Many of the families who came to the concert also had wartime attributes, for example, caps typical of the 40s, on children, as well as St. George ribbons.
The concert began with a greeting from the host, and then a minute of silence was announced in memory of those who died in the Second World War. Then the Russian Ambassador to Turkmenistan Ivan Volynkin took the floor.
“The great Victory over Nazism was won thanks to the courage, will and unity of the Soviet people. His strength of spirit and sacrifice shocked the whole planet, inspired many to fight the Nazi invaders. And we will always remember this unprecedented feat, bow down to the generation of winners who spared no effort to protect their native land and brought long-awaited peace. Our duty is not only to preserve the sacred memory of the steadfastness of our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers, but also to convey to posterity the truth about the events of those years. This high goal is also served by the current concert, where the thoughts, feelings, emotions of everyone who fought for Victory are heard,” the diplomat said.
The Ambassador also thanked the State Symphony Orchestra of Turkmenistan and its artistic director, all the musicians for the great work done in preparing this concert.
“I love you, life!” – the State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Resul Klychev opened the concert with the optimistic melody of this famous song by Eduard Kolmanovsky.
The children’s choir “Friendship” of the Turkmen-Russian Pushkin School also took the stage. The team led by Farangiz Kazieva movingly performed the song “And the sunsets are scarlet-scarlet”.
The well-known songs about the war, which were sung together in the hall, sounded sincerely, lyrically, and soulfully at the evening. Very subtly and carefully, vocalist Dovran Shammyev conveyed the piercing intonations of Rasul Gamzatov’s verses “Cranes” and Jan Frenkel’s music on them.
He also tenderly presented Eugene’s romance “Wait for me and I’ll come back …” from the movie “And the Dawns are Quiet here”, which replaced the waltz from Kirill Molchanov’s music for this picture.
The musical works were accompanied by documentary footage of newsreels or from famous films. Mansur Sharipov performed the military-patriotic song “From the Heroes of Bygone Times” from the film “Officers”, which since its release more than half a century ago has received many cover versions performed by famous artists, up to rock versions. But the Turkmen singer managed to present his interpretation with great respect for the original source.
He also performed Mikhail Nozhkin’s song “The Last Fight”. And Anna Veliakhmedova continued the theme with another military song – “Clouds in Blue”, the hero of which, fighting at the front, remembers home and dreams of meeting his beloved.
“Victory Waltz”, “In the Frontline forest”, “Katyusha”, “Dark Night”, “May Waltz”, written forty years after the Victory to the poems of the poet-front-line soldier… Each of these songs has a great story, its real characters and genuine feelings. Nothing was invented or far-fetched, on the contrary, everything was concentrated and imprinted as in a time capsule in these writings, which therefore still excite to the depths of the soul so that it is impossible to hold back tears.
And tears sparkled in the hall not only among veterans, people of the older generation, but also among young people. As a connection between epochs and musical directions, Victor Tsoi’s “Cuckoo” sounded… Rock, pop, punk, etc. – is it important what the style is called if it is a noble idea and talented performance?
In contrast, after Dovran Shammyev’s “Cuckoo”, Mansur Sharipov’s cheerful, brisk “Darkie” sounded, and the audience again came out of the river of reflections on time and about itself to the shore of faith in love, goodness and humanity, in the victory of light over darkness.
And the big exclamation mark of musical dedication to the holiday was the legendary song by David Tukhmanov “Victory Day” – a hymn to the immortal feat of the entire Soviet people.
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