Military song concert: Turkmen soloists mark the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory
01.05. В КУЛЬТУРУ
A concert lecture was held in the concert hall of the Turkmen National Conservatory named after Maya Kulieva dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Organizer and accompanist - senior teacher of the chamber ensemble department Svetlana Kasparova. Teachers and students of the department of the history of music, chamber ensemble, solo singing and musical pedagogy became performers of the military song.
The concert was opened by by a graduate of the senior teacher Tatyana Litvina, class in the Department of Music History, majoring in musicology, Jennet Orazova. She recalled how in the harsh years of the war, music helped to survive in the trenches, inspired deeds, helped to go into battle and brought closer to the Victory. Music has become vitally important, both for fighters and for those who remained in the rear or ended up in the temporarily occupied territory.
For musicians, the fulfillment of their direct professional duties became a patriotic duty. Perhaps, never before have musicians felt themselves so needed by their people. And, the art that they carried to people, by its deep inner essence, was alien to war, alien to the very idea of destruction and murder - it raised and strengthened their human dignity in people.
The song genre has become especially popular. Young Turkmen composers also wrote a number of songs related to military topics, among them D.Ovezov’s songs “On the Dnieper” and “Great Moscow” to the verses by K. Seytliev, V. Mukhatov “Forward, the battalion” and “Turkmenistan” on verses by R. Seyidov, “Song of the Patriot” to the verses of K. Seyitliev, A. Kuliev “Partisan song” to the verses of R. Aliyev and “Seeing off” to the verses of R. Seyidov. All these songs are distinguished by vivid melody, originality of intonations, thanks to which they won wide popularity and love of listeners.
Part of the lecture was devoted to examples from the history of world culture, how classical music was included in the everyday military life. Among them are Onegger’s Second Symphony (Siphon of Resistance), Messian’s Quartet “At the End of Time”, Shenberg’s Ode to Napoleon, Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony, A. Khachaturian’s Second Symphony, G. Popov’s Second Symphony, D. Kabalevsky’s Great Cantata, Second the symphony of Sh. Mshvelidze, which he called “The Symphony of Joy and Victory”, the Fifth (Heroic) Symphony of V. Shcherbachev and many others.
The theme of the Great Patriotic War was clearly reflected in the work of composers of Turkmenistan, who created a number of compositions of various genres, filled with the spirit of protest against the forces of evil and glorifying the heroic deeds of the defenders of the homeland. This is the opera “Abadan” by A. Kuliyev, “Heroic” symphony by V. Mukhadov, “Ballad of Heroes” and the triptych “In Memory of the Fallen” by N. Khalmammedov, Concert-poem for voice and orchestra and the ballet “Immortality” by Ch. Nurymov.
War is sorrow for man, and many songs are composed of human sorrow. It is they who help in the difficult to remember that it is necessary to fight to the end. This is a weapon that can even stop tanks, and if not for it, it is not known how the Great Patriotic War would end ...
... The concert was opened by the teacher of the conservatory, Honored Artist of Turkmenistan Ismail Dzhumaev (baritone), in his performance there were long, lyrical songs by composers A. Novikov "Roads" (to the verses by L. Oshanin) and Y. Frenkel "cranes" (to the verses by R. Gamzatov)
Begench Gaipov (baritone), laureate of the contest for the President of Turkmenistan “Altyn Asyr”, performed nostalgic songs from the television movie “Seventeen Moments of Spring” by M. Tariverdiev “Moments” and “Song about the Far Homeland” (to the verses of R. Rozhdestvensky), as well as music from the movie “Liberation” - “The Last Battle” by M. Nozhkin.
The young teacher of the solo singing department, Maya Gullaeva (mezzo-soprano), performed the mournful, tragic song of a mother, who did not see her son return from the front, - an arioso from the cantata of composer A. Novikov “We need peace”. In her interpretation, a patriotic, draft character, full of love and faith in victory over the enemy, Zhenya Komelkova’s aria from K. Molchanov’s opera “Dawns Here Are Quiet,” sounded.
Honored Artist of Turkmenistan Hassan Dzhumaev (baritone) sang V. Solovyov-Sedoy’s songs “Where are you now, friends of fellow soldiers?” and V. Mokrousov “Lonely accordion”. Nurjemal Rakhmedova (soprano) performed the songs of composers A. Surkov “In the dugout”, M. Blanter “Katyusha”, and full of tragedy and sadness “Enyan Aydymy” of the composer R. Kutlyev.
The wonderful vocalist Bahar Durdyeva (soprano) touched the souls of the audience with the soulful songs of M. Blanter “In the front-line forest” and “In the city garden”. These songs lifted the spirit of the soldiers, the light rhythm of the waltz inspired the pictures of nature and peaceful life, for which they fought and sacrificed themselves for.
The festive concert was completed on a high note - the song “Victory Day” performed by the soloist Ismail Dzhumaev and all the participants of the concert. This is a real hymn to the heroes of the war, it was written 30 years after the Victory by David Tukhmanov to the verses of Vladimir Kharitonov, and since then no celebration of this holy date has been complete without it.
The songs of the Great Patriotic War are full of the spirit of victory, they are different - patriotic, comic, lyrical ... But they all raised the spirit of the people, united and inspired, helped morally to survive and win. The war has long died down, but the feat of the people is immortal, and thanks to songs, books, movies, the memory of it is passed on to younger generations.
