Boys Are Singing in the Hall

This year March turned out to be musical. Children show their abilities. Concerts of the Nizhny Novgorod Choir School, the Russian festival of boys’ and youth choirs, the schoolchildren’s song festival “Nizhny Novgorod Nightingales”,

the 1st interregional competition-festival “Young Composer”… In March the Boys’ Choir Chapel turns 50!

The choir school is preparing to mark this anniversary with concerts that include about 40 works, the best examples of Russian classical music. On 15 March lovers of choral music had the chance to enjoy the singing of the school’s pupils and of the chamber choir “Nizhny Novgorod”. The concert featured choral works by Tchaikovsky, Bortnyansky, Berezovsky, Kastalsky and Prokofiev, as well as Russian folk songs.

Some of the items, performed by the mixed choir of boys and youths of the choir school and the chamber choir, were dedicated to V. P. Malyshev, the organiser and first director of the Chapel. People’s Artist of Russia Professor Lev Sivukhin conducted. Conducting skill was also shown by graduates of the Chapel, the school’s choirmasters B. Mokeev and E. Makarov.

On 22 March at 6.30 p.m. in the hall of the choir school the second concert dedicated to the Chapel’s anniversary will take place.

The people of Nizhny are invited to the anniversary concert on 28 March at 6 p.m. in the Kremlin Concert Hall. Choral works by Russian and contemporary Nizhny Novgorod composers will be performed there.

The celebration of the anniversary will run in parallel with the now traditional festival of boys’ and youth choirs. Collectives from Perm, Yaroslavl, Rybinsk and Narva will come. The conductors and artistic directors of these collectives are graduates of the Nizhny Novgorod Boys’ Chapel: V. Tsyganov, A. Bezukhov, S. Shesterikov and M. Goryushin. The guests will perform on 27 March at 6.30 p.m. in the Conservatory hall. And on 29 March at 6 p.m. in the Kremlin Concert Hall a gala concert of the combined choir of the collectives that came to the festival and the Nizhny Novgorod choirs will take place. That will be thunder!

E. GOLOMA