Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff

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Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff
Seat: United StatesUnited States New York City
Founding: 1921
re-establishment: late 1990s
Resolution: 1981
Genus: Don Cossack Choir
Founder: Serge Jaroff
Head : Serge Jaroff (until 1981)
Wanja Hlibka (since the re-establishment)
Don Kosaken Chor Serge Jaroff, conducted by Wanja Hlibka, at a concert in January 2012 in the Obersten Stadtkirche in Iserlohn

The Don Cossack Choir founded the trained singers Serge Jaroff in January 1921 in a POW camp with living there Don Cossacks . The entertainment of fellow prisoners quickly developed successes and soon the male choir also performed , especially in Europe and the USA. The choir, which sings exclusively acapella , maintained a repertoire that mainly consisted of Russian church music, folk music and folklore.

Band history

After the Don Cossacks were expelled by the Red Army in 1920 , Serge Jaroff assembled his choir for the first time in 1921 in an internment camp in Turkey . From 1923 the choir made its first appearances as a professional ensemble in Western Europe. In the 1930s , Berlin was the seat of the choir. In 1939, the choir was during a US - tour from the beginning of World War II surprised and was first again stateless. The singers later took American citizenship and chose New York City as the basis of their work.

The choir gave its last concert in Europe in 1979 in Paris on the 83rd birthday of Serge Jaroff, but it officially continued until 1981 under Jaroff's direction.

Serge Jaroff died in America in 1985. A few months before his death he had given the right to use the name Don Kosaken Chor to the guest performance director Otto Hofner GmbH, Cologne .

In 1986 the choir got together again for a tour under the direction of its longtime soloist Michael Minsky , in which the tenor Nicolai Gedda also participated. Because of Minsky's poor health and because Nicolai Gedda didn't want to sing every day, this tour remained a one-off undertaking.

While there were already several competing ensembles at the time of the Don Kosaken Choir , several successor ensembles were formed after the dissolution. Some of them were founded by singers from the original choir. Wanja Hlibka has been the bearer of the protected name "Don Kosaken Chor Serge Jaroff" since 2001. Around 20 singers are united in his ensemble.

Sound / image carriers

  • Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff. DVD. Brilliant Classics 8892 (2007)
  • Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff. DVD. SLAVA! No. 2013 (2012)

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Barbara Gathen: Wetschernji swon: The evening bells never fall silent . epubli GmbH, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-7375-2630-2 .
  • Emilian Klinsky (Ed.): Forty Don Cossacks conquer the world. S. Jaroff and his Donkosaken-Chor (with many pictures and a sheet music supplement). Matthes-Verlag, Leipzig 1933.
  • Volker Wieprecht and Robert Skuppin: The dictionary of things that have disappeared . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-4996-2517-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Don Cossack Chorus Serge Jaroff (English) on russian-records.com, accessed on October 17, 2017.
  2. ↑ Don-Kosaken-Chor.de , accessed on October 13, 2017.