The Russian song "Ekh, dorogi..." (Oh, the roads) is performed by the Yale Russian Chorus during a concert at Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Church (New Haven, CT). The concert began right after the Great Vespers and featured Chorus members performing sacred and secular music from Russia and Eastern Europe, as well as Caucasus traditional music from the repertoire of the Yale Russian Chorus.
Arranged by Denis Mickiewicz, founding conductor of the Yale Russian Chorus.
Conductor: Gabriel Mesa.
November 11, 2023, Holy Transfiguration Orthodox Church, New Haven, CT, USA.
Notably, this concert was the first of the new academic year. It gave the Chorus an opportunity to try its strength and sound in a new composition-the Chorus members, who only in September auditioned and joined the Chorus, actively began to master the repertoire and in November were ready to perform a full concert program together with the other members of the Yale Russian Chorus 👏
🎶 This song and the entire album "Mnogaya L'eta: 65 Years of the Yale Russian Chorus" are available for listening on various streaming platforms: band.link/Gtnqu
🎼 Download the score of the song "Ekh, dorogi..." (arranged by Denis Mickiewicz, founding conductor of the Yale Russian Chorus) on our VKontakte page or in our Telegram channel.
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The song "Ekh, dorogi..." (Oh, the roads) was written shortly after the end of World War II, in the fall of 1945. The author of the music is A. Novikov (1896-1984), the author of the lyrics is L. Oshanin (1912-1996).
This song reveals the theme of waiting for a fight, feeling it, being ready for it. "Ekh, dorogi..." is thinking about what is coming and what has happened, about the bitterness of losses and about faith in victory. Such a song, according to the authors, could have been written only in 1945 from the standpoint of knowledge of everything that happened in the war.
📌 Lyrics:
The freezing weather, the turmoil,
And the tall steppe weeds.
Oh, the roads…
The dust and the fog,
The freezing weather, the turmoil,
And the tall steppe weeds.
The dust rises from under our boots-
As we cross the prairies and the fields-
And all around the fire rages
And the bullets whistle.
You cannot know
Your fate;
You may fold your wings
In the middle of the steppe.
The freezing weather, the turmoil,
And the tall steppe weeds.
A shot rings out,
A raven circles overhead,
Your buddy lies lifeless
In the steppe weeds.
The road stretches out endlessly ahead,
The dust rises and swirls
And all around the land is smoldering-
This foreign land!
The land is full of pine trees.
The sun rises.
On the porch at home
A mother waits for her son.
Across the endless ways
The prairies and the meadows-
Following us all the time
The eyes of our home.
Oh, the roads...
The dust and the fog,
The freezing weather, the turmoil,
And the tall steppe weeds.
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The Yale Russian Chorus is the oldest singing group in the New World dedicated to the music of Russia and nearby countries. The YRC was founded 1953 at the height of the Cold War. Founders: Denis Mickiewicz and George Litton.
Singers join while students at Yale, and many stay active throughout their lives. Every year or so we hold a major concert in which students and alumni sing together. Many alumni also join the students on tours to Russia.
Without a doubt, each of us had our own motivation to join the Russian choir. But we offer you a quote from one of the members of our choir, which unites us to some extent and explains a little the meaning of the choir in our lives: "Singing the music of the YRC in the style we sang it, was an antidote to the intellectualism that got many of us into Yale in the first place, but that could be so restrictive to the heart and spirit".
The singers are not Russians, or emigrants from Russia, but are students and former students who share a passion for the music and a belief in the power of music to build connections between people of different countries.
Thanks to KZitem, we are pleased to share these recordings with online audiences around the world who share our passion for this music.
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We have toured Russia and Eastern Europe many times, and we really hope that we will be able to hit the road again when the time comes 🌿
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