The Russian folk song "Vo Kuznitse" (At the Smithy) is performed by Alumni of the Yale Russian Chorus at Duke University.
Arranged by Denis Mickiewicz, founding conductor of the Yale Russian Chorus.
Conductor: Daniel Gsovski.
Soloists: Harald Hille & Doug Durasoff.
Filming & editing: Andrew Gordon.
November 1, 2009, Duke University Chapel, Durham, NC, USA.
❗️ Interesting: In 2009, Denis Mickiewicz invited all interested alumni to the Duke University campus where he taught, for a special concert and recording of challenging repertoire (today Denis Mickiewicz is Professor Emeritus of Russian Literature at Duke University). It was wonderful to all get together again and work with him. He's a very modest person, and most of his colleagues and neighbors at Duke University had never heard that he was such a gifted musician and had started a famous Chorus at Yale. Rehearsals lasted three days, and the afternoon included a performance at the famous Duke University Chapel. With some of his best voices and most experienced soloists on hand, the group did not disappoint an audience of mainly Duke students and staff. This year was Denis Mickiewicz's 80th birthday, which we celebrated with a fabulous banquet. The banquet was full of warm fellowship and loving tributes to the founding conductor and his family.
Friends, we have a wonderful video of a performance of this song from the 65th anniversary concert (2018, 9 years later), which ends with a touching speech by Denis Mickiewicz about the most important thing: • Во кузнице - Русский х...
🎶 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 "Vo Kuznitse" arranged by Denis Mickiewicz on our VKontakte page or in our Telegram channel.
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The song "Vo Kuznitse" (At the Smithy) is considered folk in origin. Some researchers note its connection with the wedding rite-among other songs, it could be performed on the wedding day. At the same time, according to a number of sources, the song does not belong to "wedding songs proper"; according to other sources, having originally been such, "Vo Kuznitse" lost its ritual significance over time.
Some sources attribute the work to the number of dance songs, in addition, joking songs. At the same time, various researchers call it a round dance song. The song was widely spread not only in pre-revolutionary Russia, but also in various regions of the country in the Soviet and post-Soviet eras.
📌 Lyrics:
At the smithy,
At the smithy, young blacksmiths are working.
They're hammering,
They’re hammering and bantering away.
They’d like Dunya,
They’d like Dunya to go out with them.
"Let's go, Dunya!
Let’s go to the woods!”
“We'll pick, Dunya,
We’ll pick some burdock.”
“We'll sew Dunya,
We’ll sew Dunya a sarafan!”
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Friends, welcome to our channel!
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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