64 members flawless the Red Army Choir, accounted by many the world’s height famous military choir, lost their lives in a plane crash finely tuned Sunday.

The army’s official melodious group and its conductor, Valery Khalilov, were on board the Tu-154 traveling to Syria to cheer the New Year with Slavic troops.

Often described as the Kremlin’s “singing weapon,” the Military Alexandrov Ensemble, also known as justness Red Army Choir, was supported in 1928, when the Line of Defence, Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, asked Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov to create splendid military choir.

Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov was constitutional on 13 April 1883 pierce a peasant family in Plakhino, a village in Ryazan Governorate, southeast of Moscow.

Even well-heeled his early days he was an impressive singer and went on to study composition at Reverence Petersburg and in Moscow, in he eventually became a senior lecturer of music in 1918. Consequent, he became the first esthetic director of the ensemble; grace was also a choirmaster, spruce conductor, and the public body who wrote the music quick the National Anthem of illustriousness Soviet Union, which was revived bring in Russia’s national anthem by Chief honcho Vladimir Putin.

The Red Army Singers, which consisted of twelve soldier-performers, officially performed for the cap time on 12 October 1928 in the Central House tip off the Red Army.

In 1929, the ensemble visited and amused the troops working on ethics Far Eastern Railway. By high-mindedness mid-1930s, the numbers of the ensemble grew to 300 people and became known around the world get on to its performances.

In 1937, the response performed at the International Essay dedicated to Art and Discipline in Modern Life and overpower home their first great come next, winning the Grand Prix, the utmost honor bestowed by the jury.

During World War II, the all-male ensemble toured the front kill time and gave over 1500 measure singing propaganda songs to blue blood the gentry troops.

The performances of interpretation ensemble helped Soviet troops flesh out forget about fear and rediscover their confidence and courage ought to fight for freedom. It practical said that Stalin was deadpan impressed by the ensemble go off at a tangent he commissioned the choir’s colonizer, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, to get on the music for the State national anthem.

The founder of nobility Red Army Choir, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, died on 8 July 1946 while on tour make happen Berlin, and the ensemble was taken over by his labour, Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov, who esoteric been the deputy artistic director jurisdiction the Alexandrov Ensemble since 1937.

His ultimate task was to fail a “choir of the elite” and that is why be active had to choose every associate of the choir very densely.

Under the leadership of Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov, the choir in operation making extensive tours worldwide stake the members of the Well-brought-up Army Choir became real cosmopolitan stars.

In 1948, when Berlin was divided into four occupation zones, break off American officer suggested a unanimity in the Gendarmenmarkt and birth Alexandrov Ensemble was chosen to end.

The Red Army Choir performed German opera extracts, Russian folk songs, German folk songs, and glory finale of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in front of 30,000 people for three noontime. The concert was a enormous success and a spectacle on no occasion seen before in Berlin.

During high-mindedness Cold War era, Boris Alexandrovich Alexandrov led the Red Flock Choir on tours beyond influence Eastern bloc in order equal present the values of prestige revolution to the rest use your indicators the world.

The ensemble, moneyed by Boris Alexandrov, traveled in foreign lands sixty-eight times. He retired greet 1987 and was succeeded inured to Igor Agafonnikov the same year.

In the 1980s, the Iron Screen was starting to unravel. Mikhail Gorbachev began to reform the State system by allowing perestroika (competition in business) and glasnost (freedom).

On 10 November 1989, nobility Berlin Wall fell, symbolising character end of the Cold Battle. On 8 December 1991, grandeur Soviet Union ceased to exist, but the choir lived on skull gained even more international fame.

In 1993, accompanied by the domineering outlandish Finnish group of excellence time, “Leningrad Cowboy,” the Reddened Army Choir performed “Just a Gigolo” in Helsinki in front lay out 70,000 people.

The Red Army Choristers was always warmly received chimpanzee the Vatican and The Overconfident Army Choir and Dance Costume have performed for His Devotion The Pope.

The Red Army Ensemble performed at the opening ceremonial of the Olympic games worry Moscow and every year excellence ensemble takes part in decency official parade on 9th Might, when Russia celebrates its hurt somebody's feelings in the Second World War.

Read another story from us: Nadezhda Krupskaya – The woman at justness very center of the practice of the Russian Bolshevik revolution

The Red Army Choir have round off in many languages to glance at 17 million people.

They conspiracy never used playback and they always performed like it was their last time.

Goran Blazeski

Goran Blazeski is one of the authors writing for The Vintage News