"Oh, the path is a front-line path!"
Premiere of the Dmitry Pokrovsky Ensemble

In the Moskontsert on Pushechnaya (Ballroom)
metro Kuznetsk bridge, Lubyanka
st. Cannon, d. 4, p. 2.

Dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory.
The program includes songs from the war years of composers: L. Bakalov, A. Novikov, V. Solovyov-Sedy, A. Lepin, M. Tabachnikov, I. Luban, S. Katz, I. Morozov, M. Fradkin, I. Dunaevsky, the Pokrass brothers, T. Khrennikov, V. Gusev, M. Blanter, B. Mokrousov, A. Aleksandrov,
N. Bogoslovsky, A. Novikov, K. Listov to the poems of poets M. Isakovsky, S. Alymov,
Y. Shvedov, A. Churkin, A. Fatyanov, S. Fogelson, V. Lebedev-Kumach, P. Shubin, M. Kosenko,
A. Sofronov, I. Frenkel, E. Dolmatovsky, L. Oshanin, I. Lisyansky, S. Agranyan, Ts. Solodar, B. Laskin, A. Surkov, V. Lebedev-Kumach, V. Agatov, N. Labkovsky

The epigraph to the program of the Ensemble of Dmitry Pokrovsky "Oh, the path is the front-line path!" lines from the song “Only at the Front” by A. Lepin to verses by V. Lebedev-Kumach could serve:
“Who said you need to quit songs in the war?” After the fight, the heart asks for music doubly! ”

Despite all the bloody horror of that monstrous war, it was there, at the front, that the music did not let the soul harden, it helped the person to remain human. Exactly where the best feelings and human qualities of people were tested, the song with its warmth, warmth, sometimes light humor, heartfelt simple words, an intimate native melody warmed the soldiers in the short minutes of respite between the terrible battles, inspired them with confidence that they were loved, remember and wait. Listening to these songs, the soldier could race for several minutes with his heart into that distant peaceful, bright life for which he now fought in mortal combat. This clear difference between good and cruelty, between mercy and hatred, between life and death strengthened strength and hope. After all, our grandfathers and great-grandfathers fought and won for our common future.

And the song - she was always there. Nearby - in the trench and on the front line, near a campfire, nearby - in a dugout dugout, nearby - in the cab of a front driver, nearby - in a tank, in an airplane, on a ship, nearby - on all front roads. The Soviet soldier-liberator walked with the song along all the front-line paths - the paths to Berlin itself.

The program will include both familiar and beloved by all, and Soviet songs of the war years forgotten today.
They give us the opportunity, today, to mentally go through the same front-line roads of the Great Patriotic War and gratefully bow our heads before the daily hardest feat of the winners.

Musical Director - Maria Nefyodova
Director - Olga Yukacheva