Word: jaroff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet Russia (as men-without-a-country they travel on "Nansen" passports devised by the late Norwegian Explorer-Statesman Fridtjof Nansen, issued by the League of Nations) yet their organization would be sanctioned by the most ardent Communist. It is run on a strictly co-operative basis. Conductor Serge Jaroff takes no more of the profits than the least important of the choristers. But like any military commander he has complete command. No singer may be delinquent about rehearsals. Because of tardiness last year one man was forbidden to sing in any of the Manhattan concerts...
Conductor Jaroff, small and spry as a cricket, is the chorus' most compelling individual on & off stage. Last year's audiences marked also with special interest Cossack Tierekov, a bass said to have the lowest voice on record, and Cossack Ovtchinikov, whose falsetto is so high that the Don Cossacks are often suspected of concealing a woman in their ranks. Hostesses who entertained the Russians last year or who hired them as performing bears for parties, will remember: handsome Cossack Magnuschensky, the lady-killer, Cossack Kolesnikoff, a bright, understanding little fellow who has a score of anecdotes ready...
Barynja, Auf dem Flusse Kasanka, Reigenlied, Kocakenlied, Korsaken Wiegenlied and Herr Cewahre by the Don Cossacks under Serge Jaroff (Columbia, 2 records, $1.25 each) - The highly-charged Cossacks display the vocal tricks (strumming, humming, whistling) which have made them the season's sensation. The recording is imperfect...
...Cossacks' opening concert last week. First the singers filed on stage, impressive in uniforms copied from the ones they wore in the army of Tsar Nicholas: black, belted tunics, dark blue breeches with a single scarlet stripe, high black boots. Then fast as a flying beetle came Jaroff. He flashed one shining smile which seemed to include everyone from parquet to gallery, then turned, crouched, lifted his little elbows and brought forth an amazing burst of sound...
...earth. (Cossack Tierekov, said to have the lowest voice on record, recently had his throat photographed in Berlin.) There are falsettos which soar high into the soprano realm. (Audiences often suspect Cossack Ovtchinikov of being a woman.) The Cossacks hum their own accompaniments and strum them. Conductor Jaroff's control of his men is intense, superb, exercised by a clutched hand and fierce jerks of his little head. Musical cranks at last week's debut performance complained that the substance of the songs was sacrificed to the manner of singing, that too many tricks made for monotony...