Word: jaroff
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Jaroff. Little Jaroff had once been a pupil of Composer Serge Rachmaninoff. He could write down music from memory when, as in most cases, there was no music to be had. By the time the Don Cossacks were transported to Bulgaria their chorus was so good that it was engaged to sing in a Greek Orthodox Church in Sofia. In 1923 it gave its first formal concert in Vienna, has since sung some 1.800 times throughout Europe, the British Isles, Australia...
...Russian emigres after the Revolution, issued by the League of Nations). Stories preceded them: about a concert they gave in Yassi, frontier town of Rumania, where so many Bessarabians mobbed the theatre that firemen were called to play the hose on them; in Riga, where 20,000 people met Jaroff at the station, carried him and his automobile to the hotel; in Berlin, where a German general gave him the Iron Cross he had won fighting against the Russians; in Paris, where Conductor Jaroff kicked sharply at an old lady who edged close and nudged him while he was conducting...
...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...