Talk:Red Army Choir

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[edit] Names

Red Army Chorus was, by some degree, the standard English name used by western media.

Also referred to in the past 20 years as the Red Army Chorus & Band and as a Song and Dance Ensemble.

My oldest set of Red Army records list them as the Choir of the Red Army of the U.S.S.R.--tufkaa 21:16, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

The current official name of the ensemble is The Academic Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble of the Russian Army (Академического ансамбля песни и пляски Российской Армии им. А.В. Александрова).
Should we change the name?--tufkaa 15:21, 20 April 2006 (UTC)



Hey where did you copy the "name" from? Why the genitive??? "Академического ансамбля" means kind of: "the academic ensemble's..." or "...of the academic ensemble"

by the way the official name is: Дважды краснознаменный академический ансамбль песни и пляски Российской Армии имени Александра Васильевича Александрова (two times red bannered academic song and dance ensemble of the Russian Army named after Alexander Vassil'evich Alexandrov)

the link on youtube is a bad one! that's kind of copy called "red star red army chorus" or something like that... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.53.208.165 (talk) 18:40, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] References

A lot of my information came from the back of old records. Is there a way to reference this?--tufkaa 21:16, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Instruments

Contrary to the information given by Analekta, which released a couple of live recordings taken in Canada in 1987 and 1989, the orchestra does not use Russian basson or Russian horn; the orchestra members use standard western counterpars.

  • Thanks for the clarification! You're right, that was the only place I found such information.--tufkaa 16:35, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chorus

According to section 2.1:

The choir, like other male choirs, consists of three vocal sections of tenor, baritone, and bass.

Most "other male choirs" (Western ones, that is) are divided into two tenor parts and two bass parts, so this is somewhat misleading. However, I won't change it since I have no idea how this choir in particular tends to do things. EldKatt (Talk) 08:54, 1 April 2007 (UTC)