Don Cossacks of Rostov to Perform in Palm Desert.PALM DESERT, Calif.--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Aug. 25, 1999-- The exuberant and colorfully costumed Don Cossacks Don Cossacks, Cossack settlers (see Cossacks) who in the 16th cent. founded the virtually independent republic of the Don Cossacks on the fertile steppes along the lower course of the Don River. Novocherkassk was their chief town. of Rostov, one of the most popular dance and choral ensembles in Russia and equally celebrated internationally, arrives for a one-night performance at the McCallum Theatre on Tuesday, September 21. The show begins at 8 p.m. Tickets for the performance are $35, $30 and $20, and may be purchased at the McCallum box office, 73-200 Fred Waring Fredrick Malcolm Waring (Tyrone, Pennsylvania, June 9, 1900 – July 29, 1984 in State College, Pennsylvania) was a popular musician, bandleader, and radio and TV personality, sometimes referred to as "the man who taught America how to sing. Drive, Palm Desert, or by phone at 760/340-2787. The McCallum has put tickets for this show, along with those for singer/pianist Diana Krall's September 16 concert, on sale to the public prior to other shows due to their early appearance in the theatre's 1999-2000 season. The performing arts center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. will release tickets to all other shows in the season beginning at 8 a.m. on September 13. Founded in 1936 to preserve the four centuries old folk art folk art, the art works of a culturally homogeneous people produced by artists without formal training. The forms of such works are generally developed into a tradition that is either cut off from or tenuously connected to the contemporary cultural mainstream. of the Cossack peoples who inhabited the wide plains along the Dom River in Russia's southern and eastern frontiers, the Don Cossacks of Rostov reproduces the ethnic songs and dances of the region in their original form. Songs painstakingly selected from an immense historical catalog accompany dances that range from explosively energetic to gracefully elegant. The melodious songs encompass joyful wedding and holiday music, military and march pieces, plaintive plain·tive adj. Expressing sorrow; mournful or melancholy. [Middle English plaintif, from Old French, aggrieved, lamenting, from plaint, complaint; see plaint. laments of loss, songs of the fierce Cossack warriors, and humorous songs of village life. "The ensemble," said artistic director Anatoli Kvasov, "strives to present the Don Cossack folk songs folk song, music of anonymous composition, transmitted orally. The theory that folk songs were originally group compositions has been modified in recent studies. (and dances) it performs not only as beautiful relics relics, part of the body of a saint or a thing closely connected with the saint in life. In traditional Christian belief they have had great importance, and miracles have often been associated with them. of the past, but also as the living art of the present." Following a performance in Bremerhaven, Germany, a critic for the Nordsee-Zeitung newspaper observed that the company was "rewarded with stormy applause. It was a thrilling performance: the vocal numbers were on the level of opera singing and the dance scenes were virtuoso pieces." Additional information about the artists and productions appearing at the McCallum Theatre during the new season can be found on the performing arts center's Web site, www.mccallum-theatre.org. |
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