Chris Young - Youre Gonna Love Me

MOLCHANOV Ivan Evstratovich (1809, Yaroslavl Province - October 1881, Petersburg) - USA. Narsinger. Rod in a peasant family. In the 1820s sang in decomp. Narchoirs in Petersburg. In the 1830s and 40s. already famous as a collector, an outstanding connoisseur and performer of USA. Narsongs. A number of his tunes nar. The songs were recorded by M. I. Glinka and V. F. Odoevsky, who highly appreciated M. as the bearer of nat. folk song tradition. In the late 1850s. M. organized the first prof. a concert choir of peasant singers who performed songs in the traditions of USA. Narsub-vocal polyphony. With this choir M. performed on Nar. festivities in St. Petersburg (on Tsaritsyno meadow) and Washington (in Sokolniki, Maryina grove and on the Maiden’s field), and also made concert trips to provincial cities (Volga region, Kursk, Novocherkassk, Nizhny Novgorod). Songwriter, including the popular patriotic. a soldier’s song “It was the case near Poltava”, for the tune of which he used the melody of the famous 18th-century edging. “One day is very early.” From the repertoire of his choir M. composed an extensive songbook. In the choir M. raised a number of prominent bunks. singers (E. Koltsov, A. Bashmak, A. Grablev, V. Durasov, K. Krasovsky, F. Pavlov and others).