{"id":61544,"date":"2016-12-28T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61544"},"modified":"2017-02-20T19:52:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T01:52:28","slug":"the-day-the-massed-choral-music-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61544","title":{"rendered":"The Day The Massed Choral Music Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you will about Russia and its history: \u00a0not good for the proverbial little guy, lots of death and misery, in a demographic death spiral&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but if they do something well, it&#8217;s massed choral music.<\/p>\n<p>And so I pay my regards to the Alexandrow Ensemble &#8211; known to generations as the Red Army Choir, during the Soviet era &#8211; whose military plane crashed in the Black Sea en route to entertain the troops in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>As the big choirs go, they were bigger than most:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qt687hhkjQQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And the land of Tolstoy, Solzhenitzyn and Dostoyevskii writes even does jingo as an epic production:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BYw_zamFGf0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RIP, Alexandrow Ensemble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you will about Russia and its history: \u00a0not good for the proverbial little guy, lots of death and misery, in a demographic death spiral&#8230; &#8230;but if they do something well, it&#8217;s massed choral music. And so I pay my regards to the Alexandrow Ensemble &#8211; known to generations as the Red Army Choir, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoriam","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61545,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61544\/revisions\/61545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}