Russia - The Movie

While in Russia, the river cruise people organized a concert at Pushkin theater in downtown Moscow. A russian orchestra complete with Soprano or Mezzo-Soprano and russian traditional instruments galore, played their heart out to us tourists. Toward the end you will see Martin, one of our group as well as another lady from our tour group, who were selected to accompany the orchestra and became our entertainment. Martin in particular is fabulous. I laugh every time i watch this clip. The problem with the video is the resolution - it sucks - but the sound is pretty good. If I can manage it, I will try and load Martin's piece on its own in higher resolution. The video was taken with a Ricoh Caplio R4 camera, hence its suckiness. Enjoy the sound at the very least. After Martin's piece, there is Lara's song, which you will recognize from Dr Zhivago, as well as a cartoonesque piece that could have come from a russian road runner type cartoon with its fast paced crescendo echoing the soviet union's hurtling toward progress like a runaway train in Siberia ;-)


Russia - The Movie from karlusmagnus on Vimeo.