Thousands of Serbs sing to mourn members of Alexandrov Ensemble killed in Tu-154 crash — RT News
An entire basketball area in Serbia joined to sing a people music in reminiscence of the members of the legendary Alexandrov Ensemble who had been on board the ill-fated Tu-154 jet that crashed off the coast of the Black Sea.
The shifting, but heartfelt, second was caught on digicam earlier this week when Crvena Zvesda, a Serbian basketball membership, was enjoying Russia’s CSKA within the 2016 Euroleague playoffs.
As the gamers had been warming up, over 20,000 Serbian followers rose to sing below a banner studying: “May heaven hear the music of this 20,000-strong choir!” The selection of the music was symbolic – ‘Tamo daleko’, or ‘There, Far Away’, is broadly recognized among the many Serbs for its nostalgic, sorrowful melody.
The music, which was composed in 1916, glorifies Serbian warriors who took up arms in protection of their homeland and mourns those that sacrificed their lives on the battlefield.
“Nobody among the many Russians knew of our efficiency,” Davor Ristovic, Crvena Zvezda’s director, advised RT. “Everyone was amazed when 20,000 folks applauded on the finish of the sport. This was a human, emotional and patriotic act of the Serbs,” he added.
A Tu-154 airliner owned by Russia’s Defense Ministry plummeted into the Black Sea on December 25, simply minutes after taking off from Sochi airport. The crash claimed the lives of 92 folks on board. Among them had been 64 members of the well-known Alexandrov Ensemble, together with their director and conductor, General Valery Khalilov.
The tragedy rocked each Russian and worldwide followers.
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The group was established in 1928 and has since toured the world performing Russian people and patriotic songs, in addition to World War II music. The broadly in style refrain is also known as “Russia’s singing weapon.”
A message of assist and condolence additionally got here from throughout the Atlantic on Friday, when members of the Schiller Institute Community Chorus carried out the Russian nationwide anthem exterior the Russian Consulate in New York to honor the Tu-154 crash victims.
“This accident is all of the extra a trigger for disappointment, because the music and patriotic spirit attribute of the members of the Alexandrov Ensemble would have introduced a message of hope to the folks of Syria… victimized by greater than 5 years of the legal insurance policies of regime change,” the group stated a press release on their YouTube channel.
“The Alexandrov Ensemble has been an expression of the best ethical values of Russia and, like classical choral singing normally, speaks to the soul and the inventive potential of the viewers,” it added.
