well. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. music is our job the army our destiny. yes of ago i always say that we are on the front line. was our weapons are our instruments our voices our choreography.

and jen. says you are still missing some. but. instead of going the way we've come to realize stop the performances which fascinate big audiences in some petersburg moscow and in foreign cities you somehow don't strike as much of a chord with our own soldiers. are just saying on stage soldiers

sleep in the audience this is how military units have always responded to the musical army's concerts time and time again would be able to win over the younger audience of today or have these weapons lost their power has the time finally come for the soldiers to admit defeat we play like material. but you know songs about love for the motherland don't sacrifice. but they don't seem to appeal to the modern audience. young people especially soldiers. they seem to need a different rhythm now. singer alexander will soon turn eighty he has served in the musical army for most of his life he's convinced that because fashion changes all the time you can never keep up with it but he sure that the old tunes will still stay young hearts. present i don't

think that any of these modern nights can compare to songs like the farewell of slough younker so it's no fun fight if you go when the trumpet sounds you don't walk as though you were to a funeral thirty six year old conductor. appreciates and respects the musical army's past achievements but he believes that it now needs to tune in with the times is if you see ethically implementing reforms that were introduced several years ago. or what about smoking eventually of course that's a very short time for a unit like us. thank you. but still we have managed to make some changes. you know what are. the attorneys stablished next three song and dance ensembles in the late one nine hundred twenty s. they were originally intended to boost military morale and promote patriotism. and over time the ensembles became powerful soviet propaganda weapons by the time the

u.s.s.r. collapsed they were through for our military and sounders touring throughout the biggest country in the world today only five star operate in russia the famous st petersburg song and dance and song is one of them this is we don't mean squat musical unit has managed to preserve many of its glorious traditions and is now desperately fighting to win back a modern man to match the guardians. it's not an easy mission but the commanders are confident and ready for the next offensive they call on the young warriors to join the fight. the enemy it's a two and a half kilometers walk from all quarters of the ensemble because that by first every morning then return for lunch and back again for a house after that we return to quarters for dinner so that's about ten kilometers a day all together. but actually they came in line. i don't get where you can look at your foot.

to anybody off. constantine beloved in a choreography student didn't join the army voluntarily six months ago he received two letters one was an invitation to join the traditional russian downtown sambal in new york the other contagious call up papers for military service in in russia. it's compulsory for men to serve a fading military conscription is a criminal offense carrying a two years' jail sentence and so constantine had no choice but what his trip to america because he had to serve his country i was lucky to get into this ensemble because in the real army there's a bright different atmosphere just everybody shouts you hardly ever hear anyone speaking calmly people are very polite it's a cultural thing. one of those that put away those jackets when you hide them

somewhere. visible and the caps to that that shows anthem. that will close the door i said. everybody is a score that this must be the front of you know but for a little. there has so. composer looks on their for. the national anthem of the russian federation. of. oh oh oh oh the gentleman you don't sing so high. and there are beginning all the guys no group paid to memorize piles of boston songs some just couldn't do it i was one of them had been told that before so they looked us all in one room until we learned all by heart it wasn't funny but it was fair. that singing is really hard work it's not just sitting. and yelling.

quote i'm going to snip it take europe or america we'll find nothing like it by huge there are no other military ensembles like this. weekend and the same an oratorical a classical ballet anything walkable pasta you can't even do it all for a stool you never seen you didn't before the who with this song and dance ensemble you know was good but sure work not professionally you know nor perhaps nobody else has told you before but she has a lover really is much higher when with the when you do you need to understand that the was going to hold and now there are synthetic song.

this song and dance ensemble is the only military units where soldiers actually have to smile the only use it where the soldiers voices are louder than their command is it's also the only that where the servicemen make use of their very own personal weapons thank you for this is a great violinist a french must a craftsman made it around one hundred fifty years ago at the end of the nineteenth century because it cost us twelve thousand dollars my father managed to borrow the money from work so the full amount straight away to thaw. the tree combine it one of the best students at st petersburg state conservatory had gone to serve in a regular military unit he would have had to swap his file and food why full days

would have been spent on true combat and physical training which may not be so bad . some might even say it's good for. the musician to go for even a year without the cursing is a nightmare. to the people that these young men have been in music for about ten to twelve years before coming here music is by and large their profession their future life and if they don't want to lose their qualifications and hope to continue their musical careers in the future that they need to serve in this ensemble.

good afternoon comrades good karma carol what maddie's. you look tired because today is your first day off and even then not all of you will get much rest you know where everybody must go to their location for a cleaning three days which must be finished by ten o'clock then you start your own preparations everybody stays at his own location so. yes we're not divided here into soldiers not we're all together i mean we all have our own tutors to perform don't so must always be perfectly tidy we always have to look good there should be no bad smells or anything like that our uniforms must be clean and everyone has to look after themselves. sometimes you feel so tired and worn out after

a hustles you just run out of energy but you still have to clean up in the concert hall or something is that i tried to take it easy and roll with the punches of course it doesn't always work out but at least i try. stole their stuff what are you doing with your feet that that one two three that you did that it was a face you know what you look like right now we'll make it mean face. that. there were many people at my choreography school didn't matter so much here there are a lot of men and so on stage they put the tallest guys in the front line on the shortest guys and i lost. that at first i didn't quite understand why i was in the back row and i thought i must have been dancing really badly and that

was why they later told me it was just because of my height but you can always turn a drawback into something positive i do some trick dances they throw me up in there or something like that so in the end it turned out that my height is an advantage becomes in hunting. we could see this week two or however minute show was here. in the album but it's not just there is a minute on there is the military or the stuff. you don't see so just. the parts and experience to say.

this is a special program created for tourists in st petersburg no anthem no war songs no modern tricks only the tried and tested hits that have been popular for decades russian audiences bored with them were as foreign as who've never seen russian soldiers on stage before surrender to their charm one small acts the dull it's absolutely amazing amazing. places we travel a lot told sorts of countries we can usually see the people approach short concerts with a measure of suspicion but after a while they start to warm up we can feel that the audience opens up people begin to accept us when we get to the end of the first section the very final number in the first half of the concert we can already feel them but the audience is on our side. and.

i've seen the perception of the cross many times it doesn't matter if there's snow a heat wave or hail stones people keep on going but i didn't expect anything just one i told myself i keep on going as long as my heart told me to that's all i wanted at the moment. i have sinned so much she's. i'm carrying these sayings on my stall day so. do you want me to put a man that shared all that's fine a lot of people were so exhausted they could barely walk their feet hurt and some of them fainted who were evacuated three two wanted to keep going i don't know what tomorrow will bring.

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last. yesterday because back talk or to sit around twelve we watched quickly and went straight to sleep. as a we were up at seven even though it's a sunday when we usually up at eight and that's because of the concert they we had to make it seven and that's why from fell asleep in the bus. came back late yesterday and on top of that i had to work the night shift on the ship point. and today they tell me i'll be a concert yesterday i really didn't expect that because i've never done it before so now i work in. my decree of the russian empress the second they've let him in a military camp was established here with one hundred ten years ago the anniversary is celebrated in the open air at the very center of the garrison the tables are

laid with quilts pork and the stage is set the garrison commander has had no doubt which bad would be invited to perform on the stage only the military ensemble can offer a two hour performance of song and dance free of charge and need need a dressing rooms no rehearsal time. last time we had a concert at our school it rained in the stage became a skating rink but we kept going the weather is good and the stage is with me so i won't be slippery it's like this every so i'm a rapid deployment force getting ready for landing. when the concert begins first of all you can. and then introduce the ensemble. it's the military that's what it's like. it's normal where you stay away people

need gratian it's what we do. the first the children seem to be happy to see the musical army the same performance that only yesterday want to plus from foreign tourists is now greeted with a barely lukewarm reception hardpressed soldiers can only be churned up by pretty girls dancing on stage many have already celebrated their motherland their friends health and the success of russia's armed forces they couldn't care less about what's happening on stage despite. the top audience the musical army refuses to give up. please. leave. because we have to improvise on the spot because some mikes were changed and others were canceled. the command had high expectations for that. but it failed to be an effective weapon. it did however change the course of

the battle there were still more surprises in store. he. went. on. the on the. did you like it thank you that was from the soul you're welcome thank you it was so great we loved it. back in my day they wouldn't even have let him join the ensemble it's been years later they'd never even to listen to. rock n roll news that's not

what we're about he knows what i think and i won't pretend otherwise they would use it to give a man deserves praise all openly acknowledge his talents and say that it's the real thing though i do it but if it's all about this. like yeah you could it's distasteful i feel insulted for the same with most not for him but for the whole ensemble. but i think it's just my own special kind of thing so you have all this can sing romance and stuff like that and i can do rock and roll sing it and dance it was this. questions like that will never cease our team is very diverse when it comes to age we have eighteen year old boys and at the same time there are men who are well over seventy of course they feel much closer to the old soviet period style they don't quite understand what we're doing now i think that deep down in their hearts they don't like the motor material and from time to time they say what they think still we all realize that there's no other way forward for the old song

. the last one. yes that works better guys so it was great. there are much younger people here naturally they want something that's smaller and shoot with their time. it's true that rock n roll was all the rage back in the fifty's but even now it's a giant leap forward for the military. when soldier constantin delighted to get his service he could hardly wait for it to end so that he could go dance in new york but now he's even considering staying here in st petersburg. if there were to offer me an extension of my contract. i'd probably agree with the prospects here it gets people here have somewhere to live and you can have quite a good life on the salary of a more. classical

programme was arranged in one nine hundred twenty eight the chorus the orchestra or the ballet all these elements had a patriotic touch to them on top of that we had to show our great culture but we had to change we began to take up new modern dances and that's led to a new kind of vocal and instrumental in song. we have a really spectacular show for and this is quite different was our own soldiers for them we play songs for this so those things like that leave their morale and make them think at the same time we want to make them relax for a beat to forget about their military for

a little while. and i've got the lyrics for a new song the also says he wants to be a kind of retsina so quite soon we're going to be the from an arab song. at the why on earth do we need this rap i don't understand snow you would be told just flying around swinging one way then the other why we have good music russian press a call for the people who are not all. ensemble veteran alexander has not performed a solo part for several years he stands in the back row of the chorus singing out the low notes with his powerful bass he admits that his time is rapidly fading over just audiences like to see john faces these days you will find there that stars

have to my best to stay in shape for the wood i have a lot of experience and sometimes they listen to me but sometimes they just seriousness of us you know from the last century old man. hold on to lean on me get a full night wanted to kill it as if you know. take it together. we'll both have to carry on. let go through much of our own a one hour we're going to have sound. all of the been here for five minutes and you sent half an hour to have twenty five minutes before the concert and you still keep saying half an hour all the time. captains an ankle can hide his anxiety this is the moment of truth very soon he will find out if the ensemble is modernization has been a success and if it can stay in tune with the times or should the old soviet weapon be discarded as obsolete. musical armies giving a concert for

a regular military unit in fact this is exactly the audience that the song and dance ensemble was made for when was established eighty five years ago but now the crowd appears downcast tired and very skeptical. so we don't have concerts every day so we want to see some sense specials not just the usual stuff but it's all one with how i lost an hour with two would be better. although this piece he's obviously up to someone else out.

of the so just had intended to go through the concepts but it actually woke them up they smile a little at the comedy boxing but what really won them over was hearing a simple honest and humorous song about the harsh routine the military life. yet. you. actually gave me some brilliant concept it was really

cool. it was all some really beautiful beautiful i like the trumpet most of all. the books i've been hearing a lot of attention fall in columns of three march. i think they enjoyed the concerts we really set them up at the end they were shouting and whistling well the posting out went down really well and they liked. that then they would take to engage with the concept i think they were all moved by. the stars of the show is completed our mission successful is so now we're off to europe to do this.

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