Creative Project of the Family
Tandem “Retro”
«Retro
Music for Older People Around the World
in
Three Languages»
(Project
Description)
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A
little about us and about our creation:
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We are
a family creative tandem "Retro" from Belgorod, Russia:
I
am
a
singer-composer, Alexander
Prokofiev and my mother
is a
poet-interpreter,
Raissa
Prokofieva.
We are burning desire, friends, to tell you about
our extensive
creation!
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Already during long
19 years, using our knowledge of foreign languages and of
the enchanting power of
music, we, with
my mother, are working on
the musical-literary Project
"Russian Retro
Songs
and Ballads
on the
Language
of Foreign
Listeners".
During this time of
many sleepless nights and
evenings we
have
translated 50 beautiful
songs of composers and poets of the past
years in English and
German, as well as the old Russian romances and folk songs. We
can say, that we're the only ones in Russia who carries out such
translations of the songs!
Also for
earlier years 19 of
our own
works were
born too, some of which
were written by us right
in English and in
German. My mom translates
it and I perform
as a singer
all these songs on stage for the public.![]()
Pot-Pourri
of 14 songs from the Project:
Our
primary aim
is to
convey to the hearts of listeners all around the world the
extraordinary spiritual
beauty and depth of the
content of musical-song culture of our fathers and grandfathers !!!
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It's already the 21st
century, but today
a
problem remains,
which is that
between the cultures of different countries is still hanging a huge
«iron
curtain» of
misunderstanding the
content
of
musical works due
to ignorance of the language in which they are performed.
And
we, as art workers, feel obliged to raise it, thereby erasing the
edges and obstacles to mutual understanding between the
peoples,
which is especially important in our difficult time of
multicultural
world!
Olympics
Sochi-2014:
Concerts
of Tandem "Retro" at the Olympics Sochi-2014.
We
have already successfully declared the entire Planet about
our innovative musical and literary Project
that helps
to
solve
the problem of misunderstanding between the peoples of the world,
successfully
concerting
at the Olympic Games Sochi-2014
with our very extremely interesting and unique program,
where we were invited for the
performances
after we won a very serious international
contest-selection
of the best artists and bands for
concert events at the Games.
At
the Olympics
our
songs were very enthusiastically perceived
by the public both
domestic
and by
the foreign one too! ![]()
In
the world everybody knows
such songs as
"Kalinka-Malinka",
«Dark Eyes», but none of the foreigners knows
the content of these fine
songs, and of
many others, too,
to say nothing
of the content of
beautiful Russian romances with their extraordinary beauty and depth!
And
after the Olympics-2014 we
would like very much to
continue our started
work, the
further implementation of our creative
Project,
which lies
in
the
objective to carry out musical-song treasury of our homeland by foreign languages and by
magic power of art. It
will undoubtedly contribute and promote to
understanding
between the
peoples
of
different
cultures and religions and for
peace
in the world! ![]()
Our Project,
friends, which
is designed and aimed mainly to
middle-aged and
old people, of course,
needs to be supported by the public and by
the sponsors. Because we
are a family of people with disabilities, therefore
our material
resources in
order to realize all
our creative ideas are
very limited, and
we forced to seek the
support of the Internet-public
and to ask
you to join us in
participation in
implementation of
the Project, providing
our creative tandem a
possible assistance.
We
have a lot of creative
plans for the
2015th:
(At
first)
- We plan to give a lot of
our
high-quality concerts primarily for the elderly, veterans of labor,
pensioners and disabled people of our city and of
the region, for which we
need some
amplifying equipment.
These
concerts are
planned in the nursing
homes, hospitals, libraries and
etc.
For
the purchase of the music
amplifying equipment for the concerts amount
of 10 000
dollars is
required.
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(Secondly)
- We are going to record
audio-album
at home by
ourselves with the songs
from
our
Project
and to give
it for free
to
listeners of
our concerts, so well as to
send
a certain amount of them
for leading libraries in
our
country and abroad, that
requires appropriate equipment for
the home studio.
For
the purchase of the equipment for the home studio amount of 20
000
dollars is necessary.
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(In
third place) -
We
really want to make our big
dream -
it is to organize and to
implement the
travels
with our
live concert
performances in the
Russian cultural Centers
of European cities such as - Berlin, Hamburg, Prague, Bratislava,
Vienna, Budapest, Novi Sad, Belgrade, Sofia in
order to promote
musical-song
treasury of
Russia for people living
in Europe, both for
Russians
and foreigners
too, who
loves
Russian songs and romances, and are
interested in Russian
culture. For this purpose, of course, we
need a lot of financial
resources, because
the “Russian Houses” abroad put all the costs on the artists, in
addition to say all the concerts are charitable. Our first concert
with program “Favorite Songs and Romances of the XXth Century”
will take place in the Russian cultural Center in Prague in spring
2014.
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For
this purpose, namely for implement of 9 concert travelings for 2
persons of our tandem the amount of
27 000 dollars is needed (travel costs + accommodation + food + costs of
processing visa applications etc.)![]()
Thanks
for your support and contribution we could offer you to
download for
free the audio-album, that
we have already today,
with our own
records, which are made by
us still in
1996 in the studio for our
personal funds.
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This audio-album consists of 28 rare and exclusive records of beautiful Russian retro songs and romances of the previous years, where my singing is performed by my own accompaniment of classical guitar, and adorned with air improvisations of Russian balalaika. Nowadays somewhere purchase of records of such nature is virtually impossible, because the world-wide show-market is filled with mostly only modern pop-music. ![]()
We thank you really so much for your kind support and participation, and in gratitude we want to share friendly our audio-, as well as all video-records of our concerts with you!![]()
How
Can You Help our creative tandem "Retro"?
Please help us raise $57000,
the necessary funds to cover the recording, edition, concert travels and concert performances for the elderly all over the world. ![]()
In
conclusion we can say that our family creative tandem "RETRO" is open to the dialogue and always is very happy to mutually useful any new creative contacts!![]()
Motto
of our creative tandem:
"Always
serve the people and be good and light in
every soul
through
the magical power of language and of
musical singing art! "
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Thank you all of you from the bottom of our hearts!
We
love you forever, dear friends !!!
