Ural Kosaken - Michail Minsky - Original Ural Kosaken (1990)

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Ural Kosaken & Michail Minsky - Original Ural Kosaken
Ural Cossack Choir & Michail Minsky - The Original Ural Cossack Choir
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Label/Cat#: Laserlight Digital # 15345 | Country/Year: Germany 1990
Genre: Classical, Folk, World | Style: Russian Folk, Choir

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Michael (Gregory) Minsky, (Михаил (Григорий) Минский) born Michael Spirin (Spiridonov), also known as Mino Minzer and between Ukrainians as Myhailo Minsky) (12 August 1918, Bagaevo, Tatarstan – 9 October 1988, Zwolle, Netherlands) was a baritone singer, one of the finest interpreters of Russian and Ukrainian songs, and a conductor of the Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff.

From early childhood, Minsky showed an interest in music and culture. He mastered the bayan (accordion) and showed his talents as a singer while quite young. In 1935, Minsky was admitted to the Rabfak College (workers faculty) at Kazan State University where he studied geology. In 1941, he joined the college choir and was later selected by Maria Vladimirova to study at the Moscow Conservatory, who predicted a glittering opera career for him. But her plans for Minsky were thwarted by the Soviet Union's entry into World War II on 22 June 1941.

Minsky was drafted into the Red Army on 2 August 1942 and trained for four months in Saratov. He was soon taken prisoner, spending a total of 33 months in various POW camps near the front lines. In 1943, he was put to work as a forced labourer near the Hungarian border. His overseer turned out to be the brother-in-law of a tenor from the Platoff Don Cossack Choir, who told Minsky about the Serge Jaroff's Don Cossack Choir.

After the war, from 1945 to 1948, Minsky moved between a number of refugee camps. Cultural life blossomed spectacularly in these camps, and 3 November 1945, Minsky joined the newly formed Trembita choir in Bad Herschfield, led by Professor Tsependa.

This choir performed in many other camps, including Ingolstadt in 1946 and Bad Kissingen. Minsky later moved to culturally rich Karlsfeld. After its closure the refugees were relocated to camps Berchtesgaden and Mittenwold. On 15 November 1948 Minsky joined the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus in Bad Kissingen. That same year the choir was invited to make a tour to the USA.

Minsky left for New York on 5 May 1949. Later that year, he and the Bandurist Choir were received at the White House and gave a range of concerts in venues including the Mansonic Auditorium on 2 October 1949.

He made his first records in 1950 and till about 1962 he made another twenty records with famous Ukrainian artists. During his career Minsky sang in virtually every major concert hall in the United States, playing in Carnegie Hall for the first time in 1953.

He was granted US citizenship of 21 February 1953 and changed his name from Spirin to Minsky. In 1954 he made his debut in Philadelphia in Aida.

All this period Minsky was very active in the Ukrainian community. He performed numerous times at all major cities with large Ukrainian population in America and Canada. He worked and collaborated with Ukrainian diasporan composers such as Mykola Fomenko, Andrij Hnatyshyn, W. Hrudyn, Prof. J. B. Rudnyskyj and Ihor Sonevytsky. He issued several long-playing records with Ukrainian folk songs, songs of the Ukrainian Legion of World War I and the Ukrainian Underground Army. In 1971 the Ukrainian community in Minneapolis clebrated Minsky's 50th anniversary with a gala concert. The same year Minsky went on concert tour to the Ukrainian centers in Great Britain and in 1972 the United Ukrainian Organizations of Australia sponsored his critically acclaimed concert tour on that continent. From 1949 to the end of his stay in the United States, Minsky participated as soloist in all concerts and concert tours of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus.

Minsky joined the Schwarzmeer Cossack Choir in the early 1960s, alongside his participation in Rodina (1962, 1963 and 1964); when Rodina closed the doors, he sang from 1966 until 1968 in Datscha, also in Hamburg. Around this time, he received a contract to sing in New Orleans with Pagliacci. In early 1963 he performed in La Scala in Philadelphia. He gave also concerts in Friends Academy in New York with Ludmilla Azova.

From 1 September 1963 to 31 August 1964, Minsky collaborated with the Gelsenkirchen Opera. Although under contract with the Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff and its conductor from 1948 onwards, it was only late in 1964 that he could join the Don Cossack Choir in Luzern. He would remain with Jaroff until spring 1979. On 22 April 1966, Minsky performed once again at the Mansonic Auditorium in Detroit. At that time Minsky was already spending most of his time in Europe. wikipedia

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