The Red Army Choir #1 – Paul Robeson, Fidel Castro and a concert tour to Cuba, 1961
October 20 2017 Leave a Comment Tags: Alexandrov Ensemble, Arthur Eizen, biography, Boris Alexandrov, Canada, Che Guevarra, concerts, Cuba, Fidel Castro, interviews, Ivan Bukreev, Nikita Khruschev, patriotic, Paul Robeson, tours, Vadim Ruslanov
“The Red Army Choir #1 – Paul Robeson, Fidel Castro and a concert tour to Cuba, 1961” – is the next episode from the “Talking with my father” series (with English Subtitles). A Russian famous singer Leonid Mikhailovich Kharitonov will talk about the times when he used to work in the Red Army Choir (The Alexandrov Ensemble) in early 60-s. He will tell about the historic Ensemble’s octet performance together with Paul Robeson and Arthur Eizen for the leader of the Soviet Union (USSR) Nikita Khruschev. They performed “The Song About Motherland” then.
