This book is primarily tribute to the memory of an Inspiring Personality, the conductor and the musician well-known to the entire nation. Among those who perished in that crash there were 64 members of the Alexandrov Ensemble, including their director and conductor Valery Khalilov. Therefore it was a real blow for us, military band conductors and musicians, when we learned in the early morning of Decemthat the Russian military Tupolev-154 plane crashed in the Black Sea off Sochi on its way to Hmeimim, Syria. Much to our regret, we cannot read our future. "The first choir practice is scheduled for tomorrow." "When join the angels, you will be the conductor of an angels' choir." An angel settled on the conductor's shoulder and tells him: Valery Khalilov had a favourite anecdote. It should be noted that many of these musical works are part of the performance and military-service band programs while some of his marches have been performed for several years now on May, 9 during military parades on Red Square. There are also army song fanfares, waltzes "Lilac" and "Begonia", a number of vocal compositions: romances and songs. Among them are such military marches as: "Alexander", "General Miloradovich", "Cadet", "Red Army Man Sukhov", "Lefortovsky", "Molodezhnyi", "Rynda", "Uhlan", "Junker", "Heraldic March". Khalilov himself wrote over a hundred musical pieces for a military band. To succeed in achieving this goal every effort was made to restructure military band personnel through introducing new positions, to develop fundamentally new guidelines for administrative and economic activities of military band conductors, to include new military marches and pieces of music of various genres in performance programs, to revive the tradition of military band performance in city parks, as well as to organize and conduct music events with participation of brass bands of Russia and foreign music groups.īeing aware of the urgent need for introducing fundamentally new pieces of music into the repertoire of military bands of Russia to be responsive to contemporary demands, V.M. Khalilov did a lot to make sure that after the collapse of the once great power, the prestige of military musician service was again raised to the level adequate for military bands to address their missions. As the chief military conductor of the country, V.M. It was natural for him after socializing with acclaimed artists of the world music scene to eat buckwheat porridge cooked in field conditions in a company of spectators.įor fourteen years, he was successfully in charge of the Military Band Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. And then he would leave for his native village in the Vladimir Region to go to the forest for wild strawberries, to meet all his neighbours in his home, and to take care of the sacred pole for praying by the main road. He conducted a massed band of more than a thousand musicians during the Spasskaya Tower International Military Music Festival, of which he was the founder. He was in all his glory as the country's chief military conductor at the Victory Parades on Red Square.
Valery Khalilov combined two seemingly opposite lives. Valery Khalilov called the military orchestra "the connecting link between the army and the people," and the wind music "the musical symbol of the country along with the anthem and coat of arms."
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