The Balalaika Story: Romantic to Its Roots

The Washington Post | July 9, 1990| | Copyright

The tale of the balalaika orchestra's origin is as romantic as any Russian folk tune in its repertoire.

Groups like the Balalaika Orchestra of Detroit-one of two American ensembles heard at Saturday night's Balalaika and Domra Association (BDA) Festival Concert at the Lisner-trace their roots to an idealistic 19th-century Russian aristocrat named V.V. Andreev.

After listening to the feathery tones that country folk coaxed from three catgut strings, Andreev transported the balalaika from an obscure life in the fields to the nucleus of urban concert culture. When the four-stringed domras ...

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