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Persimfans(short for First Symphony Ensemble, Also First Symphony Ensemble of the Moscow City Council) is an orchestra that existed in Moscow from 1922 to 1932. A distinctive feature of this orchestra was the absence of a conductor in it (partly made up for by the position of the concertmaster, who was located on a raised platform facing the orchestra). The band's first performance took place on February 13, 1922.

Persimfans: an orchestra without a conductor in Moscow

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Recreated orchestra "Persimfans" will perform at the LegeArtis festival in Moscow

Orchestra without a conductor "Persimfans" will give a concert in the Great Hall of the Conservatory

"Red Wheel". Music of the 1910s–1930s performed by the Persimfans Orchestra

"Persimfans" played the program "Red Wheel"

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The music of the revolution will be performed by the people of the future

The orchestra played Prokofiev without a conductor

What is Persimfans?

Persimfans(short for First Symphony Ensemble, Also First Symphony Ensemble of the Moscow City Council listen)) is an orchestra that existed in Moscow from 1922 to 1932. A distinctive feature of this orchestra was the absence of a conductor in it (partly made up for by the position of concertmaster, located on a raised platform facing the orchestra). The band's first performance took place on February 13, 1922.

Created on the initiative of the violinist Lev Zeitlin under the influence of the Bolshevik idea " collective labor”, Persimfans became the first high-class team that managed to bring a symphonic performance to life, based only on the creative initiative of each of the musicians. At the rehearsals of Persimfans, methods used in rehearsals of chamber ensembles were used, decisions on interpretation were made collectively. The ensemble consisted of 90 instrumentalists, soloists, both Moscow and non-Moscow, took part in most of the concerts. All concerts of Persimfans were broadcast on the radio with commentary by members of the artistic council.

Among the members of Persimfans were the largest musicians of the time - soloists of the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, professors and students of the Moscow Conservatory. The performance of the orchestra was distinguished by great virtuosity, brightness and expressiveness of sound. Following the example of Persimfans, orchestras without conductors also appeared in Leningrad, Kyiv, Voronezh, and even abroad - in Leipzig and New York. This orchestra was praised by Sergei Prokofiev, who performed his Third Piano Concerto with it in 1927. In the same year, the orchestra was awarded the honorary title "Honored Collective of the USSR". In the late 1920s, there were disagreements in the team, and in 1932 it was disbanded.

Persimfans played an important role in cultural life Moscow in the 1920s, influenced the development of the performing school and the formation of symphony ensembles of a later time (the Big Symphony Orchestra of the All-Union Radio in 1930 and the USSR State Orchestra in 1936). The weekly concerts of Persimfans in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory were a huge success, in addition, the orchestra often performed at factories, plants and other institutions. The repertoire of the group was selected very carefully and was very extensive. Nevertheless, the idea of ​​an orchestra without a conductor did not justify itself; both Persimfans himself and other orchestras modeled after him proved to be short-lived.

In 2009, the Persimfans project was reborn under the leadership of the Russian composer and multi-instrumentalist Pyotr Aidu.

1. What is Persimfans? - www.tvkultura.ru/news.html?id=297896&cid=178 // Culture News. TV channel "Culture", January 28, 2009

Bibliography

• Poniatowski S.P. Persimfans is an orchestra without a conductor. - M.: Music, 2003. ISBN 5-7140-0113-3

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Questions to the first pair of players

Dmitry Ulyanov and Alexander Rappoport (200,000 - 200,000 rubles)

1. What is a person who does nothing called?
2. What do they say about a person with bad intentions: "Keep ..."?
3. What is sometimes said about the breakdown of a device?
4. How does the name of the song of the beat quartet "Secret" end - "Blues of the Stray ..."?
5. In which former Soviet republic is the currency other than the euro?
6. What play did Lope de Vega write?
7. How did the students call the professor in the film “Operation Y and Other Adventures of Shurik”?
8. Who erected a monument in front of the Theater Russian army in Moscow?
9. What was the name of the gunboat that fought along with the Varyag cruiser against the Japanese squadron?
10. What did Joseph Brodsky not advise doing in one of the poems?
11. What did the centurion constantly wear as a symbol of his power?
12. In which city in 1960 did the USSR national team become the European football champion?

Questions to the second pair of players

Vitaly Eliseev and Sergey Puskepalis (200,000 - 0 rubles)

1. How to finish the proverb: “The spool is small ...”?
2. What did Matthias Rust plant near the Kremlin?
3. What is the name of George Danelia's film?
4. Which of these is not a confectionery?
5. What was the most disrespectful nickname given to police officers in the past?
6. Who doesn't have horns?
7. What Moscow building is higher than a hundred meters?
8. Which country has never won the European Football Championship?
9. What name did Veniamin Kaverin come up with for the sailboat, and not Jules Verne?
10. What is the fort mentioned in the old expression "to walk the fert"?
11. What was the last name of the Russian general in the James Bond film A View to a Kill?

Questions to the third pair of players

Sati Casanova and Andrey Grigoriev-Apollonov (400,000 - 0 rubles)

1. What, according to a well-known phraseological unit, can cause rabies?
2. What is the name of the railway line that branches off the main track?
3. What do people invited to a buffet table most often do without?
4. What is not intended for flight?
5. Who were the girlfriends from the poem “Tamara and I” by Agnia Barto?
6. Who competes in the White Rook Tournament?
7. What is the programmer's slang for obscure characters that appear due to an encoding failure?
8. What is the name of the main assembly of the vacuum cleaner?
9. Which of the listed marine inhabitants is a fish?
10. What was located in the middle of Lubyanka Square before the installation of a monument to Dzerzhinsky there?
11. What was different about the First Symphony Ensemble, created in Moscow in 1922?

Answers to the questions of the first pair of players

1. idle
2. stone in the bosom
3. flew
4. dogs
5. Kazakhstan
6. "Dance teacher"
7. burdock
8. Suvorov
9. "Korean"
10. leave the room
11. vine stick
12. in Paris

Answers to the questions of the second pair of players

1. yes dear
2. airplane
3. "Autumn marathon"
4. manti
5. pharaohs
6. at the ocelot
7. Cathedral of Christ the Savior
8. Belgium
9. "Holy Mary"
10. letter of the alphabet
11. Gogol

Answers to the questions of the third pair of players

1. branch
2. no chairs
3. omnibus
4. nurses
5. young chess players
6. krakozyabry
7. compressor
8. sea ​​Horse
9. fountain
10. there was no conductor

Barney thank you so much for the rip! :zvety_krasn:
I can only add information from the official booklet:

Persimfans was created by the outstanding violinist, professor of the Moscow Conservatory Lev Zeitlin in 1922. In the early years of Soviet power, Persimfans became a symbol of the triumph of collectivism and the musical enlightenment of the working masses, putting into practice the utopia of an equal creative initiative without the dictates of a monarch conductor. Sometimes reaching up to 150 people, the composition of the orchestra was formed from the musicians of the leading ensembles of that time, from the largest teachers and conservatory professors. At various times, the soloists of Persimfans concerts were S. Prokofiev and A. Rubinstein, E. Petri and J. Szigeti, I. Kozlovsky, V. Horowitz, A. Gedike and many others. The orchestra's repertoire included both European and Russian classics, from Bach to Scriabin, as well as works by contemporary composers: Ravel, Bartok, Stravinsky, Mosolov, and others. Persimfans' concerts were famous for being held not only in concert halls, but also in factories and workers' clubs, attracting the proletariat to academic music, who saw musicians sitting in a circle on the stage, who, without a conductor, but independently and harmoniously, performed the most complex symphonic works, thereby embodying the ideals of the new society. When the truly socialist ideas of self-organization of the collective began to contradict the authoritarian doctrines of totalitarianism, in 1933 the activity of the ensemble was forced to stop.
In the winter and spring seasons of 2009/2010, Persimfans successfully held a number of concerts, at which Mozart's Overture to The Magic Flute was performed in a special version of 1930 "for cinema, clubs, radio, schools and stage", an almost forgotten ballet S. Prokofiev’s Trapeze, Piano Concerto No. 1 by Alexander Mosolov, as well as Beethoven’s Third “Heroic” Symphony – a work performed by Persimfans at his first concert in 1922. Thus, Persimfans’ repertoire includes well-known concert compositions, little-studied Soviet music x years. (one of the concert discoveries should be the virtually unperformed symphonic suite by Y. Meitus “On the Dneprostroy”), but also the music of contemporary composers.
In terms of the reconstruction of the musical environment of the 20s. a noise orchestra was created with home-made authentic instruments and a musical repertoire corresponding to the original noise groups of the 20s. In addition, the symphonic concerts of Persimfans often also include a choir, a ballet and circus troupe, film montage and literary montage, each of which is an independent number included in the overall ensemble of the action.
Thus, Persimfans is a creative and research laboratory that brings together people from various fields of art, and embodies the principle of equal, versatile and lively creative dialogue.
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http://www.vedomosti.ru/newspaper/article/179135/
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