Lord, Save Your People - Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff скачать в хорошем качестве

Lord, Save Your People - Don Cossack Choir Serge Jaroff

Jaroff's Don Cossacks recorded this more than once, but I particularly enjoy this version because at 41 seconds in, legendary oktavist Paul Myhalik rips a strong A1. Visit the channels of K Barber and Ir An to hear more substantial examples of Myhalik's phenomenal voice. Unfortunately, his name is hardly ever spelled correctly on YouTube, the most common misspellings being Michalik and Michalyk. Mr. Myhalik was an American by birth and he never spelled his name differently. Also, the channel by Ir An spells his name in Cyrillic, a Russianized version at that: Павел Михалик. Born Paul Peter Myhalik in Perth Amboy, NJ, on May 24 1911; died there on January 13, 1988. His parents, Peter and Mary, came to the U.S. in 1909 from what is now far western Ukraine in the Carpathian region, or perhaps Galicia. He began singing professionally around 1940, enlisted in the U.S. Marines for WW II duty in the Pacific. Badly wounded by a Japanese grenade attack while fighting in the battle of Iwo Jima, he spent nearly a year in the hospital and returned home. Using the G.I. Bill, he was able to study with Thomas Pollak at the New York School of Music. In the late 1940's, he sang with the Kuban Cossacks, the General Platoff Don Cossacks, and in 1950 began his long association with Jaroff's Don Cossack Choir, from which he retired. He also sang in The Capella Male Chorus under Nicholas Afonsky and, later in life, came out of retirement to sing with The Russian Liturgical Folk Singers under George Margitich. Myhalik could sing down to an E1 and probably further; he could also ascend to the D nearly three octaves higher. While not performing, he worked as a piano tuner. He lived his entire life in Perth Amboy, NJ with his wife Ollie (Olga) and several children.The militaristic Myhalik loved drinking scotch and, according to I.V. Assur, a famous baritone with the Don Cossacks, could be a little bit dangerous when drunk. He died in his bed at his gorgeous residence at 125 Water St., Perth Amboy.