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There are balalaika orchestras which consist solely of different balalaikas; these ensembles typically play Classical music that has been arranged for balalaikas. The prima balalaika is the most common; the piccolo is rare. There have also been descant and tenor balalaikas, but these are considered obsolete. All have three-sided bodies; spruce ...
The song, "Tumbalalaika (The Riddle)" by Natalia Zukerman [4] is a poetic adaptation of this to English, with the chorus remaining in Yiddish. The Barry Sisters version of the song appears in episode 5, season 2 ("Midnight At The Concord") of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Tysyatsky also tysiatsky (Russian: ты́сяцкий) (sometimes translated as dux or Heerzog but more correctly meaning thousandman; sometimes translated into the Greek chilliarch, literally meaning "rule of a thousand") (historical) A military leader in Ancient Rus who commanded a people's volunteer army called tysyacha (Russian ...
Balalaika, a character in the Japanese manga and anime Black Lagoon; Balalaika - Dalla Russia col pallone , a sports talk show hosted by Ilary Blasi and Nicola Savino with Belén Rodríguez; An unofficial nickname for the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 Russian fighter jet, from its planform shape; Balalaika, unofficial nickname of the bus de:LiAZ-677
Most plucked string instruments belong to the lute family (such as guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, banjo, balalaika, sitar, pipa, etc.), which generally consist of a resonating body, and a neck; the strings run along the neck and can be stopped at different pitches.
Balalaika is a musical play in three acts with book and lyrics by Eric Maschwitz, music by George Posford and Bernard Grun. It opened in London at the Adelphi Theatre on 22 December 1936, starring Muriel Angelus , Roger Treville, Clifford Mollison and Betty Warren , and ran for 569 performances.
"Balalaika" (バラライカ, Bararaika) is the second opening theme song from the Japanese anime Kirarin Revolution. The song was released on October 25, 2006 and is performed by Koharu Kusumi from Morning Musume , credited as "Kirari Tsukishima starring Koharu Kusumi (Morning Musume)" ( 月島きらり starring 久住小春(モーニング娘。
Vasily Vasilievich Andreyev (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Андре́ев; 15 January [O.S. 3 January] 1861 – 26 December 1918) [1] was a Russian musician responsible for the modern development of the balalaika and several other traditional Russian folk music instruments, and is considered the father of the academic folk instrument movement in Eastern Europe. [2]