Today, May 15, Moscow’s Muzeon Park welcomed the Band of the Military University of the Russian Ministry of Defense. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Filip Samonin, the military musicians staged a concert near the dry fountain on Krymskaya Embankment.
One of the oldest music units of the Russian Defense Forces, the band has the honor to annually participate in military parades on Red Square dedicated to the Victory day and to the legendary parade of November 7, 1941. This year the alma mater of the band celebrates its centenary jubilee. Founded in 1919, it first bore the name of the Red Army Instructors’ Institute, later it was renamed in to the Lenin Academy of Military and Politics.
This Saturday’s concert was a huge success managing to satisfy likes and tastes of everyone present. Full of different genres and diverse in its mood the program featured music pieces by Russian, Soviet and foreign composers. Military musicians opened their concert with marches. Sounds of Becker’s Joy of Victory, Puchkov’s Russian March and Binkin’s Quick March thundered all over the park. It was then the turn of popular composition to take the stage filling the atmosphere with joy, playfulness and romantic vibes.
