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Article: Dmitri Pokrovsky, folk singer, popularized Russian music; 52
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 2, 1996
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Dmitri Pokrovsky, an orchestra leader who did much to preserve and
popularize the folk music of his native Russia, died of complications
from heart disease Saturday in the apartment of a friend in Moscow.
He was 52.
As the leader of the Dmitri Pokrovsky Ensemble, which he called
his "living laboratory," Mr. Pokrovsky traveled to remote areas of
Russia, where he "discovered," recorded and preserved peasant music
passed down for centuries but had been suppressed by the country's
communist leaders. He and his colorfully clad 10-member orchestra
then performed the pieces in concert halls throughout the world.
The ensemble first appeared in America in 1988 in the "Making
Music Together ...