Many would rather call him a freak, but if they only knew that this old man has been to the world war, captured the fascist’s detachment of 10, got wounded and subsequently following the doctors’ advice developed singing practice to recover from heavy injury. This is what I’ve learnt from his wife one morning on my way to work recording Alexey Pavlovitch (the latter word meaning ‘the Paul’s son’) singing at the Sergiyev Posad railway station.
Recorded September 21st, 2009
Published March 14th, 2010 (3.1 mb).