Year by year we are becoming increasingly further from the events of the Second World War and there are less and less among alive those who brought our motherland the Great Victory … But the memory, simple human memory exists. We cannot help remembering stories of our forefathers, cannot help knowing our history, cannot help loving melodies of those times. Amazing by its beauty and dramatic inside, these songs are valuable for all generations: those who went through the war, those who only heard about it, a new generation should be brought up at these songs. That is why the program “From the heroes of the past” became one of the first programs of the Art-project “The Tenors of the XXI century”; it includes wartime songs and songs about the war written by the best Russian composers after its ending. Each soloist of the project was grown up on these songs. It is enough to say that Dmitry Sibirtsev’s whole family - grandfather, uncle, father - have devoted many years of their life to the Red Army song and dance Ensemble named after Alexandrov. Alexander Zakharov started his career in this renowned collective as well as Eduard Semenov sang in the ensemble in the Far East early in his life. Even before that moment when the Art-project “The Tenors of the XXI century” was created, Alexander Bogdanov, Maxim Paster, Mikhail Urusov and Alexander Skvarko had sung wartime songs at Irina Arkhipova Foundation.

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