Huun Huur Tu in Children of the Otter by Vladimir Martynov

GREENWAVE MUSIC PRESENTS: Huun Huur Tu, Tatyana Grindenko (lead violin, music director) and chamber orchestra Opus Posth, Perm Academic Choir Mlada in Vladimir Martynov’s Suite CHILDREN OF THE OTTER Selections from the premiere in Perm (Russia). September 17, 2009 Children of the Otter is a suite written by a renowned contemporary Russian composer Vladimir Martynov for Huun Huur Tu, chamber orchestra, and choir. The composition blends Tuvan folk music from Huun Huur Tu repertoire with original music by V. Martynov. Children of the Otter incorporates lyrics by Velimir Khlebnikov, famous Russian avantgarde poet of early 20th century whose art successfully combined archaic, contemporary, and futuristic sensibilities. In V. Martynov’s words, Children of the Otter is a composition that aims at providing a listener with a path to immersing into the ever-existing stream of eternal music, the music that brings together sp