Criticism
Still many members of intelligentsia criticized the orchestra and its instruments for being not Russian (as the name implies) but Turkish. More recently, Iurii Boiko pointed out in 1984 that the orchestra's technique of playing a melody in the form of a sustained tremolo on one string - much copied and widely thought of as 'Russian' in style (witness Maurice Jarre's film score for David Lean's Doctor Zhivago) - is in fact not a Russian manner of playing at all; rather, it was a technique borrowed by Andreyev from the Neapolitan mandolin orchestra.
This new form of folk music gained international popularity after Andreyev's many concert tours in Great Britain between 1900 and 1910.
Read more about this topic: Vasily Vasilievich Andreyev
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