The funeral of people’s artist Anatoly Latyshev is held today, August 7. Colleagues, officials and admirers of the singer came to the farewell ceremony to pay him a last tribute, IPN reports.
The coffin with the body was deposited last night at the Metropolitan Cathedral “Nativity of the Lord”. On Wednesday morning, the Divine Liturgy and the Requiem Mass were held. After that, the coffin was deposited at “Nicolae Sulac” National Palace.
“Silence and pain – that’s what is left in our hearts now. It’s very hard to accept that you lose a loved person, a man who, when he was sad, turned on the music to fill our souls, to delight us. Indeed, the master even said – he sang from the heart for our hearts. It is what will remain in everyone’s memory and heart. Master, smooth road to heaven! Your memory is alive in our hearts!”, said the deputy mayor of Chisinau Angela Kutasevich.
“Grieving family, grieving musical and artistic society, it is a hard day for all of us, the day of parting from a great man, a man with an extraordinary soul, a man with an artist’s soul. It seemed to me that his whole body and his soul consisted only of art, of music. He lived with dignity and good will and left similar so as not to annoy or disturb anyone, to remain in our memory open, bright, young and loving,” said the president of the Union of Musicians of Moldova Svetlana Bivol, director of “Sergei Lunkevich” National Philharmonic.
Singer Gheorghe Țopa said that he visited the Nistru River together with Anatoly Latyshev last week. He had known him for a lifetime and known his kindness and his generous deeds, including the construction of a church in his native village. “So faithful, so good. He had so much good in him, so much faith. He didn’t hurt anyone at least once. Now I understand what I have lost. No celebration, no meal was held without Anatoly Latyshev in my house,” stated Gheorghe Țopa.
From the National Palace, the funeral procession will head to the Central Cemetery, where Anatoly Latyshev will be buried.
Anatoly Latyshev was born in Dobrogea Nouă village of Sângerei district on March 23, 1961. He studied accordion in Dubăsari, then at “Ștefan Neaga” College of Music in Chisinau. He was a soloist of the National Philharmonic, of “Rapsodia” ensemble, of “Fluieraș” Folk Music Orchestra for 20 years. Then he sang together with “Trandafir de la Moldova” orchestra led by accordionist, conductor and composer Ion Olaru.
The Ministry of Culture noted that Anatoly Latyshev had been a member of the Union of Musicians of Moldova for thirty years. At his initiative, the play-back at the National Palace in Chisinau was banned. He was the benefactor of the church in his native village, but also of several churches and monasteries in Moldova.
