Editing Rustavi Ensemble (section)

==Overview==
Songs and dances for work and war, spectacular costumes, the unique Georgian style of [[polyphonic]] singing and rich voices characterize the Rustavi Choir. Their sacred [[hymn]]s with their overlapping, continuously moving [[harmonies]] are spellbinding. Rustavi is also performing a high-quality comprising national and diverse [[traditional dance]]s. Excellent costumes, brilliant performance, and elaborate choreography.

Erkomaishvili's vision was to break through ethnic boundaries of regional styles while performing ethnographically authentic music from all of Georgia. The Rustavi's performance style synthesizes the powerful, rough-hewn sound characteristic of the traditional regional folk choirs with a newer, cleaner, more finely-honed aesthetic whose orientation is towards concert presentation – nowadays on an increasingly international scale.

While striving to preserve, and in some cases recreate, authentic [[voicing (music)|voicings]] and vocal [[timbre]]s, the Rustavi singers have simplified the complex [[musical scale|scales]] used by the earlier [[choir]]s in order to create firmer, more brilliant harmonies. The use of a smaller number of singers for certain songs has also helped to clarify their musical structure.