choir representing the Children's Variety Theater, the chamber ensemble Moscow Soloists conducted by Yuri Bashmet, the soloist ensemble representing the Stas Namin Theater, representatives of different religious denominations and ethnic musicians from all over the world. The show summarized the entire creative forty-year history of the band and, in some way, freed the musicians from the image that formed during that period to give them the freedom to evolve further. 2011: Window to Freedom album Thirty years after releasing the first (and actually the last) art album titled Hymn to the Sun (1980) the band recorded their new album Open Wide Your Window at the Abbey Road Studio in London. The record contained fifteen previously unreleased (due to strict censorship) songs but written mostly in 1980 with lyrics by 1960s poets as well as two new songs by Namin – Hymn to Today's Heroes and Window to Freedom. The International Society of Sound established by Peter Gabriel named the Window to Freedom album one of the most interesting in the world of music in terms of music, poetry, arrangements and recording quality. 2012: Flower Power show In November 2012 The Flowers presented their new show at Crocus City Hall. In the first half of the three-hour show the band performed their new modern program titled Homo Sapiens, in the second half they played remakes of their well-known hits featuring a number of guest bands including, for example, Time Machine, Voskresenie, Kalinov Most, Zvuki Mu, Zdob si Zdub, Moral Codex as well as the ex-members of the band Alexey Kozlov (Arsenal), Andrey Sapunov (Voskresenie), Alexander Solich (Moral Codex) and the Alexandrov Russian Army Ensemble, Todes ballet, Glinka Quartette, etc. In the new show Flower Power The Flowers are as different from their early records as the early The Beatles are different from their last albums. After finding their own style in the 1970s The Flowers have been developing it so that each new album brings not only new songs, arrangements and poetry but a somewhat new vision. References External links flowersrock.ru – Russian site of group "The Flowers" Information on the band (in Russian) Discography of the band (in Russian) Soviet rock music groups Soviet vocal-instrumental ensembles Russian rock music groups Musical groups from Moscow