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РАЗНОЦВЕТЬЕ

English translation: Rainbow Colors/Colours

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Russian term or phrase:РАЗНОЦВЕТЬЕ (название ансамбля)
English translation:Rainbow Colors/Colours
Entered by: Tatiana Grehan

11:45 May 5, 2016
Russian to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature / НАЗВАНИЕ АНСАМБЛЯ
Russian term or phrase: РАЗНОЦВЕТЬЕ
Добрый день!

Подскажите, как правильнее перевести на английский название детского ансамбля - РАЗНОЦВЕТЬЕ, мы перевели как MULTICOLOURS.
Насколько это корректно звучит?

Спасибо!
glavik
Rainbow Colors/Colours
Explanation:
Так "веселее" звучит, по-моему :)
Selected response from:

Tatiana Grehan
United States
Local time: 14:56
Grading comment
3 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2The Kaleidoscope Choir/Technicolor Choir/Colorful Choir
Simon Geoghegan
3 +2Rainbow Colors/Colours
Tatiana Grehan
4 +1festival of colors
Alex Koudlai
4The Chromatics/The Polychromatics
Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.
3colourfulness
Nadezhda Golubeva
3Colour-Mix
Vika Lex


  

Answers


4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
colourfulness


Explanation:
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Nadezhda Golubeva
Russian Federation
Local time: 21:56
Native speaker of: Russian
PRO pts in category: 4
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13 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Rainbow Colors/Colours


Explanation:
Так "веселее" звучит, по-моему :)

Tatiana Grehan
United States
Local time: 14:56
Native speaker of: Russian
PRO pts in category: 16

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Vika Lex: unfortunately the rainbow recently became a symbol for LGBT movement,which makes it an ambiguous name for a group of kids
19 mins
  -> Спасибо!
agree  P.L.F. Persio: well, they don't "own" rainbows yet; I think this is really lovely.
26 mins
  -> Спасибо!
agree  Ilan Rubin (X): Sounds good to me. Rainbows have been adopted by many movements, e.g. the 'rainbow coalition'. So what? And why, Vika Lex, you faux 'English native speaker', is that 'unfortunate'?
19 hrs
  -> Спасибо!
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53 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
The Kaleidoscope Choir/Technicolor Choir/Colorful Choir


Explanation:
Assuming that this children's ensemble is a choir I would go for one of the above.

The alliteration in the above makes the name more snappy and memorable...

Be sure to use "the" definite article for a name.

If it's not a choir you could possibly consider: "The Kaleidoscopic Ensemble"

UK English spelling for the latter two options are: The Technicolour Chor and The Colourful Choir respectively

Hope this helps.

Simon Geoghegan
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:56
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  P.L.F. Persio: all three of them are great; well done!
14 mins
  -> Thank you.
agree  Ilan Rubin (X): Sounds good too
18 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Colour-Mix


Explanation:
Variant taken from carfts and art:

https://www.google.com/search?q=mix of colours&biw=1280&bih=...

Vika Lex
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:56
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in RussianRussian
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
festival of colors


Explanation:
Here we have the connotation of multiple colors, festivity and joy.
There is also a Hindu holiday which is translated similarly, and it is the most colorful event you can imagine.

Alex Koudlai
United States
Local time: 14:56
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 14

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Natalia Olshanskaya Robinson
13 mins
  -> thanks
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
The Chromatics/The Polychromatics


Explanation:
chromatic refers to colors AND musical scale

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Note added at 3 hrs (2016-05-05 15:33:09 GMT)
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from the painterly side, The Color Palette

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Note added at 13 hrs (2016-05-06 00:57:32 GMT)
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Polychromatic
It is used to describe light that exhibits more than one color, which also means that it contains radiation of more than one wavelength.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychromatic
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polychromatic
gener. полихроматический; многоцветный; разноцветный; многокрасочный; немонохроматический
http://www.multitran.ru/c/m.exe?CL=1&s=polychromatic&l1=1

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The chromatic scale is a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone above or below another. On a modern piano or other equal-tempered instrument, all the semitones have the same size (100 cents). In other words, the notes of an equal-tempered chromatic scale are equally spaced. An equal-tempered chromatic scale is a nondiatonic scale having no tonic because of the symmetry of its equally spaced notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_scale

Frank Szmulowicz, Ph. D.
United States
Local time: 14:56
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PolishPolish
PRO pts in category: 97
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