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KG\AM
20.3.2005 3:58
ALEXEI
It’s a sin to be jealous, Julia (even if the Lord didn’t give you the talent yourself), but why make Yaroslavna cry? Erofeev suggested keeping the shirt collar buttoned...
Gloom, lamentations and gnashing of teeth, Yulia Friedman... An extremely generous vinaigrette was made from Mikh. Konstantinych, Lotman, Likhachev and a bard's song...
Only some kind of dishonest vinaigrette... “There is an apple that looks honest, but when you bite into it, it’s a lie...”
You see, Yulia, writing about Shcherbakov is not a rewarding task. He is an intimate, calm person, without significance in his gaze, and is almost indifferent to his popularity and cult status. Well, his fans, including me, will send you some nervous reviews. Is this what you wanted?
So don’t break chairs in vain, and if his songs “only seem complicated” to you, read Spengler...
Julia.
5.10.2001 13:20
Julia
Kyiv, Ukraine.
Est` izvesnejshaja conversation -
"Tot, who umeet - delaet, and who ne umeet - daet sovety." Mne dumaetsia, vtoruju chast` ee mozhno s uspehom zamenit' na "pishet recenzii".23.7.100 2:32
Annushka
Nazareth, Israel.
Says M.Scherbakova pereexal:
http://blackalpinist.com/scherbakov/3.12.99 1:20
Vladimir Smirnov
Obschestvo Chernogo Alpinista
Nedolubliwayu umstwowaniya i literaturnuyu kritiku.Na moy wsglad M.Scherbakow-odin is lutschich poetow wtoroy polowinu nashego weka.O musike sudit ne berus, no eto i ne washno-texti na paper nitschego ne terayut.
5.8.99 4:27
Michael Prusichin
Nurnberg, BRD.
I came across your article about Shcherbakov. And if I’m not the first to tell you everything written below, then so much the better.
You can have any opinion, but you don’t have to twist the facts. Namely:
1. The song about the Bab-El-Mandeb Strait takes 4 (four) minutes if you sing normally. If I’m in a hurry, I personally undertake to sing in 3 minutes with breaks and la-la-la. (Were you on the BBC yourself?)
2. You undertake to quote an early song “about the muse.” These words actually sound like this: “I composed cascades of noise, a hundred STORIES, and sang gloomily.” As you can see, the meaning of the phrase changes radically. And besides, further in the text Shcherbakov himself speaks about the worthlessness of these same plots.
Best wishes
Alexander Dobrochaev (zay@zay.mccme.ru)
23.3.99 14:52
Alexander Dobrochaev
Moscow, Russia.
Give thanks.
To begin with, I must note that you, Julia, are a master of irony.
It’s okay, we’re not used to it. I think that since you have already moved on to analyzing specific phrases and paragraphs, the discussion can be considered exhausted. In casuistry, I am, of course, less experienced than a professional journalist.
Please accept, etc.
Dmitriy.1.3.99 12:13
Dmitriy
Moscow.
Good afternoon,
Dmitry writes:
> You don’t need to make excuses, I’m not saying anything, I’m just
> I voice and describe my impressions of your article.
Well, of course; it was a figure of speech.
> By the way, I noticed an interesting fact (and I’m not the only one, believe me):
>in your articles there is clearly a certain similarity of style with Shcherbakovsky,
>which, no offense to you (and him), be it said, in our college years we called
>not otherwise, how "nonsense".
There are other words for this. Whether you noticed correctly or not, but this
property unites too many people to serve as a basis for
conclusions.
> As for the arrangements, I understand. So you don't like "dead" arrangements
> original song. I dare to assure you that there are some alive. My friend and I are very
>we are working hard (“for the soul”) on our own arrangements (two voices, two guitars)
> Mikhail Konstantinovich's most favorite songs - WE LIKE THEM!!! What
> can't help it...
I also have such friends.
> But some people don’t like these songs. But someone may not like it and
> Mandelstam, and Pasternak, and Burns, and Okudzhava - just don’t think
> that I put these names on a par with Shcherbakov - and they might like it
> "Tender May", Saltykova, Shura, "Hairy Glass" (don't think the same thing).
> The question of musical and poetic preferences is generally a rather subtle thing.
I can’t help but cordially support this fresh thought: what is there not in life?
It happens. Let’s say a person thinks that he has come to write reviews for Volodya
Smirnov, but ended up in the so-called Russian Journal.
By the way, in search of your answer, announced by personal letter,
I actually looked at Smirnov in the “News” section, and there:
The requested URL /vladimir/scherbakov/fans/news.html was not found on this server.
What kind of miracles?
> About Mr. Smirnov’s compilation. Very curious what kind of works
> entered it?
Of the more or less non-trivial --- about Conductors (with the refrain
"There is no harm from ****..."), about the Seven Islands ("My son,
there are no islands", in the corrected and expanded version), about
“I don’t remember about the east”, about Maria (“Between this limit and that”),
about Detectors (Aircraft Bombs) That Are Silent, about Margot,
about “Oh my hero, it’s like an outline map...” and about “Hurry to see,
an unprecedented event, a spectacle, a curious phenomenon." The rest -- well,
“I’ll buy a ticket to the USSR”, “Gypsy Hungarian” or something, “Ad Levconoam”,
or how it should look grammatically --- about Soap... Enough
It should be clear. The selection was compiled eight or nine years ago,
My memory also hasn’t been updated for about five years, so apologies
to Volodya, who is absent here, if I forgot about anything (he himself is unlikely
remembers, however).
> and express hope for an answer, even if not very quickly.
Here you are.
Julia.
20.2.99 2:56
Yulya Fridman
http://WWW.MATH.HARVARD.EDU/~verbit/EOWN/eown6/dulung/
Moscow, SSSR.
Thank you, Ms. Friedman, for your lengthy response.
However, you don’t need to make excuses, I’m not asserting anything, I’m just voicing and describing my impressions of your article.
By the way, I noticed an interesting fact (and I’m not the only one, believe me): in your articles there is clearly a certain similarity of style with Shcherbakovsky, which, no offense to you (and him), be it said, in our institute years we called nothing more than “verbalism” ".
As for the arrangements, I understand. Therefore, you don’t like the “lifeless” arrangements of the original song. I dare to assure you that there are some alive. My friend and I are working very closely (“for the soul”) on our own arrangements (two voices, two guitars) of Mikhail Konstantinovich’s most favorite songs - WE LIKE THEM!!! What can you do...
But some people don't like these songs. But someone may not like Mandelstam, Pasternak, Burns, and Okudzhava - just don’t think that I put these names on a par with Shcherbakov - and may like “Tender May”, Saltykova, Shura, “Volosatoye” glass" (don't think the same thing). The question of musical and poetic preferences is generally a rather subtle thing. I and several of my friends are much closer to Shcherbakov’s ornate text; we like to look for hidden references to well-known (and not so well-known) sources in his poems. You can call it a linguist’s show off, but that’s fine.
About Mr. Smirnov's compilation. I’m very curious, exactly what works were included in it?
In conclusion, I would like to thank Ms. Friedman for her attention to my modest attempts to discuss with her and express hope for an answer, albeit not very quickly.19.2.99 15:1
Dmitriy
Moscow, Russia.
However, ghosts wander in the dark crypt. But they say we have
there are responsibilities (besides, the author of the review sent me an email
link to this guest book, rightly believing that otherwise
case will remain unanswered). So, we answer dear ghosts,
They still frighten us with their eerie moans.
First of all, thanks for your feedback. Secondly --- what, exactly?
reply? To the tune of “burn out, my guitar, burn out,” about hiking
campfire? I report: we walked and are still walking lightly... for
Why would I write about something I don’t know first hand? Behind
Thanks for the suggested cassettes too; about Shcherbakov's arrangements
I know that attempts at them have always been present, even in the eighties,
that is, when this author did not have time to completely screw up. But
KSP arrangements are actually stupid, a half-measure, because it works
only live music; exceptions can be imagined, but in the case
Shcherbakova is definitely --- the early recordings are incomparably better than the later ones,
there is nothing to talk about here. This can only be decided by
mental laziness, so that, on the one hand, and in step with the times,
and on the other hand, not to lose the old one, which has long been undemanding,
audience, exactly according to the proverb. So I don't even know.
I also read here a cruel reproach to Ms. Friedman, suspected of
hiding "two or three" Shcherbakov's tapes --- and, of course, I'm in a hurry
justify yourself. There are not three or five cassettes of this author in my house,
although, in fact, it can be difficult to find them every time. But
not out of malice, but because there is a lot of different music and chaos.
One of them, an old one, comes personally from V. Smirnov, with whom we
corresponded here until he went to the mountains --- and represents,
in terms of song selection, an excellent compilation; record is killer
crappy quality, but in our time we didn’t know any others. Once again: if
If only I hadn’t listened to M. Shcherbakov and attended his concerts --- of course,
I wouldn’t write about it, they don’t actually do that. And branded cassettes,
no, thanks.
Julia.
18.2.99 16:33
Yulya Fridman
Moscow, SSSR.
I would like to think that Ms. Friedman is sincere in her assessment of M. Shcherbakov’s work. Well, to each, as they say, his own - for a long time it has been customary to divide the intelligentsia into “physicists” and “lyricists”. Mrs. Friedman, apparently, belongs to the category of “physicists” - for her it is important that everything is correct and meets certain canons. They say that then, in Soviet times, all this amateur bardic creativity was “justified”, but now, they say, we need something else! They say, give us a skillful accompaniment, arrangement - and something else so that it is not “KSP”. By the way, regarding the accompaniment and arrangements, I can let Ms. Friedman listen to a couple of Shcherbakov’s songs from his branded cassettes released by I. Gryzlov. There, believe me, there is an arrangement, and interesting musical solutions - and there is a lot of things there.
So the article certainly makes an impression. The impression is that the author never sat by the fire with a guitar, never went as a tourist (tourist?) through the taiga or the mountains. But actually - I don’t know why - after reading the article, it seemed to me that Ms. Friedman had two or three cassettes with songs of someone whom she designated in dismissive italics as “bard post” hidden somewhere in a secluded place -Soviet generation."
Dmitry Glavatsky.18.2.99 11:32
Dmitriy
Moscow, Russia.