“Blok’s Symphony” by Vladimir Shcherbachyov: a “partitura incognita”

2021 ◽  
pp. 116-125
Author(s):  
М.В. Михеева

Весной 2021 года семья ленинградского композитора В. В. Щербачёва опубликовала за свой счет партитуру самого значительного сочинения в его симфоническом наследии — Симфонии № 2 для солистов, хора и оркестра на тексты Александра Блока. Созданное в первой половине 1920-х годов, произведение к настоящему моменту исполнялось лишь дважды: при жизни автора в 1927 году (дирижер В. А. Дранишников) и после его смерти в 1987 году (дирижер В. В. Катаев), в  связи с  чем предпринимается попытка объяснить этот исторический факт. Отдельное внимание посвящено обстановке премьерного показа и впечатлению, произведенному им на первых слушателей и отразившемуся в периодике тех лет. На основе личных бесед автора рецензии с внучкой композитора Е. О. Кучумовой воссоздаются обстоятельства исполнения симфонии, приуроченного к 100-ле тию со дня рождения композитора. Отмечается кропотливая работа редакторов— сотрудников Санкт-Петербургской консерватории Н. А. Мартынова и А. А. Красавина — по восстановлению нотного текста на основе сохранившейся рукописной копии переписчика и  стеклографического издания в  библиотеке «Дома музыки на  Старо-Петергофском» (в  прошлом библиотека Музфонда Ленинградского отделения Союза композиторов). Обосновывается необходимость включения данного монументального симфонического произведения в современную концертную жизнь. In spring 2021 the descendants of the Leningrad composer Vladimir Scherbachyov published for their own money the score of his most significant symphonic opus — Second Symphony for soloists, choir and orchestra with lyrics from Alexander Blok. Composed at the beginning of XX century, it has been performed just twice — during the life of the author at 1927 (conductor Vladimir Dranishnikov) and after his death at 1987 (conductor Vitaliy Kataev), which makes it necessary to explain this historical fact. Special attention is paid to premiere and impression on public, reflected in critical articles. Based on the personal conversation with Vladimir Scherbachyov’s granddaughter Elena Kuchumova circumstances about 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth performance are recreated. Nicolay Martynov and Alexey Krasavin performed rigorous work of on recreation of the score on the basis of a manuscript copy of autograph and steklograph edition held at library of “Musical House on Staro-Peterhofsky” (previously the library of Musical Fond of the Union of Composers of Leningrad). The necessity of including this monumental symphonic piece in the modern concert life is justifed.

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 357-380
Author(s):  
Ríona Nic Congáil

Séamus Ó Grianna and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, whose lifespans overlapped only briefly, rank among the most prolific Irish writers of the twentieth century. Their bilingualism, moreover, offers them access to two languages, cultures, and viewpoints. Their shared interest in the Donegal Gaeltacht during the revivalist period, and their use of fiction to explore and represent it, provide their readers with a remarkable insight into the changing ideologies of twentieth-century Ireland, and particularly Irish-Ireland, touching on broad issues that are linguistic, cultural, political, gendered, and spatial. This essay begins by analyzing the narrative similarities between Ó Grianna's Mo Dhá Róisín and Ní Dhuibhne's Hiring Fair Trilogy, and proceeds to examine how both writers negotiate historical fact, the Irish language, the performance of Gaelic culture, the burgeoning women's movement, and the chasm between rural and urban Ireland of the revival. Through this approach, the essay demonstrates that the fictions of these two writers reveal as much about their own agendas and the dominant ideas of the epoch in which they were writing, as they do about life in the Donegal Gaeltacht in the early twentieth century.


2018 ◽  
Vol 189 (08) ◽  
pp. 785-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafail L. Aptekar ◽  
Andrei M. Bykov ◽  
Sergei V. Golenetskii ◽  
Dmitrii D. Frederiks ◽  
Dmitry S. Svinkin ◽  
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2018 ◽  
Vol 189 (08) ◽  
pp. 849-880
Author(s):  
Pavel G. Baranov ◽  
Aleksandra M. Kalashnikova ◽  
Veniamin I. Kozub ◽  
Vladimir L. Korenev ◽  
Yurii G. Kusrayev ◽  
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1970 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Moh. Salman Hamdani

This paper aims to provide explanation about John Louis Esposito’s insights on therelationship between Islam and The West. The relationship is a fluctuative one, some tensionsand even open conflict may occur. Some events become the entry point to the relationship, forinstance, the crusades that is not only happened physically but also, through this war, the meetingbetween Islam and The West establishes inter cultural dialogue among them.John Louis Esposito’s views on the relationship between Islam and The West ispositioned in view of some Muslim intellectuals and orientalists to emphasize its originality. Theintellectual positions do not put it on pros or cons side in the context of the relationship betweenIslam and The West.Historically, the relationship between Islam and The West actually has a theologicallystrong bond that there is common ground and similarities between Islam and The West. Islamand The west are inherited with Jewish and Christian traditions. Islam like Christianity andJudaism are religions ‘of the sky’ that are allied in Abrahamic religions. Therefore, according toJohn L. Esposito, based on historical fact, there were a real strong bond between Islam and theWest and it started centuries ago .


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