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Title: Dmitri Hvorostovski - "Temnaya Noch" Nikita Bogoslovsky - Alexander Shilov (Music and Painting) View count: 2077 Rating: 4.2 (5 ratings) Description: Nikita Bogoslovsky, one of Russia's most prolific and popular songwriters who performed for soldiers at the front lines and for the wounded in hospitals during the Second World War, wrote about 300 songs and composed scores for 119 films and 80 shows. He was born Nikita Vladimirovich Bogoslovsky on May 22, 1913, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Bogoslovsky's songs represented the history of the Soviet Union and Russia and its people. His haunting melodies expressed all the feelings, cares and aspirations of the people there. Bogoslovsky mastered many popular music styles and incorporated the spirit and beat of the American jazz as well as the intimacy of French chanson and lyrical finesse of English ballads and other international styles into his own songs. His most popular film songs such as, 'Temnaya Noch" (aka.. Dark Is the Night), 'Shalandy' (aka..Boats Full of Mullet), 'Beloved City' and others, were admired by people of several generations in Russia and internationally, becoming best selling hits in recordings by Leonid Utyosov and Mark Bernes. In 1943, when Winston Churchill first heard Bogoslovsky's song 'Dark Is the Night' in performance by Ivan Kozlovsky, he became a great admirer of the song; upon Churchill's order many copies of 'Dark Is the Night' were shipped to Britain. During the late 1940s and early 50s, when many artists in the Soviet Union were attacked by the Communist Party under dictatorship of Joseph Stalin, Bogoslovsky was censored and banned from public performances. His songs and other music were banned for several years until 1956 when the "Thaw" was initiated by Nikita Khrushchev. During the 60s, 70s, and 80s, Bogoslovsky made hundreds of concert performances before sold-out audiences across the Soviet Union and abroad. He was crowned with the title "The King of Gags" and was a host of several popular TV shows in Russia. Nikita Bogoslovsky was memorialized in numerous works of art, in literature, and by astronomers: in 1993 a small planet # 3710 was named "Bogoslovsky" after him. A plate was laid on the Star Square in Moscow in his honor. Mini Biography By: Steve Shelokhonov Alexander Maxovich Shilov (Russian: Александр Максович Шилов born October 6, 1943) is a prominent Russian portrait painter. Alexander Shilov was born in Moscow on October 6, 1943. He studied in the Surikov Moscow Art Institute (1968-1973). In 1976 he became a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. In 1985 he became People's Artist of the USSR. In 1992 one of the asteroids (4164 Shilov discovered by Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh) was named after him. In 1996 he donated to the Russian Government 365 portraits painted by him. Since 2001 he is a full member of Russian Academy of Arts Tags: dmitri, hvorostovski, dark, night, 0001, Author: musicpainting |
