Birthdays.
Eduard Artemyev was born in1937 in this day. He is a Russian composer of electronic music and film scores. Outside of Russia he is mostly known for his
film scores from films such as “Solaris”, “Siberiade”, “Stalker” or “Burnt by the Sun”.
Yuri Aleksandrovich Nikitin was born in Kharkov, USSR in 1939, is a Russian science fiction and
fantasy writer. Although he was active in science fiction before perestroika, he became famous
when he wrote a fantasy with a Slavic motif, “Three from the Forest”.
Olga Yuryevna Krasko is a Russian actress, born 30 November 1981, Kharkov, Soviet Union (now Ukraine). She
has starred in Russian theater productions and is noted that as the heroine in “The Turkish
Gambit” (2005), she is the only female in a
lead role in that film.
Eduard Artemyev is regarded as the most firmly established among Russian composers of electronic music.
ReplyDeleteHe learned his musical craft in Yuri Shaporin's compositions class. A meeting in 1960 with Eugene Murzin, constructor of one of the first synthesizers, triggered enormous impulses in Artemyev to make this unusual instrument the basis of his activities. During this period he felt bound by the compositional ideas of the avantgarde, and he was enthusiastic about the most varied nuances of electronic sounds, which created an entirely independent atmosphere. This understanding of music is expressed in his early compositions. His extravagant music dovetailed excellently with the film concepts of the well-known producer Andrei Tarkovsky. This resulted in sound tracks to the science fiction films "Solaris", "The Mirror" and "Stalker".
His music became clearer in the middle of the 1970's. The academic tradition met up with rock aesthetics. The most different styles flowed into his music. An outstanding example of this is the cantata "Ode To The Herald Of Good" for the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, based on a text by the Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin. The musical symbiosis continued in symphonic works and in poems.
In the 1980's his musical awareness matured, allowing the early avantgarde ideas, as well as the various styles which later attracted his attention, to flow into his compositions.
In the meantime he chose sound tracks as his most intensive field of activity. Over 120 films bear his musical handwriting. Among them are the films by Nikita Michalkov, Andrei Konchalovsky and Vadim Abdrashitov.
Over and above this, his repertoire includes works for the concert hall and opera house. His international recognition has enabled to pay working visits to various studios outside the USSR and to attend electronic music festivals, as for instance in Bourges and in Baltimore.
http://www.solaris-room.org/artemyev.html - very interesting site about him and his works
Young pretty actress Olga Krasko appeared on stage being a student of Academy МХАТ. She was a favourite one of O.Tabakov. Actually he recommended her as a good candidate in a Czech series. Then there were various roles in such films and series as "Papa", "Okhota na izubrya", "Esenin", "Znak sudby", etc. But undoubtedly, her sidereal hour came, when she starred in "The Turkish Gambit". "The Turkish Gambit" is a 2005 Russian film, an adaptation of Boris Akunin's popular novel "The Turkish Gambit" featuring detective Erast Fandorin. It was directed by Dzhanik Faiziyev, and starred Yegor Beroyev as main character. Akunin adapted his own novel. It has one of the largest film budgets in Russian history. The film takes place in Bulgaria during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878). Erast Fandorin is put on the trail of a Turkish agent who is trying to disrupt the Russian advance during the Siege of Plevna. The agent, known as Enver Efendi, is a master of disguise and has excellent command of Russian.
ReplyDeleteNikitin's books have a distinct, free, and often intentionally primitive and repetitive style with many jokes, reflecting his intent to keep the reader on topic and carry his ideas through. His later books develop the ideas of becoming a Transhuman through self-development and survival of the spiritually fittest.
ReplyDeleteAmong his books are:
The Three from the Forest (Russian: Трое из леса)
Faramund (Russian: Фарамунд)
Prince Rus (Russian: Князь Рус)