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Arkadiy Pogodin
Arkady Solomonovich Pogodin (russian: Арка́дий Соломо́нович Пого́дин, born Piliver, russian: Пиливер; 1901, Odessa, Russian Empire — 1975, Moscow, USSR) was a Soviet singer who worked in variety theater and operetta. At 16 years of age, Pogodin started appearing on theater stage in small roles. In 1922 he moved to Moscow, where he started working in small variety theaters performing funny songs. In 1924 he was already appearing on the stage of the prestigious Hermitage Theater. In 1938 Pogodin was invited to sing the lead role of Albert in an operetta titled ''Delicate Diplomacy'' ("Тонкая дипломатия" by Johann Strauss) at the Moscow Theater of Miniatures; he performed at the theater in the 1938–1939 season. Then he accidentally met theater director A. Arnold who invited him to sing the lead role in the operetta ''Chocolate Soldier'' (based on a work by Bernard Shaw, with music by the Pokrass brothers) that was set to open the 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odessa
Odesa (also spelled Odessa) is the third most populous city and municipality in Ukraine and a major seaport and transport hub located in the south-west of the country, on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea. The city is also the administrative centre of the Odesa Raion and Odesa Oblast, as well as a multiethnic cultural centre. As of January 2021 Odesa's population was approximately In classical antiquity a large Greek settlement existed at its location. The first chronicle mention of the Slavic settlement-port of Kotsiubijiv, which was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, dates back to 1415, when a ship was sent from here to Constantinople by sea. After a period of Lithuanian Grand Duchy control, the port and its surroundings became part of the domain of the Ottomans in 1529, under the name Hacibey, and remained there until the empire's defeat in the Russo-Turkish War of 1792. In 1794, the modern city of Odesa was founded by a decree of the Russian empress Catherine t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Tsfasman
Alexander Naumovich Tsfasman (russian: Александр Наумович Цфасман; born December 14, 1906 - died February 20, 1971) was a Soviet Jazz pianist, composer, conductor, arranger, publisher and activist. He was an important figure in Soviet Jazz from the period of the mid-1920s until the late 1960s. Tsfasman was born in Alexandrovsk (now Zaporizhya, Ukraine) in the Russian empire, and graduated from the Nizhegorod Musical Technicum in 1923, where he played percussion in the orchestra, and graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1930 from the piano class of Felix Blumenfeld. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1901 Births
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Bauer Media Group
Heinrich Bauer Publishing (german: Heinrich Bauer Verlag KG), trading as Bauer Media Group, is a German multimedia conglomerate headquartered in Hamburg. It operates worldwide and owns more than 600 magazines, over 400 digital products and 50 radio and TV stations, as well as print shops, postal, distribution and marketing services. Bauer has a workforce of approximately 11,000 in 17 countries. Bauer Verlagsgruppe has been managed by five generations of the Bauer family. In November 2010, Heinz Heinrich's daughter Yvonne Bauer became CEO and 85% owner of the Bauer Media Group after joining the family business in 2005. In February 2021, Bauer Media Group announced it was to acquire Ireland's Communicorp Group, subject to regulatory approval. The acquisition was completed on 1 June 2021. H Bauer UK Originally a small printing house in Germany, Bauer Media Group entered the UK with the launch of ''Bella'' magazine in 1987. Under the name of H Bauer Publishing they became Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Aroseva
Olga Aleksandrovna Aroseva (russian: О́льга Алекса́ндровна Аро́сева; 21 December 1925 – 13 October 2013) was a Soviet and Russian actress whose career spanned more than 65 years. Aroseva was better known for her work in theater and for her voice work in animated television shows. In the years before her death, she was best known as a hostess of the Russian educational and variety show ''Long Time No See''. Her movie roles included ''Beware of the Car''. Death Aroseva died on 13 October 2013, aged 87, in Moscow, from undisclosed causes. Selected filmography ;Actor * ''The Girl Without an Address'' (Девушка без адреса, 1957) as ''Neighbor'' * ''Beware of the Car'' (Берегись автомобиля, 1966) as ''Lyuba, a trolley-bus driver'' * ''Trembita'' (Трембита, 1968) as ''Parasya'' * ''Two Days of Miracles'' (Два дня чудес, 1970) as ''Alfa Kokoshkina'' * ''Grandads-Robbers'' (Старики-разбойники ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keto Dzhaparidze
Ketevana Konstantinovna Dzhaparidze ( ka, ქეთევან კონსტანტინეს ასული ჯაფარიძე, russian: Кэтевана Константиновна Джапаридзе; February 11, 1901, Kvishkheti, Kutais Governorate, Russian Empire – September 20, 1968, Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR) was Georgian Soviet singer. People's Artist of the Georgian SSR (1956). Biography She went to study at the Tiflis noble gymnasium in 1909, where her powerful voice was noticed by the famous composer Zachary Paliashvili, who worked there as a music teacher and led the school choir. In 1919, she entered the Tiflis Conservatory. In 1927, after graduating from the conservatory, she went to Berlin, where she took singing lessons for 3 years. In 1930, she returned to the USSR (Georgia). In the spring or summer of 1937, Keto made her debut in Moscow, she gave a solo concert on the stage of the Hermitage (Moscow theater of the revolution). Around the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klavdiya Shulzhenko
Klavdiya Ivanovna Shulzhenko (russian: Кла́вдия Ива́новна Шульже́нко, uk, Клавдія Іванівна Шульженко; – June 17, 1984) was a Soviet popular female singer and actress. Biography Shulzhenko started singing with jazz and pop bands in the late 1920s. She rose to fame in the late 1930s with her version of Sebastián Iradier's ''La Paloma''. In 1939, she was awarded at the first all-Soviet competition of pop singers. During World War II, Shulzhenko performed about a thousand concerts for Soviet soldiers in besieged Leningrad and elsewhere. The lyrics of one of her prewar songs, "The Blue Headscarf", were adapted so as to suit wartime realities. Another iconic song of the Eastern Front (World War II), "Let's Have a Smoke", was later used by Vladimir Menshov in his Oscar-winning movie ''Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears''. In 1945, Shulzhenko was awarded the Order of the Red Star. She, as traditional pop singer, was named People ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Konstantin Listov
Konstantin Yakovlevich Listov (russian: Константи́н Я́ковлевич Листо́в; – 6 September 1983) was a Soviet composer. He is the composer of many widely popular songs, which include "Pesnya o Tachanke" (" Song of the Tachanka"), " V Zemlyanke" ("In a Zemlyanka"), "Hodili My Pohodami", "Sevastopolsky Vals" ("Sevastopol Waltz"). In 1973 he was bestowed the title of People's Artist of the RSFSR People's Artist of the RSFSR (russian: Народный артист РСФСР, ''Narodnyj artist RSFSR'') was an honorary title granted to Soviet Union artists, including theatre and film directors, choreographers, music performers, and orchest .... References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Listov, Konstantin Soviet composers Soviet male composers Soviet songwriters People's Artists of the RSFSR 20th-century composers Soviet conductors (music) 1900 births 1983 deaths Burials at Kuntsevo Cemetery 20th-century conductors (music) 20th-century R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pokrass Brothers
The Pokrass brothers were Soviet composing siblings: * Dmitry Pokrass (1899–1978) * (1905–1954) — the youngest brother, Soviet musician * Samuel Pokrass (1897–1939) — the elder brother; emigrated to the United States in 1920s Dmitry was the most famous of the brothers. He wrote most of his songs together with Daniil. They also had a fourth brother: * Arkady Pokrass — pianist and accompanist Selected works by the Pokrass brothers * "March of the Soviet Tankmen March of the Soviet Tankmen (russian: Марш советских танкистов) is a 1939 military march composed by the Pokrass brothers and with lyrics by (Борис Савельевич Ласкин), whose debut was in the 1939 movie ..." ("Марш советских танкистов") * "Welcome Us, Beautiful Suomi (Finland)" ("Принимай нас, Суоми-красавица", "Suomi-kaunotar") * "You Won't Mow Us Down with a Sharp Sabre" ("Не скосить нас саблей о ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. The rise of the Russian Empire coincided with the decline of neighbouring rival powers: the Swedish Empire, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Qajar Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and Qing China. It also held colonies in North America between 1799 and 1867. Covering an area of approximately , it remains the third-largest empire in history, surpassed only by the British Empire and the Mongol Empire; it ruled over a population of 125.6 million people per the 1897 Russian census, which was the only census carried out during the entire imperial period. Owing to its geographic extent across three continents at its peak, it featured great ethnic, linguistic, religious, and economic diversity. From the 10th–17th centuries, the land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as ''Man and Superman'' (1902), ''Pygmalion'' (1913) and '' Saint Joan'' (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Dublin, Shaw moved to London in 1876, where he struggled to establish himself as a writer and novelist, and embarked on a rigorous process of self-education. By the mid-1880s he had become a respected theatre and music critic. Following a political awakening, he joined the gradualist Fabian Society and became its most prominent pamphleteer. Shaw had been writing plays for years ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Strauss II
Johann Baptist Strauss II (25 October 1825 – 3 June 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son (german: links=no, Sohn), was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed over 500 waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, and other types of dance music, as well as several operettas and a ballet. In his lifetime, he was known as "The Waltz King", and was largely responsible for the popularity of the waltz in Vienna during the 19th century. Some of Johann Strauss's most famous works include "The Blue Danube", "Kaiser-Walzer" (Emperor Waltz), "Tales from the Vienna Woods", "Frühlingsstimmen", and the "Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka". Among his operettas, ''Die Fledermaus'' and ''Der Zigeunerbaron'' are the best known. Strauss was the son of Johann Strauss I and his first wife Maria Anna Streim. Two younger brothers, Josef and Eduard Strauss, also became composers of light music, although they were never as well known as their brot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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