Dunaevskii's film music

[Olga Strakhov]

Dear Stewart,
the song is sung by at least five people. It begins in Russian, then 
continues in Ukrainian (your first line), then the child is hold by the 
actor Lev Sverdlin, who was a Bukhara Jewish, therefore he sings in Uzbek; 
the two lines of your second stanza; then the child is hold by a Georgian 
actor (do not remember his name), who sings in Georgian (, you were right, 
these are two last lines of your second stanza), and then it is hold by the 
famous Jewish actor Solomon Mikhoels, who sings in Yiddish (your last 
stanza). It seems that your text is slightly truncated; I have a feeling 
that each of the actors (Ukrainian, Uzbek, Georgian and Jewish) sing a 
stanza, rather than two lines of it. I can check it at home and provide you 
with a further information. Olga

At 01:09 PM 8/27/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Seelangers,
>
>I am presently conducting research into Isaak Dunaevskii's film music of
>the Stalinist period and have a question regarding the lullaby 'Son
>prikhodit na porog' from Aleksandrov's Tsirk (1936). Can anyone identify
>the Soviet languages in the following lyrics (I only have a copy of the
>lyrics in Cyrillic - try Windows encoding):
>
>
>'Ìèöíî, ìèöíî ñïè òû/ Ìèñÿö ïîçèõàå'
>
>Óóëïàðûì øóíêûðûì,
>Èíäå ñêëà ñèí-òûí.
>Íà-íè-íà, íà-íè-íà,
>Ãåíàöâàëå ïàòàðà.
>
>Íàõò èç èöò ôóí ëàíä áèñ ëàíä.
>Êèíä êåíñò ðóèíã øëàôåí.
>Õóíäåðò âåíã, ôîèì ëàíä,
>Àëëå ôàð äèð îôí.
>
>I'm pretty sure that one of the languages is Georgian, but don't know which
>one. And I haven't a clue about the other two.
>
>Thanks for any help,
>Stewart Dallas.
>
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