Dunaevskii's film music

[Paul B. Gallagher]

Olga Strakhov wrote:

> 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

Check this link:

<http://kolybelnaya.narod.ru/articles/circus.html>

You'll probably want to increase the font size in your browser.

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Paul B. Gallagher
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