Cherry Orchard music

[Edward M Dumanis]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Robert A. Rothstein wrote:

> Alexander Brookes wrote:
> 
> > The song is called "Sprjatalsja mesjac za tuchku".  According to one 
> > web page, the music is by an E. Peterburgskij.
............................./snip/..............................
> 
>        "Spriatalsia mesiac" was published in various versions in the 
> 1880s and 1890s, including one with the lines "Kogda zh ia uvizhu 
> mogilu,/V kotoroi ty budesh' lezhat',/Ia stanu pred nei na koleni/I budu 
> mogilu lobzat'."  It was one of the romances alluded to by Mayakovsky in 
> his screenplay "Pozabud' pro kamin." When the steel worker kisses the 
> hand of the barber's daughter, he says "Pozvol'te mne beluiu ruchku/k 
> krasnomu serdtsu pirzhat'!" (In the original: "Daite zhe mne vashu 
> ruchku/K pylkomu serdtsu prizhat'.")  A parody recorded by the 
> folklorist Iakov Gudoshnikov in 1945 contained the lines "Pozvol'te mne 
> pravuiu ruchku/K levomu serdtsu prizhat'."
> 
> Bob Rothstein

This romance with the words "Pozvol'te mne beluiu ruchku/k 
krasnomu serdtsu pirzhat'!" was used by Yuli Kim in his Prisypkin's
romance in musical "Klop" after V.V. Mayakovsky.

Sincerely,

Edward Dumanis <dumanis at buffalo.edu>

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