color orange

[Alina Israeli]

Sep 8, 2010, в 6:12 AM, William Ryan написал(а):

>
>
> In the Russian context, as a student in Leningrad in the early  
> sixties I never saw an orange or any other citrus fruit. I do in  
> fact wonder if the word "oranzhevyi" is as common in Russian as  
> "orange" (as a colour word) is in English.


About at the same time you were in Leningrad, Arkanov and Gorin wrote  
this song

Оранжевая песня

(Написана вместе с Гр. Гориным в 1964 г.)

Вот уже подряд два дня
Я сижу — рисую.
Красок много у меня —
Выбирай любую.
Я раскрашу целый свет
В самый свой любимый цвет.

     Оранжевое небо,
     Оранжевое море,
     Оранжевая зелень,
     Оранжевый верблюд.
     Оранжевые мамы
     Оранжевым ребятам
     Оранжевые песни
     Оранжево поют.
http://ironicpoetry.ru/autors/arkanov-arkadiy/oranzhevaya-pesnya.html

Music by Pevzner.

Listen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqwJvPSiL_I

It was wildly popular those days. And still is.



Alina Israeli
Associate Professor of Russian
LFS, American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave.
Washington DC 20016
(202) 885-2387 	fax (202) 885-1076
aisrael at american.edu





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