Cherry Orchard music
Edward M Dumanis
dumanis at BUFFALO.EDU
Mon Sep 4 05:03:04 UTC 2006
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.
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>
> "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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