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Notes written by Izzy Hod: The song, The Moldavian Brunette, was written in 1940, but was first performed, only four years later, in 1944, when, Moldavia, was liberated, from the, Nazi army, by the, Red army in World War II. It was previously invited from the authors of the song, for the, Kiev Military Area Band, to a program in honor of, Grigory Ivanovich Kotovsky, the well-known, Moldavian partisan, from, the Civil War, in, southern Ukraine, but the event was postpended. The song itself, refers to the action of the Moldavian women partisans, in the, Civil War, in, Russia, 1918-1922. In 1944, the song, as mentioned, was revived again. In the song, a partisan woman manages to turn the situation around and recruit to the partisan forces a white suitor who tried to seduce her. At the first performance of the song, there was great enthusiasm and, in a rare manner, the singer Nikolaĭ Dmitrievich Ustinov, was asked to return to the stage and repeat the song, three times. In 1973, the song was included in a comedy film, called Only veterans go to war and it happened that the poet of the song, Yakov Zakharovich Shvedov, was surprised when he came across his song in the film, when a friend congratulated him, that his song was chosen for the film, over many other songs. In the film, a unit of expert combat pilots, is training for pilot battles, a group of pilots, that just have completed a basic pilot course. Since the battles are hard battles, the commander of the unit takes his old friend and expert pilot to the battles and in the meantime, he offers the young pilots to relax with music and he organizes them for a choir and performances and in the happy ending, the young pilots also go to air battles led by the elderly and experienced commander. The film was dedicated to the intelligentsia studying at universities, who, although they were exempt from conscription, until the end of their studies, preferred to volunteer, for the most difficult tasks, in World War II in Russia. The literal description of the words of the song is as follows, On a summer day the sun was shining and I went out into the yard and in the yard opposite me, stood a black-haired Moldavian girl picking up grape clusters. I blushed and turned pale and dared to offer her to meet her alone just the two of us by the river the next morning. Suddenly I saw something high and solid. It's a tree I thought, but it had curls instead of leaves, I was probably confused by the sudden love and everything got a little confused. But the Moldavian was not confused and immediately responded to my offer. First of all, come to us. We are a group of partisans who go into battle in the morning, come and join us and then we will meet in the forest. I joined the partisans, but the Moldavian girl I did not meet again. She's gone. On dark nights I thought of her black eyes.
Darkie. Music by A. Novikov, lyrics by Y. Shvedov (1944) Darkie. The song was part of a suite written by composer Anatoly Novikov and poet Yakov Shvedov in 1940, commissioned by the ensemble of the Kiev Special Military District. It sang of a partisan girl during the Civil War. And the entire suite was dedicated to Grigory Kotovsky. However, the song was never performed in the pre-war years. Her piano score was lost, and only drafts remained with the authors. The composer remembered this song four years later, when the artistic director of the Red Banner Ensemble Alexander Alexandrov called him and asked to show the songs for the new program of his team. Among others, Novikov showed the "Smuglyanka", which he took just in case. But it was she who liked Alexandrov, who immediately began to learn it with the choir and soloists. The ensemble sang the song for the first time in the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in 1944. It was sung by the soloist of the Red Banner Ensemble Nikolai Ustinov, to whom this song owes its success to a large extent. The concert was broadcast on the radio. "Smuglyanka" was thus heard by a lot of people. She was picked up in the rear and at the front. The song, which spoke about the events of the civil war, was perceived as a song about those who fought for the liberation of Moldova during the Great Patriotic War. After the war, the song "Smuglyanka" in various versions was included in the repertoire of a variety of performers. The song sounds in the movie "Only Old Men Go to Battle", as well as in the fourth part of the epic film "Soldiers of Freedom". Text. One summer at dawn I looked into the neighboring garden. There, a dark-skinned Moldavian woman Gathered grapes. I blush, I turn pale, I suddenly wanted to say: Let's stand over the river to meet the summer dawns! Curly green maple, carved leaf, I am in love and embarrassed before you. Maple green, yes maple curly, Yes curly, carved! And the dark-skinned Moldavian answered the guy in harmony: - Partisan, Moldavian We are gathering a detachment. Today the partisans left the House early. The road is waiting for you To the partisans in the dense forest. Curly green maple, carved leaf, I am in love and embarrassed before you. Maple green, yes maple curly, Yes curly, carved! And the dark-skinned Moldavian went down the path into the forest. In that offense I saw, That I did not call with me. I often thought about a dark-skinned Moldavian woman at night...Soon I met a dark-skinned woman again in the detachment. Curly green maple, carved leaf, - Hello, boy, tambourine, my dear, - Green maple, yes curly maple, Yes, curly, carved!
Uri Jakubowicz's: The original song is called Смуглянка ("Tanned") and is one of the famous songs of the "Red Army Choir". It was composed as early as 1940 at the invitation of the Special Military Area Ensemble of Kiev, but was not performed in the years before the USSR entered the war. In 1944 Alexander Alexandrov, conductor of the Red Army Choir, included the song in the choir's concert. The song was soon included in the repertoire of many military choirs. It was loved by the warriors and accompanied them until Victory Day. The song gained widespread recognition for many years. Eli Sat: The original song was also called Смуглянка-Молдаванка ("Moldavian tan"). According to Yulia Goncharova, the granddaughter of the lyricist Yakov Shvedov, as they appear on the MK.RU website, the song was commissioned in 1940 for a program in honor of Moldavian revolutionary Grigory Kotovsky. The song was first performed by the Red Army Choir with vocalist Nikolai Justinov in 1944. The song was incorporated into director Leonid Bikov's "Only Veterans Enlist in the War" (1973). The film tells the daily life of fighter pilots in World War II. The film was a blockbuster, following which the song's popularity increased, and since then it has been mistaken for praising the Soviet partisans who operated during World War II. Zeev Geisel: The song was written in 1940, at a time when the Soviet Union had not yet participated in World War II and there were no partisans. Moldova has not really been either. The Moldovan Socialist Republic is an artificial creation established in June 1940 by the Soviet Union, following the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The republic was established on parts of Romania (Bessarabia and Bukovina). In fact, there is no ethnic and cultural difference between Romanians and Moldovans. The "history" of the new republic was in any event related to Russia. Among other things, they changed the spelling (Romanian) from Latin letters to Cyrillic and became a Moldovan. National hero Gregory Kotovsky, was a well-known Moldovan criminal who later made a career in the Red Army, with his gangs-as the partisans. As part of the rewriting of history, composer Novikov and the poet Shvedov were asked to compose a suite dedicated to Kotovsky and centered on a Moldovan heroine from the Russian Civil War, who fights, of course, on the Bolshevik side. 1944, when the song was performed by the Red Army Choir it was already during the war with the Nazis and people did not ask themselves what the song was about. The concert was broadcast on the radio and the song became popular. Just in time, the brilliant operation "Operation Yashi-Chisinau" ended in which the Red Army conquered Romania (and caused the anti-Nazi coup) and parts of Moldova, including its capital-Chisinau. In the public consciousness, this operation became known as the "Moldovan operation" and these events also caused the public to accept the song as it is. In 1979, the song won the title of "Song of the Year" in the USSR.
"Smoothie" was not allowed to the front. The words of one of the most famous war songs were written by the grandfather of the "MK" correspondent. This song was sung not only by the legendary "singing" squadron from Leonid Bykov's film "Old Men Go to Battle"-the whole country sang it. Perhaps, this is one of the most lyrical songs of the Great Patriotic War, which became truly popular-the word "Smoothie" knows by heart more than one generation of residents of Russia and CIS countries. It became the anthem of fighter pilots, war veterans. Modern youth also knows it. On Victory Day, this song is an indispensable attribute of any concert, almost every radio station-performed by both masters of the national stage and young performers. "One summer, at dawn, I looked into the next garden, where a moldovan lady was picking grapes..."-these words fascinate with their melodiousness until now. The author of the words "Smoothie", front-line correspondent Yakov Shvedov, is the grandfather of "MK" correspondent Yulia Goncharova. "One summer, at dawn..." in 1942, the final text about guerrilla love was formed. "Smoothie" was finished by my grandfather, the poet Yakov Shvedov, at the front. At that time, he was, the author of the already legendary "Orlenka", worked as a special correspondent of the newspaper of the 40th Army "For Victory." It is difficult to predict the fate of war songs. "Smooth" survived several editions and a long oblivion before it was recognized by the country. In the publication in "Fire" Yevtushenko called her grandfather a poet "one song." It is difficult to agree with this, there were many more written good songs. And "Smoothie" in popularity has long blocked the famous "Orlenka." Just some works become hits after the first performance, others have to overcome a long and thorny path to fame. Smoothie has a difficult fate. In the fall of 1940, shortly after Bessarabia's return to the USSR and the formation of the Moldovan USSR, the poet Yakov Shvedov and composer Anatoly Novikov wrote a song about Moldovan guerrillas. "It was like a continuation of our song "Departure of the Partisans,"-said the grandfather,-which with great success was performed at the time by Sergei Lemeshev. We dedicated the civil war hero Grigory Kotovsky to the yuth. The suite was written at the request of the political department of the Kiev Military District for the district ensemble of song and dance. It included seven songs, including "Smoothie"-a song about a girl-guerrilla. Written on the basis of Moldovan folklore, it was in its warehouse lyrical, playful. The composer composed music with an unusual rhythm, and Shvedov had to work hard until the lines now known to all were formed: One summer, at dawn, I looked into the next garden, There a lady-Moldavaanka collects grapes...The whole song suite was accepted to work in the ensemble, but "Smoothie" was not performed as too frivolous. It was the first, the hardest year of the Great Patriotic War, when many composers, inspired by the patriotic impulse, composed songs for soldiers shedding their blood on the fronts. Novikov became one of them, on his account there were more than 40 military, patriotic songs. For four of them he was awarded the Stalin Prize. These were "songs of vengeance" on the malice of the day, in which the main idea is hatred of fascist invaders...But as time went on. And on the fronts, along with songs calling for retribution, began to appear deeply lyrical songs-about love, loyalty to the feelings of fighting girlfriends, wives who were waiting for their loved ones: "Dark Night", "In the dugout" and others. When the Great Patriotic War began, Novikov's notes of this cycle disappeared. Only draft sketches have survived. Having restored some songs, the composer decided to show "Smoothie" on the radio. But there it was rejected.-What is this song about love, date, parting, about some smoothie-Moldovan? After all, now there is such a hard war...You are the author of heroic songs," Novikov said. These arguments sounded very convincing, and "Smoothie" was thrown into the farthest drawer of the desk. And when lyrical songs began to appear on the fronts in 1942, Novikov decided to return to the rejected song and make "Smooth" a finished work. Only small changes in the text were required. Despite the fact that the author of the words of the Swedes was far away, on the 2nd Ukrainian front, neither the poet nor the field mail failed, the answer with the edited text came soon. Novikov took some new songs to the head of the Alexandrov Song and Dance Ensemble. Surprisingly, the author of all the proposed works Alexandrov chose it "Smoothie" picked with him just in case. Again, ironically, "Smoothie" for some reason did not sound at the first rehearsal. It seems that the orchestration was performed by the conductor immaculately, and the four-voice choir sounded powerfully in the choruses, but in the song still something was missing. It turned out that the case was to choose not quite a good tonality for the singer. Initially, the high male voice was to be sung-tenor, and the baritone then picked it up in the second stanza of the song. The soloist of the ensemble Nikolai Ustinov was helped by, offering to take the lower tone and make, on the contrary, a sung baritone. "Next week, the recording on the radio," Alexandrov told the musicians after the rehearsal, "here it is and we will include it in his new program. But, alas, the editorial board of Gosradio, having accepted the whole new repertoire from the "Alexandrovians" categorically rejected "Smuglyanka", accusing it of "sentimentality and alienity to the Soviet listener in such a difficult time." It is worth noting that the image of the "moldovan smoothie" who assembles a "guerrilla Moldovan" detachment is purely poetic. In fact, during the Great Patriotic War, of about 3,000 Soviet guerrillas counted in Moldova, only 7 people were ethnic Moldovans. It also served as a strong argument of the commission in the refusal of the song "for life." And the magnificent "Smoothie" again safely lay on the shelf until 1944. Gradually our cities were liberated. The Soviet people already had victories near Stalingrad, Kursk. By that time the enemy had already been pushed back to the western borders of our homeland. And before the next celebratory concert on November 7, Alexandrov remembered the song, which has not received recognition so far. "This concert took place in the Tchaikovsky Hall," the composer recalled. "When it was the turn of "Smoothie," I heard almost nothing with excitement. It came to his senses only when loud applause and cries of "bis!" rang out in the hall. The song was repeated three times. The most curious thing is that the concert was broadcast on the radio, on the same radio, where at one time categorically rejected the song about love, dating, parting...Inspired by another creative success-a successful song find, Alexandrov includes it in 1944 in the program of the All-Union competition for the best song about the Great Patriotic War. But "Smoothie" again not only did not take any prize, but was not even noted by the jury. Despite the fact that the song did not sound on the radio, which means that it was little known to people, many ensembles of songs and dances of military districts began to include "Smooth" in their repertoire. It began to sound on the front and then post-war concert venues. Musicians liked the song about the love of the partisan and the Moldovan girl. The paradox was that although it referred to the guerrillas of the Civil War, the song was perceived as a collective image of love of young people united by a common struggle against the German invaders. Every poet should have a muse, well, that's the way it is. It was my grandmother Praskovya Stepanovna, together with my grandfather Yakov they lived for more than 50 years. Many poems were devoted to her, it was she who predicted "Smoothie" a long life and loved her more "correct" works. After the war, people began to live as if anew. Some general psychosis, when adult parents decided that they are still young and all ahead. A generation of post-war children has emerged. That was my mother's. My grandfather really wanted a daughter. As a result, the elderly had a little girl with a big bow. On the asphalt a trickle of thin pouring the first ground...Together with my daughter Natasha I go to my district: We go, and over Moscow, Over the Soviet whole country All audible the roll call of Our festive banners. "Dad was, so to speak, one-man's love with people. I had contact with someone, and there was a distance with someone. With some composers dad found a common language, and with others, in my opinion, more popular, no. So, a special friendship with Anatoly Novikov did not work out. It seems that his father believed that Novikov uses the motifs of little-known composers in his work. But with Sergei Lemeshev, the performer of their common "Departure of the Partisans" and songs to the music of Fyodor Maslov "Don't leave, swan", relations were very warm. "Lemeshev often came to our house, where many famous people lived. To work with the performer, a German concert piano was specially purchased. Lemeshev turned out to be a very gentle, open, kind man. From it I was left with a feeling of light, comfort and warmth. However, he, poor fellow, was not very comfortable, because it was necessary to somehow get out of our house, which was blocked by fans of the singer. And then under the strictest secret the carpenter opened the back door, and the lifters-the woman Natasha and baba Anya-kept the defense at the front, restraining the exalted ladies. Half of the country's female population has withered on the handsome singer. The lyrical "Don't fly away, swan" was very popular. "Smoothie" sounded at rare military concerts. It took many years before "Smoothie" was in demand. In 1974, the film of the talented actor and director Leonid Bykov "The old men go to battle" was published. Smoothie" became the soundtrack of this light movie about love, planes and girls. Since childhood, Bykov literally sick of the sky. "Smoothie" sang, returning from the war through Donbass, pilots, and 17-year-old curly boy Lenya Bykov sat and listened mesmerizingly...How would he like to be in their place! Lenya even enrolled in flight school, having added an extra year, but the examiners did not believe the boy sprout a little more than one and a half meters and offered to go to the parachutists. Lenya dreamed of flying, not jumping, so he refused and entered the theater. Almost thirty years later, that scene from a hothouse car and soldiers singing "Smoothie", he will describe in the script and will shoot with his film "In battle go only "old men." During the war, many guys from his hometown went to the front pilots. And many didn't come back. Bulls all my life dreamed in memory of them to make a film about the war and the sky. But we needed a song about the singing squadron Titorenko, a kind of leitmotif, piercing and taking the soul of the viewer. That's when I remembered what I heard in my youth, "Smoothie." The song had so much in the director's soul that no other options were out of the question. The film was presented just before the New Year-December 27, 1973. When the lights were lit in the hall, everyone noticed that the famous Pokryshkin was wiping away tears. The film became a real blockbuster. In the Soviet Union, the film about the singing squadron for 5 months gathered more than 54 million viewers, in the cinema halls was sold out. "Smoothie" has since become almost an anthem of Soviet pilots.
Only "Old Men" Are Going Into Battle (Russian: В бой идут одни «старики», romanized: V boy idut odni "stariki"; one of the meanings of the Russian idiom 'old man' is 'most experienced person') is an iconic 1973 Soviet war drama black-and-white film produced in the Ukrainian SSR about World War II fighter pilots. Plot. The film combines two storylines: the main war drama plot is runs in parallel with vivid artistic performance-the fighter squadron doubles as an amateur musical group during rest time, led by its enthusiastic commander turned conductor. The title comes from two scenes in the film, where the squadron is facing very difficult dogfights with German fighter planes, so only «old men» are sent up, while those fresh from flying school have to wait on the ground together with the mechanics. Soon, of course, the newcomers have replaced most of those veterans and have become «old men» themselves, taking to the skies while a new group of newcomers wait on the ground with the mechanics. Plot Summary. The movie begins in the late summer of 1943 during the Battle of the Dnieper. The pilots of the 2nd Squadron of the Fighter Aircraft Guard Regiment are returning from the mission. However, the commanding officer, captain Titarenko, also known as «Maestro», is missing. Nobody (except for Makarych, the technician) even hopes he survived, since he didn’t even have enough fuel, but then suddenly the German Messerschmitt Bf 109 shows up and lands on the airfield. It turns out that Maestro was shot down behind enemy lines, however, the advancing USSR infantry saved him and he received a war trophy aircraft on an advance airfield. The next day the reinforcements come to the regiment and are being assigned to the squadrons. Several newcomers, including Second Lieutenant Aleksandrov and Third Lieutenants Shchedronov and Sagdullayev, ask for a place in the 2nd Squadron. Titarenko inquires about their musical skills: 2nd Squadron is also known as the «Singing Squadron», as during free time they perform as an amateur orchestra with the commander himself acting as conductor. Shchedronov sings «Darkie», earning the corresponding nickname. Having only had a brief chat with the reinforcements, the «old men» take off to intercept a group of German bombers. Experienced pilots don’t allow the newcomers with them, saying only «you’ll have your share of fighting soon enough»: they know that the new pilots have only received basic training due to a shortened curriculum and are not battle ready. They all return to the airfield safely, however, Maestro is furious: his wingman, First Lieutenant Skvortzov, left the battle without permit, and it appears he did so not for the first time. They have a serious discussion and it turns out that during the Battle of Kursk Skvortzov had barely survived an encounter with a German ace pilot and since then has had a subconscious fear of dogfights. Depressed Skvortzov asks to be released from an active duty and to be enlisted to an infantry regiment instead, however, Titarenko burns the report, deciding to give his friend another chance. In between missions the 2nd Squadron rehearses performances. Even Aleksandrov, despite his aversion to music, plays the tambourine and soon begins to run the rehearsals in lieu of the captain. Eventually, the newcomers are allowed to fly. Aleksandrov crash lands his aircraft, destroying it in the process and receives a strict reprimand from the captain. However, he doesn’t take it seriously and light-heartedly goes to the field to catch some grasshoppers. Enraged Titarenko suspends the lieutenant from flying and puts him on «eternal airfield duty», while the rest of the officers give Aleksandrov the nickname «Grasshopper». Titarenko leaves on a reconnaissance mission on a trophy Messerschmitt. In his absence, a light bomber Polikarpov Po-2, piloted by female officers Zoya and Masha, takes a forced landing on the airfield. Sagdullayev promptly falls in love with Masha, earning himself the nickname «Romeo». Titarenko, who has returned from his recon mission, confirms that a large group of German tanks is nearby. When he decides the new reinforcements (except for Grasshopper) are battle ready, he performs another reconnaissance flight. He finds out that the Germans have camouflaged their tanks with hay bales and sheds, but he’s shot down on his way back. Maestro is saved by an allied infantry, which, however, mistakes him for a German pilot. They aren’t persuaded by his Soviet uniform nor by his fluency in Russian, and attempt to lynch him. However, when an infantryman slaps Titarenko in the face, he punches the soldier back, knocking him to his knees and answered in a mat manner-hat reassures the rest of the soldiers, who are sure that a German don’t know the lexis like this. The infantrymen gift the captain a horse, which he uses to get back to the airfield. Having returned, he learns from Makarych that during his absence Darkie has been killed: he was practicing cooperative actions with his partner and was shot down by a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 ace. In the meantime, Romeo confesses his love to Masha. Titarenko joins CPSU and receives a task to lead the newcomers by example and to demonstrate to them the vulnerability of Göring’s ace pilots. Maestro challenges the Germans to a «joust», but at the very beginning of the fight he decides that this is the last opportunity for his wingman to prove himself. Titarenko feigns a weapon malfunction, putting himself in a mortal peril, and Skvortzov overcomes his fear and comes to the rescue, shooting down one of the enemy aircraft. The next day, German air forces perform a raid on the airfield. Still suspended from flights, Grasshopper steals the commander’s fighter, takes off and shoots down an enemy aircraft, saving the base. The squadron gives a performance, which, among others, is attended by female pilots from a nearby regiment. Skvortzov performs the song Moonlight Night. The next day he performs a suicide ramming attack, directing his flaming aircraft at an enemy railway. More time passes. The USSR territory is almost completely liberated from German occupation. The «old men» are preparing for battle, however, this now includes Romeo (First Lieutenant, Maestro’s wingman) and Grasshopper (First Lieutenant, 2nd Squadron commander), while Maestro himself is now a major and a regiment commander. Fifteen minutes before takeoff, Romeo asks Maestro’s permission to get married (since both he and Masha could be shot down any day) which Meastro gives right away. Once again the «old men» take off, and the newcomers from the reinforcements are left on the airfield. The regiment returns from the mission, but it turns out that Romeo is heavily wounded. He manages to make it to the airfield and lands safely, but succumbs to his wounds right afterwards. When Maestro, Makarych and Grasshopper go to the female regiment to deliver the sad news to Masha, they learn that both Masha and Zoya were also killed that day. Makarych and Titarenko locate the women's graves and promise to return here and sing «Darkie» once again «from the beginning to the end» once the war is over.
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