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Notes written by Izzy Hod: This song, Where have you been before, is mostly identified with the singer, Valentina Tolkunova. Few singers really parted from the fan crowd, on stage, due to a sudden worsening of medical condition and were immediately hospitalized in a very serious condition, which they did not survive. Even the famous tenor, Enrico Caruso, in the, Great Caruso, movie, starring the glamorous spontaneous tenor, Mario Lanza, who died in the movie on stage, singing the famous aria from Pluto's, Martha opera, was still alive long after his truly last performance, in the, La Juive, opera by Halevi, in the role of Elazar, as his wife Dorothy Caruso wrote in her book. In August 2009, Valentina Tolkunova, was diagnosed with a brain tumor at the age of about 63. About half a year later, at the end of a concert on stage, she felt unwell, apologized, and was hospitalized for tests and about a week later passed away. Not long ago, on November 22, 2017, the wonderful bass-baritone singer, Dmitry Khvorostovsky, also passed away after suffering from a brain tumor at about the age of 54 years old, and still performed and sounds marvelous on stage, even at the height of his illness. The literal description of the words of the song is as follows, This is the second time my mind is tired of loving you. Even for the first time it was bad. You were somewhere, connected to life somewhere, only now so late you decided to come back here. All this time you knew nothing about my longing. I do not understand how, but you could live without me. Where did you have fun, who did you kiss, who did you hug, when you cheated on yourself and them. Who even counted the many years that had passed in which I suffered in frost and my smiles were orphaned. Where did you hide, so much so that I would feel you like a stranger, in what abyss you dived so deep for love. Like the darkness and the light, we became each other and the heat of love dried up. So where did you spend your life, you, who were once my only love, and where did you spend your love, you, who were once my only love.
Where have you been before in Lyrics Lyrics of Song "Where Have You Been"The touching and sincere text of the song “Where have you been before” was obtained by the composer Eduard Savelyevich Kolmanovsky from the lines written by the poet Evgeny Aronovich Dolmatovsky. The composition was born in 1976 and since then has become a frequent welcome "guest" at table events and women's parties.
Valentina Vasilevna Tolkunova (July 12, 1946, Armavir, Krasnodar Region-March 22, 2010, Moscow).
During 44 years of creative activity Valentina Tolkunova performed more than 800 songs, mainly in the genre of love, family and military-patriotic lyrics-many of them have been awarded various awards and enjoyed success among listeners of all ages. Tolkunova had a rare voice timbre that matched the flute's timbre. Illness and death. In 1990, the singer was diagnosed with breast cancer. In 1992, she underwent surgery and underwent chemotherapy. In 2006 and 2009, repeated operations were performed to remove metastases, however, they continued to spread slowly, and over time the disease was generalized to the brain. Despite the severe ailment, Tolkunova continued to work actively: touring, recording new songs, preparing new concert programs and performances. These events prompted Tolkunov to think about God and the purpose of man on earth, to spiritual music and chants, she began to make regular pilgrimages to monasteries and to the holy places of Russia, to the Holy Land. In 1994, she was nearly killed in a terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, after which her religiosity was further increased. On February 16, 2010, during a concert in Mogiev, Tolkunova became ill and was admitted to the intensive care unit of the local hospital. From Mogilov, the artist was transferred to Moscow for examination in Botkin hospital. In the hospital ward on March 20, she was visited by a long-term partner on the stage Lev Leshchenko, then the patient called the priest, and the proto-priest Artemy Vladimirov made a cathedral right in the ward. On March 22, 2010, at 6 a.m., she fell into a coma and died two hours later at the age of 64. The final diagnosis is brain cancer. The farewell ceremony with the folk artist Valentina Tolkunova took place at the Variety Theatre on March 24, 2010, and the funeral service took place at the Ascension Temple on Great Nikita Street in central Moscow. A Friend Said that Valentina Tolkunova Came to Faith after Surviving a Terrible Terrorist Attack in Tel Aviv.
Friday marks 40 days since the death of famous singer Valentina Tolkunova. According to an old friend, she became a believer after surviving a terrorist attack in Israel. In an interview published on Friday in the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, songwriter Viktor Gin said that in 1994 Valentina was staying with him in Tel Aviv, and that all three of them went to the Dizengoff shopping mall. Whilst they were there, a terrorist attack that killed forty people. “God protected Valya. She was as far as you could be in the mall from the explosion. However, her friend, a doctor, was severely wounded and had to recuperate in hospital”, Mr Gin said. He went on to say that Valentina confessed to him before her departure, “My whole life is turned upside down! God protected me”. After this incident, she became a firm Orthodox believer. “[Valentina] really did a lot of soul-searching. For instance, she made regular pilgrimages to the Russian convent on the Mount of Olives. Every year, for many years, she came for a week or two. None of her Israeli friends knew that she was there. She went by herself and didn’t want to meet anybody”, Mr Gin recalled.
Description Collected works of the Russian Soviet poet, author of the words of many famous Soviet songs Yevgeny Aronovich Dolmatovsky. The first volume contains poems created by the poet over the period from 1933 to 1960. These are poems about Komsomol members of the thirties, about the builders of the first five-year plans, about the feat of the people in the Great Patriotic War. In the section "Word about Tomorrow" the reader will find poems about the struggle for peace on earth, about the exploits of the Soviet people, about love. The second volume includes poems and ballads (1960-1976). A significant part of the works was created by the poet after visiting Africa, India, Vietnam, Portugal, Greece. In the sections "Poems about us" (1961 -1967), "Poems and ballads" (1968-1976) the reader will find poems about our contemporaries. The third volume includes well-known songs created over more than forty years, as well as the novel in verse "Volunteers", the poems "One Destiny", "The Last Kiss", poems about Latin America and others.
In the 1980s, the main theme of the singer's work was determined, which she herself would call "Conversation with a Woman". These are songs about love and about women's destinies, happy and unhappy, in each of which the soul of a woman is visible. But whatever the heroine of Tolkunova's song, she never leaves the expectation of happiness. These are the songs “I can’t do otherwise” by A. Pakhmutova, “Where have you been before” and “Dialogue at the New Year tree” by E. Kolmanovsky, “And love is like a swan” by A. Monasypov, “Evening of school friends” by A. Morozov, “ A song without end" by E. Kolmanovsky, "Dream-grass" by E. Ptichkin, "Memories of the past" by V. Miguli, "Corner of Russia" by V. Shainsky, "Seryozha" by L. Quint, "Zhaleyka" by P. Aedonitsky and others.
Valentina Tolkunova Where have you been before? Fragment from the film-concert "Songs of Eduard Kolmanovsky" (1978) "Where have you been before" Music by: Eduard Kolmanovsky Lyricist: Evgeny Dolmatovsky It's not enough to love you, And now it's good alone - Where were you before? Where were you before, Why did you come to me so late? Where were you before? Where were you before, Why did you come to me so late? Didn't you know about my longing How could you live without me? Where have you been before, Kissed with whom? With whom did you cheat on yourself? With whom did you cheat on yourself? Does anyone know how many years and winters I'm waiting for smiles and warmth. Where were you before, When I was with another, With the unloved, I walked over the abyss? Walked over the abyss with the unloved? We are with you now - Like darkness to light. I don't have the strength to love you. Where have you been So many days and years, My only one, where were you? Where have you been So many days and years, My only one, where have you been? #tolkunova # ВалентинаТолкунова #song #voice #love #Russia #stage #THE USSR #songsforthesoul
Songs by Eduard Kolmanovsky ▶Subscribe on the channel "Soviet Television": https://goo.gl/qw3iEK Year of production: 1978 Songs of the composer Eduard Kolmanovsky are performed by artists L.Smetannikov, L.Zykina, A.Eisen, M.Pakhomenko, I.Kobzon, L.Senchina, V.Tolkunov, V.Troshin, G.Belov. #ТОЭкран 1978
Biography, Eduard Savelyevich Kolmanovsky was born on January 9, 1923 in Mogilev. In 1936-1941. studied at the Gnessin Music School and College of Music in Moscow with O.F. Gnesina and S. Dementieva (piano), E.O. Messner and F.E. Vitachek (composition). From 1941 to 1945 education continued at the Moscow Conservatory in the composition class of V.Ya.Shebalin. In his student years, Kolmanovsky wrote several romances to the verses of A. Pushkin, R. Burns, which were performed by Z. Dolukhanova and A. Dolivo. From 1945 to 1955 the young composer worked in the music editorial office of the Radio Committee of the USSR, composed chamber and symphonic works, plays for a variety orchestra, romances based on poems by A.S. Pushkin. At this time, the first songs of Kolmanovsky were born 1951 “Song of the Mother” (verses by M. Matusovsky), “Why, why? ..”, “We will see you” (V. Bakhnov and Y. Kostyukovsky), “Marianna” (T .Sikorskaya), "In the Silence of the Evening" (V.Tipota)...The first great success came to E. Kolmanovsky in 1955 thanks to the music for the performance of the Moscow Art Theater "Twelfth Night" based on the play by W. Shakespeare. The life of songs based on the verses of P. Antokolsky of this production went beyond the theater, especially the "Song of the Jester", which sounded at concert venues and on the radio performed by V. Troshin, which gave him wide recognition as a pop singer. So, a year later he performed Kolmanovsky's songs “Crossroads” (V. Orlov) and “My Comrade” (E. Dolmatovsky), which immediately became popular. In 1958, songs were written that gained nationwide fame, "Silence" to the verses of V. Orlov and "I love you, life" to the verses of K. Vanshenkin. The amazing ability of Kolmanovsky to tell about the most sublime with apparent simplicity, without pretentiousness and excessive pathos, as if thinking aloud, was manifested. The clear rhythm of the songs was in harmony with the soft melodic pattern, full of warmth of the heart. E. Kolmanovsky worked a lot and fruitfully for the leading theaters of the country - the Moscow Art Theater, them. Vakhtangov, Sovremennik, Theater of Satire. In 1961, another of Kolmanovsky's main songs "Do Russians Want Wars" was written to the verses of E. Yevtushenko - a manifesto song, a call for peace, but without oratorical pathos. The sincerity and penetration of the verses are emphasized by a strict melody close to natural speech and a severe rhythm. Following the first performer and author of the idea of this song, Mark Bernes, the song was recorded by many. It sounded in English, French, German, Spanish, performed by soloists and choirs. In 1962, the winner of the International Competition. PI Tchaikovsky John Ogdon improvised on the theme of this song completed his solo concert. In the same 1961, the song "It's raining in our city" (verses by E.) was born, which became one of the pinnacles of Soviet song lyrics. Like "Silence", this song was criticized by official structures, apparently concerned that such a high skill went to works of civil subjects that were not at all loved by the authorities, but this criticism had no influence on the love of Kolmanovsky's songs among the people. And in the further song work of the composer there was a natural expressive means, characteristic of the best folk melodies, improved over the centuries. The traditions of folk music were organically supplemented by the features of the chamber-romance style, which made it possible to create seemingly simple and at the same time unique works. The most important factor in the popular love for Kolmanovsky's songs was the fact that all of them, without exception, were written to beautiful poems by E. Evtushenko, K. Vanshenkin, L. Oshanin, V. Orlov, L. Derbenev, M. Tanich, I. Shaferan, I. Goff, R.Gamzatov, N.Dorizo, E.Dolmatovsky, G.Pozhenyan, K.Kuliev and others. The performance of Kolmanovsky's songs became an honor for the masters of pop and vocal, it is with his works that the biggest successes of M. Bernes, V. Troshin, K. Shulzhenko, G. Ots, A. Eizen, G. Velikanova, M. Kristalinskaya, I. Kobzon are associated , L. Zykina, E. Khil, M. Pakhomenko, L. Leshchenko, V. Tolkunova, L. Serebrennikov and many others. The 1950-60s of the life of the country were filled with songs of civil sound and were created by outstanding composers. But it was Kolmanovsky who managed to give such songs very personal, humane emotional colors, which made these songs popular not only in the solemn atmosphere of festive halls, but also in the table performance of ordinary people. These were “I will return to you, Russia” (1963), “We will wait for you” (1963), “Alyosha” (1966), “Still ahead” (1966) and others. Special expressiveness and purity of style are inherent in the lyrical songs of Kolmanovsky: "Biryusinka" (1963), "Waltz about the Waltz" (1963), "I work as a magician" (1964), "Crane" (1964), "I smile at you" (1965) . The latter, like many others, was dedicated to the most beautiful person and faithful companion of the composer's life, wife Tamara. In 1968, Eduard Savelievich suffered a terrible tragedy - the death of Tamara in a car accident. The composer's subsequent work underwent development towards a philosophical understanding of life - "Our Mothers", "My Secret" and "Men" (1973), "Let's Talk to You, Son" (1974), "Only One" (1975), "Forget the Guys I can’t” (1975), “A couple of whitening birches” and “Where have you been before?” (1976), "Potato Field" (1977), "Dialogue at the New Year Tree" (1978), "To the Woman I Love" (1979), a song cycle based on poems by P.-J. Beranger (1981), in which one can find the expression of all the feelings and experiences of a person. In addition to composing more than 200 songs, Kolmanovsky is the author of instrumental plays, orchestral works, musical comedies (“The Convent”, “Oh, that Vronsky”, “About Ivan the Little Giant”), the opera for children “Snow White”, music for dramatic performances, films (“Spring on the Oder”, “Taimyr calls you”, “For family reasons”, “Three days in Moscow”, “Big break”), cartoons (“The Ugly Duckling”, “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves”, "In a dining room", "Why did the kitten leave" ...), radio shows. Merits of E.S. Kolmanovsky were awarded the titles of Honored Artist of Russia (1974), People's Artist of the USSR (1991) and the State Prize of the USSR (1984). Eduard Savelyevich died on July 27, 1994.
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