doctor Elizarov. On July 12, another X-ray. Doctors to confer. On July 13, Shostakovich called home. He gave his phone number in the hospital: 140-94-06. July 21: Situation unclear. Waiting for doctors to confer. A great human tragedy gave birth to great music by Shostakovich. Years later, the 7th Symphony by Shostakovich still reminds us of the war. The composer of the Leningrad Symphony was 35. Evacuation train We are Russian, and we are proud of it. Throughout today's severe ordeals we shall stand up for our great Motherland, we shall defend our immortal culture and art! Our people will overcome! Dear girls! Our time has come. You know well that all, young or old, rise up to defend our great Motherland. I played a nurse in "Friends at the Front". Now it's time to be one for real. I've already joined a medical unit. Everything I did in the film, I will be doing on the front, I will be fighting with all my strength, regardless of my life, and if needed, I will give my life... ...to my Motherland, as Zina Maslova did in our film. Girls, the Motherland needs you! Join medical units! I'm sure all of you will follow my example. Dear friends! There will be a lot of work. The work will be hard. But we'll win. The Red Army will crush the loathsome fascist gang, and we, girls, will help it. Down with fascism! Long live our beloved Red Army! Long live our Communist Party! No to fascism! Long live comrade Stalin! Hurrah! History trusted us contemporaries of this great battle to express the ideals of humanity's struggle against fascism. To fire up the hatred towards fascism, to show, by means of art, its true image, to inspire our men, - this is what our work should be aimed at. There isn't any task worthier than this. So let our hearts turn to the war against the enslavers, like the hearts of millions throughout this world. Let "Everything for the front!" Be the goal of all our creativity. Our day will come very soon. So let us be worthy of such a day. May everyone, when the war's over, and happiness returns, say proudly that his war-time work against bloody fascism, was for our radiant future. Ivan Sollertinsky, then in Novosibirsk, got the 7th Symphony performed there, after Kuibyshev and Moscow. It was conducted by Evgeny Mravinsky. Despite serious heart disease, Sollertinsky spoke before each performance. In 1941, they were about to celebrate 20 years of friendship. War separated them. The war was changing. People felt the approach of victory. Shebalin called Shostakovich in Kuibyshev. He invited him to teach at the Moscow Conservatory. Shostakovich came to Moscow. He taught at the Conservatory. The Leningrad Conservatory also asked him to teach composition. In 1947, Shostakovich began teaching at the Conservatory in Leningrad. "Dear Vissarion! It's been 20 years since we first met. I thought about that stretch of time, and feel that I ought to do more for my country. I began a quartet for you. I hope you like it. Once more, my congratulations," wrote Shostakovich to Shebalin. While finishing his 8th Symphony, bad news came on February Ivan Sollertinsky had died. "Dear Olga Panteleimonovna, words cannot express the grief which overwhelmed me at the news of Ivan's death. He was my dearest, my nearest friend. I owe my progress to him. Life will be unbearably hard without him. We rarely met in recent years. But I was always happy to think that Ivan Ivanovich was there. We talked of many things, and of the inevitable end that lay ahead, of death. We both feared and loathed it. We were fond of life, but knew that... ...we would have to leave it. Ivan has left us very prematurely. He died, I stayed alive. We always kept in mind our near ones. We thought about our children, and gave each other the solemn promise that if one of us ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Железный человек на английском - текст Каратель на английском - текст Шинель на английском - текст Перестройка на английском - текст Хищник 2 на английском |