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- From: gdr@acs.bu.edu (Dmitry Goldenberg)
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- Subject: Re: Boris Grebenschikov
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 01:15:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec20.024119.2266@panix.com>, jackz@panix.com (Evgueni Zabokritski) writes:
- |> In article <LEONID.92Dec19131458@tuna.uchicago.edu> leonid@tuna.uchicago.edu (Leonid Andreev) writes:
- |> ..................
- |> >Well, "Gorod zolotoy" ( City the Golden ) - as for this one,
- |> >nobody really knows, where it comes from. Bob used to refere
- |> >to it as to "narodnaja", but this piece of lyrics is pretty
- |> >strange just for a folk song. Do you know anything about
- |> >it's origin?
- |>
- |> Well, I guess I will be the 1001st to point out that the author of this
- |> lyrics is Alex Hvostenko, AKA Hvost. As I recall, he had emigrated (to US?)
- |> when these verses were used by Bob. As for the music of this (excellent,
- |> in my opinion) song, it was also "borrowed" from an unknown English musician
- |> who lived circa 18th century. It was originally intended to be performed
- |> on lute.
- |> I still think he WAS a real author of this enchanting thing */|>
-
- Well, I guess I will be the 1st to point out that the music for the song
- was written by the Italian composer Francesco di Milano. You might want
- to check me on that by looking into 'Delo Mastera Bo' where all the
- songs that were ever borrowed by Aquarium from somebody are properly
- designated (which makes the oft-invoked accusations of BG in "plagiarism"
- simply invalid).
-
- Actually, Aquarium picked up the song in the Goroshevsky's 'theater of
- absurd' which used quite a lot of music in its performances. At that
- moment, the song had already had deviations from the original version of
- Hvostenko and Volokhonski. The group performed the song the way they
- heard it the first time, although they probably brought some original
- attitude into the arrangement. One might add that the special kind of
- semi-sacred aura around the song is Aquarium's original contribution
- (that's for sure).
-
- |> Continuing the theme, are there Bob fans around here who feel the strong
- |> connections between many Aquarium songs and English fantasy, primarily
- |> Tolkien ? These connections have been heard to be directly confirmed
- |> by Bob.
-
- No doubt. An example of such confirmation is 'The Autobiography of
- Aquarium' written by BG himself. There he provides brief characteristics
- for each member of the group, including himself. One of the things he
- says is that he "knows English perfectly" and had been reading the Melody
- Maker magazine and British "fantasy" literature - here you go with
- Tolkien - for many years...
-
- Keep rockin', everybody!
-
- - D.
-