A conversation with composer Vladimir Dashkevich of contemporary music. scene

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Composer Vladimir Dashkevich, who wrote the music for the film "Heart of a Dog" and "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson," said the works of contemporary Russian composers is almost nowhere to be heard.

"All say they know the film" Holiday Boniface "to the music of Moses Weinberg. But the fact that Weinberg - one of the greatest symphonic our time, no one knows because none of our Bashmet, Gergiev Spivakov and his play will not. Because that they depend on Western tour, they sold the Western management and Western publishers. The whole grid of their performances in the next few years is by western companies. This is the most powerful structures that capture the unprotected Russian market, squeezing it out of Russian music is much better quality, "- said Dashkevich.

Russians have very little chance to hear the music Myaskovsky, Khachaturian, Borodin, Dargomyzhsky, Taneyev. Rather, you can hear the music Reger, Janacek and Penderecki, which calls Dashkevich composers "are not first class."


Morality?
You can, of course, and to declare Dashkevich rusopyatom and xenophobe, but it will likely characterize declared.

UPD "Russian man likes to drink cups of woe, and all the bawdy songs written in minor keys. But minor Prison turns the country into a zone. For the health of society is not safe. Each song - a tiny baby step down the stairs.

What struck Mozart Salieri? Those that came up with quite a perfect formula for a memorable long speech. It is long, but it carries a lot of emotions, thoughts and so many ordinary people to remember. For centuries, composers created a feedback from a huge cultural audience. In the twentieth century avant-garde has destroyed this relationship. Cinema as it recovered. Film music in the twentieth century is the world's folklore, the best music was written for the movie. A Russian film music has become a world leader - just to name Shostakovich Tariverdiyeva, Sviridov, Gavrilin ... By the way, Shostakovich was also the first film composers, as in his youth worked as a ballroom pianist in silent films

Intonation films are acidified. Now boring to listen to movies. I check everything through his ear. I'm starting to listen to a movie, and I just get bored. After all, music in movies has a significant property: it either helps or hinders. It is never neutral. Sometimes the producer receives from the composer's music dvuhkopeechnuyu and rejoice. But she stifled the whole picture. Because it is meaningless music. It is a depressing effect on the subconscious, and you finally just sick.

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I remember Kurosawa in on the painting "The Idiot" for three months, waiting for the thick snow. But the snow did not come and go. Was the producer and said, Lord, Kurosawa, I ask that you continue to shoot, otherwise I will destroy. What Kurosawa said, well, I'll take a picture of you at the designated time, but I'll make myself a hara-kiri. And the producer of it behind, because the alternative was: he ruined or in anticipation of snow, or what it all will point the finger - look, this man, because of which Kurosawa had committed suicide

Almost all the directors are different animal instinct for the music of the picture. You play, and by the way the director hears you, you realize that this is not quite right. But as soon as he hears what he wants, he is a hunting dog, instantly makes the rack

"Requiem" Akhmatova for orchestra, chorus and soloists in the performance was greeted with great Kamburova. Just as, for example, "Soldier's Requiem", which sounded in Kharkov for the 65th anniversary of Victory. And last summer in Nizhny Novgorod, was greeted with great violin concerto, played by Alain who Baev. I can name the unclaimed works of other composers, and included in the "top ten". This is a grand opera by Edward Artemiev's "Crime and Punishment," which he wrote twenty-seven years. This is a wonderful concert with brilliant Gennady Gladkov oratorio "Swift." This is an excellent Sixth Symphony Alexei Rybnikov. Why, we have fully deserving works that are not implemented.

Goes all-out offensive small format. Why do our best composers were even at a loss to work more actively in the major forms? Because they felt the need for something catastrophic to oppose slipping into a microformat like "Mmm, Danone." Small size creates a small man with short thoughts with clipped mind that any upgrades will not cope. I'm telling you as an engineer, who gave the plant the eleven years of his life. When I was a kid, we at war with the guys listened to loudspeakers in Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony, and she, by the way, is 70 minutes. You can now imagine a girl or a boy to be on the street or even at home listening to music of this magnitude?

In the wild the information deficit was given a great time on classical music. During the war, Moscow three o'clock broadcast Tchaikovsky's opera "The Queen of Spades" .. This was in order. Since the days of Nicholas I, was considered good form to be in the theater, go to the opera to listen to concerts. By the way, under Stalin, this tradition has continued ...

- ... coupled with the tradition of direct musical culture in a spirit of furious decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) "the opera Muradeli" great friendship "or Pravdinskaya articles entered into the folklore entitled" Muddle Instead of Music ", which was subjected to the destruction of" Lady Macbeth "by Shostakovich.

- Be Well at least this attention! Issuing an order where you are someone Chew, show that you know, words such as "Opera", "bass", "conductor." And then go back to listening to music, fashion in large format. Only large format creates a personality. Personality occur when reading a novel by Leo Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev. When the hearings are symphonies of Shostakovich, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff. For Russia, it is extremely important

Judging by the ratings of some TV shows, nothing unites people like pop music.

- Pops combines the crowd rather than people. And I'm inclined to think that indulgence bad taste, infinite Broadcast Music stuff - all this is done consciously.

The same oligarchs, whether in Moscow or New York are well aware that the middle class with its high level of social activity it is primarily expensive. To make it cheaper and more manageable, it is necessary to reduce his self-esteem. So, pop music - the perfect way to reduce self-esteem. This practice not only American billionaires, and this made the post-Stalin government, and all the Soviet rulers until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Because they did not need an active middle class, which itself showed in the 60s. From this point of view "boniemizatsiya" the whole country, of course it was a kind of sotszakazom, who created a fashion for very short genre. And if now on some stations you may ask: "Why not pass the classical music?" - You immediately respond, "Unformat".

- Today's opopsenie anything and everything you think the result of a deliberate policy?

- Yes, I think so. Pop - a game for a fall. Including the reduction in self-esteem. When the young Schumann, Chopin heard the young, he said, "Oh, how lovely are his fingers!" He said: "This is a gun, covered with flowers." What is the "Marseillaise"? This is actually peresochinennaya Rouget de Lisle Figaro's aria from the opera this aria Motsarta.Pod middle class French stormed the Bastille.
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UPD
- Over the past 30 years in our country of the institutions produced about a thousand young composers. But these names no one knows. Education under the banner of the avant-garde creative makes them impotent. A pop artists, pop music privatized, are not allowed to own professionals. Privatization of the song began Pugacheva. She first realized that professional writers would reduce its earnings, and year 1985, almost sang songs of professional writers, even those that brought her into the arena, the same Pauls, and went on their own products. Behind it all went to rest. Actors who have fallen into a wave of Yeltsin, very well settled in life. Many famous stage - the holders of shares of state-run television, many have shares of companies related to "pipe". This privatization has caused a huge drop songs her professional level. By privatizing the monopolization was added, and there song Abramovich and Berezovsky, who is not allowed anyone to top, while they themselves can not do anything.
Take Kirkorov, he professionally poorly prepared, it has a mediocre hearing. If you look at it dispassionately, it is difficult to understand how he became a pop star. He is no artist. If you heard his "raw", raw voice! If it were not for computer equipment and sound engineering, he could speak only in a "Full House". Nevertheless, it has a tremendous opportunity in the PR system, which has built Alla. It does not allow competition. Yes, the pop top is the redistribution of property, but from one of his to his friend. We called it the struggle of elites. But the sign of the elite has always been an advantage in talent and intelligence. To our advantage is the pop music of any moral standards

«Yesterday» - this is also a pearl in form and also bard song. If the bard includes a guitar into the outlet, he can call himself a rocker, but actually it does not change.

Each generation lives in his intonation resonance. This is especially true in dance music. It clearly shows that the increase in speed leads to an effect on short-time perekvantovyvaniya rhythmic intervals. Rhythmic density of information is increasing. Take a look: gavotte minuet forced out, and then were polonaise, polka, Charleston, fox trot, twist, rock and roll, rap, techno. The rhythm works as a sex signal, giving each job sexual generation - how much it should raise children. Especially strong resonant tones are just for teenagers.
The people are very easy to catch on to these same resonant hooks and make him a zombie. The subconscious mind becomes accustomed to the same type of signals, and it becomes easy to manage - with the help of pop, political technologies, advertising and so on.
I arbitrarily divide mankind into three categories: artists (or art-Men), power (logic-Men) and the vast majority - a zombie-Men. Since the latter more precisely rating reflects their views.

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