The concert dedicated to the 80th anniversary of maestro Raimonds Pauls will be attended by both the first performers of his songs and those who have taken over from them.
The performances of the stars will be accompanied by the Phonograph-Sympho-Jazz orchestra conducted by Sergei Zhilin.
The world-famous composer, musician and public figure, holder of the most honorary titles Raimonds Pauls was born in Riga, studied piano at the Latvian Conservatory.
Even as a student, jazz compositions and song melodies composed by him became popular.
In 1971, Pauls created his first group - the chamber pop group Modo - Pauls.
At the same time, the composer is actively writing music for performances and his first musical, Sister Kerry.
In the 80s, Pauls began fruitful collaboration with famous Russian poets: Robert Rozhdestvensky, Andrey Voznesensky, Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Ilya Reznik.
As a result of this, songs appeared that brought the maestro great fame and love of the audience and became an invaluable contribution to the fund of our musical culture.
Today they are also loved and interesting to the people of the 21st century, as well as to their first listeners.
Alla Pugacheva, Valery Leontiev, Laima Vaikule, Alexander Malinin, Grigory Leps, Irina Allegrova, Philip Kirkorov, Ani Lorak, Sergey Lazarev, Emin, Gleb Matveychuk, stars of the TV project Voice Intars
Busulis, Sharif, Mariam Merabova and many others will perform the maestro's songs accompanied by an orchestra conducted by Sergei Zhilin.
The main stars of this evening will be the inimitable Raymond Pauls himself and his music, the secret of which no one has yet determined the birth of.
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"A Million Scarlet Roses" and "Maestro", "Vernissage" and "It's Not Evening Yet", "Love the Pianist" and "Old Clock"... Who doesn't know the melodies of these songs written by Raimonds Pauls?
Many eminent guests gathered for the evening in honor of the famous composer. Creativity Pauls this evening will be presented by Alla Pugacheva, Valery Leontiev and Laima Vaikule. An orchestra and a black piano, on which the maestro played, were placed on the stage. He himself led the program with his usual Baltic wit. The only decoration on the stage is a glowing autograph "R. Pauls".
According to Raymond Voldemarovich, the most difficult thing was to select three dozen out of four hundred songs. Announcing Laima Vaikule, Pauls told how he, Reznik and Alla Pugacheva took risks by releasing a new star on the stage in the early 80s, whose hoarse voice and amazing plasticity were unusual for the then Russian public. At the concert, Lyme showed all her best numbers for the songs of Raymond Pauls: "Charlie", "Not Evening", "On Piccadilly Street", "Blues". And she sang one of these songs, lying on the piano, and Raymond seemed to play only for her alone. Several songs were performed by Valery Leontiev: "Love the pianist", "Sunny days have disappeared", "Cabaret". Appearing on stage, Alla Borisovna turned to Pauls and sang: "I can't believe my eyes! Have you really come? My God!" She also performed "Maestro", "A Million Scarlet Roses", "Vintage Clock" and other hits.
Laima Vaikule, Valery Leontiev, Maria Naumova, Normund Rutulis, Gunar Kalnynsh, Guna Paula, the Kukushechka Ensemble, Alla Pugacheva take part in the evening.
For his creative evening, the maestro demanded "talented youth" from Leps
Philip Kirkorov almost itched like an old man because of the "thin" composition of the participants of the creative evening in honor of the 80th anniversary of maestro Raymond Pauls - he ate all the baldness to the organizers. They were perplexed: Ani Lorak, Loboda, Leontiev, Leps, Allegrova, Malinin, Laima! Pugachev, after all! Apart from the Sun itself! Wow - thin!
Raymond Pauls.
The king of pop, however, was not dissatisfied with Alla, of course. Holy holy! And the “fry”, which, indeed, darted across the stage to the accompaniment of maestro Pauls, now and then getting under the feet of the majestic procession of pop giants, pop kings, queens, empresses, who arrived to honor the cult and one of the most brilliant pop composers of the last third of the 20th century century.
The 6,000-seat hall was packed to capacity, and given that there was no Pugacheva on the posters, who agreed to participate in the event only in the third month of whims and doubts, when tickets were already sold out with might and main, it was clear that the viewer came to enjoy and nostalgic, first of all, under the imperishable maestro's music in any of its incarnations. “Good songs do not get old, they become classics,” the Primadonna once said, without which, however, only a madman could imagine this event ...
The culprit of the Filov's anger turned out to be - oops! - the birthday boy. In an interview with MK, the master admitted: “I agreed with the proposal of Grigory Leps (to arrange an anniversary concert in Moscow) only on the condition that his production center would gather not only stars. I said: we definitely need talented youth, because the future is youth.”
No wonder that Mr. Leps sits out for seasons as a tutor for a talent show on TV and also manages his own competition "Highest Standard"! Young people gathered more than enough. And if Master Pauls summoned the stars to the stage mainly with short descriptions - “wonderful / wonderful singer / singer”, then “our future” with paternal warmth and a detailed description of each talent and vocal was represented by Sergey Zhilin, head of the Phonograph Jazz Band, musician and a teacher who - and this was evident - no less than Mr. Pauls stands up for fresh blood on the stage.
"Fresh Blood" was indeed vociferous, assertive, energetic. "Young" gave all the best, diligently deducing the roulades of pop incorruptibles - for the most part from Pugachev's repertoire, thereby warming up the audience before meeting with the Most-Main-and-Beautiful. Mariam Merabova, Vitold Petrovsky, Renata Volkievich, Georgy Yufa, Gleb Matveychuk are already known thanks to rating TV contests and, in general, are quite talented. But the insidiousness of the compositions of Mr. Pauls and the trail of their original performers is that the formula "a song is a theater" is not just a beautiful phrase, but the quintessence of all pleasure. And in the culmination "Don't listen to me / It's all stupid bravado / You know how I was waiting for you!" the viewer should feel with his skin not stupid bravado, but the hopeless drama of the whole life of "a strong woman who cries at the window." And to howl along with her as a wounded beluga ... So far, "talented youth" has mastered only "stupid bravado", albeit very loudly.
Olivia Crash (“I love you more than nature”), Sharif (“Two Swifts”) and Intars Busulis stood out in this row of “our future”, however, with the cover “I draw you”, which was inherited from Jaak Yoala and rethought now with such an original personal and vocal beginning that even Raymond himself could not get enough of it. “Who could have known when, at a concert in Riga before the New Wave a few years ago, I first saw this modest and slightly awkward guy - as he seemed to me then - that such a wonderful singer would grow out of him!” - the master, usually restrained in emotions, admired in a conversation with "MK".
However, the undoubted advantage of the "youth" block was that the maestro and the jazz band "Phonograph" with the orchestra had a happy opportunity to play enough live sound to their heart's content, since the "pop kings" and "empresses" apparently considered below their dignity and professionalism not only get confused on the same stage with the "fry", but also sing live. However, many phonograms were specially rewritten for this show and sounded very fresh, and the grand artists could completely reassure themselves that they sang, quailed, and sang as much as no youngsters could ever dream of. Which is also true! Hazing, therefore, is not only in the army ...
But the masters once again showed both the audience and the young growth - what is the school of survival, which they all went through in that era when Mr. Pauls was already composing his hits, and Valery Leontiev, for example, "was still banned everywhere" - which Philip Kirkorov, who performed the luxurious hit "Even If You Leave", with which the "forbidden" Leontiev first performed as a "casual spectator from the hall" at Pugacheva's concert at the Variety Theater.
This "school of survival" apparently still keeps our megastars in good shape, which many "young talents" will envy. And, if Valery Yakovlevich can easily be compared with the tireless Mick Jagger, then, looking at the peppy Lyme in an amazing tailcoat, Marlene Dietrich is increasingly remembered ... “Yes, there were people in our time, not like the current tribe!”, The poet would say , just looking at Irina Allegrova ...
And for those who didn’t have enough costume drive and visual courage, like, for example, Grigory Leps and Ani Lorak, they did not hesitate to play music - they rolled out their band among the music stands with violins and “Yellow Leaves” rumbled so that poor Raymond opened his mouth and with a comatose he leaned his elbows on the lid of the piano, ceasing to play, because anyway, behind the rolling riffs of almost hard rock, no one would have heard the timid tapping on the keys. But then, for some reason, Mr. Leps stepped on the same Pugachev rake, deciding to play “Encore” in his turn, and although it was enchanting in Lepsov’s way, but in this interpretation it was very similar to the muezzin’s monotonous howl from the minaret, after which I did not want to call the artist for an encore.
Some simple props were brought onto the stage - a table, a mirror, a pair of hairpieces and something like galoshes. “She doesn't even need to be introduced…”, - Raimonds Pauls began his short announcement and did not have time to finish… The air in the hall vibrated with the enthusiastic howl of many thousands of throats. Alla, although she left the stage as an active guest performer, still from time to time pleases her people with her next coming. And this coming every time is worth its weight in gold. Of course, everyone who bought a ticket for Pauls' anniversary hid the secret hope of "getting rich". And I didn't guess. Pugachev's jackpot fell to everyone!
Alla in high heels (sorry, not in Louboutins!) and in delightful black leggings (or what they are now called in a fashionable way?) A real fashion model appeared before the eyes of the flock. But knowledgeable fans got worried - she has bo-bo legs, and she is in stilettos! But the Primadonna stoically carried the cross of the Living Legend throughout the whole song, sweeping her legendary slender legs on stilettos along and across the wide stage, showed everyone the excellent form and sat down at the table for the second song. It was then that the true purpose of the galoshes became clear. Having pinned curly chignons to her head and changing her shoes, she created an image for the hit “Hey, you are up there!”, And then she remained in galoshes - so as not to be constrained in movements and emotions.
To the fact that from her “golden fund” with Pauls was already shown by other participants of the anniversary, the Primadonna also added “Without Me” and the hit of all times and peoples (including Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese) “Million Scarlet Roses”, and to celebrate was a complete success, presented the audience with two novelties, which turned the maestro's anniversary into an event of an extraordinary scale. More precisely - not entirely new, but rather a forgotten rarity ("Yesterday's Performance" to the verses of Ilya Reznik) and unreleased ("Don't Leave Me"). The latter - to the verses of the poet Andrei Voznesensky. “This is my debt to him,” the Primadonna said sadly.
The rehearsal of this song in Alla's old apartment on Tverskaya remained in the singer's amateur newsreel and was even somehow shown on TV, but it remained not performed by her publicly - not only because of "carelessness", but also because of past cracks in relationships with Pauls, because of which the maestro gave the "right of the first night" to the then young and beginning Valentina Legkostupova. Many in those days did not understand why Alla was so angry with the young “raspberry-berry”, and now much is becoming clear ...
However, in Valentina's performance, even hints of that power and passion that were obvious even on Alla's amateur rehearsal shooting disappeared, and the song was not even remembered. Now Pauls' poignant music, the pathetic text about "a land piercingly loved" and the Living Legend's heartbreaking prophecy "I will not die for you, I will become a handful of earth" drove the hall into a stupor, from which they had to get out only with the help of a million scarlet roses.
And not only in the figurative-song, but also in the direct physical sense - in the finale, the whole scene was made of huge baskets with huge purple roses. All day long they were brought by trucks into the hall, they filled up all the passages and passages. “Here, of course, there are not a million roses, but everything is for you! From us, dear Raymond! ”Alla said, modestly concealing the breadth of nature from the audience, for the phrase“ from us ”was actually just a figure of speech. Pugacheva, although she was a guest diva at the maestro’s evening, but she could not, of course, let everything take its course, “turned on” her own direction, and bought one and a half thousand (!) Plus, of course, one rose for her money, so that the holiday had an unforgettable finale .
“The concert has come to an end, but the work of this man cannot come to an end!”, the audience supported the correctness of the Primadonna with a loud ovation, and Alla had no choice but to optimistically promise a new meeting “in thirty years” ...
"A Million Scarlet Roses" and "Maestro", "Vernissage" and "It's Not Evening Yet", "Love the Pianist" and "Old Clock" ... Who does not know the melodies of these songs written by Raimonds Pauls?
Many eminent guests gathered for the evening in honor of the famous composer. Creativity Pauls this evening will be presented by Alla Pugacheva, Valery Leontiev and Laima Vaikule. An orchestra and a black piano, on which the maestro played, were placed on the stage. He himself led the program with his usual Baltic wit. The only decoration on the stage is a luminous autograph "R.Pauls".
According to Raymond Voldemarovich, the most difficult thing was to select three dozen out of four hundred songs. Announcing Laima Vaikule, Pauls told how he, Reznik and Alla Pugacheva took risks by releasing a new star on the stage in the early 80s, whose hoarse voice and amazing plasticity were unusual for the then Russian public. At the concert, Laima showed all her best numbers for the songs of Raymond Pauls - Charlie, It's Not Evening Yet, On Piccadilly Street, Blues. And she sang one of these songs lying on the piano, and Raymond seemed to play only for her alone. Several songs were performed by Valery Leontiev - “Love the pianist”, “Sunny days have disappeared”, “Cabaret”. Appearing on stage, Alla Borisovna turned to Pauls and sang: “I can’t believe my eyes! Have you really come? My God!". She also performed "Maestro", "A Million Scarlet Roses", "Vintage Clock" and other hits.
Laima Vaikule, Valery Leontiev, Maria Naumova, Normund Rutulis, Gunar Kalninsh, Guna Paula, the Kukushechka Ensemble, Alla Pugacheva take part in the evening.
