Favourite movie songs in the National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan

On October 21, 2016 in the Grand reading room of the National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan (Kremlevskaya street, 33) a musical evening “Favourite movie songs” was held. The concert was dedicated to the Year of Russian Cinema.

Among the invited guests, there were a famous Russian singer, honoured artist of the Republic of Tatarstan and laureate of international “Romansiada” contest Yulia Ziganshina as well as a poet, translator, member of the Union of Writers and performer Aleksey Gomazkov. The program contained songs and romances from feature films of the XX century. Special attention was paid to romances as this music genre was popularized in the soviet period. Romances from such films as “Eskadron gusar letuchikh” (“Squadron of Hussars”), “Gusarskaya ballada” (”Hussar Ballad”), “Zhestokiy romans” (“A Cruel Romance”), “Ironiya sudby, ili s legkim parom!” (“The Irony of Fate”), composed by A. Petrov, M.Tariverdiev, I.Shwarz acquainted the participants with the Russian classical poetry of Y. Boratinsky, D. Davidov, M.Tsvetaeva, B.Paetwrnak, R. Rozhdestvensky, B. Okudzhava and others.

An impressive performance of Yulia Ziganshina and Aleksey Gomazkov turned to be a magnificent present for all music lovers.

The soviet cinematography introduced a great amount of talented feature films, songs from which are estimated by the public. It is hard to imagine any soviet film without music. Lyrical and stirring, melancholic and cheerful, music fills the movie, becoming it’s inseparable part. It is notable, that soviet cinematography lacked such term as soundtrack, but accepted “film music”.