[Tango-L] 1930s - Tango Soviet Union Argentina

[Nina Pesochinsky]

Anna,

Thank you, thank you, thank you!  This is the treasure that I was looking for!

Abrazos,

Nina


At 06:23 AM 7/21/2007, Anna Zelenina wrote:
>Hi Nina, Igor,
>
>as to tango crossing boarders in Poland Soviet Union and Argentina:
>Jerzy Petersburgski, born 1897in Warsaw in a 
>family of famous Klezmer musicians composed the 
>tango "ta ostatnia niedziela" (last sunday), 
>1936,  text by Zenon Fridland, singer Mechislav 
>Fogg. Recording label Sirena elektro.
>
>In 1935 the song was exported to the Soviet 
>Union, got well known under the Russian title 
>"utemlennye solncem", recording 1937, 
>interpreted by Iosif Al'bek. The song might be 
>well know to US public as title song of the 
>Academy Award winning film by Nikital Mikhailkov (Burnt by the sun, 1994).
>
>You can download the songs here (historical 
>recording Mechislav Fogg: ostatnia niedziela 
>/  / Pola Negri: tango notturno / utemlennye 
>solcncem). On this website you can also read 
>about why "last sunday" was called "song of death"
>http://nfo.net/euro/ep.html
>
>When in 1939 Poland was divided, many Jewish 
>musicians in Lvov or Bialystok found themselves 
>citizens of Belorussia. Jerzy Petersburgski was 
>one of them. He founded the Belorussian 
>republican jazz orchestra, 25 musicians, in Belostok.
>
>As consequence of Spanish Civil War 1936-1939, 
>many refugees and orphaned children from Spain 
>entered the Soviet Union. With this the phenomen 
>might be linked that Spanish music and 
>latin-american melodies got very popular in 
>these years, especially tango music and gypsy 
>songs. They were interpreted by singers like 
>Isabella Jureva, Claudia Shulzhenko, Georgi Vinogradov, Leonid Utesov.
>
>Petr Leshchenkos also interpreted tangos 
>composed by Jerzy Petersburgkij, Leshchenkos 
>tangos from Rumania entered the Soviet Union 
>illegally,  his work was oficially banned. 
>Nevertheless, secretly he was very popular: 
>specialists would even bootleg his music onto 
>"ribs" (used X-ray plates), as a form of pirate copies.
>
>After second world war Jerzy Petersburgski lived 
>in Argentin from 1948-1968 and worked for radio el mundo in Buenos Aires
>http://www.radioelmundo.com.ar/index.htm
>
>In 1953 the Soviet Union imported films with 
>Lolita Torres(Beatriz Mariana Torres).
>http://www.cinenacional.com/personas/?persona=8483
>She was very popular in the Soviet Union for her 
>films and her recordings of tango music, 
>travelled to the Soviet Union 14 times. See:
>http://oldstars.narod.ru/lolita.html
>The Russian website offers some of her 
>recordings from the 1950s and 1960s, but in the file format VQF.
>
>saludos,
>Anna
>
>
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Nina Pesochinsky <nina at earthnet.net>
> > Gesendet: 19.07.07 00:42:24
> > An: TANGO-L at mit.edu
> > Betreff: [Tango-L] 1930s - Argentine musicians in Russia?
>
>
> > Dear dancers and musicians,
> >
> > Does anyone know anything about Argentine tango musicians possibly
> > travelling to Russia and actually recording therein the 1930s or so?
> >
> > There is a recording of Russian tangos (not Leshenko) by an orchestra
> > that I swear had both Russian and Argentine musicians.  I was told by
> > my parents that one of those tangos is called "Splashes of Champaign"
> > (Not the same tango as "Champaign Tango" recorded by Canaro in 1938).
> >
> > Grisha (Gregory Nisnevich, the amazing guitarist that plays with
> > Julio and Corina, who is on this list as well) said that to record in
> > Russia during the Stalin's era the musicians had to be considered to
> > be something very special. NOBODY was recording at that time, and yet
> > we have these gems of recordings.  If some of these musicians were
> > Argentine, then it would make sense that the music was considered to
> > be special to be recorded.
> >
> > Does anyone know anything about this?
> >
> > Warmest regards,
> >
> > Nina
> >
> >
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