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3 English
4 Vocabulary
4 Sample Sentences
5 Cultural Insight
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RUSSIAN
3. Родион Щедрин родился 16 декабря 1932-го года. В возрасте 9-ти лет Родиона
отдали в музыкальную школу при Московской консерватории, однако в тот же год
началась Вторая Мировая война, и семья Щедриных была эвакуирована в
засекреченный город Самару. (Засекреченный, потому что именно в Самаре
находился огромный бункер-убежище для Сталина и его окружения). Вернуться в
Москву Щедрины смогли только в 1943-м году, и Родион продолжил своё
музыкальное образование.
4. Слава к юному композитору пришла рано. Уже на 4-м курсе консерватории его
приняли в союз композиторов, а к 1973-му году Щедрин сам возглавил этот Союз. В
1955-м году Родион окончил консерваторию, в которой позже сам долгое время
преподавал композицию.
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8. В настоящее время Родион Щедрин является обладателем многочисленных
премий, наград и призов; член жюри международных композиторских и
исполнительских конкурсов, автор многих критических статей, почётный член
международных музыкальных сообществ. Щедрин продолжает обогащать мир
музыки своими произведениями, инновационными приёмами исполнения и
воплощением в музыкальные шедевры русской литературной классики.
ENGLISH
3. Rodion Shchedrin was born December 16, 1932. At the age of nine, Rodion was sent to
music school at the Moscow Conservatory, but in the same year WWII started and the
Shchedrin family was evacuated to the secret city of Samara. (It was closed because it
had a huge bunker-shelter for Stalin and his people). The Shchedrins could only return
to Moscow in 1943 when Rodion could continue his musical education.
4. Fame came to the young composer very early. Already in the fourth year of the
conservatory he was accepted to the Union of Composers, and by 1973 Shchedrin
himself was the leader of the Union. In 1955, Rodion graduated from the Conservatory
where he later taught composition for a long time.
5. While studying and working Shchedrin gave concerts performing works of his own but
became famous primarily because of his theatre works, the ballets "The Little
Humpbacked Horse," "Anna Karenina," "Seagull," "The Lady with the Dog," and the
operas "Not Love Only" and "Dead Souls."
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6. It is noteworthy that of the composers of his generation, Shchedrin was the one to have
most fully developed the theme of Russian folklore, having enriched it with new genres
and modern compositional techniques. Russian themes run through almost all works of
Shchedrin and most of his famous operas and ballets are based on the works of great
Russian writers such as Tolstoy, Gogol, and Chekhov.
7. Shchedrin's spouse is the prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre, Maya Plisetskaya, for
which he wrote a number of leading roles in various ballets.
8. Today, Rodion Shchedrin owns numerous awards and prizes - he is a jury member of
international composers and performing competitions, author of many critical articles,
and an honorary member of the international music community. Shchedrin continues to
enrich the music world with his works, with innovative methods of performance and the
embodiment of the Russian literary classics into musical masterpieces.
VOCABULARY
SAMPLE SENTENCES
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CULTURAL INSIGHT
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В 2008-м году музыкант и балерина отметили золотую свадьбу - 50-летний юбилей.
Проживают и работают в 3-х странах - Германии, Литве и, меньше всего, в России.
Rodion Shchedrin and Maya Plisetskaya are two separate pages in Russian art, at the same
time being a strong, creative, and family team. In one of the interviews, Maya called
Shchedrin, "My Divinity." "For my birthdays he gave me not some knick knacks, but ballet!"
proudly tells Plisetskaya. In his turn, Shchedrin recalls the first moment he was charmed by
the ballerina, "I saw her in a ballet hall, in black tights! Sorry, but I'm a man! And she is a
woman!"
In 2008, the musician and the ballerina celebrated their "Golden Wedding," a fifty-year
wedding anniversary. They currently live and work in between three countries: Germany,
Lithuania, and, least of all, in Russia.
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