Biography
Mallomanians of the Soviet Union perfectly remember that one of the first teams that posted the start of the pleiad of popular later vocal instrumental ensembles was a group of "singing guitars." Young musicians, inspired by the experience of Western colleagues, have sowed from the scene with the freshness and spirit of the messy freedom of the "Blue Inay" and "Song of Cyclists".The history of creation and composition
It can be said that the beginning of Via is made long before the date of official education in 1966. In the early 50s, lovers of music, organized a small orchestra. The home-grown group included Anatoly Vasilyev, which plays a saxophone. The team gave mini concerts at institutes, earning an increase to scholarships.
By the way, the musicians achieved wide fame and recognition in the narrow circles of the student public. Already then, young people at night listened to the records of foreign singers, and in the morning the repertoire was trimmed at the university sites. The listeners were going so much that sometimes the musicians themselves could not get to the scene.
In the mid-50s, the musical talent of Vasilyeva was noticed by the head of the team "Friendship" Alexander Bronvoyitsky. The ensemble consisted of the "Sollyanka" team of the creative personalities of foreign countries, and was shone on the scene of a vocalist Edita Pieha.
Having worked about a decade with colleagues from "Friendship", Vasilyev traveled with tours not only by the city of Union, but also abroad, where he felt the waves and the sound of new music styles. The young man decided to create his own group, similar to popular and practically prohibited "Beatles" at that time. The newly created team became VIA "Singing guitars", where, in addition to the inspiration and organizer, the younger brother of Alexander Bronjevitsky - Eugene, guitarist Vladimir Kalinin, Keystone Lev Wildavsky and Oleg Moshkovich, Drummer Sergey Lavrovsky and Vocalist Galina Baranova and Tatiana Kalinin.
In an interview, Vasilyev told that it was originally invited by the performer of the Solist "Friendship" Anatoly Queen. The vocalist initially agreed, the musicians came up with and prepared the program, and the main singer unexpectedly refused, referring to the fear of failure.
Then, on the recommendation of the acquaintances, the head of the "Gitar" invited Galina Barana, by the way to say, almost the only one with professional conservative education among the musicians of the group. So "singing guitars" found a female voice. Almost immediately, fame collapsed on the ensemble. The listeners, "guitars" and the love of listeners, gave 3-4 concerts per day on the venues and scenes of clubs of their native Leningrad.
As part of the team, they began later than the living legends of the Soviet, and then the Russian pop singers and singers, for example, Yuri Antonov, Alexander Rosenbaum and Irina Ponarovskaya.
Unfortunately, in a rapidly living world of music, there is nothing eternal, and rock collectives have entered the fashion from the mid-70s, which have received freedom of self-expression and speeches. In 1975, the majority of the participants of the group "Singing guitars" were fascinated by the formulation of the Rock Opera "Orpheus and Eurydika". Since the name of the genre with the mention of the term "Rock" still remained undesirable for Lensovet, the work is called "Song Opera".
The success of the created format was the character of a broken bomb. But for the "Singing Guitar" group, this "bomb" laid an end to the existence until 1997.
In the mid-90s, music lovers overtook a passion for retro music and nostalgia. Then the reunited team, in which Alexander Fedorov turned out to be, Evgeny Bronjvitsky, Grigory Knights, gave several solo concerts. The presentation is accepted by the audience on the BIS, and the ensemble returned to the stage, refreshing the composition of several young musicians.
Music
Via received fame on the wave of the peak of the popularity "Beatles". According to the memoirs of the participants of the team, they had to go to the trick to enter the scene with the compositions of foreign performers. Musicians just quail texts in Russian. Critics perfectly understood the essence of what was happening, but looked through the fingers to some kind of liberty using the great success of the ensemble.
The first grapplastine is recorded at the "Melody" studio, and the album is instantly excavated by the ensemble fans in 1968. Songs "Blue Bird", "Surprise", "Toro", "Gypsy", in fact, are arrangements of the instrumental compositions of The Shadow group.
The innovation of the performance was that for the first time the musicians combined the instrumentalists and vocalists in one. If a soloist who sang in the foreground was clearly distinguished in the groups, and the accompanying musicians were located in a row behind the frontman, then the "singing guitars" broke out a clear functionality. The name of the group in this case speaks for itself.
Hence the name of the type of creative association - vocal-instrumental, that is, both playing on instruments and singing. The sonorous multi-chamber team Anatoly Vasilyeva became legendary.
The team admits that initially participants in the first "gold composition" could not boast of musical education, Vasilyev noticed with a smile that the basic mass sang it no matter. All this was flooded with a repertoire with echoes of foreign songs and the original execution.
The creator of VIA in an interview recalled that after the first wave of popularity, the group appeared twins, touring in parallel with the original composition. Following the debutants of the genre, such an ensembles arose - "Pesnyary", "Gems" and others.
The repertoire was performed by the musicians live, work under the phonogram participants of the "singing guitars" did not allow themselves, despite the incredible workload. The presentation was a theatrical, exciting concert attention. The passion for the game on the scene during singing was reflected in the rock operators, which appeared at the order of the team of the 70s.
There are few records of group concerts, which can be called initial steps towards clips creation. The permanent head of the "guitars" Vasilyev disliked the quality of filming, so rarely allowed them to lead them.
By the way, the double work of the musicians turned out to be appreciated by the leadership of the Music of the Union. If the participants in the teams to VIA received a salary at a rate of 5 rubles. For a concert, then "singing guitars" paid for the performance of 7.50 rubles. Regardless of the graduation of the hall. However, the tour of the ensemble was held with complete anchlats.
"Singing guitars" now
The musicians remaining in the team meanwhile continue to work and speak in 2018, despite age. Photos from concerts and records of speeches are striking by irrepressible energy and brought nostalgia for long-lasting times.
Evgeny Bronjvitsky, still touring with the team, says that the group writes new songs, but listeners and viewers in the hall prefer to sing with old compositions, reliably taken place in the heart.
Unfortunately, time is brutally and takes talented people, leaving the creative treasury created in the memory of fans. In 2003, Olga Levitskaya vocalist leaves the life of Olga Levitskaya, in 2014, Yury Sokolov died after the oncological disease. In 2017, the head and founder of Anatoly Vasilyev ensemble died.
Discography
- 1968 - "Singing guitars I"
- 1969 - "Singing Guitars II"
- 1969 - "Singing guitars III"
- 1970 - "Singing guitars IV"
- 1970 - "Singing guitars V"
- 1971 - "Singing guitars VI"
- 1972 - "Singing guitars VII"
- 1974 - "Soviet vocal instrumental ensembles"
- 1996 - "Eating guitars for 30 years. Archival records"
- 2002 - "Blue Inay"
- 2002 - "People meet"
- 2003 - "Orpheus and Evridica"
- 2008 - "Singing guitars"