Video: To the 110th anniversary of the birth of Claudia Shulzhenko: a folk idol with a blue modest handkerchief
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
About one of the most popular Soviet pop artists Claudia Shulzhenko these days, unfortunately, they rarely remember. Her songs were enthusiastically listened to by soldiers and sailors on all fronts of the Great Patriotic War. The legendary "Blue Handkerchief" for many years has become her calling card and "lyrical anthem of war", and her voice - a symbol of the war era.
Claudia Shulzhenko was born on March 24, 1906 in Kharkov. Her father played in an amateur brass band and sang in amateur concerts. It was he who instilled in his daughter a love for Ukrainian and Russian folk songs and urban romances. Once, singing her favorite songs at the window, Klava heard the applause of the neighbors. The approval of her acquaintances pushed her to a bold decision: at the age of 16, she and her friend came to the Kharkov Drama Theater and invited the director to arrange an audition for them. At this first performance on stage, she was accompanied by "Dunya" (in the future - the famous composer Isaac Dunaevsky). Surprisingly, the girl was accepted into the troupe - she performed in extras and in the choir.
However, Claudia's vocal abilities significantly exceeded her dramatic talent. She actively participated in concerts and divertissements, and gradually formed her audience in Kharkov. The service in the theater did not pass without a trace: Shulzhenko's acting abilities manifested themselves in the pop song genre. However, the singer gained real popularity in Leningrad, where she soon left.
In 1929 Shulzhenko became a soloist of the Leningrad stage, her records came out one after another. Her songs were simple and clear, and her performance was so sincere and sincere that, despite the lack of outstanding vocal abilities, Shulzhenko did not leave anyone indifferent. In addition, the singer had an impeccable taste and sense of proportion - she performed romances without unnecessary sentimentality and exaltation.
Soviet critics in the 1930s they did not share the popular love for Shulzhenko, she was given the following assessments: “yesterday”, “dubious repertoire”, “international exoticism”, and just “some kind of nonsense”. Later, she also often became the object of attacks - she was accused of philistinism, and the songs were called "whining."
During the Second World War, the main stage for Shulzhenko was soldier's dugouts, hospital wards of the wounded, airfield fields, forest edges. In any conditions, she appeared before the public not in an overcoat, in concert dresses and high-heeled shoes. In 1942 alone, she gave more than 500 concerts. The soldiers wrote letters of gratitude to her, gave flowers, kept her photographs.
It was during the war years that the famous song "Blue Scarf" appeared in her repertoire. Few people know that before the war it was a salon romance, the words of which are an adaptation from a Polish poem. Shulzhenko never performed it, but one day Lieutenant Misha Maksimov approached her on the front line and said that he had written new words for this song. Since then, "Blue Scarf" has become an all-Union famous hit, it was called "the lyrical anthem of war."
In the 1950s. the foreign press was subscribed by diplomats, intelligence officers and … Klavdia Shulzhenko - she followed fashion and was guided by French magazines. She was the first of the famous Soviet women to put on trousers (she was then under 50!).
Shulzhenko's last anniversary concert took place in 1976, when she was 70. The singer looked impressive at this age and remained popular. The circulation of her records reached 170 million copies.
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