Video: Mark Bernes is a mascot of composers, a genius with a bad character: "I have no voice, but I have brains!"
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
People's Artist of the RSFSR Mark Bernes, whose birthday on October 8 marks 107 years, never considered singing his profession, although he had incredible success on the stage. Many composers both dreamed and were afraid to work with him - he was a talisman that brought good luck, but at the same time legends circulated about the difficulties of his character. The singer was so popular and loved by the people that even Nikita Khrushchev was jealous of his fame.
Mark Bernes (Neumann) never possessed outstanding vocal abilities and did not even think about a career as a stage artist. But he was delirious with the theater from the age of 15, when he first saw a professional production. After graduation, his parents sent him to study as an accountant at the Kharkov School of Commerce and Industry, but he dreamed of a stage. To be at least a little closer to his dream, Mark put up posters, worked as a barker, helped stage workers, prompters and lighting fixtures.
At the age of 17, Bernes fled from his parents from Kharkov to Moscow in order to carry out a long-conceived plan. During the day, he knocked down the thresholds of all theaters, and he had to spend the night at the station. First, he was accepted into the crowd scene, then into the auxiliary cast of the Moscow Drama Theater, and a year later he became an actor in the main cast. However, the roles he got were small.
Since 1935, Mark Bernes began acting in films, and then the long-awaited success came to him. Roles in the films "Man with a Gun" (1938), "Fighters" (1939) and "Two Soldiers" (1943) brought him all-Union fame. In the film "The Man with the Gun", Bernes performed the romance "Clouds Above the City", which quickly became popular and made the artist famous. Scriptwriters and composers wrote "on Bernes". N. Bogoslovsky wrote for him "A beloved city can sleep peacefully …", and in "Two fighters" Bernes performed "Dark night" and "Scows full of mullet."
The first edition of the discs with the recording of the song "Dark Night" was written off due to the marriage of the wax matrix with which the discs were printed. As it turned out, the girl-operator of the recording studio burst into tears when Bernes sang this song, tears fell on the grooves of the matrix and damaged them, which became the reason for the marriage.
At the concert, Mark Bernes performed for the first time in 1943 and had such incredible success that soon he was invited to perform with songs. The artist was embarrassed - he did not even know the notes. The singer tormented composers with constant demands to redo something, but his intuition never let him down - in his performance, songs instantly became hits. Mark Bernes and Leonid Utesov called each other “voiceless” competitors. They were surprised at their own popularity, since one singer without vocal data on the stage is still all right, but two is too much. Bernes was absolutely sober in assessing his talents: “I have no voice, but I have brains,” he said.
The nationwide love and the invariable success of the performances caused envy and discontent among many. Bernes managed to make Nikita Khrushchev jealous of the public. Once the artist was invited to perform at a concert dedicated to the Komsomol Congress. All numbers were strictly regulated, Bernes was allocated only two songs. But the audience did not want to let go of the pet and repeatedly called him for an encore. The concert did not meet the allotted time, and the singer was still forced to leave under a deafening ovation. After that, Khrushchev accused him of disrespect for the audience.
Repeatedly "hounded" the singer and in the press. After the conflict with the traffic police inspector, publications were poured under the headings "Star on the Volga", "vulgarity on the stage", etc. The artist was accused of star fever, the song "I dreamed of you for three years …" for 10 years it was forbidden to perform on the stage.
The character of Mark Bernes, according to the testimony of his contemporaries, was indeed difficult and contradictory. Probably the most accurate assessment was given to him by his friend, Zinovy Gerdt: “Kind - evil, smart - dark, honest - unfair, bold - indecisive, simple-minded - cunning, trusting - suspicious, tough - sentimental, cheerful - gloomy … These, mutually exclusive epithets can be prolonged and prolonged, and all this will be true."
Mark Bernes died in 1969 of lung cancer. His last wish was that not funeral marches would sound at the funeral service, but his favorite songs: “For three years I dreamed of you…”, “Roshchin's Romance”, “I love you, life” and “Cranes”. His wish was granted. A the song "Dark Night" has always warmed the souls of soldiers
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