Video: Why did the Finns love the Soviet song of the 1950s and why is it sung throughout the country today?
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
This song was born thanks to Mark Bernes, who became its first performer. Later she entered the repertoire of Georgy Ots and Yuri Gulyaev, Joseph Kobzon, Edita Piekha and many other famous performers. This song became one of the most beloved in Finland, where it is still one of the best-selling songs. In the spring of 2020, the composition took on a new sound after the Oulu police posted a video on the network titled "Love life - a new day will come!"
The story of this song began at the moment when Mark Bernes saw the poems of Konstantin Vanshenkin, published in the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. The famous singer literally stopped sleeping at night, he just got the idea to find a composer who could write the music for these amazing words. Bernes offered poems to several composers, but immediately stipulated: even if he did not like the music, composers would not offer the song to other performers. He rejected several options for music.
He also did not like the original version, written by Eduard Kolmanovsky, but the composer, unlike her colleagues, already felt the melody and continued to work on the music. When Mark Bernes heard the second option, he literally rejoiced: the words began to sound!
Then she sounded on the radio, gaining instant popularity. “I love you, life” sounded in the days when Yuri Gagarin went into space, she helped people cope with difficult situations and became a real symbol of optimism and victory over circumstances.
Perhaps in Finland she would not have had such success if Pauli Salone had not translated the poems of Konstantin Vanshenkin into Finnish in 1963. In the translation, "I love you life" was first performed by Kauko Käyuhke, and already in 1972 it acquired the status of a "golden" single.
In 1994, Martti Ahtisaari sang the song "I love you, life" after winning the presidential elections, and in 2018 this song took the 16th place among the best-selling songs in Finland. But in the spring of 2020, when the whole world froze in alarm and tension due to the coronavirus pandemic, gave the song a new sound. The video footage of Senior Constable Petrus Schroderus walking through an empty city and singing “I love you, life,” is touching to the core.
It is worth noting that Petrus Schroderus is not an ordinary policeman. He has long been fond of classical vocals and even left the police for a while, was admitted to the Finnish National Opera, and later decided to return to serve in the law enforcement agencies. But he continues to sing today, however, in his free time from the main work.
The Oulu Police Department recorded the song "I love you, life" performed by Petrus Schroderus, published it on YouTube under the title "Love life - a new day will come!" and urged citizens to stay at home and avoid close contact.
Opera singers, which Petrus Schroderus can rightfully be called, seem to be representatives of a special world in which there is only a place for high feelings and high art. In fact, of course, nothing human is alien to opera singers.
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