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Alexander Rosenbaum - 65
September 13 to the musician, People's Artist of Russia Alexander Rosenbaum turned 65 years old. The artist is actively involved in public life Petersburg and Russia and owns a chain of beer restaurants. On this topic: We clear Saltykov-Shchedrin, clarify Rosenbaum, identify Karamzin
Alexander Rosenbaum
Author of 800 songs and poems, actor and businessman - in the Kommersant photo gallery. Alexander Yakovlevich Rosenbaum was born in Leningrad on September 13, 1951 in a family of fellow students of the First Medical Institute. Rosenbaum began studying music at the age of five, at the insistence of his mother he graduated music school piano class, and later - evening School of Music Jazz Arrangement. At the age of 16, the musician began to write poetry to the music of his own composition, but this, by his own admission, was not yet a real songwriting.
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In 1968, Rosenbaum entered the Leningrad First Medical Institute. He was expelled, but the future musician was not taken into the army because of poor eyesight, and a year later he was restored at the institute. In 1974, Rosenbaum passed the state exams with excellent marks and received a diploma as a general practitioner. After graduation, he worked as an emergency doctor, where he worked for six years.
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The first performances of Alexander Rosenbaum with songs of his own composition took place at the institute - at student skits, the musician sang both solo and as part of several ensembles. In 1980, he decided to finally leave the stage. As part of the groups "Admiralty", "Argonauts", VIA "Six Young", "Pulse" he played for several years in the Leningrad houses of culture.
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Alexander Rosenbaum gave his first solo concert on October 14, 1983 at the Dzerzhinsky House of Culture of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. After a while the musician became artistic director theater-studio "Creative workshop of Alexander Rosenbaum", turned into popular artist, whose concerts were sold out.
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One of the most popular compositions of Alexander Rosenbaum is still written in the mid-1980s "Waltz-Boston". According to the artist, he wrote it in one morning, when he managed to catch autumn mood. The first song was heard by the musicians of the rock group "Pulse", in which Rosenbaum then played. The composition earned nationwide fame in 1987, when Rosenbaum performed it at one of his solo concerts.
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Alexander Rosenbaum is actively involved in political and social activities. In 2003, he became a deputy of the State Duma from the party " United Russia', but resigned two years later. In 2005, the musician, among 50 members of the public, signed a letter in support of the verdict to former Yukos leaders, and in 2009 he supported the construction of the Okhta Center tower in St. Petersburg - 42 more people signed a letter to President Dmitry Medvedev along with him.
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During his career, the musician wrote more than 800 songs and poems, released 32 solo albums, four discs with live recordings. In addition, Rosenbaum played in nine feature and documentaries. In 2001 he was awarded the title of People's Artist of Russia.
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Even as a student, Rosenbaum dreamed of having his own beer bar. In 2003, the musician, together with his business partner Nadezhda Lyubina, opened the Tolstoy Fraer restaurant in St. Petersburg, which turned into a chain of pubs - six establishments operate throughout the city. Rosenbaum came up with the concept of the "nostalgic bar" and took part in the development of the menu. “I love simple food, the kind that I associate with my childhood. For example, naval pasta or potatoes with stew. It’s tasty and satisfying, I think our guests also think,” says the musician about his business.
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Alexander Rosenbaum was married twice, but the first marriage lasted only nine months. A year after the divorce, the musician married a second time to the radiologist Elena Savshinskaya (pictured), in marriage they had a daughter. Now the singer has four grandchildren.
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On Tuesday, September 13, the legendary Russian singer and composer Alexander Rosenbaum celebrates his birthday. People's artist turned 65 years old.
Strana FM publishes rare archival photographs of the famous bard.
At the insistence of his mother, the future artist began to study music from the age of five. Alexander graduated from a music school in piano, and then from an evening music school in jazz arranging.
He went to figure skating, at the age of 12 he switched to the boxing section, and at the age of 13 he met the guitar and never parted with it again.
In 1968-1974, Alexander Rosenbaum studied at the First Medical Institute in Leningrad. As a student, he performed with the Argonauts group in Leningrad clubs, sometimes going on tour to other cities.
In 1974, Rosenbaum received a diploma as a general practitioner with a specialization in Anesthesiology and Resuscitation and got a job as an ambulance driver.
1975 The young 24-year-old physician created poems and songs in short work breaks.
Rosenbaum worked in the ambulance for almost six years and later admitted that it was an invaluable life experience: “Without medicine, as a singer-poet writer, nothing would have happened!”
The moment came when the song ceased to be a hobby, music became essentially a second profession. It was necessary to choose: a doctor or an artist?
In the 80th year, Alexander Rosenbaum left medicine and began to perform on the professional stage.
In 1982, two years after the death of Arkady Severny, the Leningrad collector Maklakov invited the Pearl Brothers ensemble and Alexander Rosenbaum to record music at his home. The joint album "In Memory of Arkady Severny" was recorded in a record short term in just eight hours.
In the period from 1982 to 1983, the Pearl Brothers ensemble released two joint albums with Alexander Rosenbaum.
In the 90s, the Pearl Brothers team made many recordings with the most famous musicians that time.
"Pearl" fruitfully worked with Mikhail Krug and continued to cooperate with Alexander Rosenbaum.
In the 1980s, recordings from the homeowners of the Russian chanson star Alexander Rosenbaum dispersed throughout the country.
Concert at Revelson Fred's apartment, Kyiv, 1983.
Club of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, concert in Gorky. 1985
Leningrad. 1986 year. Alexander Rosenbaum in the kitchen at work.
House of Officers in Monino, 86th year.
1986 year. Vinyl record Alexander Rosenbaum "Don't put me in jail!"
Alexander Rosenbaum - composer, author-performer of his own songs. Many of the early works of the musician belong to the genre song. Their hero is a classic image of an Odessa raider from the NEP times, based on Isaac Babel's Odessa Tales.
The work of Alexander Rosenbaum is characterized by an interest in the history of Russia, gypsy themes, Cossacks and philosophical lyrics. It occupies a special place military theme, in which most of the songs are associated with the Great Patriotic War and the war in Afghanistan. Rosenbaum repeatedly spoke at the locations of Soviet military units in Afghanistan. A number of Rosenbaum's early songs are associated with the work of a doctor.
Artist discography:
1. "Home concert" (1981)
2. "In memory of Arkady Severny" (April 1982) (together with the Zhemchuzhny brothers)
3. “Dedication to the Initiators” (1983)
4. "New Songs" (November 1983) (together with the Zhemchuzhny brothers)
5. "Concert in Vorkuta" (1984)
6. "Epitaph" (1986)
7. "My yards" (1986)
8. Draw me a house (1987)
9. Lifelong Road (1987)
10. "Concert at LOMO" (1987)
11. New York Concert (1987)
12. "Cossack songs" (1988)
13. Anathema (1988)
14. "Gop-stop" (1993)
15. "Nostalgia" (1994)
16. Hot Ten (1994)
17. Sluggish Schizophrenia (September 1994)
18. "Pink Pearl" (August - November 1995) (together with the Pearl brothers)
19. "On the plantations of love" (March - May 1996)
20. Birthday Concert (October 4, 1996)
21. "Return to Argo" (February 1997)
22. "July Heat" (November 1997)
23. "Trans-Siberian Railway" (November 1999)
24. "Real Soldier" (April 2001)
25. "Old guitar" (2001)
26. "Strange Life" (2003)
27. "I see the light" (July - August 2005)
28. "Companions" (2007)
29. "The dream of a thug poet" (February 2009)
30. "Shirt open" (May - June 2010)
31. Shores of Pure Brotherhood (July 2011) (together with Grigory Leps)
32. "Metaphysics" (recorded 2014-2015; release December 11, 2015)
Natalia MOROZOVA
COUNTRY FMSomewhere in the early 80s, cassettes with a recording of what distributors aspirated called "thieves' songs" went around. They called it with every right - among the compositions were "Gop-stop" ("We approached from around the corner"), "The cabman" ("It's such a good day // And the old woman crumbles // Bread crumb for blue doves") and a few more similar style and performance. Who sang it - not everyone knew; there were rumors about some Zhemchuzhnikov brothers, sometimes the name of a certain Rosenbaum was called, but who they were, what they wrote and sang more, most often remained a mystery. However, the listeners usually did not care: the songs that these musicians performed were relatively simple to perform, well remembered and easy to play on the guitar in courtyards and student dormitories, even without really knowing the words.
Rumors, by the way, turned out to be almost true.
The cycle, inspired by Odessa Tales, was written and recorded by Alexander Rosenbaum, and musicians from the ensemble, which was correctly called the Pearl Brothers, helped him. These "Brothers" (however, they also had other, sometimes too pretentious names) appeared in the 70s, worked a lot with, and after his death they took up solo work and collaborated with other performers - for example, with an aspiring musician who performed own songs with guitar accompaniment.
On a carpet of yellow leaves
Valery Plotnikov/RIA Novosti
Who is Rosenbaum, the public also learned quickly enough. He was born in 1951 into a family of doctors, grew up and went to school in Leningrad, studied music from childhood, learned to play the guitar on his own, but, following the example of his parents, he graduated from the 1st Leningrad Medical Institute. He himself said in one of the interviews that it was as natural for him to enter the "honey" as it was for the son of a career officer to be in a military school. True, his studies were not without adventures - he missed one year, expelled for some sins, but did not get into the army, was reinstated and calmly finished his studies. "Odessa Cycle" was written just in the institute years, when Rosenbaum actively participated in amateur performances and played in student performances.
After studying, Alexander Rosenbaum went to work in an ambulance - he chose this direction of medicine, according to him, himself.
But in those same years he continued to perform and write songs, even graduated from evening jazz courses, and in 1980 he finally made a choice in favor of music and went to the stage. The “thug” album recorded with the Zhemchuzhny Brothers was, of course, unofficial, but officially Rosenbaum for a long time acted simply as a “singer-songwriter”, without a name on the poster. In a way, this equated him with the bards; he, of course, greatly appreciated, in his youth he imitated Vladimir Vysotsky, but he did not attribute himself to the bard movement.
By the mid-80s, he even had solo concerts (the very first took place in October 83 at the Dzerzhinsky House of Culture of the Ministry of Internal Affairs), but a breakthrough was needed, and Waltz-Boston became such a breakthrough.
This jazz composition in Rosenbaum's work generally stands apart and is one of the main calling cards of the musician.
The artist recalled that he wrote it very quickly, literally in one morning, when he managed to catch the autumn mood, and the first "Waltz" was heard by the musicians of the rock band "Pulse", in which Rosenbaum then played. Well, the composition deserved nationwide appreciation around 1987. This is really one of Rosenbaum's most recognizable songs, at that time it sounded, as they say, from every iron, he still performs it at every concert, and in karaoke it is chosen, to put it mildly, very often. Thanks to Waltz-Boston, his other compositions also became popular - the same "Cossack cycle", which includes, for example, "Esaul" ("Do not wake the Cossack, your honor") and "Cossack" ("Only a checker to the Cossack in the steppe girlfriend”), then - and a more modern “Afghan cycle”.
"But the ducks are already flying high"
State Duma deputies of the fourth convocation Iosif Kobzon and Alexander Rosenbaum in the meeting room, 2004
Vladimir Fedorenko/RIA NovostiAt the beginning of the 2000s, Alexander Rosenbaum was finally recognized at the state level. In 2001, he became a People's Artist of Russia (he received an honored musician five years earlier), he was awarded the rank of colonel of the medical service (though in reserve), he has a prize (in 2007 in the category "Musical Art" - for a cycle of military patriotic songs).
In 2003, Rosenbaum became a deputy, where he managed to take part in the development of a law against phonograms,
he himself always performs live, he sees no point in fighting "plywood", as he noted in many interviews, but he considers it obligatory to inform the viewer that he is about to hear a non-live performance.
There are about 30 albums in the discography of Alexander Rosenbaum (if you count those recorded in the early 80s, at the dawn of musical career), he has ten awards from the Chanson of the Year award and three Golden Gramophones. He continues to gather full houses, and the album “Coast of Pure Brotherhood”, released in 2011, on which he performs his own songs in a duet, the musician presented two concerts at the State Kremlin Palace.
Kyiv, September 13 - RIA Novosti Ukraine. Russian singer Alexander Rosenbaum celebrates his 65th birthday on Tuesday.
Russian singer, poet and composer Alexander Yakovlevich Rosenbaum was born on September 13, 1951 in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). His parents were doctors, his father served as a paramedic in the artillery division during the Great Patriotic War, and ended the war with the rank of captain.
Alexander Rosenbaum began to study music from the age of five. He graduated from a music school in piano, later - an evening music school in jazz arranging. He was taught the first chords of playing the guitar by a neighbor, the famous guitarist Mikhail Minin.
In his youth, Alexander was professionally engaged in boxing.
After graduation high school Rosenbaum followed in the footsteps of his parents and entered the First Leningrad Medical Institute (now the First St. Petersburg State Medical University named after academician I.P. Pavlov), from which he graduated in 1974 with a general practitioner diploma with a specialization in Anesthesiology and Resuscitation .
Since 1974, he worked as an anesthesiologist-resuscitator at the first ambulance substation in Leningrad.
Alexander Rosenbaum began writing his first songs in high school. One of the first were songs about love ("Smoke of Love", "Windowsill", "Warm Wind of Summer"), about the war ("Starfall", "Give me a minute"), as well as about his native city ("Song of Leningrad") . One of the songs, performed by the freshman Rosenbaum at the city review, was awarded the Audience Choice Award at the Kiev Author's Song Festival.
From 1972 to 1977, the musician played the guitar, keyboards and sang in the legendary amateur Leningrad rock band "Argonauts".
In 1980, Alexander Rosenbaum left medicine and began performing on the professional stage. He played in the rock band "Pulse", was music director ensemble "Six Young" of the Saratov Philharmonic, worked in the ensemble "Singing Guitars" Lenconcert.
On October 14, 1983, at the Dzerzhinsky House of Culture of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Leningrad, Rosenbaum gave his first solo concert. The "Odessa cycle" of songs brought fame to the singer, their hero is a classic image of an Odessa bandit, based on Isaac Babel's "Odessa Tales".
A number of Rosenbaum's early songs are also associated with the work of a doctor.
The work of Alexander Rosenbaum is characterized by an interest in the history of Russia in the post-revolutionary years of the 20th century ("Romance of General Charnoty"), gypsy themes ("The Song of the Horse of Gypsy Blood", "Oh, if it were possible ...") and the Cossacks ("Cossack", "Kuban Cossack "," On the Don, on the Don"), philosophical lyrics ("Prophetic Fate").
St. Petersburg is dedicated to the songs "Walk along the Nevsky", "The time will come", "Ligovka", "Night on Vasilyevsky", "Night flight", "Poplar fluff", etc.
Among the most famous songs of Rosenbaum are "Waltz-Boston", "Babi Yar", "Sadness has flown", "Waltz on the Swan Canal".
A special place in his work is occupied by a military theme, in which most of the songs are connected with the Great Patriotic War ("I often wake up in silence", "Show me, dad, and go to war ...") and the war in Afghanistan ("The road is long in life", "Caravan", "We will return", "Monologue of the pilot of the "black tulip"). Rosenbaum repeatedly spoke at the locations of Soviet military units in Afghanistan.
In February 2016, he gave a concert in front of the Russian military at the Khmeimim airbase in Syria. In total, Alexander Rosenbaum wrote more than 800 songs and poems.
During solo career he released over 30 albums: "Home Concert" (1981), "In Memory of A. Zvezdin-Northern" (1982), "Dedication to the Initiators" (1983), "My Yards" (1986), "Epitaph" (1986), " Paint me a house" (1987), "Gop Stop" (1993), "Pink Pearl" (1995), "July Heat" (1997), "Real Soldier" (2001), "Old Guitar" (2001), " Strange Life" (2003), "Fellow Travelers" (2007), "The Dream of a Criminal Poet" (2009), "Unbuttoned Shirt" (2010), "Coasts of Pure Brotherhood" (2011), "Metaphysics" (2015), etc.
Rosenbaum is also known for film work. He played roles in the films "Escape to the End of the World" (1991) by Alexander Mayorov, "To Survive" (1992) by Vsevolod Plotkin, "Not by Bread Alone" (2005) by Stanislav Govorukhin, "Side Step" (2008) by Marina Migunova and others His songs are heard in the films "Friend" (1987) by Leonid Kvinikhidze, "Paid for Everything" (1988) by Alexei Saltykov, "Afghan Break" (1991) by Vladimir Bortko, as well as in the series "Night Swallows" (2012) by Mikhail Kabanov, "Another Major Sokolov" (2014) by Karen Zakharov and others.
Alexander Rosenbaum published books and collections of poems " long jump(1990), "A time to live and remember. Time to Sing" (1991), "White Bird of Luck" (1996), "Bull Terrier" (2000), "Birthday Gift" (2001), "I love to return to my city" (2003), "Blue Dream Bird: The stanza trembles, staggers and breaks" (2004), "Wings of Pegasus" (2008), etc.
Since 2000, Rosenbaum has been the co-host of the National Vocation Award Ceremony, which is presented to the best doctors Russia.
The singer was a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the fourth convocation (2004-2007), was a member of the United Russia faction, and was deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture.
In 2000, Alexander Rosenbaum was awarded the rank of colonel of the reserve medical service. Alexander Rosenbaum - National artist RF (2001). In 2011 he was awarded the order Honor "for a great contribution to the development of domestic musical art and many years of fruitful activity". Alexander Rosenbaum has been married since 1975, his wife Elena Savshinskaya is a radiologist. In 1976, a daughter, Anna, was born in the family, who became a professional translator.