Words To Music The Canadian Songwriters Hall Of Fame 2007

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"That imbecile grandiose who does not know Lourie!" – Vladimir Mayakovsky once proclaimed. At the beginning of the century, the name of this composer and musician thundered no less than the names of Prokofiev or Stravinsky. The star of the Stray Dog Cafe, a colleague of Khlebnikov, Miturich, Annenkov and Mandelstam, after the revolution he headed the music department of the People's Commissariat for Education, becoming the main one in the country "for music". At the same time, his affair with Anna Akhmatova took place. They lived together for only a few years, until Arthur Lourie decided to leave for the West. They were able to write to each other again almost half a century later... People's Artist of Russia Svetlana Kryuchkova and People's Artist of Russia Valery Kukhareshin were filmed in the film. Artur Lurie's music was performed by the "XX century" ensemble under the direction of Maria Khodina, grand pianos Sergei Oskolkov and Daniil Yekimovsky, soprano Victoria Evtodyeva.

Notes from the Front is a project distinguished by its original and innovative multi-disciplinary approach, which assembles arrangements of popular war songs of the period and original new music by Pordenone’s Zerorchestra with a chronologically complete, thematic review of film footage shot dal vero (“from life”) in war zones by Italian, Austro-Hungarian, and American cameramen. The visual material is set against readings of extracts from diaries kept by soldiers from the two armies. The various sources – musical, cinematic, and autobiographical – are combined to create a unique emotional experience, which simultaneously recounts the war, sheds light on propaganda techniques, compares them with soldiers’ accounts, and puts a modern slant on the music of the time inspired by the war.