1917 - 2017. TIME, COME BACK! / Сергей Осколков. ВРЕМЯ, НАЗАД!
SERGEY OSKOLKOV (author and performer)
100 years of the Russian revolution
director Dmitri Frolov
Sergei Aleksandrovich Oskolkov (born 1952, Stalino) - Russian composer, pianist, Honored Artist of Russia, awarded with a badge "Honored Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation", Head of the Sound Engineering Department of the St. Petersburg Humanitarian University of Trade Unions, Professor.
S. Oskolkov is the author of about a hundred works in various genres, including three operas, three musicals, three cantatas, two piano and symphony orchestra concerts, two string quartets, six piano sonatas, many vocal cycles for poems by Russian poets , A number of works for folk instruments, music for theater and cinema.
"Time, back!" - Suite Sergei Oskolkov. The essay echoes another poem "Time, forward!" two orchestral suites by Georgy Sviridov, first published in 1968 (the first Suite) and in 1977 (the second Suite). The Suite created based on the music to the film Michael Schweitzer "Time, forward!" (based on the novel by Valentin Kataev; filmed in 1965, released in 1966), devoted to the construction of the Magnitogorsk metallurgical plant in the USSR.
From the first Suite is the most famous part of the "Time, forward!". Subsequently it was used in a number of films, in television and radio documentaries about the first five-year plans, industrialization, post-war reconstruction. A fragment of a musical theme was the call sign of the news to DH in the original, and then on the First channel in the arrangement. When perestroika came, he and his music fell out of favor. The famous Intro to the program "Vremya" ("Time, forward!") was taken off the air as a sign of the "totalitarian past." However, a few years later, after numerous requests of spectators, screen saver returned. Here's what he wrote on this occasion, the film Director Mikhail Schweitzer: "Because this music is forever. Because it is pulse free from political hustle and bustle of life. In her time in spite of all the blows of fate historical disasters and irreparable losses, continues forever."
