Иосиф Барданашвили: Жизнь В Трех Измерениях (3D). Беседы С Композитором

by Marina Ritzarev

Georgian-Israeli composer, artist, a man of theater and cinema, as well as a public figure, Josef Bardanashvili (b. in 1948, Batumi) is also an interesting thinker. The book consists of long interview covering such topics as contemporary music, music life, nationalism in music, music and the arts. It mentions many men of arts with whom Bardanashvili worked in different periods of his career. The book also includes my essay featuring Bardanashvili’s creative portrait and focusing on his opera A Journey to the End of the Millennium (2005, Tel-Aviv). There are four materials written by his friends: articles by musicologists Svetlana Savenko (Moscow) and Izaly Zemtsovsky (San Francisco), essay by artist and writer Nekod Singer (Jerusalem), and fragments of 1987 diaries by his fellow-composers Elena Firsova and Dmitry Smirnov (St Albans, UK). There is a substantial apparatus including lists of musical compositions and paintings, collection of the composer’s own annotations to his works for the concert programs, figures, and index.

288 pages

Published January 1, 2016