В середине июля 2007 года я получил электронное письмо от Джефа Хилтона (JEFF HILTON), организатора свадеб из штата Теннессии. Клиенты этого господина собирались пожениться в Мариетте (штат Джорджия) в воскресенье, 14 октября 2007 года. Жених и невеста желали порадовать своих гостей русскими танцами, песнями и игрой на балалайках. По словам мистера Хилтона, кто-то из знакомых порекомендовал ему наш ансамбль Бырыня как самую лучшую группу в Америке в этом жанре. Я подумал про себя, что этим знакомым нужно почаще бывать на свежем воздухе, но предложению порадовался.
Меня условно смутило, что устроитель свадеб писал слово “я” с маленькой буквы ("i"), а в конце письма не было у него длинной подписи с указанием вебсайта, телефона, факса, электронного ящика, чем всегда заканчиваются электронные послания людей такой профессии.
В субботу, 13 октября нас пригласила ассоциация любителей балалайки из Атланты (The Atlanta Balalaika Society) в качестве гостей принять участие в их большом концерте. 14 октября мы могли бы по пути остановиться на пару часов в Мариетте, там поиграть на коктейле с нашими музыкантами, Лешей Синявским и Лёней Бруком, потом сделать небольшое шоу с танцорами во время свадебного банкета, перекусить, и с песнями да плясками ехать обратно в Нью-Йорк. Всё как будто складывалось очень удачно.
Мы довольно часто выступаем на свадьбах, где жених или невеста имеют русские корни. На таких мероприятиях все гости обычно говорят по-английски, а балалайка контрабас вызывает у публики живейший интерес. Многие трогают инструмент за гриф и струны, а певец Саша Меньшиков при этом объясняет на своём безупречном английском, что только самые обеспеченные балалаечники могут себе позволить приобрести подобную вещицу.
В середине сентября я напомнил мистеру Хилтону про первоначальный взнос (deposit). Мы обычно берем 20 процентов от суммы вперед. Вскоре пришел ответ Джефа, что жених должен был срочно выехать за границу и заплатит мне всю сумму наличными незадолго до свадьбы. Я не стал спорить. Все артисты ансамбля Барыня очень любят наличные, поэтому-то они и перебрались в Америку..
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
yana brink, tatiana gorbachevskaya and eddy azzolino
Very talented couture Yana Brink invites you to the evening where Art meets fashion and photography. Yana Brink created for the program of the New York based ensemble Barynya ( http://www.barynya.com ) unique costumes for the dance of Russian Nobility called the "Daniel Cooper". Leo Tolstoy mentioned that dance in his book "WAR AND PEACE" (read more in the end of the post).
An evening of art and design featuring painting of Tatiana Gorbachevskaya ( http://www.tanya-art.net ),
one-of-a-kind garments by couture Yana Brink ( http://www.yanabrink.com ), and photography by Eddy Azzolino.
November 10th 6pm to 11pm
242 Tenth St, office 106, Jersey City
(the entrance is on Jersey Avenue, One minute from Holland Tunnel)
Yana Brink Couture
http://www.yanabrink.com
Yana Brink creates one-of-a-kind garments. She describes herself as an artist, whose medium is fabric. Why as an artist, not a fashion designer? Because all the garments she creates herself, using elaborate classic French dressmaking technique that had existed for centuries until the modern fashion industry developed simplified shortcuts. The technique features yards and yards of bastings, hand sewing and hours of pressing. Similar to paintings, each her garment represents a finished idea.
Yana derives her inspiration from different styles ranging from Art Deco to Goth Punk. Her philosophy is to create not just a pretty look but a character and a mood. She likes to create a garment which instantly tells a story about the personality who is wearing it before any words are spoken. No garment is ever duplicated, and the clothes are made to last.
Yana Brink received a master’s degree in applied mathematics in Russia. In addition to her technical degree she has always been interested in fashion. Having been sewing since early childhood, at the age of nineteen she started to take orders from private clients, designing and sewing one-of-a-kind garments while pursuing her full time studies at the university. Later she took private couture sewing classes and fashion design courses. Yana also has had a solo exhibition of her oil paintings in Russia.
Artist Tanya Gorbachevskaya
http://www.tanya-art.net
Tanya Gorbachevskaya was born in 1971 in the city of Priozersk
in Kazakhstan. From there, she moved first to Novosibirsk in Russia,
then to Kiev in Ukraine, and finally to Gomel in Belarus. In 1991,
she entered Gomel College at the Belarus Academy of Arts,
where she studied painting and fine arts. After completing her degree
with honors, she taught art history in the Gomel Irina Gymnasia.
Starting in 1997, Tatsiana worked as a color designer, managing wallpaper
design at the Gomel Wallpaper Enterprise. From 1997-2003,
she studied the History of World and National Culture at
The Belarus State University of Culture, defending her diploma
"European fashion of the 20th century" with honors. Since the
summer of 2003, she has been living and working in Kearny, New Jersey.
"Look at Papa!" shouted Natasha to the whole company, and quite forgetting that she was dancing with a grown-up partner she bent her curly head to her knees and made the whole room ring with her laughter.
And indeed everybody in the room looked with a smile of pleasure at the jovial old gentleman, who standing beside his tall and stout partner, Marya Dmitrievna, curved his arms, beat time, straightened his shoulders, turned out his toes, tapped gently with his foot, and, by a smile that broadened his round face more and more, prepared the onlookers for what was to follow. As soon as the provocatively gay strains of Daniel Cooper (somewhat resembling those of a merry peasant dance) began to sound, all the doorways of the ballroom were suddenly filled by the domestic serfs- the men on one side and the women on the other- who with beaming faces had come to see their master making merry.
"Just look at the master! A regular eagle he is!" loudly remarked the nurse, as she stood in one of the doorways.
The count danced well and knew it. But his partner could not and did not want to dance well. Her enormous figure stood erect, her powerful arms hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her stern but handsome face really joined in the dance. What was expressed by the whole of the count's plump figure, in Marya Dmitrievna found expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose. But if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and the agility with which he capered about on his light feet, Marya Dmitrievna produced no less impression by slight exertions- the least effort to move her shoulders or bend her arms when turning, or stamp her foot- which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual severity.
The dance grew livelier and livelier. The other couples could not attract a moment's attention to their own evolutions and did not even try to do so. All were watching the count and Marya Dmitrievna. Natasha kept pulling everyone by sleeve or dress, urging them to "look at Papa!" though as it was they never took their eyes off the couple. In the intervals of the dance the count, breathing deeply, waved and shouted to the musicians to play faster. Faster, faster, and faster; lightly, more lightly, and yet more lightly whirled the count, flying round Marya Dmitrievna, now on his toes, now on his heels; until, turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspiring head, smiling and making a wide sweep with his arm, amid a thunder of applause and laughter led by Natasha. Both partners stood still, breathing heavily and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs.
"That's how we used to dance in our time, ma chere," said the count.
"That was a Daniel Cooper!" exclaimed Marya Dmitrievna, tucking up her sleeves and puffing heavily.
from "WAR AND PEACE" by Leo Tolstoy
posted by Mikhail Smirnov
5GRAND.US - Russian wedding band and dancers
http://www.5grand.us
An evening of art and design featuring painting of Tatiana Gorbachevskaya ( http://www.tanya-art.net ),
one-of-a-kind garments by couture Yana Brink ( http://www.yanabrink.com ), and photography by Eddy Azzolino.
November 10th 6pm to 11pm
242 Tenth St, office 106, Jersey City
(the entrance is on Jersey Avenue, One minute from Holland Tunnel)
Yana Brink Couture
http://www.yanabrink.com
Yana Brink creates one-of-a-kind garments. She describes herself as an artist, whose medium is fabric. Why as an artist, not a fashion designer? Because all the garments she creates herself, using elaborate classic French dressmaking technique that had existed for centuries until the modern fashion industry developed simplified shortcuts. The technique features yards and yards of bastings, hand sewing and hours of pressing. Similar to paintings, each her garment represents a finished idea.
Yana derives her inspiration from different styles ranging from Art Deco to Goth Punk. Her philosophy is to create not just a pretty look but a character and a mood. She likes to create a garment which instantly tells a story about the personality who is wearing it before any words are spoken. No garment is ever duplicated, and the clothes are made to last.
Yana Brink received a master’s degree in applied mathematics in Russia. In addition to her technical degree she has always been interested in fashion. Having been sewing since early childhood, at the age of nineteen she started to take orders from private clients, designing and sewing one-of-a-kind garments while pursuing her full time studies at the university. Later she took private couture sewing classes and fashion design courses. Yana also has had a solo exhibition of her oil paintings in Russia.
Artist Tanya Gorbachevskaya
http://www.tanya-art.net
Tanya Gorbachevskaya was born in 1971 in the city of Priozersk
in Kazakhstan. From there, she moved first to Novosibirsk in Russia,
then to Kiev in Ukraine, and finally to Gomel in Belarus. In 1991,
she entered Gomel College at the Belarus Academy of Arts,
where she studied painting and fine arts. After completing her degree
with honors, she taught art history in the Gomel Irina Gymnasia.
Starting in 1997, Tatsiana worked as a color designer, managing wallpaper
design at the Gomel Wallpaper Enterprise. From 1997-2003,
she studied the History of World and National Culture at
The Belarus State University of Culture, defending her diploma
"European fashion of the 20th century" with honors. Since the
summer of 2003, she has been living and working in Kearny, New Jersey.
"Look at Papa!" shouted Natasha to the whole company, and quite forgetting that she was dancing with a grown-up partner she bent her curly head to her knees and made the whole room ring with her laughter.
And indeed everybody in the room looked with a smile of pleasure at the jovial old gentleman, who standing beside his tall and stout partner, Marya Dmitrievna, curved his arms, beat time, straightened his shoulders, turned out his toes, tapped gently with his foot, and, by a smile that broadened his round face more and more, prepared the onlookers for what was to follow. As soon as the provocatively gay strains of Daniel Cooper (somewhat resembling those of a merry peasant dance) began to sound, all the doorways of the ballroom were suddenly filled by the domestic serfs- the men on one side and the women on the other- who with beaming faces had come to see their master making merry.
"Just look at the master! A regular eagle he is!" loudly remarked the nurse, as she stood in one of the doorways.
The count danced well and knew it. But his partner could not and did not want to dance well. Her enormous figure stood erect, her powerful arms hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her stern but handsome face really joined in the dance. What was expressed by the whole of the count's plump figure, in Marya Dmitrievna found expression only in her more and more beaming face and quivering nose. But if the count, getting more and more into the swing of it, charmed the spectators by the unexpectedness of his adroit maneuvers and the agility with which he capered about on his light feet, Marya Dmitrievna produced no less impression by slight exertions- the least effort to move her shoulders or bend her arms when turning, or stamp her foot- which everyone appreciated in view of her size and habitual severity.
The dance grew livelier and livelier. The other couples could not attract a moment's attention to their own evolutions and did not even try to do so. All were watching the count and Marya Dmitrievna. Natasha kept pulling everyone by sleeve or dress, urging them to "look at Papa!" though as it was they never took their eyes off the couple. In the intervals of the dance the count, breathing deeply, waved and shouted to the musicians to play faster. Faster, faster, and faster; lightly, more lightly, and yet more lightly whirled the count, flying round Marya Dmitrievna, now on his toes, now on his heels; until, turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspiring head, smiling and making a wide sweep with his arm, amid a thunder of applause and laughter led by Natasha. Both partners stood still, breathing heavily and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs.
"That's how we used to dance in our time, ma chere," said the count.
"That was a Daniel Cooper!" exclaimed Marya Dmitrievna, tucking up her sleeves and puffing heavily.
from "WAR AND PEACE" by Leo Tolstoy
posted by Mikhail Smirnov
5GRAND.US - Russian wedding band and dancers
http://www.5grand.us
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