Tenor Franco Tenelli sings his version of a Georgian popular song (by Revaz Laghidze)
Content:
Why are you stabbing my heart,my beloved,
I'm not done with my life yet.
You know my heart is my eyes and you know I never was so madly in love.
My heart is my eyes and it tells me you're not mine anymore.
The winter is passing, the snow falls and it rains sometimes but it's the winter in your heart that makes me sad and lonely...
about Revaz Laghidze
When Tbilisi was marking her 15th centennial jubilee and all Georgia celebrated with her this anniversary, the "snowfall" of music paper came to Vake Park. A helicopter was flying over the park packed with people and the scores of the song that later almost everyone learned by heart fell from the sky... In those days, many people were probably humming the words of this song: "Tbiliso, the land of sun and roses, without you I live without my heart..."
In 2000 Revaz Lagidze's song "Tbiliso" became an official anthem of the Georgian capital...
In 2000 the Georgian society recognized Revaz Lagidze as the "composer of the century"...
"... Love is a wonder that is hard to render into words. Perhaps we avoid talking about it loud because it is such a gentle, delicate and pure feeling...", wrote Revaz Lagidze in a very humble and earnest letter which he dedicated to youth... But it is a long time since these feelings have been spoken of "loud"; it is a very long time since music critics and journalists, singers and composers, "a whole army of Revaz Lagidze's close friends" and his mere acquaintances have been talking so extensively and with so much emotion about these feelings that it is almost impossible to discover or add something new.
Revaz Lagidze -- a man about whom you may know everything but still irresistibly desire to recall again and again the beautiful stories from his life. Or to be more precise, to remind yourself so you would never forget how people used to live at those times, how they thought and spoke, how they fought and worried and how they created and loved...
And there was the first encounter with music...
After many years, Revaz Lagidze talked about this period with great warmth and humour in his conversation with the devoted scholar of his work, musical critic Manana Akhmeteli.
Holidays, a village, a schoolyard and the introductory tunes of "Daisi" pouring from the loudspeaker. The first unforgettable experience. Later was one of the musical schools of Tbilisi and a "dilemma" to choose between the ball and the violin (something that a boy always feels very uncomfortable with); "a redundant box" abandoned for the fourth and last time; a firm decision to become an engineer or a doctor...
One day the students gave a school concert. Revaz Lagidze recalled his "difficult past" and performed a song called "A Little Steamer", very popular at that time. The director of the Fourth Musical School and a famous musician Larissa Kutateladze were attending the concert. Obviously a student of the musical school should not be playing "A little steamer is sailing and won't stop any more", but it was obvious also that an ordinary student of the musical school would not be able to perform like Revaz did, even a song like "A Little Steamer"...
Revaz's father was called to the Fourth Musical School and that very day the boy's fate was finally decided. There he met an extraordinary teacher, Luarsab Iashvili. After a while, he created his first miniatures for the string quartet. He himself took part in the quartet, playing the first violin. At the teacher's request Dimitri Arakishvili listened to these musical works and suggested that the future musician continue his studies at the Composition Faculty.
After graduating from the musical school, Revaz Lagidze entered the Conservatory and was enrolled in Andrea Balanchivadze's class. It was a time of war, a time of hardship. In the morning he played in the Symphony Orchestra and worked at the Radio Committee, while in the afternoon he attended lectures. He won the Chaikovski scholarship. In the Symphony Orchestra he was an assistant concertmaster. Here he studied reading from a score and orchestral art. Being a first year student, he wrote music for the string quartet, variations and two songs.
He has never felt the lack of time - neither at that time, nor later, in the course of his entire life... He had time for everything: for composing music, working at several places simultaneously, criss-crossing all Georgia on foot, communicating with his friends and being with members of his family...
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