Galina Bosya biography

Although the reason for the discussion was the presentation of the album of Galina Bosoy “XII Holy Psalms”, not only the new project of the popular singer was discussed. The conversation touched on issues related to the search for new ways of developing musical art, genre and stylistic diversity, the formation of musical taste, and spiritual problems. The discussion was attended by musicians of various creative areas, journalists.

The moderator of the round table was Boris Barabanov - a musical critic, observer of the Kommersant newspaper. Today we publish fragments of performances of participants in the round table. Separate judgments will probably seem controversial to our readers. In particular, this applies to statements about the complexity of the perception of academic music by a modern listener.

Nevertheless, the format of the round table and the topic chosen for discussion are undoubtedly, very interesting and deserve attention. Galina Bosai: Today, westernization flourishes on music channels, in various television shows. Against this background, I wanted to turn to spiritual problems. I am a professional musician, I have been engaged in music from early childhood.

I have a conducting-choral, vocal education, I sang in the church choir "Blagovest", dreamed of becoming a regent. The album "XII Holy Psalms" was created as a synthesis of classical and modern musical directions. All orchestral, vocal, choral, instrumental parties were recorded so that they easily go to ear. In my opinion, the classic in its pure form is quite difficult to perceive an unprepared listener.

I chose the psalms that were consonant with my soul. All of them are equal to me. For two years we worked at the Magic Voice studio. Further, the work was carried out in Germany with a German string orchestra leading Lorentz Blaumer at the Dominic Schafer studio, with whom we cooperated earlier. We experimented a lot, searched for an unusual sound. Since I am demanding, meticulously related to the sound, the album was also carried out in Germany.

For two years I have practically lived in the studio. Alexander Lipnitsky: The very idea of ​​the Galina Bosoy project very fascinated me. I am now reading the famous diaries of Archpriest Alexander Shmeman, who worked all his life in the Russian Church in America. The main pathos of this book lies in the fact that the modern Orthodox Church is e -e - e years could not find a point of contact with youth culture.

Galin project for me is one of those paths that can lead to the hearts of young listeners. This is one of the ways of rapprochement of new people of the 21st century and orthodox sacred history. Tutta Larsen: I have a dual impression of Galina Bosoy's album. Yes, probably, it makes sense to draw the attention of a modern person to spiritual texts and thus too.

On the other hand, the target audience of this project is a little incomprehensible to me. In general, it would be more interesting for me to find out that this is for you personally. Why do you need it? At what period of your life did this spark caught fire? Did you take a blessing on this project from your confessor? For five months we have been waiting for the approval of this project by the Patriarchal Council for Culture.

From the work done with the sacred psalms, I got great pleasure. And she became older. First of all, I am a musician, a person singing life with the help of sounds. In this project, the content is in the first place for me, and the form is a consequence. Everyone who comes to the concert is already getting better, right at that moment. It would be nice if a person came home from a concert and opened a psalter.

Or he remembered that he did something not very good for someone, called and asked for forgiveness, became closer to his relatives, more attentive to loved ones. I remembered what true love is. For me as a musician, this is a missionary activity. The main thing in prayer chants is the word. And melodic excesses are distracted from the main one. Hieromonk Photius: I listened to the album of Galina Bosoy and I can say that I was interested.

I generally love different musical experiments. Especially if this is associated with religious material. The music here is very curious. The composer who composed it, apparently, is quite experienced and at the same time - a loved one who loves to experiment. Sergey Starostin: The word in the album of Galina Bosoy almost faded into the background. An attempt to show it, it reads. But the musical approach is very eclectic.

There are several elements here, you can hear a romance, a classic opera, and New Age. From the meaning of texts, this just leads away. Maybe this can be attributed to Galina's youth. But it is already wonderful that you, in principle, turn to this topic. I will soon celebrate the summer and at the same time I do not consider myself in power and have the right to take the psalms.

And you have this courage, and that's good. A serious question is who will listen to this? If you already have your own formed audience, can it be able to respond with the same enthusiasm to this work? What should be the halls? What should be advertising? This is a very responsible story.Galina Bosai: As for contact with the audience, we are not afraid of tour and are ready to ride in any composition, both in large cities and in regions.

With us will tour the patriarchal choir of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior under the control of Ilya Tolkachev, and we are supported by the Ministry of Culture. Dmitry Revyakin: From the history of the appeal of our famous composers to spiritual music, I know that they and an unprecedented cardiac trembling began this, and at a fairly serious age. I read the letters of Rachmaninov, Karetnikov, Martynov about spiritual music, and then suddenly - once!

Yesterday Punk sang, and today is already psalms, two years in Germany ... And the Ministry of Culture supports, and a certain wing of the patriarchy. This is amazing, but it is alarming. Those fragments of the album that I managed to listen to were not impressed. Sergei said correctly: Words are not heard at all. Some pseudoizes are heard. As for the harmonization of spiritual lyrics, this is generally the most difficult question.

I think this is some kind of PR campaign, and Galina Bosai was chosen by her face. Galina Bosai: It should be noted that the Hall of Church Councils is a secular institution, here people give concerts, this has nothing to do with the worship, please do not have to be confused! As for my interest in this story, I want to understand myself who I am. This is my life, my story. I, like any artist, want to be heard.

I like working in different musical directions. We bring the joy of Orthodoxy. We take spiritual folk songs, retain authentic vocal material, but framed it to get a pass into the hearts of youth. We are always afraid to touch the sacred texts. Galya, you swung! Are you ready for the fact that now your life should correspond? An unbeliever artist cannot write icons. If you are ready to match, God for help, this is the right path.

If it's just a hobby, I'm very afraid for you. Be careful. Galina Bosai: I'm not afraid of anything. The psalter has amazing strength and artistic beauty. This is an eternal genre. Onegger, Schenberg shifted psalms to music. Gubaidulina, Pyart, Volkonsky. They were also criticized. I do everything possible and feel responsibility. Boris Barabanov: We have representatives of the press here.

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