What makes Helen Kamburova with each song can be compared with the translation of notes and letters in the words of the only person who knows what they mean. He can understand and convey to others - in a language that can be understood or not understood .... She - a tool, about which I want to say "perfect". In general, speaking about Kamburova almost automatic transition to the mode of chanting, almost in blank verse, for prose is not enough.

Splash witchcraft

"Maybe the spell of songs called away
And the stormy sea that wave crests vzmetayutsya
In the magical, mysterious land between. "
John Keats

Journalists, just fans and the critics are looking more and more paint (of which perhaps did not exist in the other palette) to describe their feelings, enthusiasm for "Kamburova effect."

Naive to try to fix some details, the nuances of her performance, analyze them, trying to find the secret magic of the singer. It's as hopeless as, for example, to retell the ballet. Or, say, how to translate the poems of the poet of genius into another language - will always be a huge reservoir of untranslated, untranslatable, acting on secret levels and is an, apparently, the habitat of genius poet.

Hardly anyone would think that the desire to be fascinated talent Elena JUST occurred in Okudzhava Bulat (his favorite artists, he called Armstrong and Kamburova!), Faina Ranevskaya, Cecilia Mansurov and others of the same level of perception of someone else's gift. Pretty soon she found hidden in the darkness of the passage from the profane, the magical box in the other, his world, and since then all the more reluctant to return to our, to us, where it is possible to transfer only a fraction of it there the finds and discoveries. Suppose that there are no roads or trails, let all the touch and unfamiliar - it's her, but it remains the joy of contact with the unknown, with full misunderstanding of its nature. "But who is waiting for - they also serve," is not it?

Not for the first time Elena Kamburova coming concerts in Israel - she herself had long since lost count, and God is with him, with this meaningless number. Many important that we have the opportunity to watch her transformation, noting each new route, "traveler". But when a person spends a lot of time wandering, he eventually acquires the habits of a seasoned traveler. And this is what allows the viewer to constantly discover new Kamburova.

In a world where it leads your search, there is no time. There the present century a century past - at home on the same street, the apartment in the same building, walk-Brody, look, meet. Is it because so easily in the "translation" of her songs sound poets of 18-19 century? Is it because Elena Kamburova so serene rushed into the maelstrom of the songs on poems of Joseph Brodsky, that for her, as for him, written two centuries ago - not the past and the present? Since then, "much less stood between man and his thoughts about themselves than they are today."

• For me there is neither distance nor the time - said Elena Kamburova in Moscow, answering my question posed in Israel. - It is not an image. I am very tangible, even the songs that were written in the 16-17th centuries. Once I start to sing them, they begin to live. As soon as I take a breath to speak, sing the first word. At this point, they are mine. And all the thoughts that were invested in them, therefore, all their spirituality, they flow into me, getting my content. And then they - the present, not the past. And, perhaps, to tell about some things deeper than they said, impossible. Time was different, nesuetnoy, the speed of the other, we simply do not have the possibilities and think of something .... About pondered over what the poets of the past.

One critic wrote that the song "is presented to us through the efforts of Helen Kamburova in chemically pure form." There's something about it. But perhaps, in the "pure alchemical"?

Emperors and fools

"That trills that I heard in the night,
And the clown, and the emperor listened to the old days.
Perhaps the same sounds the way found
And Ruth's heart ... "
John Keats

"Kamburova - not a singer. She - singer. Feel the difference" - I read an article about it. Master - I would add, too, with a capital letter, referring to the definition of Goethe, who said, "self-restraint can be seen in the master". Because without self-restraint can not cope with such a gift.

And it is called "a woman without age" (35 years of work!), Forgetting that Kamburova on stage - without the services of make-up and costume - easy to make us see in it not only the young damsels, but the white-haired old man. If she wants it.

And her voice, as a string, as one of the strings, argues that the word "range" can be spoken only in jest, when it comes to the range Kamburova .  Genre, style, style - the territory of the singer they are fooling us are strange life meaningless definitions .  It is subject to so much, that people who want to precise formulations, at a meeting with the singer there is an overwhelming desire to squeeze all born Kamburova in some - at least some! - Frames .  These things never happened, but is difficult to pretend to see something that is not .  For example, Helen designate as "Komsomol singer" - for the performance of "L'Aiglon", "Grenada", "Brigantine" and "Blower" .  Director of the Moscow concert, considering the fate of the heroes of these songs somehow blurted Kamburova supposedly walking over corpses, each song of your people are dying .  The mite introduced Rolan Bykov, who, wishing to help Elena, "knocked out" of the Komsomol to Kamburova Award .  But most of all the very distinguished Moskontsert where corpses director tracked - there she recorded in the Department of satire and humor!

The very first of its viewers were "the sixties" as once said Kamburova, then "there were people with good eyes." Now a singer Theatre of Music and Poetry, which she, without losing tender feelings to the first generation of his fans, he sees as "Good theater officials."

• Our theater will find and grow these persons - and Elena decided, if not strange, will soon acquire its brainchild, finally, a permanent residence permit.
• Yes, the day is coming when we will have your room, - says Kamburova. - Today we choose furniture for classrooms - it is something very real.

Theatre in retro style located opposite the Novodevichy Convent, in the building of the former cinema "Sport" - "with arches, which I love so much, with an incredible chandelier preserved from ancient times. Close to me retro style, no modern. I hope that we are all filled with warmth coming from the room, and let us give it the warmth to those who come to visit. "

Kamburova first solo program, which included songs by Bulat Okudzhava, Novella Matveeva and Julia Kim, a commission of the Ministry of Culture has cut the bud, finding that because of such songs events occurred in Czechoslovakia. After her work in a special interest in TAM, blaming primarily in the wrong tone. Singer to this day it seems strange, as some political, anti-Soviet songs she sang - "My songs - on it!".

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