Alexander Y. Rosenbaum native Leningrad - and this has much to say.
Think about how to begin your acquaintance with his work. Maybe you have heard many times rewritten reel with the Odessa songs performed by some expat "? Or have bought the disc "Epitaph" yet unknown to you the author? Chances are you first listened to over and over again to his songs, by whom it is impossible to pass: "Waltz Boston", "Draw me a house," "The Cossack," "Captain," "Duck Hunt "" prophetic destiny, "" flew sadness "," Babi Yar "," Black Tulip "and many others, have absorbed them a special and unexpected for a sense - and only then by the author concerned.
It is still possible to meet people whose attitude toward Rozenbaum is based on gossip and rumors of 80-90's, which was and remains set. Until now, television, radio and the press is often bypassed by the category of people who are at all times have their own, distinctly different opinion - namely, to such people include Alexander Yakovlevich. "You can not deceive the people" - sung in his song, dedicated to Joseph Kobzon.
So let's clarify the situation with Rosenbaum's biography from birth to early solo work.
Alexander Y. Rosenbaum was born on September 13, 1951 in Leningrad, families of students-classmates 1 Institute of Medicine, James Rosenbaum, and Sophia Semyonovna Milyaeva. Year, the institute's registration parents Sasha - 1952-oh, the last year of Stalin's rule, marked by well-known case of Kremlin doctors and anti-Semitism in the USSR.
Rosenbaum's family was forced to go live in eastern Kazakhstan, in a very small town Zyryanovsk - there were not even paved tracks. For six years, father and mother of Sasha doing healing Zyryanovsk residents - mostly, they were Kazakhs, and a few exiles who have got there after the concentration camps. Jacob, by profession a urologist, was chief physician of the city hospital, profession Sophia - an obstetrician-gynecologist. During this period, the family was born another son - Vladimir Rosenbaum.
At the age of five, Alex Rosenbaum started going to the exiles, organized a music school, learning to play the violin. He soon learned to read, but only my grandmother, Anna Arturovna immediately discerned in him their unrealized talents and said: "Sasha - exceptional."
With the advent of Khrushchev and the well-known liberalization, Rosenbaum returned to Leningrad and then settled in at number 102 on Nevsky Prospekt. Dvadtsatimetrovy room in a communal apartment number 25, in which they lived six of the next nine years, and Leningrad-yard well have had on Alexander Rosenbaum is the influence that 30 years after that, he says: "I still live in this world, it to me sorely lacking. "
The school Rosenbaum brothers went into the street Rebellion - School № 209, the former Pavlovsky Institute of noble maidens. "This school ended, my parents and I recently - my daughter, so that we can call it our home school."
A lot of time boys spent in the yard, in companies, fastened his yard brotherhood, where Sasha was the ringleader. Mom gave it to the section of figure skating, but said interest in boxing: the age of twelve he was admitted to the section on boxing "labor reserves". "Lessons boxing taught me to count their steps on the stage, too, presenting it as a ring."
Musical education had to continue learning the game is not on the violin and the piano, first under the leadership of the future teacher Conservatory of Larissa Janovna Joffe, and then - a talented teacher Maria Alexandrovna Glushenko. Sasha studied reluctantly, apparently preferring to persistent classes in piano Yard game of football or boxing. However, some point to Sasha made a strong impression of a jazz band performance to service dances, especially the pianist. "I decided to become a ballroom pianist. Drawn to the piano. Became a hearing to pick favorite tunes, accompanied them." Diploma from the School of Music Sasha received only at the insistence of his mother, and he then very useful way to "Lenkontserte.
Neighbor grandmother's apartment was a famous guitarist Mikhail Minin, which Sasha learned first guitar techniques, and later the guitar, he studied independently. Age of fifteen or sixteen appeared his first poem: rhyme spontaneously born in the minds of school and home topics, sometimes humorous verses gay friends. Began to listen and then repeat the banned songs of Galich, Vysotsky and Okudzhava. This period in the life of Alexander Rosenbaum sent him to art song.
Their fate, he decides to associate with the profession of their parents - medicine. To withstand the tremendous competition, Sasha, immediately after school, in 1968, comes to the First Medical Institute in Leningrad. Sympathetic, companionable, he willingly participated in student gatherings, singing their poems. Kapustnik for college were almost simultaneously, with ease, written in Odessa songs inspired by the character of Isaac Babel Beney Crick. "... Could not stop in 1923 to write, if someone is not led by the hand:". Even in the first year one of the songs sung by Alexander at the City look into the House of Culture of the Leningrad City Council, hit the record at the Kiev Festival where she was awarded the prize "for audience sympathy."
In the Institution, and Sasha were in the construction team trips to distant Ukhta, where he qualified as sawyers fourth class, and nesdanny tail, the remainder of the fall, and even absent from the traditional student trips to harvest potatoes, for which he rigorously expelled from the institute . astigmatism and myopia does not give Sasha a chance to go into the army, and he arranged orderly in a post-surgery department, the most severe patients.
An introduction to practical medicine encourages evaluate the possibility of learning, and when a year later, the authorities allowed him to return to school, he develops a medical course hard, with excellent results. Its specialization chosen therapy and its assimilation exhibited extraordinary medical intuition.
First marriage, Alexander Rosenbaum lasts only 9 months. A year after the divorce, he married a second time at Helena Savshinsky, a student of the same medical school, and after some time in the family Rosenbaum born daughter, Anya.
In 1974, having passed on perfectly all the state exams, Alexander gets a diploma GP general. His specialty - anesthesia, critical care medicine. Therefore, he went to work in non-prestigious ambulance at the first substation, located on the street Popova, 16-b, not far from his home institution.
Almost five years have worked Rosenbaum ambulance - at the forefront of medical battles for human life. Subsequently, he says: "A doctor for me, if it is not a craftsman, although in the craft is not bad, but if it is doctor-doctor, it is primarily a psychologist, that is, when you come to the patient, you should quickly establish him psychological contact and feel it. "And:" The fact that I grew up in a robe, one might say, was born in a dressing gown - it has brought the recognition of man: when I heard from many parents for their patients, many of the tragic, and when rushed to the sick as emergency doctor, I was ripe to do on behalf of the people. So do not be afraid of arrogance - I think the mass of people: not because I am a Jesus Christ, but because my humanity - it is always a lot of people sick with difficult fate, which I can not force talent, but because of their normal medical profession learned, absorbed, survived. No medicine for me, as a singer-poet, nothing would have happened. "
At the same time, already feeling the pull to writing and performing his songs, Alexander goes to the evening jazz school at the Palace of Culture named after Kirov. Three times a week in the evenings, he tried to comprehend the basis of arrangement, the skills of jazz compositions, and as a result receives diploma from an evening of jazz school.
Subsequently, Rosenbaum recalled that the decision to change has happened with surprising swiftness, within three days. This is only partly true. What he called the dictates of fate, had been brewing for several years, when he was a doctor, spoke with the songs, even in pop groups (see the "Rock").
He had always, as he confessed, "I wanted to be the best in the business." At the doctor was "everything was in order, until the song is a hobby." And when it becomes essentially second profession, you had to choose. "Inevitably," felt that I was sitting on two chairs, it is not only inconvenient but also unfair. Must be either a doctor or an artist. "
The beginning of his solo work can be regarded as a memorable speech on Oct. 14, 1983 at the House of Culture Ministry of the Dzerzhinsky. At such a bold step, as an organization with a concert singer Jewish name Rosenbaum, director of the House of Culture decided to Raisa G. Simon.
(This article is drawn from a book Sophia Hentovoy
"Aleksandr Rozenbaum: load songs")