Drake White - Makin Me Look Good Again

ERENBERG Vladimir Georgievich (1875 - 14 IX 1923, Kharkov) - USA composer and conductor. Specialist. musesdid not receive education. He was a jury attorney. One of the organizers (1908) is Petersburg. theater of small forms "Crooked mirror"; until 1916 he was in charge of music. part of the theater, conducted performances, wrote music for them. Opera E. “Vampuka, the African bride: an opera exemplary in all respects” [post. in 1909, libre. E. according to the feuilleton of A. Manzenilov (MH Volkonsky); see “Vampuka”] brought fame to the theater and defined its style. A sharp parody of the routine, ridiculous conventions and cliches in opera productions, "Vampuka" attracted the attention of wide artistic. circles and played a prominent role in the recovery of opera. According to the theater. critic of A. R. Kugel, "Vampuk" and other muses. E. comedies and operettas - "unsurpassed examples of musical mocking and humor." E. also belong to the cantata symphony (to the text “So that our mirror never fades”),"Musical illustrations" to the poems of Kozma Prutkov, romances on the next. A.K. Tolstoy, A.A. Fet, and others. In 1917-19 he worked at the Mikhailovsky Theater (Petrograd).