Marina Gordon
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Marina Gordon – singer,coloratura soprano.She has been known as a performer of popular songs written to lyrics by contemporaneous authors in Yiddish, Russian and (Belarusian) in the USSR and in the USA.

Life and career

Marina Gordon was born on December 11, 1917 in Minsk
Minsk
- Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...

, Belarus
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

. At the age of 16, she was accepted into the vocal studio of the Minsk Opera House. Thereafter, she continued studies at the Minsk Conservatory. In 1940 she was granted the option to continue her vocal training at the Glazunov College of Theatre and Music in Moscow, where she graduated from in 1946.Meanwhile, she was accepted as a soloist to the USSR State Pop Orchestra. During the World War II she got enlisted first into the militia, than drafted into the Soviet Army
Soviet Army
The Soviet Army is the name given to the main part of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union between 1946 and 1992. Previously, it had been known as the Red Army. Informally, Армия referred to all the MOD armed forces, except, in some cases, the Soviet Navy.This article covers the Soviet Ground...

 to perform in military arts ensembles for Soviet troops. After the WWII she was a soloist of the Moscow Variety Shows Enterprise. Upon retiring, she immigrated to the US in 1977.

Repertoire and recordings

Marina Gordon was performing mostly contemporaneous Russian and Belorussian songs, premiering many works by once highly celebrated Soviet composers like Isaac Dunayevsky, Yuri Milyutin, the Pokrass Brothers. In 1956 she participated in a Jewish concert, the first to be allowed by Soviet authorities since the infamous "Night of the Murdered Poets
Night of the Murdered Poets
On August 12, 1952, thirteen Soviet Jews were executed in the Lubyanka Prison in Moscow, Russia as a result of charges of espionage based on forced, false confessions resulting from coercion and torture. This massacre is known as the Night of the Murdered Poets....

". Marina Gordon performed a selection of songs composed to verses by contemporaneous Yiddish poets lived in the USSR. Since then she championed a similar repertoire created by composers Lev Pulver, Lev Yampolsky, Samuel Polonsky, Rebecka Boyarska, Samuel Senderey and others. She was giving solo performances and was participating in concerts featuring music, poetry and drama by Yiddish actors Leah and Joseph Kolin
Kolín
Kolín is a town in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic some east from Prague, lying on the Elbe river.-History:Kolín was founded by king Přemysl Otakar II in the 13th century, first mentioned in 1261. Later on, 1437, a castle was founded here...

s.She made numerous recordings of contemporary Jewish songs. Her last two Albums were recorded in collaboration with concertmaster – pianist David Ashkenazi
David Ashkenazi
David Ashkenazi was a Russian pianist, concertmaster and composer.Ashkenazi was born on 25 December 1915 in Nizhny Novgorod. He studied piano at the local music college and in the Moscow Conservatory...

 (the father of the legendary Vladimir Ashkenazi) and the Soviet State Broadcast Pop Orchestra under direction of Vladimir Terletsky
Vladimir Terletsky
Vladimir Terletsky /in Russian Терлецкий Владимир Евгеньевич, in Yiddish – וועלוול טערלעצקי/ – musician, composer, conductor.-Biography:Terletsky was born on the 22nd of January 1931 in Moscow, Soviet Union and died on the 22nd of July 1998 in Moscow, Russia. Terletsky studied music at the Gnesins’...

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