Product Description
Sixty Five Songs (English and Russian Edition). English Translations by Eve Shapiro, Musical arrangements, selection and editing by Vladimir Frumkin.
Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (Булат Шалвович Окуджава) (1924-1997) was a poet and singer-songwriter with a large following. Second only to Vladimir Vyssotsky, Okudzhava, though born in Moscow, was of Georgian-Armenian ancestry. He is credited as one of the founders of the Russian/Soviet genre known as "author song" ("авторская песня"). His output consists of nearly 200 songs, set to his own poetry. His songs are a mixture of Russian poetic and folks song traditions as well as the French chansonnier style (think: Georges Brassens). Somewhat scarce book.
MI (Ann Arbor): Ardis Publishers, 1980. 174 pages. Includes musical notation and illustrations throughout, with the text in English and Russian. Hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. Jacket has considerable wrinkling both front and back. 1 copy only.
