When a person is captured by love, unique in its magic, sweetness and light, the world around is lit up with new, previously unknown colors. In the beloved eyes a smiling sky is reflected, friendly people, nature rejoicing in love happiness. The hearts of lovers do not know the cold, their souls covered with a snow-white wing swan fidelity.
The tragic and happy theme of love in art
Love has long and forever become the protagonist of poetry and song creation. No, it seems, on the stave of notes, sign, interval, not singing this unparalleled feeling. The masters of word and music and constant companions of love did not ignore: joy, happiness, jealousy, bitterness of loss, admiration. She became the hero of the masterpieces of art, that same swan fidelity.
Once - it was in 1975 - the famous Soviet poet Andrei Dementiev got an unusual letter in his eyes. Fans didn’t admire his work, mercenary people didn’t ask for a service, they talked about death on pieces of paper ... It seems like nothing globally wrong, but just the collective farm leader, a man who likes to hunt with a gun at the ready, shot swans. A little over a dozen. He got what he deserved (the destruction of swans in the Soviet Union was punishable by law), but pain settled in the district ...
The birth of a hymn of love
How would you like the swans to live, Dementyev thought to himself, so that the world, adorned with these incomparable snow-white creatures, would become kinder! The brain ardently began to gather thoughts into a heap and arrange them into lines that were still scattered, and his legs were already carried to the telephone. Urgently call Martynov ...
In the 70s, his whole velvet country knew its velvet-timbre, light hair waves and a hole in his chin . From large and small scenes, the singer Yevgeny Martynov gave warmth and sincerity, his manner of performance was close and understandable to the engineer and collective farmer, doctor and worker, teacher and researcher. Nature endowed Martynov not only with singing talent; the same amazing music came out from under his pen.
Like Dementiev, Eugene was imbued with a "swan" story. Remembering one of the legends about swans, the strength of their love, Martynov told her friend. There is no doubt left, a touching story is about to appear that true love cannot be destroyed. And she appeared, taking the start at the song contest "Song-75", "Swan Fidelity" scattered throughout the Union.
How did Martynov himself speak of the hymn of light and pure love? “Swan fidelity,” he said, is a whole philosophy: a person should feel that he is responsible not only for his own life, that beauty and goodness must be protected, that sometimes ordinary negligence can mortally wound a person close to you. This song is that it’s not enough not to kill yourself, but it is necessary to struggle with everyone who cynically destroys man and nature, their feelings, love.
Modern "face" of the song
“Swan fidelity” became fateful not only for its authors, it entered the repertoire of many talented performers. But the first after Martynov, the beautiful Sofia Rotaru invested her soul, singing gift and feminine principle in her. "Swan fidelity" became one of the "visiting cards" of the singer, who immediately felt that this was her song.
He is still alive today, piercing, gentle and at the same time full of optimism, a hymn of true love and fidelity. Performing it on a large stage is in itself a sign of skill and life wisdom.