Some people are remembered not by facts from life, but by actions. So, the Soviet composer Sergei Anashkin remained in the history of Russian culture as a talented person who worked a lot with animated films. In addition, he is the father of a famous actor and an excellent accompanist.
Sergei Anashkin: biography
Nothing is known about the composer's childhood and youth, except for the date of birth - November 11, 1948. He probably attended music school and college, as Sergei Mikhailovich plays the piano beautifully. Until the early eighties, Sergei Anashkin remained in the shadows. He wrote his own music and worked as a music director at Lenkom, and also tried himself as a cartoonist. His first work was the animated film "Uncle Fedor, a dog and a cat. Mitya and Murka ”, she was released in 1976.
At the time of the birth of his son in 1979, the Anashkins family lived in Danilov, Yaroslavl Region. In the same year, Sergei was invited to work on the film “Once upon a time there was a tuner,” for which he composed music with Gennady Gladkov. Anashkin Sergey later worked with him as an arranger. Now Sergei Mikhailovich often gives concerts in which he plays classical works and plays of his own composition.
Cartoon work
Another work as an animator for Sergei Mikhailovich was the film “Plush and Plikh”, released in 1984. The basis for it was a poem by William Bush, which was translated by Daniel Harms. This is a puppet cartoon, which is part of the golden film library of the Soviet period.
Later, Sergei Mikhailovich began to participate in the creation of animated films as a composer. His first such work was the film "Road Tale", directed by the famous Harry Bardin. The director and Sergey Mikhailovich worked together on several more tapes. In the period up to the nineties, Sergei Anashkin (composer) wrote music for five cartoons.
New Bremen
In the nineties, namely in 1995, Sergei Mikhailovich gained the first experience in voicing cartoons. He worked as an arranger on the plasticine tape "Puss in Boots", created by Harry Bardin based on the fairy tale of the same name by Charles Perrault. Later this experience was useful to the composer, since in the late nineties he worked on the continuation of the animated film about the Bremen Town Musicians. During the recording, he played the role of accompanist.
In 2000, the cartoon was released. The stars of modern show business took part in its creation, they sang with the voices of the heroes. The budget of the tape was large enough, but critics accepted it coolly. Meanwhile, the performance of music by the instrumental ensemble, which was directed by Sergei Mikhailovich Anashkin, was praised, only the idea of ​​the cartoon failed. It was made very modern, far removed from the original of the tale.
Allowances for children
In the nineties, the animators experienced serious difficulties, so Sergey Mikhailovich took up the arrangements. He began to succeed in this direction, due to which he began to be invited to various projects as an arranger. Later, in 2010, together with Gennady Gladkov, he prepared a manual for students of music schools, with which children could learn how to play songs from domestic films, including animated films, on their own.
The manual "Life and Creativity" is in great demand among music teachers and methodologists of preschool institutions. They note that the above arrangements are quite simple, and the works sound no worse than in the original. Like this manual and ordinary music lovers.
ugly duck
Anashkin Sergey was again invited by
Harry Bardin to cooperation in 2015. Then they worked together to create the first full-length cartoon of the director. They became the tape "Ugly Duckling." It contained arrangements of the works of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky “Swan Lake” and “The Nutcracker”. In total, 26 fragments from different works were used in the film.
Sergei Mikhailovich worked them deep enough. He turned waltzes into marches. For example, in one part of the cartoon, a solemn march sounds, which came out of the part of the ballet The Nutcracker called The Waltz of the Flowers and Coda from the work Swan Lake. This find of the arranger was rated highly enough, since no one could have suggested that famous works could sound so unusual.
The arrangement of classics on poems written by Julius Kim was also praised. For example, the tenth scene of the ballet “Swan Lake” served as the basis for the ugly duckling arias, it produced the songs “Oh, how dark it is around ...”, “Here, again I am alone ...” and “How, how to get home ...”, and part of the work "The Nutcracker" became the main one for the Wild Goose aria "My son, do not rush too much ...".
This puppet cartoon has been awarded many awards at foreign festivals and received the national Nika award. At the same time, the audience and the mass rental he was received more than cool. On Channel One, they refused to show the cartoon, which was even the subject of the television program Let They Talk, aired in late April 2010. The Rossiya TV channel called the tape an art house and also did not include it in the broadcasting network. In cinemas, screenings were also held in empty halls.