Oppenheim, Boris Rafailovich

Boris Oppenheim was born on September 22, 1957 in Moscow , in the family of the famous pianist, accompanist and accompanist Rafail Oppenheim. Boris’s father played in various jazz groups before the war. After the war, he worked in the Moiseev ensemble , then moved to sports, accompanied by performances by gymnasts of the USSR national team. Boris himself had been studying music since he was six, in 1972 he graduated from a music school. ^[2] In 1977 he graduated from the Gnesins School in piano. ^[3] From 1978 to 1979 ^[4] worked as a musician in the Dissonance Ensemble, ^[5] which adhered to the avant-garde course and played exclusively instrumental music. ^[6] In 1976 he also toured the North Caucasus as part of the musical group "Peers". ^{[1] [2]} After the breakdown of Dissonance, Boris worked for some time at MOMA (Moscow Association of Musical Ensembles), in the evenings he performed as a musician in restaurants with Mikhail Zvezdinsky , Arkady Severny , Alexander Klevitsky and other artists, and worked as a concertmaster in the afternoon at a sports school in rhythmic gymnastics. In the spring of 1980, Oppenheim joined the Victoria group, in which Pavel Smeyan and his twin brother Alexander played. ^[6] In September of the same year, together with Chris Kelmi and Pavel Smeyan, he became one of the founders of the Rock Atelier group. As part of this ensemble, Boris Oppenheim worked as a keyboard player and played musical accompaniment for the performances of the Lenkom Theater (Avtograd XXI, Til, Star and Death of Joaquin Murieta, Juno and Avos and People and Birds). In the winter of 1980, the group recorded music for the cartoon “ Dog in Boots ” (Oppenheim composed the music for two numbers: “The Song of the Bats” and the famous Gascon dog blues “Oh, finally the hour has come ...”, brilliantly performed by actor Nikolai Karachentsov ) ^{[1] [7]} , and a year later - to the cartoon " Rock Style Paradoxes ". ^[1] Despite the busy tour schedule of Lenkom, the musicians showed fantastic performance, preparing their own program and giving concerts in short intervals between performances, ^[8] went on tour with Alexander Abdulov and Leonid Yarmolnik (they worked after them as the second department for creative meetings with the audience). ^[3] In addition, Boris was an accompanist in the concert performances of Nikolai Karachentsov . ^[9] In September 1984, Oppenheim left the Rock Atelier due to controversy with Chris Kelmi ^[3] , although he was still in the theater for another year and sometimes worked. Boris finally left Lenkom in 1985 ^[7] , when he, Pavel Smeyan and Yuri Titov, was invited by the composer Maxim Dunaevsky to the RSFSR State Pop Orchestra, which he headed some time after the death of Leonid Utesov . Dunaevsky was the artistic director of this orchestra, and the music director was his longtime associate Dmitry Atovmyan . ^[10] The idea was to make a catchy youth line-up with a bright, modern show, lighting and stage effects and modern arrangements. The arrangements turned out to be really beautiful, the public perceived the soloists of the orchestra ( Pavel Smeyan , Irina Ponarovskaya and Andrei Davidyan). There were all possibilities to raise this orchestra, which has been dragging a miserable existence in recent years, to the level of the times of Leonid Utesov , but still failed to do this. In the spring of 1987, Ponarovskaya left the orchestra, then Smeyan, and then Dunaevsky himself and the leading musicians. ^[11] At the same time in 1986 (at the invitation of Vadim Golutvin ) ^[3] also, as a keyboard player, together with Yuri Titov and Pavel Smeyan, Oppenheim joined the rock band " SV ", in which he played for some time. ^[1] Then for two years he played in the accompanying composition of Larisa Dolina , then working from the Ulyanovsk Philharmonic. ^[10] After that, he practically never played anywhere, with the participation of the composer Vadim Lotkin he created his first recording studio. ^[9] As a composer, Boris Oppenheim wrote songs to poems by Yuri Hook, Fedor Filippov, Boris Barkas , Pavel Grushko . They were performed at different times by Nikolai Karachentsov , the White Eagle band and other performers. However, according to Oppenheim himself, he had no goal of becoming a composer. ^[3] In 1995 - 2010, he directed the recording studio "BOP" at the Lenkom Theater , ^[12] where in 1999 Pavel Smeyan's rock opera Slovo i Delo was recorded. Boris Oppenheim acted as the music producer of this project. ^[13] Such artists as Philip Kirkorov ^[9] , Nikolai Karachentsov , Valery Leontyev , Pavel Smeyan , Larisa Dolina , the White Eagle band, the Accident Group , composers Ruslan Gorobets , Elena Surzhikova and a lot others. In 2010, Boris Oppenheim quit his creative career. Lives and works in Moscow . ^{[1] [14]}

• Mother - Josephine Zinovievna Oppenheim (born June 19, 1929 )
• Wife - Anna Oppenheim
• The eldest son is Maxim Borisovich Oppenheim (born June 22, 1984 )
• The middle son is Rafail Borisovich Oppenheim (born in 2010 )
• The youngest son is Grigory Borisovich Oppenheim (born in 2016) ^[14]

Composer

• 1981 - “ Dog in Boots ” (cartoon) - composed music with Chris Kelmi and Pavel Smeyan
• 1982 - “ Rock Style Paradoxes ” (cartoon) - composed music with Chris Kelmi and Pavel Smeyan ^[1]

Movie Roles

• 2003 - " Kamenskaya-3 . (When the gods laugh) "- episode ^[9]

Songs and music by Boris Oppenheim in collections

• 1981 - Rock-Atelier Group “OPEN THE WINDOW” (vinyl)
• 1982 - Rock Atelier Group FRESH WIND (vinyl)
• 1997 - The White Eagle Group “HIGH FLIGHT BIRD” (CD)
• 2001 - Rock Atelier Group “I Sang WHEN I FLYED” (CD)
• 2007 - "Anthology of the songs of Nikolai Karachentsov" (12 CD) ^{[1] [15]}
• 2014 - Nikolai Karachentsov “The Best and the Unreleased” (2 CD) ^[16]

Famous Songs

• “At a good hour at sunset ...” (words by Yuri Guk ), performed by Nikolai Karachentsov
• “If, if, if ....” (words by Yuri Hook ), performed by Nikolai Karachentsov
• “Except One” (words by Yuri Guk ), performed by Nikolai Karachentsov
• “Prayer” (words by Yuri Hook ), performed by Nikolai Karachentsov
• “In the Smolny Ball” (words by Yuri Guk ), performed by Nikolai Karachentsov
• “Tell me, speak ...” (words by Yuri Hook ), performed by the group “White Eagle” ^{[1] [17]}

• Megaencyclopedia of Cyril and Methodius: BORIS OPPENHEIM
• Boris Oppenheim “BETWEEN JAZZ AND ROCK”
• Interview with Boris Oppenheim at retroportal.ru
• History of the “SV” group
• Official site of the rock band "Autograph"