Paradise, Boris Ippolitovich

Born in Siberia, his father once graduated from the St. Petersburg Conservatory. In 1920, the family moved to China. He graduated from the Higher School of Music in Harbin (China, 1932). After the capture of Manchuria by the Japanese, he moved with the Lundstrom brothers to Shanghai, later Paradise became the conductor of the city municipal orchestra. He returned with a group of musicians in 1947 in the USSR . He organized a jazz orchestra of his "Shanghai" musicians, playing mainly at circuses. As a repatriate, he was suspicious, and when jazz was declared "bourgeois art" in the late 1940s, Paradise was arrested in 1950 on false charges and sent to the north to the camps. He was released in 1954, rehabilitated. He took up music again, played in an orchestra in the Baltic states. Then he returned as a leader to his former "Shanghai" jazz orchestra, which moved with him to the Minsk Circus. Since 1957, the main conductor of the Minsk Circus Orchestra. ^[1] .

In 1961-88 he was the chief conductor and artistic director of the concert and pop orchestra of the Belarusian Television and Radio. Under his leadership, stock recordings of the operas Kastus Kalinovsky by D. Lucas, In the Polesie Forests by A. Bogatyrev , Zorka Venus by Yu. Semenyako , The Gray-Legend by D. Smolsky , Mother Courage by S. Cortes , and radio operas “ Crimson Dawn ”by K. Tsesakov, music of the ballets“ Alpine Ballad ”,“ The Chosen One ”and“ The Little Prince ”by Y. Glebov , musical comedies“ Pavlinka ”by Y. Semenyako,“ Nesterka ”by R. Surus, vocal-symphonic, symphonic and pop works and songs of Belarusian composers for Belarusian television and radio, record and etc. The author of arrangements for pop and symphony orchestras. In 2015, a jazz concert “Shanghai - Minsk. All life with jazz. Boris Raysky - 100 years ”in the framework of the festival“ Minsk Jazz ”.

• Drukt A. Raiski // BE ў 18 vol. T. 13. Mn., 2001.