Evgeny Ptichkin - Great Distance (Film Music)

The composer was born in Moscow in 1930. At the age of twenty-seven years he graduated from the Music and Pedagogical Institute, composer department. Among the teachers of Yevgeny Ptichkin were prominent Soviet musical figures Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin and Nikolai Ivanovich Peyko. After the institute he was engaged in sound engineering courses. The profession of sound engineer in those days was a piece phenomenon. It required a deep knowledge of technology, as well as musical and theoretical disciplines. Therefore, after completing the courses, the young specialist was gladly accepted to work on the radio. FIRST SONGS In the late fifties, he tried himself in writing pop songs. The first of them were written on the verses of the poet-songwriter Kuznetsov and recorded with the participation of Evgeny Ptichkin as a sound engineer. The main characters of these songs were young people working on the virgin lands. The song “Where are you, the girls are timid“ and its continuation, “Gir