• Profession and Art Position. From the History of GITIS Pedagogy: Joseph Tumanov, Yuliy Khmelnitsky, Matvey Osherovsky in the Memoirs of Yuriy Drozhnyak

УДК: 792:378.6

DOI: 10.35852/2588-0144-2023-4-156-173

EDN: QJBRWY

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Alexander G. Kolesnikov

Dr. Sc. in Art Studies, Leading Researcher of the Scientific Department
Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS)
Moscow, Russia
E-mail: edvin8@list.ru

Profession and Art Position. From the History of GITIS Pedagogy: Joseph Tumanov, Yuliy Khmelnitsky, Matvey Osherovsky in the Memoirs of Yuriy Drozhnyak

Abstract

The article contains the commented memoirs of the famous Russian music theatre actor Yuriy Drozhnyak about his theatre teachers and associates — Joseph Mikhailovich Tumanov (1909–1981), Yuliy Osipovich Khmelnitsky (1904–1997) and Matvey Abramovich Osherovsky (1920–2009). All three of them are the prominent theatre directors who defined some features of the Russian music theatre of the twentieth century. They also taught at GITIS at various times. Their pedagogical and staging experience is now being comprehended in historical position and in terms of the continuity of their pedagogy. The author of the memoirs identifies common basic professional laws in their stage practice. At the same time, the active author's component of their directing process is obvious; as well as the methodological one, which differs significantly from each of them. The article also draws attention to the combination of different methods and approaches to music and dramatic material, when they were transited from institute pedagogy to stage practice. The half-century evolution of the aesthetics of music performance in Russia is significant. Thus, theatre pedagogy nowadays try to solve the problem of educating not only the actor, but also the director.

Keywords

Pedagogy, music and art education, directing, stage practice, vocals, methodology

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Alexander G. Kolesnikov — Dr. Sc. in Art Studies, Leading Researcher of the Scientific Department of Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS).

Е-mail: edvin8@list.ru

ORCID: 0000-0002-5519-2850

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Received: 19.04.2023

Revised: 03.08.2023

Accepted: 14.08.2023