Alexey Schneider Biography

Yes, and the profession of a musical editor on the radio will be in a musical publishing house or a special music magazine, but it is on the radio! In fact, who are these people?

What are they doing? What brought them on the radio? Maybe these are losers - failed artists -performers and musicologists? But there were those who came to the radio by someone else's will and not for the sake of earnings by the way, very modest! It can be said without any exaggeration that one fine day it happened in the year of Alexei Schneider and the musical radio found each other!

An educational activity on the radio, which lasted about forty years, Alexei Schneider began in the musical, educational, smallest and most revered department within the main musical edition. We did not have the right to be only musical editors: each of the five was responsible for the transfer entirely and completely, starting from the text, which sometimes had to be rewritten for the author from beginning to end or write ourselves.

What to talk about music? How to explain this? But this is an art in which Alexei Schneider was inaccessible! It sometimes happened to beat for hours to achieve the desired result. It is as if they do not hear that the text and music sounding simultaneously, with its living, and not frozen once and for all rhythm, prevent each other from sitting for hours in libraries or hardware, if everything you need can be drawn from the computer in a few minutes?

But the result is really forever?! Most of the programs of the editor Schneider are captured on a magnetic film, which, as you know, is very good. And how I want to save what remains and is stored somewhere but for me personally Alexei Schneider is not only an ideal editor who taught me a lot in the profession, not only a colleague and friend, but I just mean, no matter how much his load, he will pull everything, “hesitates” - and without the slightest signs of dissatisfaction, ”the Christmas tree explained.

But even more shocking than a comparison with a mule, it seemed to me a panrabian "Alyoshka" when I first saw this person. Next to me and a Christmas tree, he looked like a giant. Immediately caused an incredibly large head, which seemed too large even on such a powerful body. The features of his face were hypertrophied large: the correct shape, but as if the nose saw through a magnifying glass - blood vessels were so clearly visible; Thick "black" lips, but most importantly, of course, also very large, attentive and kind brown eyes.

It could never have occurred to me that this man -made man of 33 years old - in appearance he could be given all fifty! The first impression was so strong that I, the only one of our young companies at that time, turned to him “you”, and no brudershafts could change the form of our communication. As for the “fifty -year -old”, “burdened by the family” of a person, I was mistaken. However, he was in no hurry to tie his bonds.

Remaining a free man for years, he did not look like a “convinced bachelor”: Alexei Evgenievich had a house where a loving and beloved mother was waiting for him. Alyosha had no secrets from Evgenia Georgievna; If he tried to conceal something from her, then not upset for the only purpose, to protect from unnecessary unrest. However, it was difficult to hide anything from Evgenia Georgievna.

I remember unexpectedly a late call from her; Apologizing, she asked to explain what happened: “Alyosha repeated so many times“ I don’t care! Evgenia Georgievna had to tell that, indeed, the Redsoet rejected the program that her son has long and for a long time ... Perhaps the secret of such a proximity between her mother and son is explained by the fact that the family was left early without a father - a mentioned film operator and director Evgeny Schneider.

In the difficult post -war years, the young widow alone raised and perfectly raised two children - Alyosha and his younger sister. Evgenia Georgievna all her life remained for her son the ideal of a woman and mother. He was convinced that he couldn’t be otherwise, and literally “tapped” when someone in his presence allowed himself to increase his voice or ignore her remark.

He called Evgenia Georgievna several times during the day on the phone and was always in a hurry home. The only thing that could delay him on the way was the news that the Melody store has new arrivals. A real music lover, he could not admit that he would be left without a plate, for which he had long "hunted." Observing this day a day, I forwarded to him Pushkin’s words: “The music is inferior to the music, but also love -“ melody ”I took the word melody in quotation marks, bearing in mind the name of my favorite grampes store.

But Alyosha loved the music and melody seriously without any quotation marks. In part, for this reason, he was in no hurry with the choice of a life partner, although the years were going on, and there was no shortage of applicants for this role.To conquer such a “fortified fortress” as Alyosha, they had to withstand the test of music ... One of our common friends managed the impossible: she took out two tickets to the Bolshoi Theater on Tristan and Isolda Wagner - the performance of the Vienna Opera in Moscow.

Alyosha was upstairs of bliss. I had no doubt that tomorrow, having come to work, “drowned” in his enthusiasm and prepared herself in advance for excellent degrees, “aham” and “oham”, which were to be divided, drowning out a completely explained envy: I would never see this legendary performance! But, contrary to expectations, Alyosha was thoughtful and silent in the morning, and only at the end of the day I heard quiet, spoke like to himself: “Galya fell asleep during a love duet in the second act!

Poor Galya! This campaign to the theater was fatal for her: next to Alexei Evgenievich it was impossible to fall asleep on Tristan and Isolde - Wagner was one of the idols of the editor of Schneider. True, a few days later Alyosha said that not only Galya was sleeping, but literally all their neighbors on the bed, among whom were eminent musical critics.