Tenen -sar Kalmer biography

Yuri URM at the turn of the 50s and x and x and xs on the Olympus of the Estonian stage, the great George of the OTC, which was not at all surprising, if we recall what a wonderful baritone he possessed. But once his real competitor, a magnificent tenor, Calmer Tennosaar appeared on the stage. This happened shortly after the singer returned from Moscow from the international festival of youth and students in the year, where he was awarded a silver medal.

Calmer immediately gained popularity, and became a very famous performer not only in Estonia, but throughout the Soviet Union. A few years later, Calmer was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Estonia. And many years later, already in independent Estonia, he became the owner of the Order of the White Star. These clips in the form of certain simple pictures complemented the musical material well and revived the perception of these works.

Of course, they were little dynamic and did not contain any special effects, aesthetic delights and technical innovations. Singers often recorded against the background of motionless scenery, many of which were collected from plywood or papier Masha, covered with deliberately simple graphic drawings. Or they simply starred against a background of beautiful nature.

These were the first unpretentious experiments, and nevertheless, they looked very fresh, interesting and original then. All the songs recorded by him during his life on radio and television sounded impeccably. The singer possessed a unique “transparent” timbre of voice, sounding very softly and organically. About his voice can be said clearly, it was a tenor in its purest form, possessing his special and unique charm.

He was distinguished from other popular singers by the highest culture of performance, a unique aesthetics of voice, natural intelligence, a particularly soft and delicate manner of sound recovery, alternating with powerful expression, ending with a beautiful vibrato. I can characterize a little votes as “flying”, but Calmer's voice was just that. In addition to all its other features, the singer was distinguished by a thorough selection into his repertoire of the newest Italian and other foreign songs.

He perfectly performed them in Estonian. The performance of Estonian and Soviet composers also sounded good in his performance. In my opinion, all the factors listed above together became the basis of the singer’s large and long -term success. In the year, he moved to the Tallinn State Conservatory, where he studied for three years, but did not graduate from it. After the victory in the competition, he began to work on Estonian TV, first the announcer, and then the editor of the program.

In years, he began to work as a soloist of the Estonian Philharmonic. Later, already, being a Soviet pop star, he began to conduct a children's program on Estonian television, called “Entel-Ten”, in which children of preschool age sang. In this program, he managed to create a very warm and welcoming atmosphere in which the children felt very comfortable, but the Calmer was persistent, he looked after me for 2 years.

In the end, I also fell in love with him. "He fundamentally believed that men were originally more allowed. He believed that my place was at home, and not at public events. At the same time, Calmer himself was jealous, and not at all I was at all. And yet the main thing was that he loved me until the end of his life! Being already at old age, his father said bitterly: “The world is cruel and quickly forgets his idols.

Old age does not offer any prospects in the life of former stars. ” At the end of his career, Calmer and colleagues created the Con Amores group - this was his swan song. The father said: "The moment has come when you are no longer invited, you no longer have a job." But everything happened as usual - when the pensioner leaves work, others are very satisfied with this. As the saying goes: “The place and thank God have been freed!

For Soviet times, he was unable to accumulate money for a comfortable old age. There was a catastrophically lacked money for life, and he had to urgently look for some work. But which of him is the chief of security, he was already more than 60 years old! He already walked with a stick, but when he went to people, he did not take this stick with him. In the store, he always took a wheelbarrow on wheels, on which he could lean.

He tried his best to seem completely healthy to others! When I lost sight of him, I thought: “Lord, maybe he fell and rolled off somewhere. Then the seller came up to me and asked: you are probably looking for someone? Yes, I'm looking for my father, I answered. The seller smiled and said: "Your father wanted to go to the toilet, and we took him to the toilet room for the staff." Once the artist talked about how they went to a concert in South Estonia together with Tenenzaar.

It was winter, and the roads were very slippery. It so happened that their car jumped off the road and rolled over. Having come to his senses, Sulev felt drops flowing to his face. But with a hand, and sniffing, Sulev realized that it was cognac! His legs rested on the roof of the car, and from his plot, lying in his pocket, cognac poured right onto the heads of fellow travelers.This has led them to consciousness ...

All three safely got out of the car. Further, standing by the road, they voted and in a passing car easily reached the destination.

An hour later, Kalmer, as if nothing had happened, already sang for his listeners about a fabulous blue bird. Several times I personally had a chance to cross with the squid in the coffee of Estonian television. His extraordinary modesty was remembered, a man quietly stood in line at dinner, not at all trying to draw the attention of others, he sat down at the table and then left just as quietly.

It was the friendship of two completely different people. They differed among themselves: professions, nationalities, mentality, native languages. However, there was also what united, of course, it was their star status, intelligence, erudition, love of music and a beautiful sense of humor. Without any problems, they communicated in Russian, which was well owned by Calmer himself and his wife, the famous Estonian actress Siri Tenenosaar.

Since the journalist who heard this story from someone else described on the air on the air, I decided to meet the singer’s daughter and hear everything from the firsthand. I had to show resourcefulness and fair patience. At that time, I did not even know her name. One of my familiar musician told me that her name was Liina and the fact that she is a famous theater actress.

Further, I very easily, as it seemed to me, found her on Facebook. I immediately wrote to her that I would like to interview her. In response from this woman, I received a message that she is only the full namesake of the singer’s daughter. It should be noted that the complete coincidence of the name and a rather rare surname is an unusual case, and of course her answer did not add to me optimism.

Nevertheless, I continued the search, and turned for help to a familiar theater figure, a magnificent reader and singer, Eduard Toman, and he immediately gave me the number of Liina’s phone, and then, as they say: it is already a matter of technology. It turned out that she knew about her full namesake. After the successfully passed the decade of culture and art in Irkutsk, at the suggestion of the astronauts to the International Conference in Finland, Calmer Tennosaar was also invited among other artists.

But there he and Herman have not yet met. Later, in the Moscow restaurant, Budapest Kalmier again saw German Titov, and deciding to show the initiative, he resolutely headed for the cosmonaut to shake his hand. Herman immediately recognized the popular Estonian artist, and cordially answered his greeting. Kalmer met at various events with the first heroes of space exploration, among which was Yuri Gagarin, but he really made friends with Herman Titov ...

Herman came to Tallinn at least three times, and each time visited the singer. The hero of the cosmos was always cordially met by Calmer himself and his beauty wife, Sirie. Once he came to buy Estonian furniture. Another time, he came into incognito and once again visited the festival of songs. On a singing holiday, Herman arrived as an official and in a uniform was photographed with representatives of the Setu nation, dressed in national costumes.

Once he arrived with the famous opera singer Yuri Gulyaev, the singer was about two meters tall. Titov, like all the first astronauts, was very small. Having risen to Kalmer’s house, they decided to change their jackets right in front of the door and entered the apartment in this form. Gulyaev barely could pull on Titov’s jacket, and the Faldes of his jacket Gulyaev, worn by Titov, dragged on the floor.

When the hostess opened the door, she introduced herself this hilarious picture. The guests and the owners burst out with an unbridled laugh ... In general, each time he certainly visited the singer. He constantly accompanied Titov with all his movements along Tallinn. However, sometimes they managed to escape from the guard assigned to the astronaut. Kalmer and his wife, like many other residents of Estonia, hated the guard for his past.

Therefore, the owners left the guard behind the door in the cold each time. Once the most severe frost, the hostess nevertheless regretted the guard and put him into the house. At that time, Liyne’s daughter was only a year, and Titov brought her Czech milk powder with vitamins and her parents decided that it was for this reason that she grew up very well. He was very interested in ancient architecture.

So when visiting the island of Saaremaa, Herman saw a well -preserved old mansion in which a neuropsychiatric dispensary was located. I'll go take a picture! Titov, on the other hand, answered optimistically: “Of course I can, I just jump over the fence ...” Without thinking twice, the astronaut asked Kalmer to stop and got out of the car, went to the fence and deftly overcoming it disappeared from sight.

Kalmer decided to drive up to the main entrance and wait for him there. But time passed and the astronaut did not return.