I'm doing some digging into Russian "rock" music of the 60s, 70s, and
80s, and came across an album and a documentary film based on Nabokov's
poems and Aleksandr Gradsky's music. The album, "Nostal'giia", was
recorded in 1984, during the reign of Konstantin Chernenko. The film
was called "I ne konchaetsia stroka" ("And the line does not end," the
last phrase in The Gift).
Do any NabLers know anything about these items? I have known about
Gradsky for a long time, but haven't followed him closely. He did
albums based on other poets as well; I have his album based on
Nabokov's
friend Sasha Chorny's poetry, called "Satiry", that came out in 1986.
Gradsky has been a major figure in Russian rock and art music (and
perhaps other genres) since the late 1960s.
~Stephen Blackwell