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House under the high pines

17 ìàðòà 2005
On 13th of February the anniversary concert of Kim Breitburg with the participation of national stars took place in Kremlin Palace. Nowadays the projects of Kim Breitburg are in the vanguard of show-busyness. It is possible to say that he is the architect and the builder of modern pop-music. On the eve of his 50th anniversary the composer kindly agreed to talk with our magazine. The chat with a star always means the visit to the house.
Kim Alexandrovich lives in small wooden house not far from Moscow, in the cottage village in the middle of pine forest. We found the composer playing chess with his grandson Kim. Young Kim won over his grand father very easily. A gifted child.

-We often sit at chess table, when Kimka comes, - Kim Sr. explains. – Children and grand children visit us almost every weekends.

And in general, Breitburg family is the composer and his wife Olga Vasilievna. They live there permanently.

-Kim Alexandrovich, why did you decided to live in the country?
-In fact, this is my third country house. So, the experience of “country surviving” is rather big. Though, this very house was built mostly as dacha – we were going to come here several times a year. However, we “failed” – the cottage turned to be very convenient and we started to come he more often. After which it was decided to settle here.

-But it is more difficult to get Moscow now?
-It is not a problem for me to spend an hour, seldom – an hour and a half, in the road, though my city flat is situated near my studio. In the evening it is the pleasure to go home, and it is pleasure to go to the work in the morning. Every time on the way to the studio I feel my self fresh and relaxed, like I return from the vocation.

-And how long do you live here?
-Only for a year, but during that time we managed to become “united” with that house.

Let’s imagine in order how the composer Kim Breitburg lives. The first floor includes cuisine, dining room and cinema theatre. All necessary things – approximately in the same order as the family spends the time.
Big oval dinner table takes the central place in the cuisine. We understood that we sat definitely at the family table, drinking tea, and that impression didn’t release us till the end of the interview.
In the evenings the whole family sit at the fireplace in the dining room. That room gathers all good energy around. The location of the dining room provides such impression too – high hall in the center of the house, which can be seen from the inner balcony of second floor. The cottage has the garret, thus the ceiling goes up on two floors and has windows, so called “second light”.

-We like to sit at the fire place. Some times we sit right at the carpet, play with our cats, - the wife of the composer says.

The cats play the honored place in Breitburg’d house. Beside, two pets Chitky and Moty, the hostess has the collection of toy cats. The collection periodically increases with the help of Breitburgs, friends and grandson Kim, who made the statue of cat from gypsum – it turned to be very good, on our opinion, it differs little from factory made things. Clever boy. Secretly, he told us that he wrote the fairy tales in fantasy style. He promised to give us to read it.
There is an ancient tradition to let the cat first to enter the house, to bring cosiness and patience under the roof of the inhabitance. In Breitburgs house you can be certain, that that habit is true even with artificial cats. Such small detail of the interior – toy cat, however it elevates the mood, good memories are connected to each of it. Kim Alexandrovich and Olga Vasilievna didn’t have to order the rooms decoration at professional designer to make the house inimitable. The hosts just put some souls and heart into it, they invited the details, creating cosiness and individuality, breathed the spirit in it. Especially clear it is seen at the hand-made things, like the picture, that was laced by the hostess of the house.

In the evenings Kim Breitburg likes to watch movies in the home cinema-theatre, which has a special room for it. But more often, Kim Alexandrovich goes upstairs to the cabinet, that is equipped like small mini-musical studio. There is everything necessary: computer, microphone, headphones and the electronic piano.
The least is worthy of the special attention, because we are the guests of the composer:

-At first I wanted to place the usual royal piano here. But in the end I decided that the electronic one would be more convenient – it sense every slightest move of the arms, beside that, it can be connected to the computer, computer- to the Internet and work online, - Kim Breitburg says.

-Kim Alexandrovich, where does the muse come to you the most?
The composer laughed and looked at his wife.
It is clear: the muse follows him everywhere – it is his beloved wife. Besides, the marriage of Kim and Olga lasts for 32 year. They are acquainted since the school.

-Do Breitburgs have any interior design dream? What would you like to change or add?
-Yes, we’d like to put big forged bed in the garden, -Olga says. –We like to spend time in open air. Our house is surrounded by beautiful pine forest. Forget bed in the garden is our new idea, which we’ll realize when the snow melts off. And for now we just go for a walk and feed squirrels and birds. There are lots of them.

And Olga Vasilievna showed us pretty squirrel house, located on the pine in front of the house. Unfortunately, we didn’t manage to shot some pictures of squirrels, because they come usually in the morning – for breakfast. And maybe it was just shy of the cameras.

-Kim Alexandrovich, who built the house? And what was your part in the project and construction?
-We trusted the construction to one architect. And we are very happy of the result. He offer us the ready project, which we liked from the beginning. The only thing we did was the “mirroring” of the house, we turn it right-to-left.

-Were you often on the construction site?
-No, very seldom – once a month. The house was built rather quick: we ordered it in March and in November we got the ready complex with gates, fence, paths and lawn. I can say, we practically didn’t control the construction. 8-9 months and it is possible to live “from blanc paper”.
Breitburgs house is equipped with all necessary for comfortable life.
The water goes from mineshaft due to the pump, canalization – the plant ready installation. The gas bus is connected to the house, the heating is on steam. The floors have the heating too. The Moscow phone number and the Internet line allows the composer to feel himself connected to the world, and help a lot in work.

-Why did you choose the wooden house?
-Olga insisted on it: the country house should be wooden, that’s that. Now I’m completely agree with her. Wooden house can keep cosiness and spirit warm, it is easier to breath in it.
During the pleasant conversation about the house, music, show-busyness and just “about life” the time passed quite fast. You feel yourself like at home in the house of Breitburg. Everything is simple there and family style, unbelievably warm and spiritual mood.
It became dark and the time came to say good buy to the hospitable people, living in the house under high pines.

KIM BREITBURG
One of the major composers of modern pop-music. Many hits of Alla Pugacheva, Philip Kirkorov, Valeriy Leontiev, Larisa Dolina, Boris Moiseev, Jasmin, Diana Gurtzkaya, Anita Tzoy, Irina Ponarovskaya, “Prime Ministr” band and many others.
As the maestro of composer skill, competent tutor, musical activist with many years experience, Kim Breitburg became one of the organizers of the project “People’s Artist” on “Russia” channel in 2003, which finds the new talents and gives them a chance.
It were the songs of Kim Breitburg that made famous such participants of the TV project as Alexander Panajotov(“On the edge”, “Moon melody”) and Alexey Goman (“Native house”, “Russian guy”).
It is enough to remember that Kim Breitburg opened such artists as Veleriy Meladze, Nikolay Trubach, Viacheslav Bodolika (“Prime Ministr” band); his projects and followers gained popularity and place their own position in our musical culture.
The hit “Northern girl”, written by Kim Breitburg, fight for the honor of our country on “Eurovision” in 2002, providing high musical rating of our country in the world.
Being among the masters of national musical industry, the composer Kim Breitburg started his musical road as a vocalist of the “Dialog” band over 30 years ago. The band became very popular and issued 7 albums, they went on tour all over the country and abroad. In 1980 “Dialog” became the winner of rock-festival “Spring rhythms” in Tbilisi, and Kim Breitburg was titled as the best vocalist. Twice, in 1985 and 1980, the “Dialog” band became the winner of International Youth and Student festival in Moscow.

“Who builds the house” magazine #3 March 2005
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