Meeting with the song - 10 March 2025, 16:38

The program, which has been loved by several generations of radio listeners for more than 50 years. The first broadcast lasting one hour appeared on the waves of the All-Union Radio on January 31, 1967. Then it withstood many perestroika tests and, becoming shorter by ten minutes, still remained on the air - now Radio Russia. It is conducted as always by the People’s Artist of Russia, who, when asked whether he assumed that the transfer was destined for a long life, replied: “I did not make any plans.” As the French say, “step by step, you will go far.” In Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Krasnodar and other cities of the GMT +3 time zone at 21.10 local time. In Samara and Izhevsk at 22.10 local time. In Perm, Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, Chelyabinsk, Orenburg, Salekhard, Nizhny Urengoy at 7.10 local time. In Omsk at 8:10 local time. In Barnaul, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Norilsk at 9.10 local time. In Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude at 10.10 local time. In Yakutsk, Mirny, Blagoveshchensk, Chita in local time. In Khabarovsk, Vladivostok in local time. In Magadan, local time. In Anadyr, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in local time. Viktor Tatarsky brought the idea and title of the program to the musical editorial office of the All-Union Radio then. From the very beginning until 1985, Teresa Vladislavovna Rymsevic helped him as an editor. Her role, especially at first, was great. She had been working in radio for a long time and knew what the author did not know. She was acquainted with many composers - with Solovyov-Sed, and earlier with Dunaevsky. Teresa Rymshevich was replaced by Tatiana Sergeevna Zubova. Now Viktor Tatarsky does without editors. It is impossible to find a person who, like the author, would be absolutely "in the material." When the "Meeting" began in 1967, it was unheard of for that time: a program in the form of a confidential conversation appeared on official radio. But, oddly enough, a year and a half life was quite calm. The author managed to rehabilitate many banned and unknown works. For example, from the repertoire of Leonid Utesov... And after the events of August 1968, a savage censorship pressure began. Cramola was searched literally in everything, especially in the songs about which the listeners wrote. Viktor Tatarsky often repeats that the “Meeting” is not a “concert on applications”. Important story associated with a song that has become something dear in the fate of a person. Sometimes in the letters of radio listeners there are real confessions about a failed life, hopeless poverty, terrible loneliness. However, what is really scary does not go on the air, because you can not strain millions of people. To such letters V. Tatarsky responds personally. When the author reads the letter, he is already familiar with the situation. Not just talking about it, but reacting. Like someone who has some life experience. He is not a judge, and certainly does not give advice. Just trying to get the person writing to him out of a serious state. Sometimes words mean less than a pause, which can come unexpectedly. As V. Tatarsky says, “By the time of recording the transmission, you know what to say, and you do not know how.” That's how it's supposed to come from the microphone. “Meeting the Song” is not a performance staged by the director, it is pure improvisation. .