How many popular actors went out of vogue literally in couple of weeks - now them already anybody and will not recollect. And the songs of Joseph Kobzon have been listened by not one generation already. "How passes anniversary round?" - the journalists asked the singer. "Excuse me for immodesty - brilliantly! ", - answered Joseph Kobzon.

At the end of November in a cinema hall of a House of Friendship was held musical lecture-hall of Anatoly Kelberg "Joseph Kobzon - is singer of all times. The auditory gathered mainly of senior generation. For them Joseph Kobzon - is not just favourite singer, he is also the singer of their youth.

Having begun the creative career in far 60th, Joseph Kobzon sings almost half a century. Sometimes he is named as Russian Frank Sinatra. Music to songs for him was written by such known composers as Ostrovsky, Pakhmutova. With performances he traveled all over CIS, he was warmly accepted in China, Israel. He has never been lip-synching.

Gathered in the lecture center people with pleasure listened songs of Kobzon of different years, were interested in details of life of the singer. The majority of the students agreed, that the songs of Joseph Kobzon bear culture and optimistic mood.

Lecturer Anatoly Kelberg - is musicologist, propagandizing classical and variety music for already 50 years, also prefers the songs checked up by time. "I love to listen to music, from which the nerves and grandsons do not spoil", - declared Anatoly Kelberg.

Ocsana Katzimon