The film is dedicated to the Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation, music teacher of Moscow Secondary School No. 734, Margarita Fedorovna Golovina. You will see several fragments of interviews and fragments of lessons in elementary, middle and graduating classes.
Music teacher of Moscow School No. 734 M.F. Golovina looks at illustrations in art albums.
Records and art books are on the table in Golovina's office.
Golovina closes the album, puts it in a cardboard case, and places it on the bookshelf.
Golovina is getting ready for another lesson in the classroom, putting a record on the record player.
View of an empty classroom, elementary school students enter the classroom, stand by the chairs, Golovina's face.
Students' faces.
Children listen to a musical fragment.
Children begin to sing in chorus.
Students sit down.
Golovina teaches a lesson, children's faces.
Children listen to music, move their hands in time to the waltz.
Faces of children listening to music.
Students answer the teacher's questions, raise their hands, a panorama of the classroom from different angles.
Moscow music teachers in a cinema after watching fragments of Golovina's lessons, teachers' faces.
Golovina's conversation with colleagues about the methodology of conducting music and singing lessons, Golovina explains her goals and objectives in music lessons to colleagues (synchronously and behind the scenes).
Golovina asks students questions about the opera during the lesson, the children raise their hands and answer the questions.
The children, together with their parents present at the lesson, perform a song accompanied by a piano.
1988
Moscow
Faces of parents of students.
Golovina's conversation with parents about the need for and increasing the number of music lessons at school, about teaching music.
Golovina talks about the children's lack of experience listening to music.
Golovina's interview about the presence of parents during music lessons, about the form of a concert lesson (synchronously).
Golovina asks students questions during a lesson in elementary grades, children answer, children's faces.
Golovina at the blackboard asks children questions about musical notation, children answer.
Children sing a musical line written on the blackboard, Golovina at the piano.
Golovina teaches the lesson, students answer questions.
Golovina puts a record with a piece by Grieg on the turntable.
Faces of children listening to music.
Golovina asks students a question about Grieg's music, about the notes written on the blackboard, the children answer.
Golovina puts another record on the turntable.
Faces of children listening to music, a panorama of the classroom.
Golovina asks students questions about the works of Grieg and Tchaikovsky, the children answer.
1988
Moscow
Golovina asks students questions about the works of Grieg and Tchaikovsky, their themes, the children answer.
Golovina, during a meeting with colleagues, answers questions about the number of hours per week for music lessons at school, speaks about the insufficiency of one hour per week (synchronously).
The interior of one of the rooms in Golovina's apartment, books on the shelves, photographs on the walls.
Golovina is sitting on the couch at the table.
A record player next to the TV, a painting on the wall.
Golovina is reading notes while sitting at the table.
Golovina's face.
The window of Golovina's apartment.
Golovina shows middle school students a slide with Picasso's painting "Guernica" during a lesson, asks questions about the painting.
Children's faces.
Fragments of the painting.
Golovina's face.
Students answer questions about the painting, express their opinions, children's faces, fragments of the painting.
A record on a record player, a slide projector on the table, a portrait of D.D. Shostakovich on the record sleeve.
Faces of middle school students listening to music.
Golovina puts a record on the record player, a panorama of the classroom.
Faces of the students.
1988
Moscow
Golovina tells the students about the musical works by Schoenberg and Shostakovich they have listened to, asks questions about the works they have listened to.
The students' faces.
The students take turns expressing their opinions about the subject matter and mood of the works they have listened to.
Golovina puts on a record with a work by Shostakovich, lets the students listen to it, asks questions (synchronously and off-screen), the students' faces.
Golovina, during a meeting with colleagues, answers a question about her teaching music to fourth-grade students, about the connection between painting and music in the subject matter of lessons (synchronously).
Golovina performs three themes from Schubert's symphony during the lesson, the students begin to sing from the notes.
Golovina gives the class an assignment to evaluate Schubert's work.
The students' faces listening to the music.
Golovina's face.
The students write down their impressions of Schubert's work in their notebooks.
One of the students reads out his notes about the musical work he has listened to (synchronously).
Golovina invites the students to read their texts.
The students read out the written text about the Schubert symphony they have listened to (synchronously), Golovina approves of their assessment of the work.
Golovina explains the next task to the students, asks the students to give examples of lyrical, dramatic and tragic musical works (synchronously).
The students perform V.S. Vysotsky's song "Ballad of the Struggle".
1988
Moscow
During the lesson, students perform the song "Hope's Little Orchestra" by B.Sh.
Okudzhava, Golovina at the piano.
Golovina during a meeting with colleagues answers a question about her attitude to the author's song (synchronously).
Faces of senior students.
Students, accompanying themselves on the piano and other musical instruments, perform a fragment of the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar".
Golovina, together with the 10th-grade students standing around the piano, listen to the students' performance of one of the musical pieces of Russian classics.
The students sing, standing at the piano, Golovina sings along, standing nearby.
The students take their seats.
Golovina conducts a conversation with the 10th-grade students about the concept of "mass culture", the students express their opinions about mass culture in the West and in the USSR, talk about the influence of classical music on the work of modern musical groups.
Golovina, during a meeting with colleagues, answers a question about teaching 10th-grade students lessons on world art culture, and about the goals and objectives of working with students (synchronously).
Sculptural decorations of an old building.
Golovina gives a tour with students during the holidays.
Faces of young men.
Golovina's students listen to a guide on the street.
Golovina with her students during a tour of the lyceum in the city of Pushkin (Tsarskoye Selo), the guide talks about the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum (synchronously and off-screen), faces of young men and women.
Golovina's face.
The cover of the musical score of "Farewell Song of a Graduate of the Imperial Lyceum", its performance is heard off-screen.
Golovina's students listen to the guide.
Faces of young men and women.
Golovina's students listen to a guide in one of the lyceum classrooms.
Golovina's face.
Golovina and her students walk along a path in a spring park.
Laying flowers at the monument to A.S. Pushkin.
Golovina with her students at the Pushkin monument.
Panorama of the arch and part of the Lyceum building.
View of part of the Catherine Park.
Golovina's students during a walk in the Catherine Park, faces of young men and women.
Panorama of the Catherine Palace, Golovina's students walking past.
1988
Moscow Leningrad Leningrad region
Spring