40: Is it a lot or little?40 UAH today is not enough.40 likes under the post are also not enoughAnd 40 years? There are two ways to look at it: to live 40 years is not enough; to wait 40 years is a lot.That's how long the symphony by Volodymyr Pavenskyi waited for its first public performance, which happened in January 2023 on the stage of the Lviv Organ Hall by musicians of the Academic Symphony ...  Read More

In Ukraine, there is an ancient tradition of weaving a periwinkle (in ukr. barvinok) wreath for the bride at her wedding (it is an evergreen climbing plant that blooms with pale blue flowers in spring). Such a periwinkle wreath was a talisman, protecting against the "evil eye," envy, disease, and other evil forces. The fate of one Ukrainian family living in the Ternopil region, the Barvinskyi fami...  Read More

"Everyone nowadays has to do what they are capable of, to fulfill their life mission" - says Ukrainian composer Oleksandr Shchetynskyi in his interview in April 2022 for the Lviv Organ Hall.  Oleksandr Shchetynskyi has been fulfilling his life mission - to write new, unique, lively music - since childhood and every day, until today.The avant-garde and postmodernist Shchetynskyi was born and educat...  Read More

The name of Vasyl Bezkorovainyi in Ukraine during the Soviet period could not be mentioned because of his emigration. During the Second World War, together with his family, the composer went to Vienna, and from 1949 he lived in the United States. Vasyl was born in Ternopil, where he began to study music. He particularly liked to play the violin and piano. The young composer participated in the gym...  Read More

Her Facebook profile is still active. However, there have been no new posts for almost a year, but the feed is replenished with numerous mentions from relatives, friends, acquaintances, students and all those who remember her as always open and sincere, emotional and in her own way "cosmic", composer and teacher, Hanna Havrylets. Her world is closely connected with Ukraine. She was born in Ivano-F...  Read More

When you hear the sounds of a pipe, who do you imagine? A man or a woman in ethnic folk costume on the slopes of the Carpathians? And if it's not a pipe, but a Ukrainian chromatic longitudinal recorder, does your association change to something more academic?Incredibly, but in fact it is the more or less same musical instrument. And now, students from music schools to conservatories study in the c...  Read More

The Godfather of Christmas or How the melody of the Ukrainian composer became a symbol of the holiday all over the world For the first time I heard of Mykola Leontovych as a child, when I went on a school trip to his museum in Tulchyn, Vinnytsia region. Then I learned that I share a common small homeland with the composer (we both come from the same area), as well as about his difficult and tragic...  Read More

In 1934, he was one of the first in the territory of the "union" to create the children's ballet "Little Stork". In addition, Symphony 1, written in 1945, became the first memorial in the history of music dedicated to the tragedy of Babyn Yar. A victim of cultural oppression and anti-Semitism during the Soviet era, Ukrainian composer of Jewish origin, Kharkiv resident Dmytro Klebanov joined the li...  Read More

30 years ago, on November 15, 1992, the life of Andriy Shtoharenko ended. And exactly 120 years and 1 month ago, on October 15, 1902, he was born. The period of the composer's life, which lasted 90 long years, was filled with art and music, teaching, and true recognition."Writing music should become an organic need of an artist, a composer must always be in a creative state..." Andriy Shtoharenko ...  Read More

On May 29, Kyiv celebrated City Day. Even under martial law, Kyivans crowded the streets of the capital to celebrate this holiday. Traditionally, the festivities began with the official anthem of Kyiv, which was heard by almost every Ukrainian. This is a song, the music for which was written by Ukrainian composer Ihor Shamo, it is called "My Kyiv" (Kyeve miy)Who was Ihor Shamo? How did you live an...  Read More

His father's name was Apolon, which derives from Apolo! But this did not prophesy the fate of the god from ancient Greek myths to his son. Because the family of Apolon Simovych did not live on Mount Olympus, but in the Chernivtsi region, Ukraine; the type of activity was somewhat different from what the gods did in Greece. So: "Music is, of course, good, but you won't earn a living with it," Roman...  Read More

There are such words on his tomb, just below the date of birth and death: "He loved the people, and the people loved him". But is it true that they loved him so much? Why did they forget him then? This is the story of Porphyriy Bazhanskyi, a Ukrainian composer, writer, priest and outstanding beekeeper.He is one of the Ukrainian composers who, by all means, were looking for an opportunity to create...  Read More