Music and Revolution in Ukraine
Saturday, February 29 | Lang Recital Hall, Hunter College
Ukraine’s musical history has been intimately tied to moments of political revolution. Our Saturday events feature works of revolutionary composers and their musical responses to oppression and liberation.
The program will open with three academic talks on various composers and their musical interactions with political change, including the unique compositional approaches of one of Ukraine’s early Soviet avant-garde composers and the ways in which his music reflected his responses to the developments of Communism, one of Ukraine’s most important living composers, Valentyn Sylvestrov, providing an overview of his career and comparing his works from the 1960s to more recent compositions, and the changing landscape of music in Ukraine following the 2014 Revolution of Dignity.
These talks will be complemented by a concert of works from Roslavets, Sylvestrov, and those responding to the events on Maidan.
4:00 PM Music and Revolution in Ukraine: Panel Discussion
Inessa Bazayev, “Experiments with Synthetic Chords: Nikolai Roslavets’ Middle Period Works” Peter Schmelz, “Meditations on Sylvestrov, from Revolution to Revolution” Leah Batstone, “Constructing a National Canon: Ukraine’s Musical Landscape since 2014”
6:00 PM CONCERT
Nikolai Roslavets, Meditation
Karmella Tsepkolenko, Cycles of the Black Moon
Valentyn Sylvestrov, Kitsch Music
Valentyn Sylvestrov, Three Songs
Ludmila Yurina, Shadows and Ghosts
Ivan Taranenko, Global Bells
—INTERMISSION—
Anna Korsun, Song of a Fish
Ostap Manulyak, Oracle
Svyatoslav Lunyov, New Russian Dances
Yevhen Stankovych, Maidan Fresco
Serhii Zazhytko, To Samuel Beckett
Performed by Yuliya Basis, Lindsey Eckenroth, Pavel Gintov, Solomiya Ivakhiv, Gleb Kanasevich, Tristan Kasten-Krause, Claudia Knafo, Iryna Kit, Erin Lensing, Joanna Mieleszko, Quynh Nguyen, Tessa Pettit, Anna Shelest, Shelest Piano Duo, Valeriya Sholokhova, and Remy Taghavi
Lang Recital Hall
Hunter College, CUNY
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065
Join us following the concert for a reception at the Ukrainian Institute of America with our composers, speakers and musicians, as well as entertainment from exquisite Ukrainian jazz pianist, Fima Chupakhin!
The festival is open to the public and will be conducted in English.