UKRAINIAN TONE POEMS

SATURDAY MARCH 15, 2025 | 7:30PM

DIMENNA CENTER FOR CLASSICAL MUSIC | 450 W 37TH ST

A presentation of instrumental works inspired by Ukrainian and American literature, both classical and contemporary, from Lesia Ukrainka to Stephen King.

Leonid HRABOVSKY, For Elissa (1988)**
Based on literary ciphers derived from LISP programming language

Adrian MOCANU, Les chevaux de feu (2022)**
Inspired by Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky

Alla ZAHAYKEVYCH, TERCET for clarinet, violin, and cello (2010)**
Inspired by Taras Prokhasko’s Necropolis

Renata SOKACHYK, The Desert Breathes (2024)**
Inspired by Lesia Ukrainka

Alisa ZAIKA, “he only dreamed of places now…” (2022)**
Inspired by Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man And The Sea

Lena SIEROVA, The Last Leaf (2010-11)**
After the short story by O. Henry

Alex VOYTENKO, Homo Fugens (Running Man) (2018)*
Inspired by Stephen King

Yurii PIKUSH, Be a Cycle (2023)**
Inspired by T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

*world premiere

**U.S. premiere

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