the tall, dying oleksandr kozarenko , close friends, colleagues, artists for us came to visit oleksandr kozyrenkoboth very close friendly memories and at the same time an understanding of his greatness, his scale, creative personality as a composer, as a performer, as an organizer of artistic life, as a researcher, and it is very difficult to say goodbye to him because it is premature and definitely unexpected and we simply take with us what he left us that legacy, and now we have to continue to live with it and remember it with great gratitude, was born from god's great talent and from enormous daily exhausting work in the field of ukrainian culture, especially music ukrainian culture has suffered uncorrected losses and one thing must be understood. march 23, starting in 1992, was once the day of the cultural worker. there is certainly some unexpected parallel when a person at this very time, like his body, i said today to his eminence and the body leaves this earth oleksandr kozarenko was buried in his family pantheon in kolomyia from prykarpattia ivan haruk - volodymyr voloshchuk for the espre