, for today, i cannot clearly say, because we have in our journalists always write that peter vilkhovskyid the premiere of shchedryk at the karentihall and wrote the adaptation, but he was 20 years old at the time. of course, this is not an obstacle, but there is no documentary evidence, so he may not have been a rebel, but there is confirmation of what he writes. what really is he heard shchedryk performed by a ukrainian choir, and this is his letter as far back as 1974, when the ukrainian public in america finally turned to him. well, explain, our shchedryk became so popular in america, in new york, it is constantly sung at christmas, so how do you e- came out on this work and here he wrote in american music to savitsky, a connoisseur of the roman novel , that he heard asked for the notes of a schedryk in the ukrainian choir and wrote his er-er this english-language text and why because the children from his school choir, he was the conductor of the school choir at the time forum in new york, they would not be able to sing in ukrainian, so he wrote the english text, that's actually how