well, for now, shchedrik number one.waiting on our air for a person who knows about shchedrik, everything, and maybe even more. an important role in cultural diplomacy, because in this way it showed what ukraine is, although later on the score, of course, it was written that it was a ukrainian carol well, but later, when the english-language version already appeared, then they began to write in the american muse environment, they began to call it russian, of course, ukraine then has already lost its statehood, but now it is turning its history back, and we are expecting tina parasunka, a researcher of the history of the philanthropist, on our airwaves, what is interesting is that he started calling the carol russian, and the russians themselves took it away life is to the author, he is the one who made the arrangement of the leontovych folk carol, and he is with us on the move, already in touch, researcher of the history of shchedryk, founder of the leontovych institute, scientific cooperation of the hrushevskyi institut

my colleagues in america call the melody carol of the bells, and in shchedrik to ukraine 100 years agooir of oleksandr koshyts presented on the north american continent the melody of the ukrainian shchedrik until the important date. the employees of the leontovich institute found and brought to ukraine the first recording of the shchedrik performed by the koshytsy choir in new york. it was recorded in new york in september 1922. well, in general, we we can say that this is the first gramophone record of shchedryk that was made in america, this recording was actually made a week before the premiere of shchedryk's song on the stage of punniki holm, the record itself is unique there are 8 such copies in the world, the founder of the leontovych institute, tina peresunko, found a rarity on a website where benefactors exchange things, a woman bought the copy for ukrainian culture. you have to be very careful with them, they break easily and can crash. shchedryk was then also a diplomatic instrument, the singers whom simon petliura sent abroad were supposed to demonstrate to the world the dif

well , here it is in shchedrik. well, it’s about the same story .hink it’s an american song, actually ukrainian. how did it happen? it’s clear that they didn’t steal the shchedrik to read, as the russians did with other songs, but i generally uh, well, why wasn’t it ? understanding that this is a ukrainian er ukrainian song this is generally a situation with the fact that little was known about ukraine i i think i don't know a lot about ukraine , about ukrainian culture, but this is not the trick of a generous man , at our concert, we also want to show, hmm, other connections between american and ukrainian music. other american composers, for example, with connections to ukraine, and parents from ukraine, or to study with ukrainians, and so on, finally, tell us about dna, and it is not yet clear whether he will come to kelvin or not, but it is already clear that there will be a composition based on his texts, on his poems, you can to say that this will be uh yes we still don't know when he will be there. we hope that he will be with us, but yes, we

words, interesting wording, well, now let's move on to the topic of shchedrikan, the fact is that shchedrike performed in december at carnegie hall, just like this it happened almost exactly 100 years ago. i will remind you that in 2922 the vidun choir under the leadership of oleksandr koshyts visited america , in particular carnegie hall, they performed a lot of ukrainian works and in particular shchedryk, which later became one of the most famous songs in the world and the most famous american carol probably the most famous american carol, in principle, many americans believe that it is an american song , but we understand that it is not. that lordship is not your song. this is our song. i will remind you once again that this is the choir of an orchestra under the leadership of košice. he traveled not only to the united states, but also to europe. all these tours began in 1919. the idea of ​​such tours arose in head of simon petliura, who i believed that ukraine needs to promote some of its own narrative meanings through culture, it was an absolutely cool idea, the freshness of which is p