Shevchenko. Today

On the 210th anniversary of his birth

His words contain prophecies and calls to struggle, bloody pages of history and picturesque dreams of the future, true pictures of life and beautiful landscapes of the Motherland.

Taras Shevchenko is a poet whose lines are remembered all over the world when people talk about Ukraine.

Taras Shevchenko is a poet whose words we believe in now when the described by him struggle for our Independence continues.

To mark the 210th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko’s birth works dedicated to him will be performed by two leading orchestras – the Military Orchestra of the Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Army Academy and the Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.

Artists:

• Oleksii Kuvitanov, baritone
• Oleh Sozansky, bandura
• Military Band of the Hetman Petro Sahaidachnyi National Army Academy
• Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
• Viktor Tsapura, conductor
• Yuriy Melnyk, conductor
• Oleh Pryhoda, artistic word
• Marta Kuziy, artistic word

Program:

• Borys Liatoshynskyi. Music for the movie “Taras Shevchenko”
• Hnat Khotkevych, orchestration by Roman Stelmashchuk. “Slave market in Kaffa”
• “Heroes do not die”. Music by Yurii Melnyk, lyrics by Hryhorii Semerhii
• “The wide Dnipro roars and groans”. Music by Danylo Kryzhanivskyi, lyrics by Taras Shevchenko