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Yesterday, August 9, the first event of the International Lviv Early Music Festival took place, as well as a press briefing on the occasion of the festival’s 19th edition. As the General Director of the Lviv National Philharmonic Volodymyr Syvokhip noted, the art institution “hosts three main international festivals: the Festival of musical art “Virtuosos”, Festival of the contemporary music “Contrasts” and the Festival of Ancient Music, which represent the three whales on which our culture stands. In Halychyna, we declare our respect for our past, because Ukrainian music has a long, strong tradition that needs to be preserved.”<\/strong><\/p>\n The press conference held at 12:00 was also attended by Bohdan Sehin<\/strong>, commercial director of the Lviv National Philharmonic, artistic director of the XIX Lviv Early Music Festival, head of the project “Muses Are Not Silent”, Urszula Stawicka<\/strong>, a harpsichordist from Poland, and Pawel Osuchowski<\/strong>, a conductor from Poland. He emphasized: “We are in a special moment of our history. Once more our music, and concerts, have some special strength and power to live with our culture and tradition altogether in united Europe.\u00a0We like to play ancient music because we don\u2019t agree with contemporary times. We\u2019d like to return to the special moment when music was so important in the lives of people in our cities, countries, in Europe”.<\/p>\n