{"id":32058,"date":"2023-02-09T08:50:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-09T08:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philharmonia.lviv.ua\/?p=32058"},"modified":"2023-02-15T13:01:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T13:01:21","slug":"intensive-tour-usa-flemming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philharmonia.lviv.ua\/en\/media\/intensive-tour-usa-flemming\/","title":{"rendered":"Extensive and bright tour of the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"

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John Fleming talks<\/a> about it in one of America’s leading media, “Classical Voice North America”. As part of a two-month tour of 40 concerts under the baton of principal conductor Theodore Kuchar, the orchestra performed at the Wildstein Center for the Performing Arts in Florida.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNormally, a tour like this \u2014 Florida, New York City, across America \u2014 would be something to look forward to,\u201d said\u00a0Theodore Kuchar<\/a>, the Ukrainian American who is principal conductor of the Lviv Philharmonic. \u201cBut people in the orchestra are extremely traumatized by the war, and being away for so long causes a lot of anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is noticed that\u00a0<\/span>the musicians got bad news from back home on Jan. 14, when a Russian missile demolished part of a large apartment complex in Dnipro, a city in central Ukraine, and killed more than 45 residents, including children.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cThat was absolutely horrible news, to hear that entire families were wiped out,\u201d said violin soloist Vladyslava Luchenko a few days later. \u201cYou feel like your heart is broken open when you allow yourself to grieve. But we still go out onstage to perform.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Luchenko, a native of Kyiv who is now concertmaster of the\u00a0Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn<\/a>\u00a0in Switzerland, acknowledged the pain that Lviv players are feeling, but said she felt it was a privilege to be on the tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a way for us to fight as well,\u201d she said. \u201cWe musicians are not trained to fight on the front lines. If we can show the U.S. public our music, our culture, and the greatness of Ukraine, then this mission is worth our being away from home so long.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The tour programs mostly consist of well-known classical repertoire (Brahms, Grieg, Dvo\u0159\u00e1k, Beethoven), but each concert includes a Ukrainian piece.<\/p>\n

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