Darwin Fellow in Music, Professor Olha Kushniruk invites the College and wider community to mark International Music Day with a Concert for Ukraine at 6pm on Tuesday 1st October. Established by violinist Yehudi Menuhin in collaboration with UNESCO in 1975, International Music Day was created “for the propagation of greater knowledge of our art, and for the strengthening of the bonds of peace and friendship between peoples through music.”
Programme:
- Lily Boulanger. Nocturne
- Johann Sebastian Bach. Aria from Suite No. 3 for string orchestra
Lilia Reynolds, flute
Olha Kushniruk, piano
- Hryhorii Verovka. Arrangement of the Ukrainian folk song “Quiet over the river”
- Oleksandr Bilash. Zhuravka (poem by Vasyl Yukhymovych)
- Anatolii Kos-Anatolskyi. Arrangement of the Ukrainian folk song “Why, why didn’t you come”
Alina Rybina, soprano
Olha Kushniruk, piano
- Frederic Chopin. Andante Spianato and Great Polonaise brilliante Op. 22
Antonio Morabito, piano
- Three Ukrainian folk songs a cappella
Tetiana Kysliak, contralto
- Roberto Calva. Blues
- Gary Moore. Loner
- Valerii Malyshev. Yellow leaf
Ivan Utkin, electric guitar
- Benny Golson. Whisper not
- Joe Henderson. Recordame
- Bill Evans. Blue in Green
- Victor Young, Ned Washington. Stella in Starlight
- Stanley Turrentine. Sugar
- Miles Davis. Nardis
Andrew Bowie, saxophone
Emmanuel Keller, piano
- Vladimir Cosma. Reality (the song from the film “La Boum”)
Olha Kushniruk, piano
- Georg Friedrich Handel. Aria “Scherza infida” from the opera “Ariodante”
- Ihor Shamo. Oi hop-hopaka (text by Taras Shevchenko from the poem “Haydamaky”)
Anna Starushkevych, soprano
Olha Kushniruk, piano
