{"id":6762,"date":"2017-10-26T06:29:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T06:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ukrainistatemp.martinblack.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2018-03-03T17:48:54","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T17:48:54","slug":"ukrainian-rhapsody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/2017\/10\/ukrainian-rhapsody\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Rhapsody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6679 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/rhapodsy.jpg\" alt=\"Ukrainian rhapodsy poster\" width=\"300\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/rhapodsy.jpg 514w, https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/rhapodsy-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/rhapodsy-300x420.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I can&#8217;t quite remember how I came across this fascinating documentary but I&#8217;m very glad that I did.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ukrainian Rhapsody<\/strong>\u00a0is a \u00a0&#8216;journey into Ukrainian classical music&#8217; initiated by\u00a0pianist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Natalya_Pasichnyk\">Natalya Pasichnyk<\/a> and her soprano sister <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Olga_Pasichnyk\">Olga\u00a0Pasichnyk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary looks at Ukrainian composers under the Soviet regime, many of whom had their music suppressed, some where dispatched to the Gulag, while others were murdered by the secret police, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mykola_Leontovych\">Mykola Leontovych<\/a>, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Composers featured in the documentary include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mykola_Lysenko\">Mykola Lysenko<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Viktor_Kosenko\">Viktor Kosenko<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Valentyn_Sylvestrov\">Valentyn Sylvestrov<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boris_Lyatoshinsky\">Boris Lyatoshinsky<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Levko_Revutsky\">Levko Revutsky<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vasyl_Barvinsky\">Vasyl Barvinsky<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kyrylo_Stetsenko\">Kyrylo Stetsenko<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s well worth 45 minutes of your time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1040\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UqdwQ4eCTHM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=http:\/\/martinblack.com\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For more on Ukrainian classical music see:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogg.sh.se\/re-ukraine\/culture\/being-different-against-the-wind-a-crash-course-in-the-history-of-ukrainian-classical-music\/\">a crash course in the history of Ukrainian classical music<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below is A choir piece by<strong> Mykola Leontovych<\/strong>, written days before his murder.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1040\" height=\"780\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_yCOw-2Bkr4?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1&#038;origin=http:\/\/martinblack.com\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u00a0&#8216;journey into Ukrainian classical music&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,150],"tags":[177],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6762"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6855,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6762\/revisions\/6855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}