Category: Music
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Vadym Yatsenko: “Our success lifts the whole choral culture of Ukraine”
It has only been a few months since the choir Homin went viral on TikTok. Their rendition of Tsei son (“This Dream”), set to music by Stepan Hiha with lyrics by Anatolii Fihliuk, was uploaded by the choir’s communications manager, Liudmyla Burda — and suddenly life changed. Although the ensemble has a nearly 40-year history…
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“If we want to be heard, we must speak through art”: interview with Alona Dmukhovska
How often have you listened to a Ukrainian song and thought, ‘Why isn’t this song famous around the world?’ Probably a dozen times less than Alona Dmukhovska, music expert and founder of Music Export Ukraine (MEU), an independent organisation that has been promoting Ukrainian music and helping local artists get heard abroad since 2018. Read…