Poetic sympho-rock

The singer will perform both timeless classics and works by contemporary poets and composers. The evening performances will be accompanied by the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Lviv Philharmonic Society and the Shevchenko Orchestra (the latter’s members are Yurii Romaniv (keyboards), Vitalii Bodnar (guitar), Taras Yatsyshyn (bass), and Oleksii Dolnikov (percussion)). Special guests will include Oleksandr Bozhyk (violin), Ivanna Mytrohan (harp), and a vocal septet. Volodymyr Syvokhip will serve as conductor.

The event will offer modern-sounding adaptations of poems by Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesia Ukrainka, Bohdan-Ihor Antonych, Hrytsko Chubai, Volodymyr Ivasiuk, Bohdan Stelmakh, and Lina Kostenko.

Mukha’s concert program will include neoclassical, impressionistic, blues-rock, and even RnB compositions. Unexpected arrangements will become another surprise for the public. In particular, Franko’s poem “Why Do You Keep Coming to Me in My Dreams?” will sound in the RnB style, while Shevchenko’s “If Only I Could Sit Down to Share Bread with Someone” will be arranged in the blues manner. Blues-rock interpretations of Antonych’s “November” and Chubai’s “When I Come So Close to Your Lips...” will be performed as well, and accompanied by the symphony orchestra to boot.

“This art project originated with Shevchenko’s poem ‘O, My Beautiful Evening Star,’ which the composer Dmytro Katsal set to the music of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata,” the project’s promotion manager Halyna Huz told us. “Subsequently, the program grew to include newly reinterpreted poems set to the music by Mykola Lysenko, Stanislav Liudkevych, Bohdana Froliak, and Mykola Katsal.”

“This program is our modest contribution to developing the national idea,” added creator of the program “From Shevchenko to Kostenko,” chief conductor and director of the Dudaryk Lviv Academic Male Choir Dmytro Katsal.