Sunday, December 4, 2011 at 7:30 pm Ensemble Hilka The Chornobyl Songs Project: Living Culture from a Lost World
Village Songs from Ukraine performed by Ensemble Hilka (NYC, part of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance’s Ukrainian Wave Community Cultural Initiative) led by music director and song collector Yevhen Yefremov (Ensemble Drevo, Kyiv) At Crossroads Music, 801 South 48th Street (in Calvary Church) $10-$30 Since the 1986 nuclear disaster, the traditional communities near Chornobyl have been largely dispersed and very few people remain, but one trace remains: songs ethnomusicologist Yevhen Yefremov, collected in the region in the 70s and 80s. With Ensemble Hilka, a Ukrainian women's chorus based at New York City's Center for Traditional Music and Dance, he has prepared a concert program that commemorates and helps the audience to imagine how this lost repertoire used to define the daily lives of people who lived in the villages of the Chornobyl Zone. The concert will be supplemented with archival photographic, audio and video footage from Dr. Yefremov's ethnographic expeditions leading up to and following the 1986 nuclear disaster and brief commentary that contextualizes and helps the audience to imagine how the spiritual, ritual, and aesthetic function of this lost repertoire used to define the daily lives of people who lived in the villages of the Chornobyl Zone. Music samples, tickets, and more information at http://crossroadsconcerts.org/?p=3357 ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity-Announce." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>. You may post announcements to this list, but this list attempts to prevent discussion. Please use univcity to discuss messages on this list. Subscribers of univcity receive all mail to this list.
