On the initiative of the head of the Lviv branch of the Union of Ukrainian Women, Lidia Boychyshyn, the Lviv National Philharmonic launched the music and art project “Many hollyhocks were sown by war.”
On March 18, in honor of the commemoration of composers born in March, Volodymyr Ivasyuk and Igor Bilozor, the event “Many hollyhocks were sown by war” was held within the project, which was organized together with the Department of Culture, Nationalities and Religions of the Lviv Regional Military Administration.
Songs by Ihor Bilozor and Volodymyr Ivasyuk were performed by the soloists of the Myroslav Skoryk Lviv National Philharmonic Marianna Laba, Vitaly Golubnych, Natalia Granovska, Anastasia Chubinska, Stanislav Goyan, Oksana Hryb, Vasyl Ponaida, Olga Fenyuk.
The listeners and spectators of the concert program were members of the Lviv branch of the Union of Ukrainian Women of the Lviv region, in particular, from Przemyśl region, Godochchyna, Boryslav, Drohobychchyna, Stryhychyna, Starosambirchyna, Sambor, Novoyavorivsk, Khodorivchyna, and Lviv, as well as representatives of public organizations from Kryvyi Rih who live in Stryhychyna .
“Union women nurture Ukrainian song and traditions, popularize them among forcibly resettled Ukrainians, because Ukrainian song preserves our nation at the genetic level. A Ukrainian song is playing – the Ukrainian nation is alive,” the Union of Ukrainian Women of Lviv Oblast noted.