On 20 September, at 19:00, the Dovzhenko Centre in Lviv will host a multimedia event Dovzhenko. Zaderatsky.
Cinema and Music” – a screening of Dovzhenko’s cult film The Earth accompanied by a live performance of the symphony by Ukrainian composer Vsevolod Zaderatsky.
The audience will see a reinterpretation of the film Earth with special effects and 3D mapping performed by Oleksiy Khoroshko, the chief artist of Lesya Theatre, the cinematographer of the first Ukrainian thriller The Adit. The musical performance is provided by the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Lviv National Philharmonic named after M. Skoryk under the direction of Serhiy Khorovets.
The symphony (written in 1951) by the repressed Ukrainian composer Vsevolod Zaderatsky will be performed in its entirety for the first time in the history of Ukrainian classical music. For the exclusive performance at the Dovzhenko Centre, conductor Serhiy Horovets digitised the manuscripts provided by the composer’s descendants.
Tickets for the event are available here: https://lviv.karabas.com/ua/zemlya-7/
The project is the winner of the Per Forma grant programme implemented by the Kyiv Contemporary Music Days platform with the support of the Performing Arts Fund NL and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the Netherlands to develop the performing arts sector in Ukraine.
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Vsevolod Zaderatsky (1891-1953) was one of the first Ukrainian modernist composers to be accused of “formalism” and repressed by the Soviet authorities. His Symphony was completed in 1951 while he was working at the Lviv Conservatory and had only been performed in a shortened version once before the composer’s death.