DUMKA Choir (Ukraine)
concert
14. 11. 2014 – Friday
8pm
Our Lady of Victory Church, ul. Łąkowa 42
The chronicle of former Festivals
19th Christian Culture Festival 8 — 22 November 2015
18th Christian Culture Festival 2 — 16 November 2014
17th Christian Culture Festival 3 — 17 November 2013
16th Christian Culture Festival 2 — 18 November 2012
15th Christian Culture Festival 6 — 20 November 2011
14th Christian Culture Festival 7 — 21 November 2010
13th Christian Culture Festival 8 — 22 November 2009
12th Christian Culture Festival 2 — 16 November 2008
11th Christian Culture Festival 2 — 18 November 2007
10th Christian Culture Festival 5 — 19 November 2006
9th Christian Culture Festival 6 — 20 November 2005
8th Christian Culture Festival 7 — 21 November 2004
7th Christian Culture Festival 2 — 16 November 2003
6th Christian Culture Festival 2 — 17 November 2002
5th Christian Culture Festival 4 — 18 November 2001
4th Christian Culture Festival 5 — 19 November 2000
3rd Christian Culture Festival 7 — 21 November 1999
2nd Christian Culture Festival 8 — 21 November 1998
1st Christian Culture Festival 2 — 30 November 1997
About Christian Culture Festival
Christian Culture Festival was organized for the first time in 1997 on 10th Anniversary of the Logos Theatre. In a sense, it extends the idea of Christian Culture Weeks organized in Poland in 70s and 80s of the last century, which were to become counterpoise to lay media model promoted by the State. Lodz Christian Culture Days were organized in churches all around the city, so as to accommodate the artists, spectacles, exhibitions and projections.
One of such places was the John Paul lecture theatre in the vault of the Assumption of Holy Mother Church in Kościelna Street. This is where the Logos Theatre started, before it was moved to the church in Maria Skłodowska-Curie. It was this church that Archbishop Władysław Ziółek gave to the Lodz artists in 1993, and in which the Centre of Creative Communities’ of Lodz Archdiocese was appointed. It is here that the ‘logistic’ centre of the Festival is located, and where some of the Festival events take place.
Traditionally, the Festival takes place in November, on the first Sunday after All Soul’s Day. It usually lasts for two weeks, during which various event take place – spectacle premiers, other theatres come to Lodz, there are exhibitions of invited artists, performances of choirs and musicians, very often not to be seen anywhere else in Poland at any other time. The Festival programme is the result of the whole year’s work of rev. Waldemar Sondka, the Festival Director, who – using his contacts – invites artists who are interesting, out of the ordinary, noteworthy and creating art perhaps not always religious, but always searching and at the highest level. Care for the level of the Festival offers is a permanent rule, the Logos environment has always wished to provide the Lodz citizens with the possibility of contact with art deprived of parochialism, open to the man and as perfect formally as possible.
The Festival is not an activity that brings profit. Any entrance cards are issued as invitations that are free of charge, and the team of the Logos Theatre and all the people engaged in the Festival organization, act as volunteers. This does not mean that Christian Culture Festival costs nothing. On the contrary, to organize such a cultural event at appropriate level is always connected with costs. Rev. Waldemar Sondka deals with organizing means to secure the Festival events all year round. He manages to gain sponsors (without whom the Festival would not exist) and subsidies from institutions that deal with funding culture (without which the Festival could not develop). All that in order to realize the basic idea of the event that derived from the Lodz Christian Culture Days – to enable anyone who wishes and needs that, to live the Mystery through art. This idea assumes a free of charge participation in all the artistic events, which has been the case since the very beginning of the Festival until today, the only condition is that on the day of the Festival opening, one must queue as long as it takes to get invitations. The only limit to the number of invitations is the capacity of rooms in which the events are organized every day throughout the two weeks of the Festival.
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The Choral World of “Dumka”
The National Academic Choral Capella “Dumka” (abbreviation for Ukrainian State Travelling Capella) is the icon and tradition-setter of choral performance in Ukraine today. Founded in 1919 and over the years lead by such outstanding conductors as Nestor Horodovenko, Oleksandr Soroka, Pavlo Muravskyi, Mykhaylo Krechko, “Dumka” established its own choral traditions and performance style.
Since 1984 it has under the able leadership of the outstanding conductor and Shevchenko Prize laureate, academician Yevhen Savchuk.
If one were to describe “Dumka’s” uniqueness — probably the closest fitting description would be “universalism”, which is evident in Mr. Savchuk’s selection of repertoire. First, it is music for chorus a’capella where traditional for Ukrainian choral ensembles arrangements of folk songs coexist in “Dumka” programs and recordings with West-European Renaissance music or 18th cent. Ukrainian spiritual music of M. Dyletskyi, M. Berezovskyi, A. Vedel, D. Bortnianskyi, or 19th cent. M. Lysenko, K. Stetsenko, M. Leontovych as well as Russian romanticists P. Tchaikovskyi, O. Arkhanhelskyi, S. Rachmaninov.
Second, in “Dumka’s” world of music is the vocal-symphonic music. Here, the choir’s universalism is most evident — its repertoire covers the whole spectrum of world chefs d’oeuvre — from Bach’s “St. Matthew’s Passion” and Scriabin’s “Prometheus” to Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony” and Penderecki’s “Credo”, to Haydn’s “The Seasons” and Verdi’s “Requiem”, as works by Vivaldi, Mozart, Brahms, Borodin, Mahler, Tanieyev, Stravinsky, Schnitke.
In performing these masterpieces besides a masterful reading, “Dumka” displays its own Ukrainian — Slavic style — filled with softness, beauty, lyricism, glorious vocal tembre, freer tempos and a great dynamic expanse. “Dumka” under Yevhen Savchuk’s direction is often the first, if not the only performer of the many works of Ukrainian contemporary composers. Some of “Dumka’s” premieres included Sylvestrov’s “Diptych” and “Requiem for Laryssa”, Stankovych’s “Babyn Yar”, “Requiem”, “Legend about Prince Ihor’s Campaign”, Laniuk’s “Palimpsests”, and others.
“Dumka” has 22 CD’s to its credit which are available in specialized music stores throughout Europe.
Today, “Dumka” has reached the Olympus, as confirmed by listeners in Italy and Poland, Austria and Switzerland, Germany and Holland, France and the USA, Spain and Canada, Belgium and Great Britain. Having achieved world recognition and unquestionable authority, “Dumka” confirms its unique status with every new concert, with every new recording. “Dumka’s” performance is a celebration of sublime music, a contribution to humanity’s spiritual treasury and a manifestation of Ukraine’s creative genius.
According to “American Record Guide”, November 1998, the National Choir of Ukraine “Dumka” is phenomenal... one of the best vocal ensembles in Europe, — the most multifaceted, flexible and admirable the critic had ever heard.
The newspaper “America”, Philadelphia, USA Nov. 13, 1999 states that “Dumka” deserves highest praise for the performance of Dmytro Bortnianskyi’s Choral Concerto #4. One can’t hear enough of it.
According to “Le Figaro”, France, 29 February, 2000, the National Choir of Ukraine “Dumka” was simply wonderful — its performance excelled in balance and in richness of ensemble while the sound stood out for an unforgettable velvet timbre — wonderful work by its Artistic Director Yevhen Savchuk.
According to “Gramophone”, August 2001, the National Academic Choir of Ukraine “Dumka” is a superb body of singers, producing a beautifully firm, dark-hued sound and with an extraordinary sense of pacing. One of the choir’s most impressive accomplishments is its piano singing, probably unrivalled in any other recording to date.