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Ukrainian Republic Capella was founded in 1919 to promote Ukrainian culture abroad. Read how “Shchedryk”, the choir most popular song, became the famous Christmas tune “Carol of the Bells”. Oksana Karbashevska, Associate Professor at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, and currently Visiting Researcher at the Department of Humanities shares the history behind the choir and the song. <\/p>\n\n\n

On January,\u00a024, 1919, the Ukrainian People’s Republic (1917-1920), that made attempts to gain independence for Ukraine, issued the Act on creating the Ukrainian Republic Capella. Its task was to travel abroad with the Ukrainian repertoire and promote Ukrainian culture.<\/p>\n\n\n

In the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, Oleksandr\u00a0Koshyts (1875 \u2013 1944), a Ukrainian choral conductor, and Kyrylo\u00a0Stetsenko (1882 \u2013 1922), a Ukrainian composer, held auditions and recruited 100 choristers. However, already before February,\u00a05, 1919, due to the second invasion of Kyiv by the bolshevik Red Army, part of the Capella got evacuated from Kyiv and arrived in the city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, now the western part of Ukraine. The choir stayed there till the end of March having two rehearsals and a French class every day.<\/p>\n\n

\n \n\"\"\n <\/figure>\nPhoto of the Ukrainian Republic Capella, Prague, 1919<\/sup>http:\/\/tsdavo.gov.ua\/vystavky\/vasha-pratsya-bude-zapysana-na-storinkah-istoriyi-do-100-richchya-triumfalnogo-zakordonnogo-turne-ukrayinskoyi-respublikanskoyi-kapely-pid-orudoyu-oleksandra-koshytsya\/<\/a><\/sup>\n\n

The European tour of the Ukrainian Republic Capella began with the first performance in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in May, 1919. The concerts had a triumphant success. Numerous positive and praising reviews were given in European newspapers. For the Europe of that time, polyphonic acapella singing was unusual. And music reviewers furtively went backstage to check if somebody was accompanying the choir. During performances, Oleksandr\u00a0Koshyts conducted the choir without a baton, and forbade the choristers to use the music notation. During their European tour, the Ukrainian Republic Capella gave concerts in Austria, Belgium, England, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n

One of the most popular songs performed by the choir was \u201cShchedryk\u201d. It\u2019s a Ukrainian folk calendar-ritual song, whose melody was arranged by the Ukrainian composer Mykola\u00a0Leontovych (1877-1921). The composer worked on the arrangement of the \u201cShchedryk\u201d melody for nearly 20 years. The five versions or editions of the tune cover the period from 1901 up to 1919.<\/p>\n\n\n

Mykola\u00a0Leontovych himself was sceptical about his own music. When the Ukrainian Republic Capella wanted to take some of his songs into their repertoire, and asked the composer to give them his sheet music, he refused, stating that his music was not well arranged, and didn\u2019t deserve to be sung on the stages of Prague or Paris. The songs by Mykola\u00a0Leontovych were taken by the choir without the author\u2019s permission.<\/p>\n\n\n

In January of 1921, the Ukrainian composer Mykola\u00a0Leontovych was shot in the house of his parents in the village of Markivka, now Vinnytsa\u00a0Region, Ukraine, by a member of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission.<\/p>\n\n

\n \n\"\"\n <\/figure>\nThe photo of the Ukrainian National Chorus led by O.\u00a0Koshyts that toured North and South America in 1922-1924. 1922.<\/sup>http:\/\/tsdavo.gov.ua\/vystavky\/vasha-pratsya-bude-zapysana-na-storinkah-istoriyi-do-100-richchya-triumfalnogo-zakordonnogo-turne-ukrayinskoyi-respublikanskoyi-kapely-pid-orudoyu-oleksandra-koshytsya\/<\/a><\/sup>\n\n

The financial support of the Ukrainian Republic Capella disappeared together with the Ukrainian People’s Republic in 1921. The Capella broke up into three choirs. It was the Ukrainian National Chorus led by Oleksandr\u00a0Koshyts that made its way to the United\u00a0States. Their first performance took place at Carnegie Hall, New York City in 1922.<\/p>\n\n\n

The legend has it that it was at this concert in Carnegie Hall that the American composer and conductor of Ukrainian origin Peter\u00a0Wilhousky (1902-1978) heard the Ukrainian folk song called \u201cShchedryk\u201d. Peter\u00a0Wilhousky (1902-1978) created his own version, with new lyrics and a title -\u201cCarol of the Bells\u201d. He published and copyrighted it in 1936. \u201cCarol of the Bells\u201d has become an inseparable part of Christmastime in the US. As a matter of fact, the \u201cShchedryk\u201d melody by Mykola\u00a0Leontovych gave rise to four American carols. However, the best known one belongs to Peter\u00a0Wilhousky.<\/p>\n\n\n

In spite of the defeat of the Ukrainian liberation movement in the first quarter of the XX th c., and turning Ukraine into a silent and subdued part of the Soviet\u00a0Union through repressions against its population, the Ukrainian calendar-ritual song \u201cShchedryk\u201d in the shape of the American \u201cCarol of the Bells\u201d presented the Ukrainian identity and nation in the international arena, proved its worth and value, and gained its popularity.<\/p>\n\n\n

Speaking of Ukrainian \u201cShchedryk\u201d, one would expect to hear the following performance, e.g. by Hryhorii\u00a0Veryovka Ukrainian National Honoured Academic Folk Choir.<\/p>\n\n\n

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However, in 2015, Nataliia\u00a0Mykhailenko, the conductor of the People\u2019s Amateur Chamber Choir \u201cAcsios\u201d from the town of Tlumach, Ivano-Frankivsk Region, Ukraine, got interested in the updated melody of the \u201cCarol of the Bells\u201d (2012) by the American band \u201cPentatonix\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The choir \u201cAcsios\u201d combined the American \u201cPentatonix\u201d music and Ukrainian lyrics, creating a new Ukrainian Christmas carol. They demonstrated this innovation at the VI\u00a0th Christmas Festival \u201cKoliada na Maizliakh\u201d (Christ the King church, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, 2015). The \u201cAcsios\u201d choir video was kindly granted by its conductor. Thus, Ukrainian \u201cShchedryk\u201d returned from the United\u00a0Sates to Ukraine after its 100-year-old international concert tour. Moreover, in December, 2022, the Ukrainian-American carol was performed at the concert \u201cNotes from Ukraine\u201d at Carnegie\u00a0Hall, New York, US. You can watch about it from NBC News.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Furthermore, in December, 2022, Ukrainian \u201cShchedryk\u201d was sung by Luxembourg Latvian Choir \u201cMeluz\u012bna\u201d (Advent concert, Protestant church). The world tour of the Ukrainian song is going on\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n

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