We may focus on scholarship, but real life impacts all of our work, in all of our fields, reminding us that we must all stand together in the face of injustice and conflict.
Underscoring this intention, we have added a special performance to our April 9 concert. We are grateful to renowned musicologist Nadia Tarnawsky for sharing the voices of Ukranian women folksingers and offering a beautiful lament to be debuted at our concert.
Nadia Tarnawsky has been studying Eastern European singing techniques for over three decades. She spent much of 2017 and 2018 in Ukraine as a recipient of a Fulbright award. She has taught Ukrainian village style singing in workshops for the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine, the Center for Traditional Music and Dance in New York city, Village Harmony in Vermont and Oregon, the Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble in San Francisco, and the Dunava Ensemble in Seattle among others. In 2011 she received a Traditional Arts Fellowship from Artist Trust and an Artist Support Residency from Jack Straw Productions. In 2002 she received a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship which allowed her to travel to Ukraine to collect folk songs and folklore. She sang under the tutelage of Yevgeny Yefremov with Ensemble Hilka of New York in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster in Ukraine. A recording of this repertoire was released on the Smithsonian Folkways label.
Nadia urges us all to support World Central Kitchen, which is organizing food relief for Ukrainian refugees in Poland. “Food relief is not just a meal that keeps hunger away. It’s a plate of hope. It tells you in your darkest hour that someone, somewhere, cares about you.” –Chef José Andrés
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Thank you so much, ASWM, for this wonderful addition in support of Ukraine!