40th Anniversary of the Hryhoriy Veryovka Choir

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1986.

Concert program "Songs of My Land" of the State Honored Hryhoriy Veryovka Choir and the ensemble of folk instruments "Triple Musicians".

The program includes: "Over the Wide Dnieper" (music by Anatoly Avdievsky, verses by Valentin Lagoda); Ukrainian folk songs, spring songs; "Hopak" (music by Igor Ivashchenko, staged by Oleksiy Gomon); "Oh Look, Mom"; a fragment of Yevhen Stankovych's opera "The Fern Flower" (soloist Nina Matvienko); choreographic suite "Zaporozhtsy" (staged by Oleksiy Kalinin).

Reference: The Hryhoriy Veryovka Choir was founded in 1943 during World War II in Kharkiv; the founder and first director The group was founded by composer and choral conductor Hryhoriy Veryovka. The first soloists of the choir were formed from members of front-line ensembles, and the modern structure of the group includes choral, dance and orchestral groups.

Nina Matvienko is a Ukrainian singer, actress, Hero of Ukraine, laureate of the Shevchenko Prize, soloist of the Hryhoriy Veryovka Choir, later of the ensemble "Kyivska Kamerata"; her work combined authentic folklore with academic music and became an important component of Ukrainian musical culture of the second half of the 20th century.