Orkiestra św. Mikołaja Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/orkiestra-sw-mikolaja/ Remnants of the past found in Lviv, Galicia & the former Austrian Empire Thu, 17 Feb 2022 11:47:33 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://forgottengalicia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Bird-150x150.png Orkiestra św. Mikołaja Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/orkiestra-sw-mikolaja/ 32 32 The Ballad and Orchestra of St. Nicholas https://forgottengalicia.com/ballad-orchestra-st-nicholas/ https://forgottengalicia.com/ballad-orchestra-st-nicholas/#comments Thu, 21 Sep 2017 15:53:02 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=210 Ballada o Św. Mikołaju is beautiful song about the sad fate of the Lemkos (a Carpathian ethnic sub-group), who were forcibly resettled from their ancestral homeland in 1944-46 to the Soviet Union, and in 1947 under Operation Vistula to western and northern Poland. Remnants of their homes, churches, and cemeteries still remain in […]

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]]> https://forgottengalicia.com/ballad-orchestra-st-nicholas/feed/ 2 Orkiestra św. Mikołaja: ‘From the High Field’ https://forgottengalicia.com/orkiestra-sw-mikolaja-high-field/ https://forgottengalicia.com/orkiestra-sw-mikolaja-high-field/#respond Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:51:52 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=269 “Z wysokiego pola” (From the High Field) is one of my favorite songs by Orkiestra św. Mikołaja. The melody of the song is Hungarian, while the text is a Polish ballad from the region near Zamość— an ancestral land.  In the early nineteenth century my great 4x grandfather had an estate in Zalesie. […]

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