voices from the past Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/voices-from-the-past/ 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 voices from the past Archives - Forgotten Galicia https://forgottengalicia.com/tag/voices-from-the-past/ 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 Chornobyl Songs Project: Living Culture from a Lost World https://forgottengalicia.com/chornobyl-songs-project-living-culture-lost-world/ https://forgottengalicia.com/chornobyl-songs-project-living-culture-lost-world/#respond Wed, 13 May 2015 16:27:57 +0000 http://forgottengalicia.com/?p=1148 Last month, Smithsonian Folkways released an album of ancient songs from the Chornobyl region, songs all but forgotten due to the nuclear disaster that wiped out the nearby villages. Fortunately, some of these songs have been preserved thanks to ethnomusicologist Yevhen Yefremov and Ensemble Hilka: “Under the musical direction of Yevhen Yefremov, an ethnomusicologist […]

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