Birth Of The Song

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Album Info

Release Date: 1970

Label: Not On Label

Release date based on UBC Discography published to Facebook (2010/2011).

Distributor, Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus - P.O. Box 119, Hamtramck Br., Detroit, Michigan 48212, U.S.A.
Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus - No. 11

No. 11 is a later stereo re-release of No. 7 Українська Капела Бандуристів Ім. Т. Шевченка - Birth Of The Song with an added track "This Day" as track A1.

Note: Where artist name appeared with no specific role on sleeve, song was researched to determine role of artist (composer or arranger of a traditional folk song); otherwise assumed role to be "arranged by." Most other roles are specifically called out on sleeve.

Additional Track Notes:
Track A1 (subtext underneath the English track name): [This Day] In this day created by God, let us rejoice unto him.
Track A2 (subtext underneath the English track name): ["Duma" About Nychai] Nychai is a popular historical figure of the 17th century. (A "Duma" is a historical hero song.)

Track A3 (subtext underneath the English track name): [Bayda]
A historical ballad of the 18th Century about the famous Prince Bayda Vyshnevetsky. During the hostilities between Turkey and the Ukraine, Bayda was captured in combat.
Instrumental Introduction Oriental and Ukrainian.
The Chorus describes Bayda enjoying the gay life in Constantinople.
The Banduras begin the narrative between Prince Bayda and the Sultan. The Sultan demands that Bayda shall abandon his faith and homeland, and in exchange offers his daughter in marriage as well as honors and riches. Bayda scornfully refuses the offer; he would rather die than be a traitor.
Soloists and Chorus Responses.
Bayda is sentenced to die in torture. While hanging by hooks in his ribs, he is given his dying choice, the daughter, or "something else." He chooses a bow and arrow to "shoot a pigeon for the Sultan's dinner." Given the bow and arrow, he kills the Sultan.

Track B1 (subtext underneath the English track name): [The Divine Mother Of Potchayev] A song dedicated to the Virgin Mary, who by a legendary miracle, saved the Potchayev monastery from the Tartars in the 15th century.
Track B2 (subtext underneath the English track name): [The Blowing Wind Sways Me] Folk song about a fateless Cossack. A typical bachelor song.
Track B3 (subtext underneath the English track name): [The Neighbor's Girl] Folk song telling of a neighbor girl who is sought by many young men. One promises not to send her to the well for water, as she might drown and he would have to marry again!
Track B4 (subtext underneath the English track name): [The Sun Is Shining] A lyric set to the words of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko, describing the beauties of the Ukraine.
Track B5 (subtext underneath the English track name): [Play, O Bandurist!] The Cossacks sing a joyful song, and dance "so the earth trembles."

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