Vesnivka's 59th Season of Song:  2024-2025

This choral season, we plan to perform three concerts.  The importance of presenting three varied programs in the 2024-2025 choral season is to showcase the richness of Ukrainian choral music within the Ukrainian Canadian community, as well as to Canadian audiences and beyond.

Our first concert entitled "Prayer for Ukraine" will take place November 3, 2024 and we have invited the St. Nicholas Choir to join us in presenting a program of sacred music by classical and contemporary composers.

Our Christmas concert, will take place January 12, 2025 and is the second concert of our choral season.  It will be a mix of traditional and contemporary Ukrainian Christmas Carols (kolyadky) and New Year's songs (shchedrivky).

The final concert of the season will take place May 4, 2025. As spring is the season of love, our repertoire will reflect the different types of love depicted in Ukrainian folk songs, includig romantic and familial love.

This year, in addition to performing three concerts, we will also be gearing up for our 60th Anniversary season (2025-2026), and this planning for, among other things, two concerts with orchestra, will continue throughout our upcoming season.

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PRAYER FOR UKRAINE

Sunday, November 3, 2024
3:30 pm All Saints Kingsway Church in Toronto, Ontario

We plan to open the concert with a choral piece, "Molytva" by Larysa Kuzmenko, a Canadian composer of Ukrainian background. This prayer was originally commissioned by Vesnivka in 1988 to commemorate 1,000 years of Christianity in Ukraine and speaks to the need for people to have faith, hope, and truth, in order to achieve the dream of harmony and peace.

UKRAINIAN CHRISTMAS CONCERT

Sunday, January 12, 2025
4 pm Our Lady of Sorrows in Etobicoke, Ontario  

Our Christmas concert will include traditional and contemporary Ukrainian Christmas Carols (Kolyadky) and New Year songs (Schedrivky).

SPRING LOVE  

Sunday, May 4, 2025
3:30 pm at Ukrainian National Federation - Trident Hall in Etobicoke, Ontario  

This concert will feature Folk song melodies which are traditionally rich with imagery and convey an array of emotions ranging from light-hearted playfulness to melancholy, sorry and despair. One of the featured songs "Rushnychok" speaks of maternal love. The hero in the song receives a "rushnyk", and embroidered cloth, from his mother that serves as a talisman to protect him and to remind him of home. The programming will also include compositions written fo female voices, mixed voices, small ensembles and solo performances.