Natsionalʹna Filarmoniya Ukrayiny
Nineteenth-century merchants' hall turned concert venue, with a columned hall famed for its acoustics.
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This guide to the National Philharmonic of Ukraine in Kyiv follows Mykola Leontovych, a provincial schoolteacher who spent years returning to one short folk carol and never trusted what he made of it. It moves through the old Merchants' Assembly of the eighteen-eighties, a winter night in nineteen sixteen, and a composer's stubborn self-doubt. Listen from inside the columned hall, facing the stage.
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