A literary and musical composition for the 210th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko’s birthday

10.3.2024

A literary and musical composition dedicated to the 210th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko’s birthday was presented at the ER IPJ.

On March 8, 2024, a literary and musical composition dedicated to the 210th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko’s birthday was presented at the Educational and Research Institute of Philology and Journalism.

The organizers of the event were teachers of the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Literature and students majoring in “Ukrainian Language and Literature”.

Taras Shevchenko is a cult figure in the history of Ukraine. He is known as a poet, artist, philosopher, playwright, and novelist. Fate constantly tested the artist, but he moved forward, did not obey those in power and did not bow his head to anyone. Young Taras faced a difficult choice: an artist or a poet?

The teachers and graduates of the Educational and Research Institute of Philology and Journalism present at the event, together with the readers, reached the heights of Kobzar’s work: they admired the unparalleled portraits, landscapes, and paintings of the artist Shevchenko’s brush, experienced feelings of love for women who played a significant role in the artist’s life, and listened to unparalleled poetry.

The passion for poetry itself played a negative role in the life of Taras Shevchenko. His works made us recall the heroic pages of the history of Ukrainians, compare them with the problems of today, and realize Kobzar’s appeal to posterity.

He speaks to the dead in spirit, who will soon wake up, and to the living, and to the unborn in Ukraine and all over the world. Centuries pass, inscriptions on stone are erased, books smolder, buildings are destroyed, but the word of Taras Shevchenko is eternal. It is necessary to study it and fulfill Kobzar’s will:

And on renewed land
There will be no enemy, no opponent,
And there will be a son, and there will be a mother,
And there will be people on earth.

According to the Ukrainian and Foreign Literature Department