Shche ne vmerla Ukrayina, arr. Keith Terrett

Angelica Women's Chamber Choir sings 'Sche ne vmerla Ukrayina' at their Spring Concert at the Church of St. John Nepomucene on Sunday, May 22, 2022. Arrangement by Keith Terrett. [from Wikipedia] The Ukrainian national anthem can be traced back to one of the parties of the Ukrainian ethnographer and poet Pavlo Chubynsky that occurred during the autumn of 1862. Scholars think that the Polish national song "Poland Is Not Yet Lost" ("Polish: Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła"), which dates back to 1797, and which later became the national anthem of Poland and the Polish Legions, also had an influence on Chubynsky's lyrics.[3][4][5] "Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła" was popular among the nations of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth that were at that time fighting for their independence; the January Uprising started a few months after Chubynsky wrote his lyrics.[6] According to a memoirist who was present, Chubynsky wrote the lyrics spontaneously while listening to Serbian students sing a hymn—possibly "Hey, Slavs", which is influenced by the Polish national anthem—during a gathering of Serbian and Ukrainian students in a Kyiv apartment.[7] Chubynsky's words were rapidly taken up by the earliest Ukrainophiles. In 1862, the head gendarm Prince Vasily Dolgorukov exiled Chubynsky to Arkhangelsk Governorate for the "dangerous influence on the minds of commoners".[8] The poem was first officially published in 1863, when it appeared in the fourth issue of the Lviv journal Meta [uk];[9] the journal mistakenly attributed the anthem to Taras Shevchenko.[10] It became popular in the territories which now form part of Western Ukraine, and came to the attention of a member of the Ukrainian clergy, Mykhailo Verbytsky of the Greek-Catholic Church. Inspired by Chubynsky's poem, Verbytsky, then a prominent composer in Ukraine, decided to set it to music.[11] The poem was first published with Verbytsky's sheet music In 1865.[1] The first choral performance of the piece was in 1864 at the Ukraine Theatre [uk] in Lviv.[12] 1916 band and vocal recording (two verses) (3:23) 3:24 The first recording of the anthem, performed by Mykhailo Zazulyak [uk] at the Columbia Studio in the United States Problems playing this file? See media help. The first recording of this anthem (then spelled "Szcze ne wmerła Ukrajiny ni sława ni wola") in Ukrainian was released on a gramophone record by Columbia Phonograph Company during World War I in 1916.[13] As a folk song it was performed by a Ukrainian emigrant from Lviv and New York resident Mychajlo Zazulak in 1915. LYRICS: Ще не вмерла України і слава, і воля, Ще нам, браття молодії, усміхнеться доля. Згинуть наші воріженьки, як роса на сонці. Запануєм і ми, браття, у своїй сторонці. 𝄆 Душу й тіло ми положим за нашу свободу, І покажем, що ми, браття, козацького роду. 𝄇 Ukraine has not yet perished, nor her glory, nor her freedom, Upon us, fellow Ukrainians, fate shall smile once more. Our enemies shall vanish, like the dew in the sun, And we too shall rule, brothers, in a free land of our own. Chorus: Souls and bodies we'll lay down, all for our freedom, And we'll show that we, brothers, are of the Cossack nation!