Many professional Ukrainian musical groups support the cultural front. The Musical Front generates ideas, holds events where its members help raise funds in support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, injured civilians and carry out an educational mission abroad, introducing the public to ancient and modern Ukrainian music.

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One of such active groups is the Kyiv Tango Orchestra quartet (Tatiana Pavlichuk-Tyshkevich (piano), Taras Vidish (violin), Ostap Konashuk (accordion), Nazariy Stets (double bass). Only at the beginning of 2023 in 18 days they played 17 concerts. The purpose of these charitable events is to raise funds to help Ukraine through the Music Unites Foundation, created in 2022, whose purpose is to help the military, hospitals, children, the sick, the elderly.

ZN. UA met with the founder, artistic director and pianist of the Kyiv Tango Orchestra Quartet Tatiana Pavlichuk-Tyshkevich.

- Tatyana, from the very beginning of the full-scale invasion, you have been involved in volunteering. And as soon as the forces appeared, they began to give concerts. In January, you set a kind of record: in Germany and Switzerland, 17 concerts were played in 18 days. How did you do it?

- Only had one day off.. You can physically endure a marathon of 17 non-stop concerts only if you have a very serious touring experience.. Fortunately, all members of the quartet have it..

Our concerts abroad are conducted in English. After each we communicate a lot, because we feel that we need to broadcast important things. How can we, share emotions, convey the whole truth about the situation in Ukraine, thank you for your help, emphasize how else the Europeans can help. And, probably, thanks to the power of music, love and sincerity, we had a cordial dialogue with the audience everywhere.. With the funds raised, we did a lot of good deeds in Ukraine: we bought laptops for students of the aviation university in Kharkiv, donated help to the hospital in Dnipro, help to children in centers and orphanages, a lot of targeted assistance to families from the occupied territories, the elderly, the sick, the military in the east.

— This big war increased people's interest in Ukrainian history, its unknown pages. Almost every family in Ukraine has white spots, traumas, dramas that arose due to the influence of different regimes that existed on the territory of the country at different times.. I know you have an extremely interesting family history.. Tell us about your extraordinary relatives, whose activities influenced the formation of the musical culture of Ukraine.

— My maternal great-grandfather — composer, social and cultural figure Semyon Petrovich Tyshkevich-Azvazhinsky, at the beginning of the last century was very famous and highly respected in Kyiv. Semyon Petrovich was the director of the first Workers' Conservatory, he formed its first, incredibly strong composition. Tyshkevich-Azvazhinsky in 1932-1934 served as rector of the Mykola Lysenko State Musical and Drama Institute, which later, in 1934, was divided into independent universities: the Kiev Conservatory named after Pyotr Tchaikovsky and the Kiev Institute of Theater Arts named after Ivan Karpenko-Kary.

In the terrible difficult time of the 30s of the last century, my great-grandfather was repressed by denunciation and sentenced to death, which was executed in the notorious village near Kyiv - Bykovna, on October 14, 1938. After 20 years, on March 18, 1958, he was rehabilitated posthumously..

Great-grandfather left a bright mark as a composer: among his works is the musical poem " After the great-grandfather, there were numerous chamber and piano compositions; more than 30 romances to the words of Shevchenko, Rylsky. My great-grandfather considered himself a happy man in every sense: in addition to realizing himself as a creative person, he was also happy in his personal life: he was destined to meet his great mutual love - Valentina Zhubre.

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- If I'm not mistaken, your great-grandmother Valentina in Lutsk is called the founder of the city piano school?

- Exactly. In Lutsk, Valentina Zhubr became one of the founders of the piano school - the first music school in the city, which was later given the name of Frederic Chopin. She brought up more than one generation of talented pianists who grew up to professors and scattered not only throughout Ukraine, but also around the world..

But it is worth telling a little more about great-grandmother. An aristocrat, a brilliant pianist, a student of the famous Professor Mikhailov, Valentina Zhubre, after the death of her husband, was left with two young sons and was pregnant with her third son. She, as the widow of an enemy of the people, was literally thrown to the mercy of fate. In order to survive at that time with three small children, she took any job, washed floors and the like.. Then one of the sons was sent to labor camps in Germany. Great-grandmother went for her son. Fate brought Valentina Zhubr with her children to camps for displaced persons in Austria. Valentina was fluent in European languages: German, French, Polish. She explained and proved to the camp administration that she was a professional musician.. Representatives of the management took her surname Zhubr as Schubert and decided that this lady is a descendant of their genius Schubert.

And for the sake of salvation, great-grandmother recognized her “kinship” with the great Austrian composer. She knew Schubert's biography very well, masterfully played the composer's sonatas.. And she and her sons were released. Moreover, Austrian fellow musicians in the small cozy town of Sankt Valentin found a semi-basement for Valentina Zhubr, in which my great-grandmother founded the first music school in this city.. Pani Zhubr was a highly respected person in this city, but nostalgia haunted her, and she decided to return home, to Kyiv, to her elderly mother-in-law.

Valentina as the wife of an enemy of the people in the capital of Soviet Ukraine could not find a decent job. On the advice of friends, she went to Lutsk. Thus, in Lutsk, on the western border of Ukraine, my family took root.

A few days before the spring lockdown, I visited for the first time the Austrian town of St. Valentin, a landmark for my family.. I saw both the school founded by my great-grandmother and the church where my grandfather was baptized. And these are the thoughts that visited me there: probably, immortality is when your children and grandchildren love you so much and subtly feel through the centuries, when your loved ones managed to preserve your image and convey love and respect for you so much that the great-granddaughter gathers and goes to where. That day I felt really happy. St. Valentine is very beautiful and cozy. And, probably, great-grandmother did not want to leave there, she felt good there. However, noble people have duty above all else..

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- You continue the mission of your great-grandmother to some extent, hold the cultural front, but at a different time, but again in the realities of wartime.

- Until the end of the war, until the Victory, all our concerts will have a charitable character. We played only one concert in Kiev last year, but it was very important, as part of Sonya Sotnik’s project “On the Hat” at the Peppers Club and raised about 100,000 hryvnias for the “Own” fund for the purchase of tactical medical care.

Today is the moment when you feel the opportunity to be truly useful like never before.. And we not only have to earn (not to collect, namely to earn! ), to show a high level of skill and help in Ukraine, but also to convey important information abroad about the resistance of our people, about how life is seething here, despite the war. We must prove that Ukraine is worthy of attention not only when there is a war, but always. Because Ukraine is not only a full-fledged part of Europe, but even more - its heart.

And not only the most courageous people live here, but also very talented people who can compete with dignity in any professional field, share experience and be useful everywhere in the world..

We are waiting for everyone at our concerts, where unique arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs, the most beautiful works of Astor Piazzolla, Richard Galliano, Michel Legrand, Carlos Gardel, our author's works and works of our friends will sound.

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