Писаний Камінь
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This song is usually attested to Євген Садовський. Marko Farion, who knew Садовський, insists that Садовський likely did not compose it as (1) Farion's mother recalled hearing this song in the Писаний Камінь region prior to WWII and (2) Садовський never composed anything else. However, the claim that Садовський never composed anything else is contradicted by a 1967 Congressional Record (page 34306) that he wrote a song called "My Ukraine" as well as a 2010 museum archive referring to him as a "legendary composer".
Садовський's is credited in the following places:
- Plast spivanyk В Дорогу (2nd edition, 1987)
- Back cover of the "Sounds of Kalyna" LP (1981)
- http://ukrweekly.com/archive/pdf3/1989/The_Ukrainian_Weekly_1989-22.pdf (page 10). This is not 100% definitely the same song but probably is: "Also to be performed: 'The Carpathian Mountains': by Cleveland composer Eugene Sadowsky"
I'm working on tracking down copies of his song collections, some of which are held at libraries. "Видання вокально-хорових творів здійснене трьома авторськими накладами в 1973, 1990 та 2002"
More info about him: https://ukrmusic.online/encyclopedia/sadovskyy-yevhen-orest-ivanovych/
Other leads might involve contacting:
- Oleh Maylay, who introduced him here: https://www.umacleveland.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/UMA-NEWS-summer-2010.final_.pdf
- Apparently the UMA has old recordings by his groups according to this doc
- https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=StJosaphatCathedral&set=a.611848642178909
- https://www.umacleveland.org/
Євген Орест Садовський - нар. 1913 в Україні, на еміграції у США, укр. диригент, композитор; театри Тобілевича, Стадника; засновник і художній керівник хору Дніпро (США); твори для хору (Вставай, Україно!).
Some other songs with similar melodies - the order of inspiration is quite unknown:
- Розпрощався стрілець
- Melody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJXwn0CT7Uo
- Apparently from 1914 (source: https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Прощався_стрілець)
- A better source can be found for 1920 ( source: https://nashe.com.ua/song/16716 ), which in turn references архів Проблемна науково-дослідна лабораторія музичної етнології (PDF needed)
- Also see https://chtyvo.org.ua/authors/Kuzmenko_Oksana/Striletski_pisni_zb/ song #149
- Там в дали за рекой
- Melody: https://youtu.be/Q2vn6_upViQ
- Some historical info: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Там_вдали,_за_рекой
- За рекой Ляохэ
- Melody: https://youtu.be/RNblOPwjchE
- Лишь только в Сибири займется заря
- Melody: https://youtu.be/slyW_AEXnN4