KYIV CLASSIC ACCORDION DUO: CONCERT FOR UKRAINE 13 AUGUST 2024
An appreciative audience of around 60 people enjoyed Igor Sayenko and Olekseii Kolomets’ return visit to the Sawbridgeworth Evangelical Congregational Church on 13 August. The first half of the programme was devoted to works by Ukrainian composers and the second included pieces by Karl Jenkins, Andrew Lloyd Webber (Cats) and Professor Teddy Bor’s Scottish infusion, ‘McMozart’s Eine Kleine Bricht Moonlicht Nicht Musik’. The concert ended with an emotional, and appropriately patriotic, rendition of Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance, which audience members sang along with, in true Last Night of the Proms style!
Thanks are due to Gary Hanson and his team of volunteers for hosting the concert once again.
£550 was raised for local charity UK-AID, which has been delivering humanitarian aid for the victims of Chernobyl in Chernihiv, in northern Ukraine, for some years, as well as to the victims of the Russian invasion since 2022. Donations can be made through www.uk-aid.org.
