• About

  A journey across borders and identities, Come to Ukraine, Look for America weaves music in Ukrainian, Russian, English, Hebrew, and German into a shared story of resilience, discovery, and renewal. Moving between languages and experiences, this program illuminates unexpected connections between cultures, showing how memory and hope resonate across continents.

• Program

  Paul Simon America (excerpt)
  Charles Ives The Circus Band

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti I Am Waiting (reading excerpt)
  Lori Laitman Men with Small Heads

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti I Am Waiting (reading excerpt)
  Vasyl Barvinsky A Dream - Son
  John Musto Recuerdo
  Lesia Dychko Spring has again been breathed into my soul - Znov poviyalo v dushu vesnoyu

  Ivan Franko Prologue to Moses (reading excerpt)
  Charles Ives My native land
  Stefania Turkewich Time passes - Mynayut Dni
  Eliza Gilkyson Sunflowers
  Vasyl Barvinsky A Sonnet - Sonet

  Ivan Franko Prologue to Moses (reading excerpt)
  Vasyl Barvinsky Oh you, fields of my native land! - Oy polya, vy polya
  Ned Rorem Look down, fair moon
  Vasyl Barvinsky Princely moon - Misyatsyu, Knyazyu
  Sergei Rachmaninov A Dream - Son
  Mykola Lysenko The Boundless Plain - Bezmezhneye pole

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti I Am Waiting (reading excerpt)
  Johann Sebastian Bach 54. Choral from St. Matthew Passion, Verse 2
  Robert Owens Genius Child
  Sergei Rachmaninov Christ is Risen - Khristos voskres

  Hebrew Folk Melody Let us return - Hashiveinu
  William Bolcom Love in the 30s
  John Musto How many little children sleep
  Hymn Tune Jesus loves the little children (excerpt)
  Paul Simon American Tune
  Irving Berlin Give me your tired your poor

  Program/order subject to change without notice.

• How to Attend/Stream

  Available to Fellowship Pass and single ticket holders for in-person attendance, live-streaming, and online replay. A live-streaming link will be sent 24 hours before the scheduled start of this event.

Meet the Artists

Simon Barrad, baritone

Kseniia Polstiankina Barrad, piano

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Special Thanks

The Fellowship of the Song would simply not be possible without the support of bold individuals and organizations with a shared vision to promote and innovate the song genre in America alongside CSI. We are indelibly grateful for their generosity.

Cincinnati Song Initiative is sponsored in part by the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Prep Division.