Ukranian Night Feast for Orchestra

A poster for the Berlin Symphony Orchestra performance from April 6, 1930, which included Marc Lavry’s Ukrainian Night Feast for Orchestra

Movements:

1. Ukrainian Night
2. The Goats are coming
3. The drunken Cossack
4. Ukrainian Melancholy
5. The merry Cossack
6. Dance of the Ukrainian girls
7. Scandal in the Village
8. Night Patrol
9. Joyful Surrounding
10. Folk Song
11. March of the Cossacks
12. Dance of the Cossacks

Recording: Not yet available

Manuscripts: Located at the National Library of Israel Music Department, the Marc Lavry Archive, System Number(s) 990035290680205171

Synopsis: The suite is based on the Blockade of Brest Op. 7.

Information from the composer’s opus book:
Performances:

• Stern Conservatory, Berlin  – January 1929
• Berlin Symphony Orchestra – April 6, 1930
• Riga – Summer 1930
• Riga Symphony orchestra – August 3, 1933