The State Academic Choir “Latvia” and the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra under Andris Poga will perform the Ukrainian anthem and Peter Vasks’ prayer “Don Nobis Pacem” (“Give Us Peace”).
Colleagues from other concert halls in the Baltic States will take part in the concert with video recordings. The Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Thomas Zanderling, will play Arvo Pert’s “Song in Memory of Benjamin Britten”. The Kaunas State Choir and the Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gintars Rinkēvičs, will perform one part of the Bronis Kutāvičs Symphony-Oratorio “Epitaphs of Past Times”.
The Latvian Radio Choir, “Sinfonietta Rīga” and organist Ilze Reine under the direction of Sigvardas Kļava will give Arthur Muscat’s lamentation “Lacrimosa”. In addition to the works of the Baltic composers, the Ukrainian composer Miroslav Skorika will perform “Melody” in the reading of the Liepaja Symphony Orchestra and conductor Normunds Šnē.
We pray and encourage you to continue to contribute to Ukraine’s support site ziedot.lv.
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CONTEXT:
More than 100 translators, writers, linguists and researchers calls on the State Language Center to revise the recommendations for the Latvianization of the names of Ukrainian cities, noting that the names of Ukrainian cities used so far entered the Latvian language when Ukraine, as well as Latvia and other countries, were “enslaved to the Russian Empire, which deliberately re-Russianized them”.
Russian President Vladimir Putin recognizes Donetsk and Luhansk “People’s Republics” on February 21 independence from Ukraine. Putin threatened Ukraine, demanding that Ukraine immediately cease hostilities against the separatists, “otherwise all responsibility for the possible continued bloodshed will rest entirely with the conscience of the ruling regime in Ukraine.”
But on February 24, Putin announcedthat Russia has launched a “military operation” in Ukraine and called on the Ukrainian army to “lay down its arms”. This caused the democratic world even more condemnation and the next steps in sanctions against Russia.
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