MUSIC FOR THE PLAY OF MYKOLA KULISH “MYNA MAZAILO” BY IHOR HAIDENKO

Abstract

The article highlights some features of the musical and theatrical work of the modern Ukrainian artist, the representative of Kharkiv School of Composers, Ihor Haidenko. Music for theatrical productions plays an important place in the creative work of composer. He is attracted to music through words, gestures, and movement as its part. He considers his main creative task to be serving people with his art, to reproduce life's impressions, thoughts, feelings and bring them in emotional way to the listener. The dialogue between the author and the listeners is the priority task of the composer. Communicative and meaningful features of the work always come first. The composer does not associate his work with a specific direction or style. Respecting traditions, the main thing is the sense of creative freedom, originality and embrace of the idea. Ihor Haidenko works in various genres of musical and theatrical art. His first bright debut was the music for Mykola Kulish's play “Myna Mazailo”. It was written back in 1989. This play has gone through more than three hundred productions and has not lost its relevance nowadays and arouses the interest of the public. From the end of the 80s to the up-to-date moment, it plays an important place in the repertoire of one of the oldest theaters of Ukraine – the Kharkiv State Academic Ukrainian Drama Theater named after T.G. Shevchenko. Reference to Mykola Kulish's work was not accidental. Mykola Kulish had many years of fruitful cooperation with the philosophical theater-studio “Berezil”, which was headed by the talented actor and director Les Kurbas (now it is Kharkiv State Academic Ukrainian Drama Theater named after T.G. Shevchenko). In addition, the artistic reproduction of the problems of Ukrainization in the 20s and 30s of the 20th century and the national revival presented in the play “Myna Mazailo” have not lost their relevance even in the present time. This can explain the creative longevity of the work.