Episode - 3 Music antiwar manifest "Lullaby for a Son" Russian and Ukrainian Lullabies“

The lullaby, as a symbol of hope, but also as a protest against absolute evil, as a call to " wake up!", can and must now sound louder! Your voices must be louder!
The brutal, relentless, unjust conflict in Ukraine has been ongoing for nearly three years! Most people did not believe that it was possible in principle and hoped that it would end quickly. The very idea of "war" did not fit in their heads, because war is pain and blood, it is suffering, it is murder and it is absolutely absurd in its essence. Now, after a long time, we see, alas, that no appeals to common sense, to mercy, have not worked. The earth is on fire and the probability that this fire will spread further is becoming more and more real. What should we do to all of us who are not directly affected by this disaster, those who are far from the epicenter, who wake up in the morning, can drink their morning coffee without fear at least for today? Now we hear louder and louder voices - "This is not our war", "the people are tired, we have enough unsolved problems".... Those crying for solidarity, concern for human grief, and compassion seem to be in the minority now, and, as it seems, life goes on as usual....
Should we continue "ringing all the bells"? In our opinion, today, more than ever, it is worth it! We should do it as loudly and relentlessly as possible until the barbaric war against a sovereign European state is stopped! In democratic countries, people can and should influence the authorities with a demand - to do everything in their power to protect Ukrainian towns and villages, to protect the Ukrainian people who bleed every day, to protect our common European Home, and to give us, our children and those who will come to this Earth after us a chance for a peaceful life! "There are no strangers' children!" wrote Ukrainian mother Olena Stepova, addressing mothers from Russia back in 2014. We want to believe that empathy, the ability to empathize with other people's grief as one's own, somehow still lives in people's hearts. The words of John Donne come to mind: "The death of every man diminishes me, for I am one with all Mankind, and therefore ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for you". The lullaby, as a symbol of hope, but also as a protest against absolute evil, as a call to " wake up!", can and must now sound louder! Your voices must be louder!
“Ой спи, дитя, в колисоньці “
( Oh sleep, child, in a lullaby)
Ukrainian folk song
Oh sleep, my child, in your cradle nest,
As peas lie snug in their leafy rest.
The wind will come and gently blow,
Rocking you to sleep with its soft flow.
When the wind begins to hum,
The little one will long for slumber to come.
And when the wind softly sings its tune,
Our little darling will drift to sleep soon.
“ Спи сынок , не погода” (Sleep son, not the weather)
music by Vera Evushkina / lyrics by Raisa Ipatova
Sleep, my son, despite the storm,
Water flowing, a relentless form.
From the sky, dreams take flight,
Two magic stars, shining bright.
No locks on the night's door,
Yet holes in the sky's floor.
But in our humble abode,
Two maple leaves, softly bestowed.
So slumber now, my sweet child,
Despite the waters, wild and wild.
Come morning, from our humble trove,
You'll retrieve two stars, born of love.
vocals, percussion - Anna Klimashevskaya
guitar, Rhodes piano - Mateo Saralegui
clarinet - Edda Honberg
saxophone - Rafael Kircher
sound engineering - Alexander Schubert
lyrics translation - Erik Schubert
painting - Käthe hhKollwitz
“Seated Mother Tightly Embracing Her Child” 1899
recorded at Schubert Studio
Berlin 2022
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