THE RECITER’S CREATIVITY IN THE CONTEXT OF REGIONAL CULTURAL CREATION (BY THE EXAMPLE OF ACTIVITY BY HONORED ARTIST OF UKRAINE RAISA RESHETNYUK)
Authors: Badalov Oleh 
Published: May 2023

The purpose of the article is to cover the stages of the life-stage development of the Chernihiv Philharmonic’s reciter, laureate of reciter’s national competitions, Honored Artist of Ukraine Raisa Reshetnyuk (1948–2014), understanding her contribution to the development of Chernihiv region’s culture of the ending of the 20th – the beginning of the 21th centuries. In the field of view of the author – the formation of artistic personality of Raisa Reshetnyuk as the reciter in the late 1970’s, the study of her major literary-and-musical programs “Solo for the Violin and the Clarinet” by the life and works of young P. Tychyna, “On the Wings of Song” by the circumstances of M. Kotsyubinsky’s life and work, the lyric poetry by T. Shevchenko “I’ll build the House and the Room…”, “My Sophia Rusova” (about the life feat of S. Rusova). The significant contribution of R. Reshetnyuk to the modern Shevchenkian was emphasized – the creation of a literary-and-musical work based on the poem-mystery by T. Shevchenko “The Great Cellar”, where R. Reshetnyuk was the author of the idea, performer and director. The educational orientation of literary-and-musical compositions created by R. Reshetnyuk, based on the works of authors, who lived and created in Chernihiv region (P. Tychyna, M. Kotsyubynsky, L. Glibov and others), caused their inclusion in the concert plan of the Philharmonic Lecture, headed by R. Reshetnyuk. The wide audience (schoolchildren, college and universities students, teachers etc.) regularly saw these programs. Historical-chronological, source study and logical-resumptive methods constitute the methodological basis of the work to study Raisa Reshetnyuk’s creativity, the analysis of data from periodical sources. The scientific novelty of the research is conditioned by the fact of the first research in the national theater science and the Ukrainian culturology the creativity of Raisa Reshetnyuk as the only representative of reciter art in Chernihiv region. The results of this research made it possible to draw a conclusion that R. Reshetnyuk’s many years of creative activity were closely intertwined with the socio-cultural context of the time and became an important period in the development of artistic life in Chernihiv region. Her work was aimed at forming the public perception of Chernihiv as one of the centers of national cultural formation. The educational nature of R. Reshetnyuk’s work influenced the development of the musical life of Chernihiv region at the end of 20th – beginning of the 21th centuries. This influence can be traced to the emergence of numerous examples of contemporary composer creativity by M. Demidenko, A. Tkachuk, M. Zbaratsky, V. Kotsur, M. Borsch which were written specifically for the literary-and-music programs of R. Reshetnyuk. Further study of R. Reshetnyuk’s creative activity can continue in the direction of clarifying the features of her work with literary sources, generalization of her directorial work in forming the repertoire of the Philharmonic Lecture, the study of the influence of the reciter on the development of the humanitarian space of the Chernihiv region of the late 20th – beginning of the 21th centuries, will help to form an integrated picture of the artistic life of the region.