Once in a while, unexpected things happen. One of these things involves 'Still,' and I thought you might like to hear about it.
Over the past few weeks, 'Still' has been making appearances on Colorado Public Radio: as part of a local interest program called Colorado Matters, played in full on CPR Classical, and, most recently, in a digital story which you can check out here.
It's worth a quick read or listen just for the parts about Anatoly and Kaska Records, the Ukrainian group who contributed the strings you hear in the title track.
Here's a little backstory: Eden Lane, CPR arts & culture reporter, learned about the project from my friend and PR extraordinaire Joy Meadows and reached out to find time for a conversation. Before I could respond, we learned that Eden had already tracked down Anatoly and scheduled an interview.
As you'll hear in the CPR piece, Anatoly and I had never actually spoken - we worked via email and hadn't heard each other's voices. Until now.
Thanks to Joy for making this happen, and to Eden for such a moving story. It's so valuable and important to hear directly from Anatoly about his world during the war - and, most of all, about his indominable hope.
- Paul