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A Tribute to Yuriy Kerpatenko: A Ukrainian Hero

Ukrainian conductor Yuriy Kerpatenko. Copyright: Ukraine Culture Ministry via Facebook

This paper is perhaps a little different from the others published here. It is a personal and painful tribute. But perhaps you will also find in it a strategic resonance— for there are realities of life and death that finally open up its possibility.

He was 46 years old…