Repertoire
Kucherenko's repertoire included six dumy (sung epic poems):
- Oleksiy Popovych (probably from Khotkevych)
- About the Poor Widow and her three sons
- Captives lament (from Slastion)
- Khmelnytsky and Barabash (from literary sources)
- The death of Bohdan Khmelnytsky (from literary sources)
- The death of the kozak-bandurist. (from Khotkevych)
Many of the texts of these dumy he learned from books, and the accompaniment he composed himself or sometimes borrowing from other bandurists. His repertoire also included numerous songs of literary origin and songs which he composed himself.
| “ | All this, as with his level of intelligence, much of which he picked up in his associations with other intellectuals, we see in Kucherenko a new type of kobzar where the folk tradition intertwine with the newest cultural developments, no longer totally pure. When singing dumy, Kucherenko uses a long melodic line as compared to recitation; he is a true concert performer and performs in the larger towns, but for the ethnographer is less interesting. | ” |
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—Filaret Kolessa |
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Khotkevych also noted that Kucherenko had lost much of his folk character in his renditions of Ukrainian folk songs.
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