Bandura player.
Biography
Stepan Hanushevskyi at the Taras Shevchenko Bandura Players' Chapel (third from the right in the first row).
He was born in the village of Dori near Yaremche. His father, Mykhailo Hanushevsky, was the priest of Dora village since 1911, and then of Uhornyky near Stanislaviv. In 1935, Kost Misiewicz came here with a concert and lived with the Hanushevsky family. Stepan took his first bandura lessons from him.
After graduating from the gymnasium, in 1937 he moved to Lviv, where he attended the Lysenko Higher Music Institute.
1940 - started playing in a band of bandura players under the direction of Yuriy Singalevych.
1944 - left for Germany, where he joined the Taras Shevchenko Bandura Choir and performed as a soloist. In 1949, he emigrated to the United States and settled in Philadelphia. There he created an ensemble of bandura players, which often performed in cities across the United States and Canada.
1955 - moved to Rochester. In the 1960s, he became seriously ill.
Recordings
In 1950, he recorded six songs with the ensemble, which were released by the Trumpet Bookstore in New York:
"I'm leaving you today",
"Green Grove",
"Oh, there under the forest",
"Hey by the steppes",
"A viburnum blossomed, a viburnum blossomed - the moon is shining",
"A boat is sailing".
In 1953, he recorded six songs with the ensemble, which were released by Arka in New York:
"The Rifleman Said Goodbye",
"The brown eyes cried",
"Oh Woe to the Seagull",
"Volunteers are on the way",
"Hey, the rebels are marching",
"I am a son of the forests".
Most of the songs thematically related to the UPA have often been reissued individually and in collections, which sometimes mistakenly attribute some recordings to Hanushevsky's ensemble, such as Songs of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army - I and Songs of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army - II.
