Watching_the_sky_and_thinking_a_thought

Watching the sky and thinking a thought

Watching the sky and thinking a thought

Song by Anatoliy Solovianenko, Ivan Kozlovsky, Borys Hmyria, Muslim Magomayev and other


I am watching the sky and thinking a thought (Ukrainian: Дивлюсь я на небо та й думку гадаю) is a song with lyrics written by Ukrainian romantic poet Mykhailo Petrenko in 1841.[1] It was set to music by Lyudmila Alexandrova.[2] Vladislav Zaremba arranged this song for voice and piano. This song became one of the first two songs sung in space: this happened on August 12, 1962, on board the spacecraft "Vostok 3 and 4" when the first Ukrainian Soviet cosmonaut Pavlo Popovych from Ukraine, who had previously been fond of opera singing, performed it at the special request of Serhiy Korolyov, a prominent Soviet rocket engineer and designer of spacecraft from Ukraine, which sent the first satellite and the first people into space.[3][4][5][6] 55 years after the first performance of Ukrainian song in space, on August 12, 2017, the introduction of this day of Ukrainian Song Day was initiated.[7]

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  1. Южный русскій зборникъ. — Х., 1848. — С. 32–33

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