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Finally
We are proud to present to you the 17th issue of U.A.Monitor
and the first issue published both in Ukrainian and English
languages.
We hope that the future development and growth of the Ukrainian
Arts Monitor will continue in the next year - 1996.
Together the staff at UAM would like to sincerely wish our
readers a wonderful and productive year. And a Happy, Happy
New Year!
--Antony Potoczniak, UAM.
Horowitz Piano Competition
Kharkiv. On December 11th, thirty young performers from Ukraine
and 6 foreign countries took part in the first International
Piano Competition named after Volodymyr Horowitz. The
competition's jury was headed by the professor of the Moscow
Conservatory, Victor Merzhinov. Sponsors of the event included
the region's government administration and the Ukrainian
Musician's Union. The competition ended on December 19th.
The first prize winner was awarded 10,000 US dollars.
--"Radio Lux", for UAM.
Unique Folios Stolen
Chernivtsi. A unique book "The History of Jewish Religions,"
dating from late thirteenth century and written in old Latin
on parchment, was stolen from the Scientific Library at the
University of Chernivtsi named after Fedkovych. Two unidentified
persons were able to deceive the library's head archivist after
having shown former KGB identification cards and peacefully left
the premises with the relic. According to the library's director
Mr. Voloshchuk, the value of the book is worth no less than one
million dollars, though - understandably - such folios have no
price.
--"Molod Ukrayiny".
The Illi Repin Fund
Chuhuyev. The first meeting of founders of the charitable fund
named after Illi Repin recently took place in the artist's native
city Chuhuyev. The preparations for this event already began
several years ago. Last year, during a jubilee anniversary, the
idea to create such a fund was proposed and later accepted.
The goal of this fund is to uphold the memory of the artist, to
preserve his works, and to materially support young artists,
museums, and the art school named after Illi Repin. Among the
founders of this fund are the Artist's Union of the NIS, the
Ukrainian League of Historic Cities, artist cooperatives of
Ukraine and Russia, and Chuhuyev's city administration. It is
the organizer's hope that Bilorus and Finland, who also consider
Repin their national artist, will also cooperate in the future
activities of the fund.
--"Holos Ukrayiny".
Ukraine's First President Honored
An exhibition honoring the 130th birthday of Ukraine's first
president, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, opened in the Scientific Library
of the Lviv State University Ivan Franko. This exhibition
includes scholarly works by Hrushevsky as well as other works by
noted national and foreign scholars who influenced the former
President's world-view. Also expressed in this exhibition is
Hrushevsky's humanitarian influence as a historian, scholar, and
political activist in Ukrainian society.
--"Moloda Halychyna".
New Kyiv Gallery
Kyiv. Recently, the first city art gallery "Lavra" opened in
state's capital. Created by the city administration's Department
of Culture, the new gallery will be used for large yearly
exhibitions, Ukrainian and international art symposiums, as
well as for the presentation of creative projects.
The first art show at "Lavra" was the "Autumn Palette of Kyiv,"
which now will become a yearly tradition of spring and fall
exhibitions of the capital's artists.
According to the Kyiv's administration director, Leonid
Kosakivskyj, this long awaited dream had finally become a
reality: "a city with many cultural traditions, many talents,
now has its own art gallery."
--"Holos Ukrayiny".
New Book by Roman Ivanchuk
Lviv. The presentation of a new book "The Gospel From Thomas"
by the well-known Ukrainian author and laureate of the Shevchenko
State Award, Roman Ivanchuk, was held in the oldest book
repository of Ukraine, the Scientific Library of the Lviv State
University Ivan Franko.
--"Vysokyj Zamok".
The Preservation of Ukrainian Religious Monuments
Poland. The Civil Commission for the Preservation of Ukrainian
Church Art has existed in Poland for the past 12 years under the
direction of Bohdan Martyniuk. In spite of the great difficulties
encountered during its creation, the commission has been able to
accomplish a lot of important work during this interim period,
including the location, description, and the appraisement of many
Ukrainian religious art works, as well as the conservation and
restoration of numerous sanctuaries - churches, cemeteries, road
crosses, small chapels - located beyond Ukrainian borders (the
territory of former Zheshivsky, Lublinsky, and Krakivsky
Provinces).
To popularize Ukrainian culture abroad, the Commission organizes
numerous events including art competitions for children and
teenagers revealing the best paintings in post-competition
exhibitions in Ukrainian and Polish cities. Similarly, several
conferences, photo exhibitions, and concerts of Ukrainian church
and folk music are conducted yearly. It is particularly important
to note that participants of these events are of different
religious confessions and nationalities from Poland, Ukraine, and
Canada.
--Lidia Chyr, UAM.
For more information about the Commission's yearly
activities, please contact the organizers at the
following address: ul. Pienkna 44a, 00672, Warszawa,
ZG TOnZ - Kom. Cerkiewna, Poland - Polska.
Opera "Dido and Aeneas"
Lviv. On December 8th and 10th in the Lviv Organ Recital Hall,
the choir and orchestra of the Lviv Higher Music Institute
M.V.Lysenko under the direction of Heorhyj Pavlyj performed Henry
Purcell's opera, "Dido and Aeneas," in commemoration of the 300th
anniversary of the composer's death. Among the soloists was
English singer George Newton Fitzgerald, who sang the role of
Aeneas.
This performance was an unusual event because it was the first
attempt in Lviv that a baroque opera could be interpreted in an
authentic manner. In October, Heorhyj Pavlyj prepared a similar
program of works by baroque English composers Purcell and Blow.
Steven Daw, professor at the Birmingham Conservatory and a
specialist of baroque music, conducted the concert. Professor
Daw also gave consultation during the performance rehearsals
of "Dido and Aeneas."
The specific manner of singing demanded by the baroque style
sometimes confused Lviv soloists, whose diction from time to time
was subject to unrecognizability. However, among the soloists,
Vasyl Slipak (countertenor, by the way, the only in Ukraine)
charmed audiences with his expressive manner of singing.
Of course, the major work accomplished with the student orchestra
and choir (choir master, Yaroslav Hnatovskyj) - although not
always convincing - should be appreciated.
--Pavlo Hrechka, UAM.
Today in History
5 December
Born Oleksander Oles (Kandyba) (1878-1944), poet.
6 December
In 1240, Tatar-Mongols under the leadership Batia
conquered and razed the ancient city Kyiv.
Born Mykola Kolessa (1903), composer, conductor, and
pedagogue.
7 December
Born Kateryna Bilokur (1900-1961), artist.
Born Mykola Ustianovych (1811-1885), writer and social activist.
8 December
In 1868, the society "Prosvita [Enlightenment]" was formed in Lviv.
9 December
Born Borys Hrinchenko (1863-1910), author of the
fundamental Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language".
Born Volodymyr Romaniuk (1925-1995), philosopher, theologian.
12 December
Born Anatoly Petrytskyj (1895-1964), artist.
13 December
Born Mykola Khvylovyj (1893-1933), writer and poet.
Born Mykola Sadovska (1856-1933), actor and director.
Born Yevhen Petrov (1902-1942), writer.
14 December
Born Mykola Starytskyj (1840-1904), writer and dramaturg.
15 December
In 1934, 28 Ukrainian scientists, writers, and social
activists were sentenced to death in the USSR, among
them were D.Falkivskyj, H.Kosenka, K.Burevyj and I.Krushelnytskyj.
17 December
Poet, Mykhailo Drai-Khmara (1889-1939), died while
working in a coal mine on Kamchatka peninsula.
Born Yevhen Bukovetskyj (1866-1948), painter, initiator
for the formation of the Artist's Union named after K.Konstandi.
18 December
Died Ivan Stempkovskyj (1789-1832), archaeologist and
founder of the archaeological museums in Odesa and Kerchyn.
Born Mykola Kulish (1892-1942), writer, dramaturg.
19 December
In 1492, first dated record which mentions the
Cossacks (in a letter from the Lithuanian Prince
Oleksander to the Crimean Khan Megli Hirea).
20 December
The first book from the Kyiv-Pecherska
Lavra publishing house which dates from 1616.
Born Yevhen Filomafitskyj (1790-1889), scholar, writer,
and one of the first to introduce Ukrainian journalism.
Born Josyp Lozynskyj (1807-1889), ethnographer,
linguist, and author of the book "Grammar of the Rus Language".
21 December
Born Tymko Padura (1801-1871), Ukrainian and Polish poet-Romantic.
22 December
Born Marko Vovchok (Maria Vilinska) (1834-1907), writer.
23 December
In 1873 was founded the Literary Organization named
after Taras Shevchenko (from 1892 The Shevchenko Scientific Society).
Concerts
CONCERT OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
Saturday, 16 December 1995, 3 p.m.
The Higher Music Institute M.V.Lysenko (HMI) and The Research
Art Foundation Metropolitan Andryj Sheptytskyj present an
afternoon of contemporary music in the Lviv National Museum
(Prospect Svobody, 20).
Performers: String Quartet HMI (Led by Orest Kohut) Marta
Kurylo (violin), Roman Sokruta (violin), Volodymyr Meheden
(viola), Solomia Kanchalaba (cello).
Program: Shostakovych, Quartet No. 8, Op. 110; Skoryk,
Diptych.
AN EVENING OF PIANO CONCERTOS
Sunday, 17 December 1995, 7 p.m.
Ludkevych Concert Hall (Tchaikovsky Street, 7).
Performers: Maksym Lymaryev (soloist, piano), The Lviv
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra (Yarema Kolessa, conductor).
Program: W.A.Mozart, Piano Concerto d-minor K.465; F.Chopin,
Piano Concerto e-minor.
AN EVENING OF SONATAS
Wednesday, 20 December 1995, 5 p.m.
Presented by the graduates of the Higher Music Institute.
The Lviv Regional Organization Hall "Znannia" (Prospect
Shevchenko, 19).
Performers: Zenovyj Zhmurkevych (piano), Oleksander
Kalynovskyj (piano), Halyna Zhuk (cello), Yaryna Horbachevska
(viola), Andryj Vakula (clarinet).
Program: works by Poulenc, Brahms, Beethoven, Shostakovych.
BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL
Friday, 22 December 1995, 7 p.m.
Ludkevych Concert Hall (Tchaikovsky Street, 7).
Performers: Oleksandra Zaytseva, Kyiv (soloist, piano), The
Lviv Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra (Yarema Kolessa,
conductor).
Program: Symphony No.2, Piano Concerto No.4
CONCERT OF VIRTUOSOS
For wind and percussion instruments
Friday, 22 December 1995, 6 p.m.
The Higher Music Institute (HMI) Concert Hall
(O.Nyzhankivskyj, 5).
Performers: Students of HMI.
Program: works by Mozart, Prokofiev, Haydn, and other
composers.
A MUSICAL CHRISTMAS PRESENT
Saturday, 23 December 1995, 7 p.m.
The Organ Recital Hall (Bandera Street, 8).
Performers: Lydia Shutko (violin), Diana Havata (cello),
Ostap Shutko (violin), The Lviv Chamber Orchestra, Artur
Mykytka (conductor).
Program: works by Vivaldi, Laniuk, Barvinskyj (Skoryk),
Kryvolap, and other composers.
CONCERT MESSIAH
Sunday, 24 December 1995, 5 p.m.
The Organ Recital Hall (Bandera Street, 8).
Performers: The Lviv Chamber Choir "Trembita," Yurij
Lutsiv (conductor).
Program: G.F.Handel, Messiah.
THE ALL-MALE A CAPELLA GROUP "PICARDY THIRD"
Monday, 8 January, 1996, 5:30 and 8 p.m.
The Theater of Opera and Ballet (Prospect Svoboda, 1).
Program: solo Christmas concerts.
Opera and Ballet
THE IVAN FRANKO THEATER OF OPERA AND BALLET
Prospect Svoboda, 1
21 Dec Zaporozhets za Dunayem, Lysenko
22 Dec Futile Discretion, Hertel
23 Dec Christmas Night, Lysenko
24 Dec Christmas Night, Lysenko (12:00)
24 Dec The Forest Song (ballet), Skorulsky
27 Dec Evening of Ancient and Contemporary Dance
28 Dec Christmas Night, Lysenko
29 Dec The Forest Song (ballet), Skorulsky
30 Dec Die Fledermaus, Strauss
31 Dec The Magical Frog, Yanivsky (12:00)
All performances begin at 7 p.m., except where otherwise
indicated. Tickets can be purchased at the theater's ticket
office before each performance. For more information about
performances, please contact the opera's information office
at the following phone number: +38 (0322) 728-672.
Theater
THE ZANKOVETZKYJ THEATER
Lesia Ukrainka, 1 тел. +38 (0322) 720-762
21 Dec Sharika, Barnych (16:00)
22 Dec Night on the Mountain Grove, Oles (18:00)
23 Dec Sharika, Barnych (18:00)
24 Dec Vertep, O Rejoice (12:00)
25 Dec Vertep, O Rejoice (17:00)
26 Dec Sin and Repentance, I. Karpenko-Karij (17:00)
27 Dec Medea, J. Anouilh (17:00)
28 Dec Through a Pike's Wish [Po shchuchomu velinniu] M.Kropyvnytsky (14:00)
29 Dec Through a Pike's Wish [Po shchuchomu velinniu] M.Kropyvnytsky (14:00)
30 Dec Night on the Mountain Grove, Oles (18:00)
Tickets can be purchased in the theater's entrance during the
day prior to performances. For more information, please call
+38 (0322) 720-762.
PUPPET THEATER
Danylo Halytskij Square, 1
Theatrical versions of Saint Mikolai will take place
from the 15 - 22 December. Tel. +38(0322) 722-946
Others
THE LVIV STATE CIRCUS
Horodotska Street, 83
Program: "Behind the Circus Scenes." 19 December, 1995.
Three programs dedicated to Saint Mykolai's Day. Tel. +38
(0322) 722-946
New UAM Rubric
The goal of our new rubric is to help provide and establish
contact for those individuals and organizations, who may require
such assistance, with the wide auditorium of Ukrainian Arts
Monitor readers in Ukraine and in other countries around the
world.
We hope that you will find this opportunity helpful. We will also
be contented if this rubric will continuously serve as a unifying
link for those who are interested in the development of Ukrainian
art and culture.
--Yaroslav Davydovsky, UAM.
Rebirth of National Traditions
Lviv. The Ukrainian Republican Party (URP) is organizing a trip
of Vertep [Ukrainian Christmas carol theater] to eastern and
central regions of Ukraine and is sponsoring children to visit
Lviv during the Christmas holidays in Western Ukraine. The
children will be able to familiarize with Ukrainian holiday
season traditions (in West Ukraine, traditions and rituals have
been less destroyed during the Soviet era). A Vertep group from
Lviv (20 persons) will be traveling to Kirovohrad oblast while
40 children from that region will visit Lviv.
We are soliciting potential sponsors for financial support
for the realization of this project. Needed is approximately
50 million karbovanets ($280 US) for the trip from Lviv to
Kirovohrad, and to support the group of children in Lviv
region - over 100 million karbovanets ($560 US).
--Ihor Shostak, Halytska URP.
N.B. You may contact with the author of this announcement,
through Maria Koval, UAM. Tel. +38 (0322) 723-094,
<mk@ukrainet.lviv.ua>.
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