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1100th Anniversary Founding of Halych
Kyiv. As part of the celebration marking the 1100th anniversary
of the founding of the city Halych, one of the largest ancient
centers of Kyiv-Rus, the Ukrainian government has officially
approved a series of projects which will become a part of this
jubilee. The projects include the general restoration and
preservation of "Old Halych" and its monuments, the creation of
a permanent working archaeological expedition group, and the
construction of several new buildings. The city of Halych
(Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast) also plans to erect a monument
dedicated to Prince Danylo Halytskyj.
--"Moloda Halychyna".
Ukrainian Days in Egypt
Cairo. The Days of Ukrainian Culture and Art began in Egypt's
capital. The opening ceremony took place in the largest theater
of the country - the Cairo Opera Theater. Among the almost fifty
invited artists were such luminaries as Olha Hahorna, soloist of
the Ukrainian National Opera, a trio of performers under the
direction of Zhanna Kolodub, film artists, the ensemble
"Suziria", and many others. The Egyptian press have already
published the first positive responses about this cultural
festival.
--"Holos Ukrayiny".
Monument to Yaroslav the Wise
Kyiv. The Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers have approved a project
to construct a monument in the state's capital dedicated to one
of the most brilliant leaders of Kyiv-Rus, Yaroslav the Wise.
The project will be organized by the Ministry of Culture and the
Kyiv City Administration. The Development of Ukrainian Art Fund
will participate in its construction.
--Yaroslav Davydovsky, UAM.
In Memory of Nazaryj Yaremchuk
Chernivtsi. A new song festival dedicated to the memory of
Ukrainian singer Nazaryj Yaremchuk has been established in
Bukovyna. The event will take place every year during the month
of September in Vyzhnytsa, the place where the artist began his
singing career. This festival is initiated by Nazaryj's teacher
and founder of the ensemble "Smerichka", Levko Dutkivskyj.
--"Holos Ukrayiny".
Emblems and Lands of Ukraine
Kyiv. A unique publication - "Emblems and Lands of Ukraine" -
under the auspices of the information advertising agency "Taki
spravy" will soon be released in book stores all across Ukraine.
The tome will illustrate reproductions of over 200 emblems and
coat-of-arms of Ukrainian lands from its earliest periods.
--"Uriadovyj Courier".
Musicians in the Defense of Childhood
Lviv. A benefit concert "Musicians in Defense of Childhood" will
take place in the Palace of Young Pupils on May 29th. This event
is being organized by the Lviv regional section of the Liberal
Party of Ukraine and the artistic agency "Dubl-2". Participants
of the concert will include such famous performers such as
Natalka Pylypiuk, Olha Yunakova, the show-ballet "Aquarius",
the group "Lesyk Band", and Bohdan Rybka, actor of the theater
"Ne zhurys". The monies received from the concerts will be
appropriated for the treatment of children suffering from
cerebral palsy.
--Iryna Voronyak, for UAM.
Shevchenko in Saint Petersburg
Russia. The Mayor's office of Saint Petersburg has approved a
decision to erect a monument dedicated to Taras Shevchenko in the
historical zone of Vasyliyiskyj Island - a decision long awaited
by the city's Ukrainian community.
The bronze monument of the Bard was completed and presented to
the city administration by well-known artist of Ukrainian
descent, Leonid Molodozhanyn. However, the to completion of
initial work and ground construction, require funds. A beneficial
fund has been established in Kyiv, in order to complete the
erection of this monument dedicated to Shevchenko.
--"Vysokyj Zamok".
The fund account is located in the Kyiv Filial "Pryvatbank",
account number 700333 MFO 321842, code 22886145 beneficial
fund "Art" with the subject: "For the Taras Shevchenko monument
in Saint Petersburg".
The Seventh International Festival "Virtuosi"
Lviv. The Lviv Philharmonic Society is organizing the Seventh
International Festival of Music "Virtuosi", which will take place
in Lviv from May 17th through the 26th. The festival will without
a doubt attract the attention of many art admirers with its
traditionally high level of artistic professionalism.
Many well known artists and performance ensemble from Poland,
Byelorus, Japan, Italy, Germany, Russia, England, Switzerland,
and Ukraine will participate in this years festival. Among the
invited guest artists are violinist Victor Tretiakov (Russia),
pianist Volker Banfield (Germany), contra-tenor Vasyl Slipak
(Ukraine), the Academy of Ancient Music (Russia), the chamber
choir "Gloria" (Ukraine) and others.
The festival will open with the performance of Ludwig van
Beethoven's Ninth Symphony by the choirs "Dumka" and "Dudaryk"
and the Lviv Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.
More information about this festival will be published in the
next issues of the Ukrainian Arts Monitor, who is also the
information sponsor of this event.
--Antony Potoczniak, UAM.
Contact: Serhyj Burko, Lviv Philharmonic Society
Telephone: +38 (0322) 798-584 fax 741-022, 635-101
Address: Chaikovsky 7 Lviv 290005 Ukraine
Competition Named After Dmytri Bida
Lviv. Eighty-seven young musicians from Ukraine, Russia,
Byelorus, and Poland took part in the First International
Competition of Wood-wind players named after Dmytri Bida
(1919-1979), which took place in Lviv on March 25th through
the 31st.
The first prize winners are as follow: flute players - Maria
Semotiuk from Lviv (juniors) and Victor Rura from Mykolayiv
(seniors), oboe - Yuri Litun (Lviv) and Dmytri Marhulets (Minsk),
clarinet - Ivan Lapshov (Moscow) and Yevhen Osvsyannikov (Minsk),
bassoon - Vladymir Valterov, Oksana Yakovchuk (Lviv) and Andryj
Kholonkin (Minsk).
Bida's name belongs to the rank of prominent contemporary flute
artists. From 1958 to the end of his life, Bida was the soloist
of one of the best symphonic ensembles in the world - the
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra.
At one time, the flautist was sought after even by the Queen of
England, who invited the artist to visit the United Kingdom with
several concert performances. World renowned violinist David
Oystraich wrote that Bida's flute playing "could combine the
easiness of execution with virtuosity of exquisite freshness,
and perform in an attractive manner".
--Andryj Hanus, UAM.
Contact: Yevhen Kozak, Director of the Theater-Studio "Dolia"
Telephone: +38 (0322) 752-018 fax (0322) 769-786
Address: Vakhnianyna 29 Lviv 29007 Ukraine
An Evening with Ira Malaniuk
Austria. An evening dedicated to extraordinary singer of
Ukrainian descent and professor of the Graz Music Academy, Ira
Malaniuk, took place at the Vienna Opera House. A resident of
Austria since the Second World War, she has been singing at the
Vienna State Opera already for a quarter of a century.
Having made her opera debut at the Lviv Opera House, the artist
has also performed on opera stages in Berlin, Cologne, Milan,
Paris, London, and Zurich. Her name ranks among other famous
opera singers - Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Giuseppe de
Stefano, and others.
On this particular evening, numerous admirers of Ira Malaniuk's
talent had the opportunity to hear not only her classic
repertoire, but also arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs.
The Ukrainian diplomat of Austria, Mykola Makarevych, was
present at the concert.
--"Vysokyj Zamok".
Kobzar Festival
Yalta. The Fifth Republican Festival of Kobzar Performance Art
"Dzveny, banduro" [Ring Bandura] recently took place in this
city. Over 200 participants from Kuban, Peremyshl, Lviv, and
the Crimea regions performed at this musical happening, which
was initiated in 1992 by bandura musicians from Yalta.
In addition to raising the artistic performance level of the
bandura, the goal of this event is to preserve the national
traditions of Ukraine and to stimulate the re-birth of kobzar
traditions in the Eastern diaspora. Similar events including
the organization of the All-Ukrainian Competition of Kobzar
Art are being planned in all regions of Ukraine.
--"Moloda Halychyna".
Orestes
Kyiv. The world's best play for 1994 "Orestes" by Aeschylus
under the direction of famous German dramaturg Peter Stein was
performed on April 28th in the International Center of Culture
and Art as part of the many events marking the 10th anniversary
of the Chornobyl catastrophy.
Famous movie and theater stars participated in this production
including Tatiana Vasylyeva, Tatiana Dohilyeva, Ludmilla
Chursyna, Olena Mayorova, Evhenyj Myronov, Ihor Kostolevskyj,
Anatoly Vasylyev, and many others.
The sponsors of this event was VABank, well-known in Ukraine as
patrons of the Arts. Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma was also
present at this performance.
--Anushavan Mesropian, UAM.
American Tour Accomplished
USA. The Les Kurbas Theatre returned to Lviv in mid-April after
a successful American Tour (see UAM Volume 2, Issue 3). The Lviv
theater company was invited a second time to tour the United
States by the Union of Journalists, Sartoga International
Institute of Theater, and the Drama Faculty at Columbia
University.
Over the course of their three month sojourn in America, they
performed three of their plays in English and Ukrainian to
receptive audiences which included a number of Americans who
are not of Ukrainian background. In addition to performing at
Columbia and Harvard Universities, and also a number of theaters
in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the Theater also
conducted a number of well attended workshops.
--Julie Franko, USA, for UAM.
Project "Seeding a Network"
Kyiv. Representatives of the Royal National Theater in London,
Jenny Harris and Kristy Tiller, visited Ukraine with the goal of
organizing a joint Ukrainian-English Project "Seeding a Network".
The project anticipates a month-long intensive apprenticeship
programs in Great Britain for professional Ukrainian producers,
administrators, managers, dramaturgs, and impresarios from
September through October 1996.
--"Kultura i Zhytia".
Contact: Project "Seeding a Network", International
Renaissance Fund, Artema 46 Kyiv 254053 Ukraine
Gypsy Theater Opening
Kyiv. The State Musical and Dramatic Gypsy Theater "Romance"
opened its concert theater season with gypsy songs, dances, and
the premiere of the classical song "What the violin sang about".
The theater's founder, artistic director and actor, Ihor
Krykunov, wishes to continue to propagate the talent of his
ethnic group and show the beauty and originality of its culture.
This idea to create a gypsy theater in Kyiv came to the artist in
1981, during his 16 year theatrical work experience in the Moscow
gypsy theater "Romen" and in the popular theater "Na Podoli".
--"Holos Ukrayiny".
Golden Gates
Pakistan. The Kyiv theater "Zoloti Vorota" [Golden Gates]
presented one of its most famous productions - the tragedy farce
"Caligula" based on the work by Albert Camus at the First
International Festival of Drama in Lahore.
The production created a wonderful impression on colleagues from
other countries. The theater company has been proposed to tour
countries in Asia, and to participate in a joint project with
Pakistani actors in the production of Shakespeare's Othello.
--"Kultura i Zhytia".
Two-Volume Anthology
Kyiv. An anthology "The Ukrainian Humanists of the Renaissance
Era" was recently released in Ukraine. The two-volume project
was realized jointly by the publishing firms "Naukova Dumka" and
"Osnova". It is the first time that such a complete anthology
of translations from Latin philosophical treatises appeared in
Ukrainian literature. Works by Yuryj Drohobych, Stanislav
Orikhovskyj, Symon Pekalid, Matvij Strykovskyj, Meletij
Smotrytskyj and twenty other Ukrainian philosophers of
historical Europe are re-published in modern Ukrainian.
--"Holos Ukrayiny".
Pinzel Museum Opening
Lviv. The museum of Ivan Gregory Pinzel, whose works are
considered to be a remarkable phenomenon in world culture, opened
in the building of the former church of the Sisters-Clarisas.
Although almost nothing is known about this artist who lived in
the 18th century, the artist's unique wooden sculptures have been
preserved.
In 1994, at the Poznan International Conference (Poland)
dedicated to the European Baroque Arts, Pinzel was acknowledged
a sensation of world-wide recognition. Half of the prints in a
special album accompanying the conference were represented with
works by Pinzel.
Art works, now collected for the new museum, were literally
rescued from total annihilation by workers of the Lviv Art
Gallery in the 1960's and 70's. Besides works by Pinzel, the
saved art work comprises what is perhaps the world's largest
collection of invaluable wooden sculptures (2,500 specimens),
of which a major portion are examples of Lviv baroque sculpture
dating from the 18th century.
--"Vysokyj Zamok".
Museum address: Mytna Square 2, Lviv.
Photo Exhibition in Lublin
Poland. For the first time in its existence, the theater gallery
NN in Lublin is exhibiting works of a Ukrainian master. The
creative photographic artwork of Vasyl Pylypiuk, laureate of the
Shevchenko Premiere, has over 10 photo albums: "Zhyvytsia", "Do
tebe poplynut", the wonderful masterpiece "Lviv", "In the Lands
of Cheremosh and Prut", "Pieta v kameni" and others. The
exhibition contains over 120 colorful landscape works of the
prince city Lviv.
--"Moloda Halychyna".
Concert-Marathon
Kyiv. An international concert-marathon dedicated to the 10th
anniversary of the Chornobyl tragedy took place at the Ukrainian
National Opera on April 25 which included performances by the
stars of popular music from Ukraine, Russia, and Byelorus. The
performers included Joseph Kobzon, Mykhailo Ulianov, Anatolyj
Solovianenko, Lev Filatov, Tayisa Piovalyj, Iryna Bilyk, and
Mykyta Djyhurda.
--"Vseukrayinski Vidomosti".
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