Ukrainian Arts Monitor Vol 2 # 3 (Iin English)
Max Pyziur
19.02.96*UAM#03
T h e U k r a i n i a n A r t s M o n i t o r
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Monday, 19 February 1996
Volume 2, Issue 3
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Inside U.A.Monitor:
Briefs
Pavarotti in Ukraine
Hryhoryj Nudha Fund
Chychybabinskyj Readings
New Magazine About Cinema
"Artania"
Announce
Festival "Surmy '96"
Gallery
National Treasures Abroad
Hryhoryj Synytsya's Exhibition
Swedish Graphics in Ukraine
Stage
Youth Theater Tour
Les Kurbas Award
Literature
Lesia Ukrainka's 125th Anniversary
Music
Modest Mentsynskyj
Popular
RFI Discoveries
Top Ten
Appendix
Subscription
Distribution
Contact
Sponsorship
Special Thanks
Other Publications
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BRIEFS
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**PAVAROTTI IN UKRAINE**
Kyiv. Preliminary negotiations regarding the concert
performance of world opera star Luchiano Pavarotto are being
held between the Roman agency "Synergy", the Kyiv City
Administration, and the Italian Embassy. The performance is
scheduled to take place on August 25th of this year on the
"Spivoche Pole" [The Singing Field] in the state's capital.
--Yaroslav Davydovsky, UAM.
**HRYHORYJ NUDHA FUND**
Lviv. The Lviv Writer's Union recently hosted a festive
presentation of a new fund named after prominent Ukrainian
scholar, researcher, historian, and writer, Hryhoryj Nudha,
who during his lifetime never received due recognition for his
work. Hryhoryj Nudha is the author of several works including
"Ukrainian Song in the World", "Don't Be Afraid of Death",
"The Republic of the Cossacks", "On Literary Paths", and
others.
--Moloda Halychyna.
**CHYCHYBABINSKYJ READINGS**
Kharkiv. The Chychybabinskyj Readings took place in Kharkiv
Institute of Culture. Over 100 scholars, poets, writers,
university instructors, and students participated in the
meeting. The organizers of this event was the newly
established Fund named after the laureate of the USSR State
Award, and former prisoner of Viatlag, poet Borys Chychybabin.
--Uriadovyj Courier.
**NEW MAGAZINE ABOUT CINEMA**
Kyiv. A presentation of the new magazine "Kino-Teatr"
[Cinema-Theater] - the only existing Ukrainian magazine
dedicated to cinematography - occured in the Hall of New
Discoveries at the National Parliament Library. The magazine's
founder is the "Kyjevo-Mohylanska Academia" University. Among
its planned rubrics will be the section called "Pages in
History", which will publish letters written by Oleksander
Dovzhenko.
--Kultura i Zhyttia.
**ARTANIA**
Lviv. A presentation of the literary-arts magazine "Artania"
was given in the Museum of Ethnography on February 13th. The
head editor of this new magazine is Mykola Marychevskyj, who
also publishes the magazine "Obrazotvorche Mystetstvo" [The
Visual Arts].
--Moloda Halychyna.
ANNOUNCE
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**FESTIVAL "SURMY '96"**
Rivne. The Third International Festival of Wind Music will
take place from 23-26 May, 1996. This festival is a cultural
and artistic project presented by the All-Ukrainian Music
Union and its centers in the Rivne Region.
The goals of this festival are the development of the wind
musical genre, the increase of artistic performance levels of
wind music and performers of various wind instruments, the
popularization of wind music in the context of national and
patriotic up-bringing of the Ukrainian nation - especially its
youth, and the promotion of better cooperation between
national and international cultural organizations.
The founders of this festival is the All-Ukrainian Music
Union, the Association of Promoters of Wind Music, the Rivne
Oblast Division of Culture, the Rivne City Administration, and
the company "Surma".
The festival's Directorate can be contacted through the
following address: Soborna Street 34-38, Rivne 266000 Ukraine
Telephone +38 (03622) 656-80, fax +38 (03622) 697-33.
--Kultura i Zhyttia.
GALLERY
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**NATIONAL TREASURES ABROAD**
During the Second World War, over 350 art works from the Lviv
Art Gallery were taken to Germany by the German Occupational
Army, including the painting "Autoportrait" by Rembrandt and
"Portrait of a Woman" by Gossart.
Among the expropriated treasures was an album of drawings by
the famous artist of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Durer,
which was presented as a gift in 1823 by Henrik Lubomirskyj to
the Lviv Ossolenium. During the war, the album was in the
possession of Hitler's Reich Chancellery and later, was
retrieved from a salt mine near Salzburg, Austria.
At the end of last year, after a thorough journalistic
investigation, the London periodical "The Arts Newspaper"
published an article on the whereabouts of the 24 drawings of
the "Lviv" album: "The newspaper's investigation reported that
one of the world's most famous collection of drawings by Durer
were dispersed under suspicious circumstances and perhaps now,
the collection can become an object of international
claim...The conducted investigation shows that the fate of
these drawings was a transgression on the American side in the
return of art works, which were confiscated by the Nazis..."
The newspaper informs that the drawings are in several
national collections in London, Birmingham, Rotterdam, Ottawa,
Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Kansas City, New York, and also in
private collections in Great Britain, Germany, Canada, and the
United States.
--Vysokyj Zamok.
**HRYHORYJ SYNYTSYA'S EXHIBITION**
Kyiv. An exhibition featuring the works by Hryhoryj Synytsya,
distinguished artist-monumentalist and winner of the state
award named after Taras Shevchenko, was held in the city
center's "Ukrajins'kyj Dim" [Ukrainian Home]. The exhibition
under the title "Ukrajina - zhyttia moje" [Ukraine - my life]
exhibits paintings (especially from the 1960's) which earlier
were never shown in public.
--Uriadovyj Courier.
**SWEDISH GRAPHICS IN UKRAINE**
Kyiv. An exhibition under the same name is now being shown in
the Center of Contemporary Art "Brama" under the auspices of
the Swedish Embassy in Ukraine and the Swedish Institute in
Stockholm. The exhibition represents many different techniques
in graphic art from traditional - "dry-needle", "mezzo-tinto",
lithographs on stone - to experimental. This collection has
already been expositioned in Ivano-Frankivsk, where it
received high acclaim.
--Literaturna Ukrajina.
STAGE
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**YOUTH THEATER TOUR**
Lviv. The Lviv Youth Theater named after Les Kurbas began its
enduring American tour on February 10th. This second tour in
the United States is organized by the Union of Journalists,
Sartoga International Institute of Theater, and the Drama
Faculty at Columbia University.
The Lviv troupe will show three productions including:
"Blahodarnyj Erodij" [The Thankful Erody] based on the
original work by Hryhoryj Skovoroda, "Zabavy Dlya Fausta"
[Games for Faust] adapted from Dostoyevsky's "Crime and
Punishment", and "Apochryphy" based on the dramatic works "Na
Poli Krovi" [Blood in the Field] and "Johanna, Zhinka Khusova"
[Johanna, Khus's wife] by Lesia Ukrainka. The theater's
artistic director is Volodymyr Kuchynskyj.
--Vysokyj Zamok.
Contact: Les Kurbas Street 4, Lviv 290007 Ukraine
telephone +38 (0322) 742-068
**LES KURBAS AWARD**
Kyiv. Candidates for the award named after Ukraine's famous
actor and director Les Kurbas (1887-1942) have been announced.
This award is presented every two years for the best work in
directing, acting, script writing, or publication on the
history and theory of Ukrainian theater. The winners of the
Les Kurbas Award will be announced on February 25th, the
birthday of the Ukrainian reformer.
Among the pretenders for this award is actor Gennady Horshkov
of the Donetsk Ukrainian Musical Dramatic Theater named after
Artem (for the role of Malakhyj Stakanchyk in the play
"Narodnyj Malakhyj" [The People's Malakhyj] by Mykola Kulish),
the director of Yara's Group "La Mama" (New York, USA) Virlana
Tkacz (for the production of plays, artistic evenings, which
propagate the achievements of the Ukrainian people), and
artistic director of the Dnipropetrovsk Ukrainian Theater of
One Actor "Kryk" [Scream] Mykhailo Melnyk (for his significant
contribution to the development of national art, exploration
of new theatrical forms as a director, actor, playwright, and
translator).
The jury asks to send responses and propositions for
the selection of candidates to the following address:
The Division of Theaters, Ministry of Culture and Art
of Ukraine, Ivan Franko Street 19, Kyiv 252030 Ukraine
--Kultura i Zhyttia.
LITERATURE
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**LESIA UKRAINKA'S 125TH ANNIVERSARY**
Kyiv. The committee responsible for organizing the national
celebration of the 125th birthday anniversary of poet and
playwright Lesia Ukrainka (Larysa Kosach-Kvitka, 1871-1913)
recently held a meeting to coordinate the various festivities
throughout Ukraine. Among this year's planned events observing
the jubilee include "Artistic Evenings in Volyn Region", art
exhibits, theater performances, poetry readings, and research
conferences, which will take place in the poet's native region
Volyn.
Plays by Lesia Ukrainka will be performed in major theaters as
well as plays by young playwrights depicting her life and
creative work. There will also be an all-Ukrainian competition
of script readers in Kyiv and Nizhen. Major preparations are
also being made in the Crimea, where the celebration's
culmination will take place in Yalta with an arts festival,
"Lesyna Osin" [Lesia's Autumn]. On February 26th, the
poetess's birthday, Kyiv will officially observe the
playwright's anniversary as well as show performances of six
of her plays.
--Literaturna Ukrajina.
MUSIC
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**MODEST MENTSYNSKYJ**
Kyiv. The Ukrainian nation has contributed many superb
vocalists to the opera world. Among them is Modest Mentsynskyj
(1875-1935), glorified performer of tenor roles of all Wagner
operas and other "veristic" composers. This celebrated artist
also donned the honorable title of heroic tenor.
"Rada" publishers recently released a new book "Modest
Mentsynskyj" by Mykhailo Holovashchenko, who is the author of
several books on operatic art including "Oleksandr Myshuha"
(1971) and the two volume set "Solomia Krushelnytska"
(1978-79). This original trilogy depicts the large panorama of
operatic art in Europe during the last thirty years of the
nineteenth century and early part of this century. The major
artists of this era were Ukrainian opera stars, who then were
legends in their time.
--Kultura i Zhyttia.
Contact: Leonid Lirnychenko, Director of "Rada" Publishers
Telephone +38 (044) 220-1145, 221-1519 fax 225-4024
Volodymyrska Street 42, Kyiv 252003 Ukraine
POPULAR
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**RFI DISCOVERIES**
Lviv. For the first time, musicians from Ukraine - two groups
"Pikkardijska Tercia" [Picardy Third] and "Okean Elsy" [Ocean
of Elsa] (see UAM Volume 2, Issue 1) - will take part in the
competition "RFI Discoveries: Rock'n'Pop in the East Contest".
Its second year, this event is sponsored by Radio "France
International", who has made its primary goal to heighten the
international reputations of popular groups from Central and
Eastern Europe. Among all the participants involved, no more
than twelve will be accepted to the final round. Three
laureates are to be awarded, including the media grand prix,
the jury grand prix, as well as a special award from the jury.
In addition to money prizes, winners of the competition will
be invited to France to participate in a gala concert.
--Moloda Halychyna.
**LUX'S TOP TEN**
These are the results of Radio Lux's hit-parade, the best
of Ukrainian contemporary song for the 7-th week of 1996.
Radio transmission of Radio Lux can be heard on 104.7 FM
in Lviv and 103.1 FM in Kyiv.
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A Performer Song B C
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1 Pikkardijska Tercia TT - 8
2 Scriabin Ptakhy [Birds] +2 20
3 Iryna Bilyk Ty Mij [You are mine] -1 12
4 Plach Yeremiyi Vona [She] -1 20
5 Vkhid u zminnomu vzutti Sirko +1 1
6 Oleksander Ponomarov Z Ranku do Nochi -1 16
7 Mertvyj Piven' Sestro [Sister] - 20
8 Oksana Pekun Ne Zalyshay +2 1
9 CCC Haspyd abo zh did'ko -1 7
10 Herasymchuk and Dragline Bula v Bahacha -1 12
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(A) Position in "Lux-Parade"
(B) Deviation from the previous week
(C) Number of weeks
--Radio Lux, for UAM.
Contact: +38 (0322) 277-777, <in...@radiolux.lviv.ua>.
APPENDIX
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