“Festive,” “cheerful,” “joyful” … Definitions offered by etymological dictionaries for the Latin word festivus are indescribably far from what Ukrainians are experiencing today. What kind of festivals can we talk…
We Lwowie, zasypanym śniegiem po uszy, pod drzwiami filharmonii, ozdobionymi mroźnymi wzorami, zebrała się garstka ludzi: dorośli i prawie dorośli. Najmniejsze postacie jako pierwsze śpieszą z otwarciem ciężkich drzwi, aby…
Despite the war, artistic life in Ukraine continues and is gaining new momentum. This year, the newly created All-Ukrainian chamber music festival “Mirror”, launched in the walls of the Lviv…
Although the world has entered a new era with a bunch of dangers and restrictions, where people are increasingly moving away to the depths of the virtuality dimension, Ukrainian cultural…
Anyone interested in contemporary European jazz is more likely to associate pianist and composer Kathrine Windfeld with a big band than with a sextet, the lineup of which she arrived…
On the 31st of December New Year’s Eve, the restored St. Andrew’s Kyiv Church hosted known musical guests: Maksym Berezovsky, the Kyiv Soloists Ensemble, and Kyrylo Karabyts. Significantly and symbolically,…
— Composers often compare creativity with cooking or sex. So what associations do you have? — I think you can find different metaphors here, it depends on the…
Chronicle one Technology against art ̶B̶r̶i̶t̶i̶s̶h̶ ̶s̶c̶i̶e̶n̶t̶i̶s̶t̶s̶ Standup comedians claim that the best monologue is possible when the author is angry because something annoys the hell out of him. The…
In May the world’s leading classical music label Naxos released the first CD of Ukrainian pianist Dmytro Choni, the winner of the first prize of the 19th Paloma O’Shea Santander…
