Partner material On September 14, the central event of the Berezovsky/Rachynsky: New Soundscapes project took place at the Uspenskyi sobor of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra [the Dormition Cathedral of…
Ivan Kuzminskyi was a leading researcher of Ukrainian early music. He had a Ph. D. in Musicology and was the author of dozens of scientific publications. His career developed rapidly,…
Partner material For the second concert season in a row, the INSO-Lviv Symphony Orchestra has commissioned works written by Ukrainian composers. The orchestra’s management decided that four to five…
Peter J. Schmelz is a Professor in the Department of Comparative Thought and Literature at Johns Hopkins University specializing in 20th and 21st-century music. His primary interests lie in Soviet…
On June 15 and 16 the Lviv National Opera will premier Francis Poulenc’s opera Dialogues des Carmélites, the first production of this work on a Ukrainian opera stage. We spoke…
“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…
Milan Kundera (1929-2023) was one of the most prominent writers of the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, an author who spoke with unbearable ease about Immortality,…
The creator of the concept of “memory space” is the French historian Pierre Nora. In his Les Lieux de mémoire, he defines «memory spaces» as spiritual and material symbolic objects…
Zoltan Almashi is widely known and one of the most accomplished Ukrainian cello players. On stage, he seems very focused and serious, but at the same time, he is a…
Since the spring of 2022, musicians from military bands stationed in Mariupol and the Ukrainian military who defended Mariupol from the Russian invasion have been held captive in Russia. Three…
