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…
Sagardía, a composer based in Berlin, is known for his multifaceted artistic experiences ranging from musical and theatrical performances to film scores, chamber experimental compositions, and popular music. In this…
Nestled in the quaint town of Huddersfield in northern England, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//) stands as the preeminent multi-year, international celebration of new and experimental music in Great…
In one of his interviews, director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk said, “In an art-house’s movie, as in a literary work, everyone can read something different.” The film Pamfir was his first work…
