50 Years of Ukrainian Culture: Music, Literature and Art
Friday, February 28 | Elebash Hall, CUNY Graduate Center
Hosted by the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center, we will open the festival with a pre-concert roundtable discussion of Ukrainian literature, music and visual art of the past 50 years. Dr. Mark Andryczyk (Columbia University) will discuss Ukraine’s literary development since the late Soviet period while Dr. Olena Martynyuk (Columbia University) will provide an overview of visual arts culture. Oksana Nesterenko (SUNY Stony Brook) will compare music climate in Ukraine before and after the Declaration of Independence (1991), with a particular focus on spiritual themes in the music of the most prominent composers of the 1960s generation.
The first concert of the festival will feature performances of some of Ukraine’s most well-established living composers.
5:00 PM ROUNTABLE DISCUSSION
6:30 PM CONCERT
Myroslav Skoryk, Three Extravagant Dances
Ihor Shcherbakov, Canzone for Two Violins
Virko Baley, Journey after Loves
Yevhen Stankovych, Kupala Songs
Hanna Havrylets, The Sun was Burning after Oleksandr Oles
Performed by Anastysia Antoniv, Dominik Belavy, Iryna Kit, Eric Sedgwick, Shelest Piano Duo; and The Ukrainian Chorus DUMKA of New York conducted by Vasyl Hrechynsky.
Elebash Recital Hall
The Graduate Center
City University of New York
365 Fifth Ave
New York, NY 10016
The festival is open to the public and will be conducted in English.