PREVIEW OF EVENTS (11/23/97)

PREVIEW OF EVENTS

Sunday, November 23

NEW YORK: The Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in the U.S. is holding a lecture by Dr. Volodymyr Kovalenko, dean, department of laser technology, Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, on the topic "The Use of Laser Technology in Assessing Technical Problems at the Chornobyl Nuclear Reactor." The lecture will be held at the academy, 206 W. 100th St., at 2 p.m.

Monday, December 1

CHICAGO: "Friends of Radiology in Ukraine," a non-profit organization of physicians and businesspersons in radiology, will hold its annual meeting at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in McCormick Place, Room N 136, at 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Paul Capp, M.D., director of the American Board of Radiology, will preside. Delegates from the Kyiv-based Association of Radiologists in Ukraine will participate and discuss current cooperative efforts with the West in reforming Ukrainian medicine. All RSNA attendees are welcome to attend. For additional information call (212) 995-6113; e-mail: [email protected]

Tuesday, December 2

NEW YORK: Soprano Oksana Krovytska will appear, together with pianist Zaidee Parkinson, violinist Scott St. John and pianist Pei-Yao Wang, in an evening of music titled "The Slavic Soul." The concert program will include Janacek's Sonata for Violin and Piano; Martinu's song cycle "Novy Spalicek" and "Etudes and Polkas"; Szymanowski's "Three Fragments on the Poems of Jan Kasprowicz, Op. 5" and five Rachmaninoff songs, dating from 1893 to 1902. Ms. Krovytska will sing the songs in their original languages. This program of rarely performed works has been designed by Ms. Parkinson, innovative programmer and originator of the critically acclaimed "Song in Music." The concert will be held at Weill Recital Hall at 8 p.m. Tickets at $20 and $15 are available at the Carnegie Box Office or by calling CarnegieCharge, (212) 247-7800. Student and senior citizen tickets are at half price.

Thursday, December 4

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: A conference titled "Lviv, Lvov, Lwów, Lemberg: The Ethnic-Cultural Transformation of the City," will be held at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland St., at 10:30 a.m.-5:45 p.m. Taking part in the conference are Ihor Zhuk, editor, Lviv Architectural Atlas, who will speak on the topic "Urban-Ethnic History and Architecture in Contemporary Lviv"; Hugo Lane, University of Michigan, "The Polish Opera and the Ukrainian Theater in Lviv: A Competition of Identities"; Phillip Ther, Freie Universität Berlin and Center for European Studies, Harvard University, "The Changing Ethnic Composition of Lviv"; Waclaw Wierzbieniec, Pedagogical University, Rzeszow, Poland, "Research and Resources on Jewish Culture and Society in Lviv: A Polish View"; Alois Woldan, University of Salzburg, "The Reception of Lviv in Austrian, Ukrainian and Polish Literature"; and George G. Grabowicz, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, "Two Myths of One City: The Polish and the Ukrainian Perceptions of Lviv in the 19th and 20th Centuries." The conference is co-sponsored by the Ukrainian Research Institute, the Study Group for Jews in Modern Europe, and the Study Group for Politics and Culture in Central Europe (Center for European Studies) at Harvard University.

Saturday, December 6

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.: The Vassar Orchestra, under the direction of Adrian Bryttan, will give its first concert of the season, performing Haydn's Symphony No. 104; Dvorak's "Wind Serenade"; and Rossini's "Italian Girl in Algiers Overture." The concert, to be held in Skinner Hall, starts at 8 p.m. Free admission. For further information call (914) 437-7319.
PERTH AMBOY, N.J.: St. Stephen Ukrainian Catholic Church will hold a holiday bazaar at the parish center, 1344 White Oak Bottom Road, at 10 a.m.-3 p.m. There will be Ukrainian and Christmas crafts, attic treasures, as well as home-made breads and pastries. "Cafe Ukraine," which opens at 11:30 a.m., will feature Ukrainian ethnic fare.

Sunday, December 7

ENCINITAS, Calif.: The Lake San Marcos Chamber Music Society (Gregory Bemko, president) presents concert pianist Mykola Suk in solo recital in a program of works by: Haydn, String Trio in G Major; Schumann, Piano Quartet in E-flat Major; and Schubert, "Trout" Quartet. Mr. Suk, artistic director of "Music at the Institute" at the Ukrainian Institute of America in New York, has recently returned from a concert tour in China and with the State Orchestra of Ukraine that took him through Austria and Germany. The concert will be held at the San Dieguito United Methodist Church, 170 Calle Magdalena, at 2:30 p.m.

Sunday-Monday, December 7-8

ST. PAUL, Minn.: The Embassy of Ukraine, in conjunction with the National Agricultural Library of the United States Department of Agriculture, and the University of Minnesota's Immigration History Research Center, Friends of the IHRC, and College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences invite the public to the opening of the exhibition "Contributions of Ukrainian Americans to the Agriculture of the United States of America." The exhibition includes documents from the papers of Minnesota's professors Alexander A. Granovsky (entomology) and Mykola Haydak (beekeeping). Opening remarks will be by Dr. Yuri Shcherbak, Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S. The exhibition will be held at the St. Paul Student Center, University of Minnesota, St. Paul Campus, 2017 Buford Ave. For further information call the Immigration History Research Center, (612) 627-4208; e-mail: [email protected]

Monday, December 8

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.: The Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute is holding a lecture by Svitlana Marinova, professor of museum studies, Kyiv University of Culture, and IREX Fellow, Center for Museum Studies, Smithsonian Institution, on the topic "Traditionalism and Current Trends in the Development of Ukrainian Museums." The lecture will be held in the HURI seminar room, 1583 Massachusetts Ave., at 4-6 p.m.

Wednesday, December 10

NEW YORK: "Music at the Institute" presents violinist Anatoliy Bazhenov, in a New York debut recital with pianist Naida Magomedbekova and violinist Alexander Bazhenov. The program of works will feature: Vivaldi, Sonata for Two Violins in B-flat Major; J.S. Bach, Partita for Violin and Piano in D Minor; Stockhausen, "Tierkreis" ("Zodiac"), Werk No. 41 1/2; Lysenko-Stetsenko, "Ukrainian Rhapsody for Violin and Piano No. 2"; and Ravel, "Tzigane." Anatoliy Bazhenov is professor of violin at the National Music Academy in Kyiv and the first violin of the Lysenko String Quartet. Pianist Naida Magomedbekova teaches at the Kyiv Conservatory. For her propagation of Dagestan music in Ukraine, Ms. Magomedbekova was awarded the title Honored Artist of Dagestan. Violinist Alexander Bazhenov, the son of Anatoliy Bazhenov and Naida Magomedbekova, is the youngest member of the Lysenko String Quartet and executive director of the Young International Chamber Orchestra XXI. The concert will be held at the Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 E. 79th St., at 8 p.m.

ONGOING

BALTIMORE: An exhibit of photographs and installations titled "The Mysteries of Eurasia" by Kyiv artist Oksana Chepelyk, which opened November 22, is on view at the Maryland Art Place, 218 W. Saratoga St., through November 26. The exhibit was previously shown in Paris (September 17-27) and is to be shown in Kyiv at the National Center for Contemporary Art (March 21-May 15, 1998). Ms. Chepelyk is winner of the 1996 Pierre Cardin Alta Moda Grand Prix and currently an ArtsLink Fellow at Maryland Art Place. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. For further information call (410) 962-8565.

ADVANCE NOTICE
Saturday, December 20

FAIRFAX, Va.: The Kyiv Chamber Choir, acclaimed as a leading chamber choir in Europe, will appear in concert at George Mason University's Center for the Arts at 8 p.m. The works performed will be sacred music of the 17th-20th centuries by Ukrainian composers and traditional Ukrainian Christmas music. WETA FM-90.9 radio personality Robert Aubry Davis will lead a discussion in the concert hall's Grand Tier Lobby at 7 p.m. Tickets for the concert are: $30, $24 and $19; children's tickets, $10. Group discounts are also available. For information or travel directions call the Center for the Arts Box Office, (703) 993-8888. The Center for the Arts is located at the intersection of Braddock Road and Route 123.

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