PREVIEW OF EVENTS
Sunday, January 21
- WHIPPANY, N.J.: The Ukrainian American Youth Association (SUM), Whippany
Branch, invites the public to its traditional "Yalynka" to be
held at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church Hall, Route 10,
at 2 p.m. Tickets: $10; children, age 7-12, $5; 6 and younger, free.
Thursday, January 25
- NEW YORK: The Harriman Institute at Columbia University presents "Jewish
Language in Today's Ukraine" with Martin Horwitz, director of the
Jewish Community Development Fund in Russia and Ukraine. The presentation
will be held from noon to 2 p.m. in Room 1512, International Affairs Building,
as part of the roundtable on "Language Policy and the Language Situation
in Ukraine," chaired by Dr. Antonina Berezovnenko.
Saturday, January 28
- NEW YORK: The Shevchenko Scientific Society will hold a book launch
of "Literaturno-Naukovyi Vistnyk: Index to Volumes 1-109 (1998-1932),"
compiled by Bohdan Yasinsky, librarian at the Library of Congress. Also
participating in the program will be Dr. Larissa Onyshkevych, Svitlana
Andrushkiw and Dr. Edward Kasinec. The presentation will be held at 5 p.m.,
at the society's building, 63 Fourth Ave. (between Ninth and 10th streets).
For more information call (212) 254-5130.
Friday, February 2
- MONTREAL: The faculty of music at McGill University will present the
Luba and Ireneus Zuk Piano Duo in a concert of works for two pianos at
8 p.m. in Pollack Concert Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. W. (Metro: McGill, or
Bus Route No. 24). The program will feature the premieres of two works
written by Ukrainian composers specially for Luba and Ireneus Zuk: "Suite
No. 1 based on Ukrainian Folk Songs" (1992) by Zhanna Kolodub and
"Dramatic Triptych" (1993, revised 2000) by Lesia Dychko. The
program also will include two works by Canadian composers: "Ukrainian
Dance" (1979) by George Fiala and "Variations and Epilogue on
an Original Theme" by Healey Willan, as well as "Musiques d'Espagne"
by Manuel Infante. For more information call the McGill University concert
office, (514) 398-4547 or (514) 398-5145; website: www.music.mcgill.ca.
Sunday, February 4
- ALEXANDRIA, Va.: Louisiana Swamp Romp will perform in a benefit concert
to procure musical instruments for the music conservatories of Lviv, Kyiv
and Odesa in Ukraine. Featured will be music from New Orleans Mardi Gras
and selections of Ukrainian folk music in jazz. The program will include
repertoire from the libraries of Louis Armstrong, Pete Fountain, Kid Ory,
and the Dukes of Dixieland and Al Hirt. Playing will be Harry Watters,
trombone; Dave Brown, clarinet and saxophone; Graham Breedlove, trumpet;
Jim Roberts, bass; Tony Nalker, piano; and Steve Fidyk, drums. The concert
will be held at The Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St., in Alexandria's Old
Town, at 2:30 p.m. Suggested donation: $10. Musical instruments a tax-deductible
donation. For information/reservations call (703) 241 1817. The Lyceum
is accessible to people in wheelchairs.
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21, 2001, No. 3, Vol. LXIX
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