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Ruslana’s Defiance in the Face of Horror
Within hours of the massive Russian missile attack on Kyiv’s children hospital on July 8, Ukrainian rock star Ruslana took to Instagram to denounce what she decried as an act of terrorism carried out with the highest degree of cynicism. The daylight attacks on the Okhmatdyt Hospital, Ukraine’s largest and, by reputation, best children’s hospital accompanied a barrage of Russian raids unleashed across Ukraine, killing at least 41 Ukrainians. These attacks came as NATO leaders gathered in Washington to celebrate the alliance’s 75th anniversary. Rather than disheartening Ukrainians into submission, however, Russia has provoked greater anger and disgust.
Ruslana’s outrage was more than performative. Known for her activism against judicial arbitrariness, environmental degradation, and human trafficking (she was a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in and ), the fate of Ukraine’s children has long been at the center of her activism. Follow
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To say goodbye to Krzysztof Penderecki
from the Ukrainian web portal &#;Zbrucz&#;
To say goodbye to Krzysztof Penderecki
Yesterday, March 29, , Krzysztof Penderecki &#; one of the most important and well-known musical creators of the 20th and 21st centuries &#; passed away to eternity. After the deaths of Witold Lutoslawski in , Henryk Mikołaj Górecki in , Wojciech Kilar in , and in these days of Krzysztof Penderecki, the era of musical titans who enriched the world&#;s musical heritage with their work and made Polish musical culture famous around the world is closing in Poland. Krzysztof Penderecki was the most bright and colorful among them, his works encompassing all musical types and genres.
I was fortunate to be friends with the great Maestro. I first met Krzysztof Penderecki in person on February 14, , when I was still the conductor of the Ukrainian Men&#;s Choir &#;Zhuravli&#; (&#;Cranes&#;). At the time, he mentioned how close he was to the Eastern tradition an
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Kolessa Mykola Filaretovych
Mykola Filaretovych Kolessa (December 6, , Sambir, Kingdom of Galicia and Volhynia - June 8, , Lviv) was a Ukrainian composer, conductor, teacher, and founder of the Ukrainian conducting school.
Mykola Filaretovych was born in Sambir in the family of the prominent Ukrainian folklorist Filaret Kolessa. It was on that day that Western Ukraine in Lviv congratulated the composer Mykola okänt on the 35th anniversary of his creative activity. And when the next day Filaret Mykhailovych Kolesa entered the box of the Lviv Opera House, where Mykola Lysenko and Ivan Franko were sitting, and told them about the birth of his son, Mykola Lysenko suggested that the boy be named Mykola.
Mykola Kolessa grew up in an atmosphere of music and singing. His father-in-law was the famous musikdrama singer Modest Mencinsky. "When my sisters and inom grew up," the composer later said, "we often sang Ukrainian folk songs with our parents. And during vacations, we always went to the