A Ukrainian Summer: where to go, what to do...
Hunter offers a season of music
JEWETT CENTER, N.Y. - While vacationing in the Catskill Mountains, classical music lovers should not miss the first-rate chamber music concerts organized by the Music and Art Center of Greene County under the direction of Ihor Sonevytsky, a series which the Woodstock (N.Y.) Times referred to as the "Little Tanglewood."
The season begins July 18 with the critically acclaimed Leontovych String Quartet performing the works of Myroslav Skoryk on the occasion of the composer's 60th birthday, to be followed by a concert with soprano Lesia Hrabova and baritone Yaroslav Hnatiuk on July 25. Cellist Natalia Khoma will perform works by Baley, Bach, Schubert and Rachmaninov on August 1 and the renowned violinist Oleh Krysa will be the featured artist on August 8. Thomas Hrynkiw, artistic advisor and resident pianist of the Newport Music Festival, will perform with cellist Nestor Cybriwsky and violinist Anton Miller on August 15. Soprano Luba Shchypchyk of Lviv will make her American debut recital on August 22. The season ends August 29 with a performance by concert pianist, and the center's artist-in-residence, Volodymyr Vynnytsky and baritone Oleh Chmyr in an all-Chopin program.
The concerts are held in the beautiful wooden landmark Grazhda concert hall, adjacent to St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church on Route 23 A in Jewett Center, N.Y.
The center also organizes workshops in Ukrainian folk arts - embroidery, ceramics, Easter egg making, bead-stringing (gerdany) and folk singing for children during the last week of July and the first week of August. For addition information, call (518) 989-6479.
Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, June 7, 1998, No. 23, Vol. LXVI
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