A Ukrainian Summer: where to go, what to do...
Hunter area has a "Little Tanglewood"
by Ihor Sonevytsky
JEWETT, N.Y. - If you enjoy beautiful nature and beautiful music, you cannot miss the well-known annual concert series organized in the Hunter, N.Y., area by the Music and Art Center of Greene County under the direction of composer Ihor Sonevytsky at Jewett Center. The Woodstock Times has called this summer music festival "Little Tanglewood."
The 1999 season begins on August 7 with the brilliant up-and-coming young pianist Vitalij Kuprij, who recently debuted at Carnegie Hall. Winners of the Distinguished Artists Award Vagram Saradjian and Volodymyr Vynnytsky will play music for cello and piano on August 14.
Soprano Oksana Krovytska, who has been critically acclaimed recently for her portrayal of Cio-Cio-San in the New York City Opera production of "Madama Butterfly," will sing opera arias and songs on August 21. Called by the New York Times a "musician of the first rank," Oleh Krysa will give a recital at Grazhda on August 28, with Tatiana Tchekina at the piano.
A fund-raising concert for the Music and Art Center is scheduled for September 4.
All concerts are held on Saturdays at 8 p.m. in the beautiful wooden landmark Grazhda concert hall, adjacent to St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church on Route 23A in Jewett Center, N.Y.
The center also organizes workshops in Ukrainian folk arts: embroidery, ceramics, pysanky-making, bead-stringing (gerdany), as well as folk singing for children during the last week of July and first week of August.
For additional information call (518) 989-6479.
Copyright © The Ukrainian Weekly, May 2, 1999, No. 18, Vol. LXVII
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