29 February, 2020 | Culture | How culture is being absorbed by the internet and what comes after |
16 June, 2019 | Culture | What unites different generations of Ukrainian jazz musicians |
24 March, 2019 | Culture | The Ukrainian Week spoke to Halyna and Lesya Telnyuk about how contemporary Shevchenko and Stus are today, the artistic comprehension of the Maidan, and the lessons of the Revolution of Dignity |
22 October, 2018 | Culture | On September 17, Yuriy Andrukhovych visited Kyiv to present Lithography, his new album with the band Karbido, at the Ukrainian Radio’s Recording Studio. Before that, The Ukrainian Week spoke to him about investments in culture, the new generation of writers and Ukraine’s place in the literature map of the world. |
31 March, 2016 | Born on September 11, 1935, the Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is one of the most illustrious creators of contemporary academic music | |
23 February, 2015 | Culture | Ukraine changed my life twice. The first time was when I discovered this country, its noble people, its tragedies, and its struggle for freedom that offers a model for all of Europe. The second time was when I discovered the music of Valentyn Sylvestrov. |
29 March, 2014 | Culture | Film festivals, Nino Katamadze and ballet-fairy tale. |
1 November, 2013 | Culture | The Ukrainian Week offers a selection of events to attend this month |
29 October, 2013 | Culture | Composer Myroslav Skoryk talks about the decline of avant-garde and the mystery of music |
20 October, 2013 | Culture | Norwegian pianist Bugge Wesseltoft combines grand piano and electronic effects at a concert in Kyiv |
18 October, 2013 | Culture | Festival of overtone music,exclusive handmade doll show, Brazilian bossa nova and Industrial Eden |
5 October, 2013 | Culture | The first two weeks of October offer a look at the life of a great film director, an alternative portrait of the Soviet 1970s from underground artists, a festival of new German movies and plenty of great music |
4 October, 2013 | Scholars agree that the debate over whether the Holodomor was genocide has been resolved – it was and we should treat it as such – this fact has now become an academic given | |
22 September, 2013 | Culture | An intimate story of a solitary traveler from Gogol Bordello |
16 September, 2013 | Culture | DakhaBrakha’s lead singer Marko Halanevych talks about music tastes in Ukraine and post-modernist folklore |
8 September, 2013 | Culture | Dramatic vocals, acoustic guitars and synthetic retro bass - Ukrainian pop-rock band Lama released its third album |
5 July, 2013 | Navigator | Electronic music in Poland, hard rock in Ukraine, music and theatre laboratories at the Hungarian Sziget, and history, from the Paleolithic Age to Post-Modernism, in art |
1 July, 2013 | News | Ukraine is moving to protect intellectual property and its foreign investors |
14 June, 2013 | Culture | The Ukrainian Week`s choice of music events and film festivals to visit in June |
13 June, 2013 | Culture | Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska on performances with Placido Domingo, the roles of powerful women and Ukrainian classical music |
31 May, 2013 | Culture | Musician, photographer and film director Louis Franck talks about his experience as a foreigner in Ukraine and the limitless talent possessed by all human beings |
31 May, 2013 | Culture | The Ukrainian Week`s choice of music events and film festivals to visit in June |
15 May, 2013 | Culture | The Ukrainian Week`s choice of music events and film festivals to visit this month |
11 April, 2013 | Culture | How a Ukrainian-American singer became the “golden voice of Ukraine” |
11 April, 2013 | Culture | The Ukrainian Week offers a selection of concerts and exhibitions which will take place in Ukraine in the second half of April |
31 March, 2013 | Culture | Top 6 English-language bands in Ukraine |
15 March, 2013 | Culture | Spring brings along new albums from two talented female rock artists. Yulia Lord returns after a 14-year break with a good balance of rock and pop and a lot of electronic details in her new record. Zemfira offers an intimate and philosophic contemplation, returning to her original light rock sound. |
15 March, 2013 | Culture | The Ukrainian Week offers a selection of concerts and exhibitions which will take place in Ukraine in the second half of March |
22 February, 2013 | Culture | The Ukrainian Week offers a selection of concerts and exhibitions which will take place in Ukraine at the beginning of March |
22 January, 2013 | Culture | Old-new music practices thrill the world. It is also possible to play the ethnic instruments of ancient peoples and learn local guttural singing in Ukraine |
17 December, 2012 | Culture | The Ukrainian Week offers a selection of films and CDs that reveal Ukrainian winter festivity rituals in a creative modern interpretation |
17 December, 2012 | Culture | Hundreds of years ago, pre-Christian Ukrainians welcomed New Year with the tune that sounded like a swallow’s song. Today, its tender bells chant for Christmas in European concert halls, jazz concerts and Hollywood movies |
13 December, 2012 | Culture | Composer Cai Caslavinieri talks about Ukrainians in Poland, commercialized music culture, and freedom of musical choice |
1 November, 2012 | Culture | Antin Mukharsky, a TV host, theatre actor and artist, told The Ukrainian Week about Russian mass culture in Ukraine, nouveau riche and booboisie art |
14 September, 2012 | Culture | Serhiy “Foma” Fomenko speaks about the Kyiv school of rock, music exports and his willingness to work with the opposition |
6 September, 2012 | Culture | Taras Filenko speaks about Mykola Lysenko’s contribution to studying and systematising folk melodies and his impact on the world music process |
26 July, 2012 | Culture | Chaos with music copyright protection is killing Ukrainian music |
15 June, 2012 | Culture | Los Colorados talk about their recent breakthrough in music |
1 June, 2012 | Culture | The must-see gigs in the upcoming summer |
3 May, 2012 | Culture | The success of a fundamentally non-commercial Kharkiv-based band proves the half-forgotten truth: true art does not necessarily depend on PR – even today |
30 March, 2012 | Culture | Austrian composer works on a symphony about Holodomor |
28 March, 2012 | When nostalgic fans lament for “good old” soviet music, which often really did sound better than what is played today, they tend to forget one thing: each good soviet song was accompanied by at least a thousand dull ones | |
20 March, 2012 | World | DDT frontman Yuri Shevchuk speaks about the brazen Kremlin leadership and mass and civil society in Russia |
14 March, 2012 | Ukrainian music with socially sensitive lyrics is never played on radio and TV. Program managers simply do not want to take risks and opt for “background style” music with primitive lyrics instead. | |
12 March, 2012 | Culture | Vadym Krasnookyi, Mad Heads XL band leader, talks about trends in music, concerts in small towns and the Ukrainian language as an element of national security |
20 February, 2012 | Culture | The debut single by the Ukrainian band Champagne Morning has climbed to the top of foreign music charts |
28 November, 2011 | Culture | Why Ukrainian classical music is still “underground” outside the country |
23 September, 2011 | Culture | Tom DiChillo talks about his documentary When You’re Strange |
20 September, 2011 | Culture | Anton Slepakov speaks about the band's shell, fast food restaurants filled to capacity and government subsidies on beer and strings |
19 August, 2011 | Culture | Can we bring the management of Ukrainian classical music and opera to a European level? |
17 August, 2011 | Culture | Dmytro Shurov speaks about his desire to be a Ukrainian Elton John, musicians' shining eyes and bench-sitting as a national pastime |
17 June, 2011 | Culture | How have Braty Hadiukiny captured the hearts of the nation for many years? |
31 May, 2011 | Culture | Sasha Koltsova talks about the role of Captain Obvious, TV, matriarchy and politics |
18 April, 2011 | Culture | The unhurried story of one musical virtuoso |