The Ukrainian Week

16 June	Culture	Jazz Kolo in Ukraine’s cultural space What unites different generations of Ukrainian jazz musicians
24 March	Culture	Telnyuk Sisters: “It won’t be easy, but we should always see light at the end of the tunnel” 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	Yuriy Andrukhovych: “I don’t like banality, so I don’t meet the readers’ expectations” 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		Great Baltic profiles: Two stories 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	Valentyn Sylvestrov: Composer of Freedom 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	Calendar of Events Film festivals, Nino Katamadze and ballet-fairy tale.
1 November, 2013	Culture	Night at the Museum, Jazz Groove and New British Films The Ukrainian Week offers a selection of events to attend this month
29 October, 2013	Culture	The Master of Musical Compromise Composer Myroslav Skoryk talks about the decline of avant-garde and the mystery of music
20 October, 2013	Culture	Don’t Wake the Neighbours Norwegian pianist Bugge Wesseltoft combines grand piano and electronic effects at a concert in Kyiv
18 October, 2013	Culture	See and Hear Festival of overtone music,exclusive handmade doll show, Brazilian bossa nova and Industrial Eden
5 October, 2013	Culture	Parajanov, 70s Art and Contemporary Music 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		Contextualizing the Holodomor 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	Dig Deeper An intimate story of a solitary traveler from Gogol Bordello
16 September, 2013	Culture	Harmonizing Ethno Chaos DakhaBrakha’s lead singer Marko Halanevych talks about music tastes in Ukraine and post-modernist folklore
8 September, 2013	Culture	Simple Philosophy Dramatic vocals, acoustic guitars and synthetic retro bass - Ukrainian pop-rock band Lama released its third album
5 July, 2013	Navigator	2013 Festival Season 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	Piracy vs intellectual property rights in Ukraine: heading to improvement Ukraine is moving to protect intellectual property and its foreign investors
14 June, 2013	Culture	Calendar of Events The Ukrainian Week`s choice of music events and film festivals to visit in June
13 June, 2013	Culture	Liudmyla Monastyrska: “I would like to promote Ukrainian classical music abroad” Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska on performances with Placido Domingo, the roles of powerful women and Ukrainian classical music
31 May, 2013	Culture	Esthetic Education 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	Calendar of Events *The Ukrainian Week*`s choice of music events and film festivals to visit in June
15 May, 2013	Culture	Calendar of Events *The Ukrainian Week*`s choice of music events and film festivals to visit this month
11 April, 2013	Culture	The Myth of Kvitka How a Ukrainian-American singer became the “golden voice of Ukraine”
11 April, 2013	Culture	Calendar of Events 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	A New Music Generation Top 6 English-language bands in Ukraine
15 March, 2013	Culture	A Puzzling Comeback 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	Calendar of Events *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	Calendar of Events *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	In the Grip of Vibration 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	Authentic Christmas in Music and Films *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	Carol of the Bells: Back to the Origins 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	Learn to Listen to Yourself Composer Cai Caslavinieri talks about Ukrainians in Poland, commercialized music culture, and freedom of musical choice
1 November, 2012	Culture	Tender Ukrainization 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	Foma: An Internal Traveller Serhiy “Foma” Fomenko speaks about the Kyiv school of rock, music exports and his willingness to work with the opposition
6 September, 2012	Culture	A Melody Revealed 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	Controlled Chaos Chaos with music copyright protection is killing Ukrainian music
15 June, 2012	Culture	They Like To Move It Los Colorados talk about their recent breakthrough in music
1 June, 2012	Culture	12 Summer Music Events The must-see gigs in the upcoming summer
3 May, 2012	Culture	Songs of Grief and Solitude 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	Requiem for the Indifferent Austrian composer works on a symphony about Holodomor
28 March, 2012		A Quarter to an End 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	Russia — a Different Beat DDT frontman Yuri Shevchuk speaks about the brazen Kremlin leadership and mass and civil society in Russia
14 March, 2012		Primitive and Dull! Hit Song? 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	Rock-n-Roll. Made in UA 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	New Wave The debut single by the Ukrainian band Champagne Morning has climbed to the top of foreign music charts
28 November, 2011	Culture	While My Violin Gently Weeps Why Ukrainian classical music is still “underground” outside the country
23 September, 2011	Culture	Open The Doors Tom DiChillo talks about his documentary When You’re Strange
20 September, 2011	Culture	Friends With Trucks 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	European Melodies: a Look at Managing Classical Music Can we bring the management of Ukrainian classical music and opera to a European level?
17 August, 2011	Culture	Keyboard Player Turned Pianist 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	Kuzia, Vivat! How have Braty Hadiukiny captured the hearts of the nation for many years?
31 May, 2011	Culture	Steel Tenderness Sasha Koltsova talks about the role of Captain Obvious, TV, matriarchy and politics
18 April, 2011	Culture	The adventures of an accordion The unhurried story of one musical virtuoso