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Andriy Bondarenko
Andriy Ihorovych Bondarenko (born 22 June 1978 in Brovary) is a Ukrainian composer and pianist. Early life Bondarenko received his musical education at the Lysenko Special Music school in Kyiv, and at the National Musical Academy of Ukraine. Career Bondarenko won prizes in Rachmaninov (Tambov, Russia, 1996), Horovitz (Kyiv, 1997), Lysenko (Kyiv, 1997) international competitions. He collaborates with the “New music in Ukraine” ensemble. He played at festivals KyivMusicFest, Two Days and Two Nights of New Music. His compositions won prizes in the I&M Kotz composer competition (Kyiv,1994) and the International composer's competition in St. Petersburg (2003). Among his compositions – symphonic poem ''2004'' was devoted to the Orange revolution. Four children's ballets were performed by Releve choreographic ensemble with Master Class corporation's assistance in 2009. A DVD ''Cours de danse contemporaine'' by Irena Tatiboit, a set of arrangements written for Kchreshchatyk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brovary
Brovary ( uk, Бровари, , yi, בראָוואַר, Brovar) is a city in Kyiv Oblast (Region) in northern Ukraine, an eastern suburb of the country's capital, Kyiv. It is the administrative centre of Brovary Raion (district). Brovary hosts the administration of Brovary urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Its population is approximately History Brovary is a historic town, first mentioned in 1630. Its name, translated from Ukrainian, means 'breweries' (and is a loanword from Dutch). The city also houses a railway station. International ill-fame came to the city in 2000 after one of its apartment blocks was hit by a stray surface-to-surface missile launched from a neighbouring army shooting range in Honcharivs'ke. Three people were killed. In the 21st century, Brovary is Ukraine's shoe-making capital, with dozens of such companies located there. There is also a broadcasting centre for long and shortwave transmissions. The longwave transmitter, which works on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wikimedia Ukraine
Wikimedia Ukraine is the regional chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation in Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv .... The chapter was created on May 31, 2009. On this day the First Annual Meeting was held and the Board was elected. On July 3, 2009, the Wikimedia Foundation approved Wikimedia Ukraine as its regional chapter. On July 13, 2009, Wikimedia Ukraine received a certificate of registration of organization from the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine. Board of Management , the Board comprises: Правління (Board) * Ilya Korniyko ''(Chair)'' * Mykola Kozlenko ''(Treasurer)'' * Bohdan Melnychuk ''(Secretary)'' * Nataliia Lastovets * Anton Obozhyn * Olga Milianovych * Ihor Makovskyi See also * :m:Wikimedia Ukraine References External links * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Composers
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Living People
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1978 Births
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Dmitry Bortniansky
Dmitry Stepanovich Bortniansky ; ; alternative transcriptions of names are ''Dmitri Bortnianskii'', and ''Bortnyansky'', group=n (28 October 1751 – ) was a Russian Imperial composer of Ukrainian Cossack origin. He was a composer, harpsichordist and conductor who served at the court of Catherine the Great. Bortniansky was critical to the musical history of both Ukraine and Russia, with both nations claiming him as their own. Bortniansky, who has been compared to Palestrina, is known today for his liturgical works and prolific contributions to the genre of choral concertos. He was one of the "Golden Three" of his era, alongside Artemy Vedel and Maxim Berezovsky. Bortniansky was so popular in the Russian Empire that his figure was represented in 1862 in the bronze monument of the Millennium of Russia in the Novgorod Kremlin. He composed in many different musical styles, including choral compositions in French, Italian, Latin, German and Church Slavonic. Biography Student Dm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Faucon (opera)
''Le faucon'' ( en, The Falcon, Russian: ) is an ''opéra comique'' in three acts by the Ukrainian composer Dmitry Bortniansky with a French language libretto by . It was first performed on 11 October 1786 at the Gatchina Palace in Russia by aristocratic amateur singers. The plot is borrowed from Boccaccio's ''The Decameron'' ( Fifth Day, 9th tale) which also served as the basis for Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny's 1771 comic opera ''Le faucon'' (libretto by Michel-Jean Sedaine) (and later for Gounod's '' La colombe''). Two arias from the opera, "Le beau Tirsis" and "Adieu, Adieu", were published in a 1793 collection of songs by Bortniansky (''Recueil de romances et chansons'', St. Petersburg: Breitkopf). Although rarely performed in its entirety in modern times, ''Le faucon'' was revived as a chamber opera by Boris Pokrovsky at the Moscow Chamber Musical Theatre in 1979. Excerpts from the work were also performed at New York City's Avery Fisher Hall by the Choral Guild of Atlanta and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Purcell
Henry Purcell (, rare: September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer. Purcell's style of Baroque music was uniquely English, although it incorporated Italian and French elements. Generally considered among the greatest English opera composers, Purcell is often linked with John Dunstaple and William Byrd as England's most important early music composers. No later native-born English composer approached his fame until Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, William Walton and Benjamin Britten in the 20th century. Life and work Early life Purcell was born in St Ann's Lane, Old Pye Street, Westminster – the area of London later known as Devil's Acre, a notorious slum – in 1659. Henry Purcell Senior, whose older brother Thomas Purcell was a musician, was a gentleman of the Chapel Royal and sang at the coronation of King Charles II of England. Henry the elder had three sons: Edward, Henry and Daniel. Daniel Purcell, the youngest of the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dido & Aeneas
''Dido and Aeneas'' (Z. 626) is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate. The dates of the composition and first performance of the opera are uncertain. It was composed no later than July 1688, and had been performed at Josias Priest's girls' school in London by the end of 1689.White, Bryan, 'Letter from Aleppo: dating the Chelsea School performance of Dido and Aeneas', 417 Some scholars argue for a date of composition as early as 1683.Pinnock, Andrew, 'Which Genial Day? More on the court origin of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, with a shortlist of dates for its possible performance before King Charles II’, Early Music 43 (2015), 199–212Bruce Wood and Andrew Pinnock, Unscared by turning times'? The dating of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas," The story is based on Book IV of Virgil's ''Aeneid''. It recounts the love of Dido, Queen of Carthage, for the Trojan hero Aeneas, and her despair when he abandons her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Радіо Свобода
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Wikipedia
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The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., or Wikimedia for short and abbreviated as WMF, is an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization headquartered in San Francisco, California and registered as a charitable foundation under local laws. Best known as the hosting platform for Wikipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia, it also hosts other related projects and MediaWiki, a wiki software. The Wikimedia Foundation was established in 2003 in St. Petersburg, Florida, by Jimmy Wales as a nonprofit way to fund Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and other crowdsourced wiki projects that had until then been hosted by Bomis, Wales's for-profit company. The Foundation finances itself mainly through millions of small donations from Wikipedia readers, collected through email campaigns and annual fundraising banners placed on Wikipedia and its sister projects. These are complemented by grants from philanthropic organizations and tech companies, and starting in 2022, by services income from Wikimedia E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
