"Music at the Grazhda": a preview of the 22nd season by Ika Koznarska Casanova JEWETT, N.Y. - "Music at the Grazhda" begins its 22nd season offering a program of classical music concerts and special events held under the auspices of Music and Art Center of Greene County (MACGC). Established in 1983 by Ukrainian American composer and musicologist Dr. Ihor Sonevytsky, MACGC has become an established presence in the region and on the Ukrainian cultural scene in general. The forthcoming series, which comprises 10 concerts to be held on Saturdays, July 3 through September 4, will feature masterful and distinguished musicians, including international soloists and grand-prize laureates, as well as highly promising and quickly rising young musicians from North America and Europe. Forming part of the summer program will be two special events: an art exhibition held in celebration of the centennial of the birth of the eminent Ukrainian artist Mychajlo Moroz (1904-1992), and an exhibition and guest lecture featuring internationally recognized architect Radoslav Zuk, a professor of architecture at McGill University. (The events will be held on Sunday, July 4, and, Sunday, July 25, respectively.) The venue for the concerts and special events is the Grazhda, an integral part of the Ukrainian cultural complex built around St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church which, since its founding in 1962, has become an architectural landmark in the Catskill Mountain region. | |
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