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R O M A N SAWYCKY PIANIST DARIA KARANOWYCZ REACHES AGE 80 As a pianist, pedagogue, critic and longtime Presi dent of the Ukrainian Music Institute of America Daria Karanowycz has been continuously involved in an active civic and artistic life. Even upon reaching the age of 80, she is still creatively active with a long and illustrious career behind her. Daria Karanowycz, nee Hordynska, was born Octo ber 18, 1908 in the town of Kolomyia, Western Ukraine. At an early age she became an honor student of Vasyl Barvinsky at the Lysenko Advanced Music Institute in Lviv. Continuing her piano studies, she later graduated from the Viennese Music Academy (Wiener Akademie fur Musik und darstellende Kunst). Among her teachers there was a former pupil of Franz Liszt. In 1933, Daria Karanowycz participated in the Se cond International piano and vocal competition in Vien na. Among a total of 500 competitors, she was ulti mately chosen as one of the 12 finalists and awarded an honorary diploma. The pianist then begins to give solo performances in the finest concert halls of Vienna, as well as with the renowned Viennese Philharmonic Quar tet. Other cities where she performs are: Lviv, Warsaw, Saltzburg, Berlin, Prague, Brno and others. Her musical performances can regularly be heard on radio programs in Vienna, Saltzburg and Linz. In 1952, while sailing on the luxury liner Queen Mary, she is invited to perform as a guest soloist. Among the audience were Winston Churchill and then — U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Upon arriving in the US, Daria Karanowycz launches her career with a suc cessful debut at New York’s Town Hall. Her brilliant talent, love of music, discipline in daily practice as well as the foundation provided by her famous teachers were all factors enabling her to establish herself as a pianist in America. When composer, pianist and musicologist Vasyl Barvinsky died in 1963, Daria Karanowycz performed a series of eight concerts consisting solely of her beloved teacher’s piano works, thus hoping to draw public atten tion to Barvinsky’s creative legacy. With this repertoire, she tours New York, Newark, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Detroit, Minneapolis, Chicago and Toronto. (1963-64). Always a proponent and supporter of 20th century Ukrainian music, Daria Karanowycz was the first to per form in North America one of the fundamental composi tions of Ukrainian piano music, Barvinsky’s “Ukrainian Suite” and Nestor Nizhankivsky’s “Kolomyjka”. She also propagated the music of composers J. Stepovy, S. Lud- kevych, M. Kolessa, T. Mykysha, L. Revutsky, B. Lyato- shynsky, V. Kosenko, M. Fomenko, I. Sonevytsky, V. Hrudyn. The latter, upon hearing his music performed by the pianist, dedicated some of his compositions to her. Among other composers whose works she regularly performs are: J.S. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Scarlatti, Bee thoven, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Brahms, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Scriabin and others. As a pianist, Daria Karanowycz’s diverse attributes — a solid technique, a wide repertoire of musical styles, a high level of artistic development and a sensitivity in performing various piano styles — have brought her international renown and critical acclaim. Among the many reviews: “The concert hall was filled with the December chill but the audience was spiritually transported by the inner warmth projected by the artist — the concert was a success.” Saltzburg Volkszeitung. 28.XI1.1946 and your reward, if you are lucky, is a thank you from the gum-chewing sales girl and blank stares from your fellow shoppers on the long, hot holiday cash register lines. You leave with the knowledge that you have not caused a shift in the equilibrium of holiday shopping mania. And that is something to be thankful for. On the other hand, BEWARE, credit card users! This smooth, effortless way of shopping is but a dan gerous slide into the total forgetfulness and irresponsi ble, frivolous and momentary happiness. The bottom line is when the postman brings the bill and the numbers on it seem to go on and on. This rude awakening can lead you to do all those nasty "health hazard” things to quiet your raging conscience which you gave up last July to save wear and tear on your body. So, at the advent of the New Year, 1989, the old cliche “the more things change, the more they stay the same” is once again true. Temptation has not gone away, it has become plastic. Marta Baczynsky From a review of the Viennese Philharmonic Quar tet: "We are fortunate in our choice of a pianist, whose technical skill is artistically combined with heart and soul and effortlessly adapts to the stringed instruments.” Linzer Volksblatt. 29.XI.1950 “Her playing is subjective and grandiose in the finest tradition of true virtuosos.” New York 77mes.19.V.1952 26 ’’НАШЕ Ж ИТТЯ”, ГРУДЕНЬ 1988 Видання C оюзу Українок A мерики - перевидано в електронному форматі в 2012 році . A рхів C У A - Ню Йорк , Н . Й . C Ш A.
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