Friends of the National Art Museum Find New Friends
12 мая, 00:00
By Diana KLOCHKO, The Day
The first of the three events, planned by the newly-established Friends
of the National Art Museum of Ukraine Foundation has taken place. In spite
of a rather ironic subtext - the function was held at the Ukrainian Government
House of Receptions, which has so far given no tangible material support
to the museum on the eve of its centenary - the reception did not turn
into some sort of Fronde. It can without exaggeration be described as an
elegant club party. A charitable contribution in the form of a brief concert
was made by Yuri Shepeta's jazz band, one of Kyiv's best. Well-known music
scholar Oleksiy Kohan noted in a short speech that there is a certain relationship
between jazz, often called the classical music of the twentieth century
and Ukrainian fine arts.
English and Ukrainian were spoken at the soiree, which also underlined
the event's carefully prepared and perhaps previously forecast importance.
Most of those who came were foreign nationals residing in Ukraine's capital.
By coming to the affair, they responded to the foundation's appeal to raise
funds to renovate the entrance to the National Art Museum. But Ukrainians
also did not stay on the sidelines: as Iryna Stetsura noted in an interview
with The Day, some of our compatriots, enchanted by the reception,
promised to bring their friends to subsequent functions to be held at the
National Art Museum itself.
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№17, (1999)Section
Culture
