He was recorded in 1981. A conversation with the composer Vitaliy Kireiko about his creative dreams, writing the Symphony Concertante and Symphony No. 2, the problems of his works, and the relationship between the composer and the listener.

Reference: Vitaliy Kireiko is a Ukrainian composer, musician, and public figure who is a professor at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine. He is the author of Ukraine's first double concerto for violin and cello with orchestra, a chamber comic opera Vernissage at the Fair, and the first satirical opera extravaganza Marko in Hell. The artist's creative heritage includes 299 opuses of various genres and has become part of the treasury of Ukrainian classical music of the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Vitaliy Kireiko: a conversation with the composer

Ternopil television program "Through the lens of TTB", March 5, 2018.

The guest is the actor Volodymyr Goryanskyi. A conversation about the theater, performances, peculiarities of the profession, recreation.

Interview with the actor with Volodymyr Horyansky

She was recorded in the 1980s. A conversation with the opera singer Ella Akrytova about contemporary music, performance technique, the performer's vocal capabilities, and her work with composers, including Oleh Kiva. 

Reference: Ella Akrytova is a Ukrainian opera singer and pedagogue from a family of Greeks living in Donbas. She studied at the Kyiv Conservatory in Natalia Zakharchenko's class. From 1963 to 1968, she worked at the Kyiv State Philharmonic. Among her students are Ukrainian opera singers Victoria Lukyanets, Volodymyr Hryshko, Liudmyla Davymuka, and others.

A conversation with opera singer Ella Akrytova

Chernivtsi TV and Radio Association, 1995. The program “The World is Beautiful” is about Andriy Kholomeniuk, an Honored Artist of Ukraine and a painter of battle paintings.

Written by Valentina Bondar, directed by Natalia Popovych, and sounded by Volodymyr Maksymovych.

Battle artist Andriy Kholomeniuk

Chernivtsi State TV and Radio Company, program “Step to the Meeting,” 2003. An interview with the couple Pavlo and Svitlana Dvorsky.

They talk about the anniversary concert, the church choir, their sons, their love story, and their married life.

The program was created by Iryna Kornich and directed by Natalia Popovych.

Pavlo and Svitlana Dvorsky: an interview with the couple

Chernivtsi TV and Radio Association, program “The Song Will Be Among Us,” April 10, 1994. An interview with singer and composer Zoia Slobodian. They talk about the first performance, traveling, and song arrangements.

Zoya Slobodian also performs songs and plays the guitar.

Author and host - Vasyl Selezinka, director - Ivan Adamchuk.

Interview with Zoya Slobodian

Author's radio program “The Art of Living” by publicist Oleksandr Kavunenko. She was recorded on August 7, 2011.

The guest is Petro Boyko, an announcer for Ukrainian Radio and an honored artist of Ukraine. They talk about their childhood, the Holodomor, radio love, and favorite announcers.

Petro Boyko recites poetry by Dmytro Pavlychko and Taras Shevchenko. There are phone calls to the studio.

Petro Boyko: a conversation with the announcer of Ukrainian Radio

This is an audio recording from 1983. It is from Memoirs of the People's Artist and composer Eduard Kolmanovskyi about the vocal art of the opera singer Borys Hmyrya and his first meeting with him.

Memories of Eduard Kolmanovsky about Borys Hmyrya

In this report from the village of Bovshiv, we talk to teachers, villagers, and the grandmother of Dmytro Kotsiubailo, the Hero of Ukraine with the call sign "Da Vinci".

Dmytro Kotsiubailo was born on November 1, 1995, in the village of Zadnistrianske, Burshtyn community in Ivano-Frankivsk region. He studied to be an artist for three years at the Ivano-Frankivsk Professional Construction Lyceum.  

He went to war at the age of 18, and later commanded the 1st separate assault company of Right Sector. In 2014, he was seriously wounded in the village of Pisky in Donetsk region. After rehabilitation, he returned to the front. He took part in the liberation of Karlivka, Pisky, Avdiivka, as well as in the battles near Stepanivka, Savur-Mohyla, Starohnativka.

He was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine on November 30, 2021. From the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he commanded the Da Vinci Wolves special forces unit of the 67th separate mechanized brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Dmytro Kotsiubailo was killed on March 7, 2023, in the Bakhmut direction.

Da Vinci: Memories of Dmytro Kotsiubailo

Radio program “Golden Cameron”, recorded on March 5, 2001. An interview with Yevhen Savchuk, People's Artist of Ukraine, artistic director, and chief conductor of the National Academic Honored Chapel “Dumka.” 

The topic of the conversation is the profession of a choirmaster, sacred music by Rachmaninoff and Yevhen Stankovych, and choral art.

The host is Zoya Korobova.

Conductor Yevhen Savchuk about choral art

The radio program “The Art of Living” was a live broadcast on September 29, 2010. The guest of the studio is Levko Lukyanenko, MP and dissident. They talk about the art of living, Taras Shevchenko, the fate of Ukraine, and the political situation in the country.

Levko Lukyanenko in the radio program “The Art of Living”

The program of the Volyn regional state television and radio company "Voice of my soul", 2014. A story about the Ukrainian artist Ivan Marchuk.

Comments: art critic Zoya Navrotska, folk artist Vasyl Parakhin, artist Mykola Ruban and People's Artist of Ukraine Lyudmila Prykhodko.

Reference: Ivan Marchuk is an outstanding Ukrainian artist, the founder of the unique technique of Plontanism. He was born on May 12, 1936 in the village of Moskalivka, Ternopil region. The International Academy of Contemporary Art in Rome admitted him to the ranks of the "Golden Guild" and elected him an honorary member of the scientific council of the academy. In October 2007, the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph included Marchuk in the list of "100 geniuses of our time".

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