UKRAINIAN ART AND EDUCATION ABROAD: THE EXPERIENCE OF PROMINENT ARTISTS AND EDUCATORS
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https://doi.org/10.28925/2518-766X.2024.91Keywords:
culture, art, abroad, conductor, teacher, director, spritual concert, bandura, educationAbstract
Reflecting on the real state of professional music culture in Ukraine, we can say that we have moved so far away from tradition that we no longer believe in its spiritual value. Having freed itself from Soviet ideology in the 1990s, art education in the last thirty years of Ukraine’s independence has not been free of the “Moscow spirit” in terms of both language and national outlook. In music institutions of higher education, students were taught, first of all, something foreign: the history of Russian music, then the history of world music, and finally the history of Ukrainian music. As for folk music culture, which lived according to the laws of oral tradition, it was simply on the periphery as a subject in the course of the history of Ukrainian music.
Returning to national origins has now become a major task for both education and artistic practice. That is why the issue of actualizing the experience of teachers and artists from the Ukrainian diaspora, whose work is firmly rooted in Ukrainian traditions, is so important today. However, the fate of Ukrainian culture and education has long been that its creators are forced to work in foreign lands. Many of them have already been named as representatives of those cultures. Outstanding Ukrainian figures of culture, art, and
education lived and worked outside of present-day Ukraine, enriching other countries with their intellectual and spiritual achievements. However, Ukraine’s longstanding ideological isolation from the world made it impossible to have a holistic view of their work. Only after Ukraine gained its independence did the names of conductors, composers, conductors, teachers, and musicians from the Ukrainian diaspora, little known and completely unknown in Ukraine but well known and appreciated in the world, slowly return to Ukraine. Among them are such brilliant figures of Ukrainian culture as Dmytro Bortnyansky, Oleksandr Koshyts, Nestor Horodovenko, and Yaroslav Barnych. Over the years, talented Ukrainian intellectuals have made
great efforts to prepare the intellectual ground for the spiritual revival of the nation and the restoration of its statehood. After all, talented cultural figures, artists, and educators who left behind a brilliant creative heritage not only filled the treasury of world spirituality but also made a significant contribution to the preservation of national art and education.
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