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Prague Bandurist Capella

The Prague Bandurist Capella was a musical ensemble formed in 1924 by Ukrainians living in Czechoslovakia featuring performers on the bandura.

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The Soviet Ukrainian magazine "Muzyka" #2, 1925 gave a review of the first concert of the Prague Bandurist Capella which took place 13 September 1924 and included the program: I Kobza and the kobzars - speech by V. Yemetz II • Nema v sviti pravdy - kant - Capella • Kynu kuzhil' na polyciu - Capella • Plyve sonce nad Orelliu - I. Khvorostenko • Zasvystally kozachen'ky - M. Zhyrkov • Zalizniak - M. Teliha III • Oj na hori vohonq horyt' - R. Zavors'kyj • Oj Moroze, Morozen'ku - Capella • Oj shchoh to za shum uchynyvsia - Capella • Hopak - Capella • Oj, za hayem, hayem - Capella All the orchestrations were done by V. Yemetz. In 1926 a book of 12 pieces for the bandura was published in Prague. ==Participants==
Participants
Members of the Capella and students of the school included: • A. Biletskyj • Petro Buhayiv (Mykola Burhaj) • Nina Burtakova • Hryhoryj Dovzhenko - bandura maker that Yemetz knew from Moscow. • Oleksander Dutka (and daughter) - moved to Chernivtsi where he continued to make banduras. • Vasyl' Harmiga (Farmiga?) • Maria Hasiuk • Il'ko Havryliuk • Mykola Hudzij • Rostyslav Kaplynskyj • I. Khvorostenko • H. Khomenko • Yukhym Klevchutskyj - originally from Central Ukraine, later moved to Ternopil where he taught Zinoviy Shtokalko. • Pan'ko Konoushynsky • Stepan Koshchyk • Petro Koshchyk • Yevhen Koshchyk • Kulish • Andriy Kyst' - later moved to the US, performed with Avramenko. • Mykola Levytsky - Later moved to France. • Liashenko • Lisevych - Originally from Central Ukraine. Moved to Lviv and taught bandura there. • Ivan Lokshynsky • K. Mohyla - a student of medicine, later director of the Prague capella after Yemetz • Petro Nepokypnyj - Bandura maker. Later lived in Bratislava. • Vasyl' Oblomskyj • M. Omelchenko - taught bandura in Prague. Studied piano in Vienna. • I. Romanenko - bandura maker in Poděbrady • Rostyslav Pazanivskyj - moved to Canada - St Catherines. • Maria Shostak - originally from Kuban. Later moved to Lviv and taught bandura there. • Volodymyr Shmorhun • Volodymyr Shul' • K. Stetsiurenko • Dmytro Stopkevych • A. Syvokin' • Serhiy Tarulia • Zavorytskyj, Panas (Zavorskyj R. - soloist of the capella • Zhyrkov, M. - soloist of the capella • Vsevolod Zmiyenko ==Sources ==
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