Music; The Airs Of `Yaroslav The Wise' At Ukrainian Festival, Opera & Celebration

From: The Washington Post | Date: October 10, 1988| Author: | Copyright information

Other nations might nickname their favorite monarchs "the Great" or "the Terrible"; the Ukraine in the 11th century, when it was one of the most powerful and cultured nations in Europe, dubbed its king "Yaroslav the Wise." It was one way of showing ethnocultural priorities.

Over the weekend, descendants of Yaroslav's subjects held a three-day "Festival of the Art of Ukraine" at DAR Constitution Hall to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of the adoption of Christianity as the Ukraine's official religion and to protest the usurpation of that celebration by a government that is officially ...

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