Lysenko music school
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Lysenko music school is a private music school organized by Ukrainian composer Mykola Lysenko
.
classes were organized at Mykola Lysenko
's Music School.
Each of the students paid 3-4 rubles a month for half hour lessons. Poor students only paid 2 rubles. After the first 6 months only 17 students were left with 3 financial sponsors. The kobzar-teacher (Ivan Kuchuhura Kucherenko
) received a payment of 109 rubles.
In the second half of the year the group had shrunk and consisted of 6 students (of which 3 were new) and two sponsors who were previously enrolled as students. After 4 months the kobzar-teacher received 38 rubles pay. Consequently the kobzar
at the end of April, not waiting for the end of the academic year left the position and traveled home to Kharkiv
.
Ivan Kuchuhura-Kucherenko was a blind man and performed according to his feelings. He had no theoretical education nor did he have any variations in his playing technique. As a consequence it was difficult for sighted students to follow him. Interest in playing the bandura
however, at that time had grown so much in some of the students that they were able to overcome these problems.
The hours in which the lessons were held were unfortunately not very convenient - from 9-11 in the morning - and the students were mainly made up of from University students or public servants .
Half hour lessons were offered, however, having a teacher without a sound knowledge of teaching methodology, and a systematic approach to teaching could not produce the desired results in the students.
Apart from this there were no inexpensive banduras for the students to purchase.
In an article about the school the following solutions were suggested:
Mykola Lysenko
Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist.- Biography :Lysenko was born in Hrynky, Kremenchuk Povit, Poltava Governorate, the son of Vitaliy Romanovich Lysenko . From childhood he became very interested in the folksongs of Ukrainian peasants and...
.
Bandura classes at Lysenko's Music School
In the Fall of 1908 the first banduraBandura
Bandura refers to a Ukrainian plucked string folk instrument. It combines elements of a box zither and lute, as well as its lute-like predecessor, the kobza...
classes were organized at Mykola Lysenko
Mykola Lysenko
Mykola Vitaliiovych Lysenko was a Ukrainian composer, pianist, conductor and ethnomusicologist.- Biography :Lysenko was born in Hrynky, Kremenchuk Povit, Poltava Governorate, the son of Vitaliy Romanovich Lysenko . From childhood he became very interested in the folksongs of Ukrainian peasants and...
's Music School.
Each of the students paid 3-4 rubles a month for half hour lessons. Poor students only paid 2 rubles. After the first 6 months only 17 students were left with 3 financial sponsors. The kobzar-teacher (Ivan Kuchuhura Kucherenko
Ivan Kuchuhura Kucherenko
Ivan Iovych Kuchuhura-Kucherenko Ivan Iovych Kuchuhura-Kucherenko Ivan Iovych Kuchuhura-Kucherenko (July 7, 1878—November 24, 1937 was a Ukrainian minstrel (kobzar) and one of the most influential kobzars of the early 20th century...
) received a payment of 109 rubles.
In the second half of the year the group had shrunk and consisted of 6 students (of which 3 were new) and two sponsors who were previously enrolled as students. After 4 months the kobzar-teacher received 38 rubles pay. Consequently the kobzar
Kobzar
A Kobzar was an itinerant Ukrainian bard who sang to his own accompaniment.-Tradition:Kobzars were often blind, and became predominantly so by the 1800s...
at the end of April, not waiting for the end of the academic year left the position and traveled home to Kharkiv
Kharkiv
Kharkiv or Kharkov is the second-largest city in Ukraine.The city was founded in 1654 and was a major centre of Ukrainian culture in the Russian Empire. Kharkiv became the first city in Ukraine where the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was proclaimed in December 1917 and Soviet government was...
.
Ivan Kuchuhura-Kucherenko was a blind man and performed according to his feelings. He had no theoretical education nor did he have any variations in his playing technique. As a consequence it was difficult for sighted students to follow him. Interest in playing the bandura
Bandura
Bandura refers to a Ukrainian plucked string folk instrument. It combines elements of a box zither and lute, as well as its lute-like predecessor, the kobza...
however, at that time had grown so much in some of the students that they were able to overcome these problems.
The hours in which the lessons were held were unfortunately not very convenient - from 9-11 in the morning - and the students were mainly made up of from University students or public servants .
Half hour lessons were offered, however, having a teacher without a sound knowledge of teaching methodology, and a systematic approach to teaching could not produce the desired results in the students.
Apart from this there were no inexpensive banduras for the students to purchase.
In an article about the school the following solutions were suggested:
- A textbook was required and a knowledgeable teacher needed.
- Evening lessons.
- Stipends for those who could not afford lessons
- A workshop to manufacture inexpensive banduras.