THE NIZHYN’S PERFORMANCE SCHOOL: MAIN PERIODS, REPRESENTATIVE

Abstract

The period of development of Nizhyn’s vocals school, performance, science-methodical research, representatives in the context of different genres heritage, performance traditions of national art in the musical culture in Ukraine XX-XXI are analyzed.

On the boundary of the XX-XXI centuries researches on musical art in a regional aspect, specifically, the activity of music schools as constituents of the cultural environment which historically got moulded in the cities and towns ofUkraineremain among the priority trends. Functioning of each of them in the musical and informational space of this country is viewed as a vestige of continuity of the artistic development of rendition, especially vocal art.

The numerous researches on musical culturology, history and theory of music ethno- artology predetermine the topicality of the problems of regional musical rendition schools. It especially concerns the researches of Dr. V.G.Antonyuk, M.A. Zhyshkovich, V.M. Valynevska as well as those of postgraduate students, scientific degree claimants from some regional higher educational establishments, such as Zaporizhzhya national university and Nizhyn Gogol state classical university.

The goal of the article is to single out the significance of the cultural activity of some representatives of the Nizhyn vocal school in the context of the present day culture and art problems ofUkraine.

The basis for professionalization, particularly, vocal rendition in Nizhyn on the boundary of the XX-XXI centuries, was built up by the natives of the town Maria K.Zankovetska – a theatre actress and a singer, as well as Fedir D. Protsenko – a singer, a choire conductor and an educationalist. A descendant of their art mission was Maria F. Brovchenko, – a singer and a teacher who during her 50 years of creative activity was destined to become the founder of the Nizhyn vocal rendition school.

V.F.Brovchenko, a singer,educationalist, an actress, a stage manager. She was a 1956 graduate of the vocal class of Professor Maria Lytvynenko-Volgemut in Kyiv Conservatoire named after P.I.Chaikovsky (now: NMAU). As a result of the cultural creative activity of M.F.Brovchenko got crystallized such peculiarities of the Nizhyn vocal school as professionalism, succession of traditions of educational and concert activities, scientific and methodological work.

The first stage of professioalization of the vocal art in Nizhyn are the 1950-1970 years. This period is marked by active vocal rendition activity of M.F. Brovchenko as a vocalist and educationalist of the Gogol Institute-University, as well as that of the students of her academic group. Within this period was formed the creative-potential, teaching and cognitive, social and communicative criteria (sides, aspects) of their activity, which later on became basic for many representatives of the Nizhyn vocalic school.

The second stage – the 1980-1990-ies – was marked by diversification of masterly performance traditions of the concert-stage activity of some young teachers of the vocal who had been taught by M. F. Brovchenko. They are represented by the senior generation of her academic class, namely, by S.M.Kozlova, V.M.Kurson, V. I.Korobka, A.B.Khomenko. Within this period of activity M.F. Brovchenko worked out a scientific and methodological system, whose essence was not a type generalizing but a concrete individual approach to students. As V.M. Malynevska put it, M.F.Brovchenko created her own teaching techniques " from the voice" as a means of forming vocal and sound ideals.

The third stage of perfectioning of vocal skills in the Nizhyn Gogol state University lasted from the end of the 1990-ies until the beginning of the XXI century and testifies to maturity of the Nizhyn vocal school as a structurally integral organism, where organically co-exist masterly performance of the vocalists- educationalists, their good progress in training future laureats of all-national and international academic and variety actors competitions, in publishing manuals on the vocal art.

The period certifies to the continuation of M.F.Brovchenko’s art traditions by the above-mentioned teachers of the vocal section of the chair of vocal and choire skill and by L.Y. Shumska and L.V. Kostenko, – the conductors of the university’s youth choire "Svitych" which is an unfailing participant of the numerous creative concerts of V.F. Brovchenko.

The concerts, competitions and festivals of works of choire-vocal Ukrainian and foreign music strengthened the cultural traditions of M.F.Brovchenko in the Nizhyn musical environment. Many outstanding present day artistes, such Eugenia Miroshnychenko, Valentyna Antonyuk, Valery Buimister, Victor Subachev, Larysa Rogovets, Zoya Rozhok, Femi Mustafayev used to come to Nizhyn with their concerts.

The of many years’ standing pedagogical and concert activities of the vocal section teachers of the then musical-pedagogical department, such as N.D.Danshyna, V. M.Kurson, N.V.Krutko and the vocal duet of A.B. Khomenko and V.I. Korobka, as well as the participance of their students in numerous local, regional and all-national art projects on the boundary of the XX-XXI centuries have reaffirmed the vital power of the cultural traditions of the singers of Nizhyn.

Thus, the generally accepted criteria of masterly performance, such as a high professional level, successiveness of traditions of performing, the forms of their scientific and methodological implementation are represented in the environment of the Nizhyn vocal school as an active system directed at the culture – creative activity of young singers – in the local, regional, all-national and international space on the boundary of the XX-XXI centuries.

The concert and pedagogical activities of M.F. Brovchenko and her disciples was very conducive to their practical implementation for the sake of preservation of variety-performing traditions of the Ukrainian vocal school, as well as for presentation the multi-genre legacy of composers in the national and foreign musical informational environment. The numerous victories at international and all-national competitions of singers and festivals within the period between 1990 and 2013 testify to it.