Oleg Karavajchuk (or Karavaychuk) is a Composer of 17 Symphonies, innumerable Chamber Music, Songs, and Incidental music for more than 200 films. He is a Ukrainian, living in St. Petersburg, a superb pianist and improviser, with a keen interest for Early Music. He is also a veritable madman, weirdo, outsider an excentric, for lack of an appropriate term, not least because he is a Cult Figure with a large following, who elicits deep respect from other composers. He plays prostrate under the piano, covering his face in order not to see the audience, and in one of his interviews he said that he doesn't consider the piano to be a keyboard instrument.
On top of this he is an extraordinarily ugly. And he often appeared as an actor in the Classic films for which he supplied the music. And this is how I "met" him when I was 12, in a great 1966 film "The City of Artisans", a neomedieval fairytale that my own children love now. One of the songs from this film, often sang by one of my sons in recent months has inspired me to write a small lutenistic 13-course tribute for this man, whose main characteristic is an incredible speed at which he still moves. He is believed to be ca. 75-80 years old... � http://polyhymnion.org/swv/suite.html Enjoy (use MP3, as midi file refuses to play at the appropriate tempo of 190), RT ___________________________________________________________ $0 Web Hosting with up to 200MB web space, 1000 MB Transfer 10 Personalized POP and Web E-mail Accounts, and much more. Signup at www.doteasy.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
