Grants:Project/Rapid/Mozart and Chopin in Ukrainian/Report

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This report for a Rapid Grant approved in FY 2016-17 has been reviewed and accepted by the Wikimedia Foundation.
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Goals[edit]

Did you meet your goals? Are you happy with how the project went?

Yes! I'm really happy, I fell a new horizons opened for my project and thinking about next one. A significant amount of free high quality content, unavailable before, was added to Wikimedia project. Also more "white space" detected in this field for further activities.

Outcome[edit]

Please report on your original project targets.


Target outcome Achieved outcome Explanation
18 songs by F.Chopin performed, recorded and published 20 songs performed, 19 published. at the beginning we wasn`t sure all the 20 songs could be achieved, but we do our best.
16 numbers (arias or ensembles) from Mozart`s operas 21 numbers was performed and published Mozart`s project arises a huge interest. Thanks to this during the preparation the amount of arias and ensembles increases from 16 to 25 numbers, but finally 21 was recorded.
36 audio files and 36 video files are expected. actually we uploaded 39 audio files and 28 video files In some cases we used to publish audio only. In some cases concert performance was not good enough and we used one from the rehearsal or sometimes the quality of video was not good enough.
Aprox. total length for Chopin is 40-50 min aprox. 53 min additional time thanks to 2 versions of first two songs by Chopin. Without this 2 versions - apr. 40 min
Aprox. total length for Mozart - 40-60 min aprox. 70 min We were pretty amazed by beautiful Mozart`s music and recorded little bit more
20 pieces by Chopin (vocal score, up to 96 pages) 20 pieces by Chopin, 54 pages well, Chopin's songs are not so long for 96 pages
15-20 numbers by Mozart (vocal score, up to 96 pages) actually 15 numbers by Mozart, 106 pages (Don Giovanni, Zauberflöte and Le nozze di Figaro) some of them are in process yet, some music sheets was prepared but was not performed.
Number of people attended concerts up to 200 both times both times concert hall was full of people


Learning[edit]

Projects do not always go according to plan. Sharing what you learned can help you and others plan similar projects in the future. Help the movement learn from your experience by answering the following questions:

  • What worked well?

In total the project worked well. We watched a lot of lucky eyes of our listeners and even overworked our plan.

  • What did not work so well?

Still there are some technical problems with taking audio and video.

  • What would you do differently next time?

Possibly the project will need some diversification. Possibly I will prepare 2-3 different programs simultaneously but with different performers. Another idea is making a competition. It seems the project is enough experienced for this.

Finances[edit]

Grant funds spent[edit]

Please describe how much grant money you spent for approved expenses, and tell us what you spent it on.

Number Category Requested (USD) 1st stage - Chopin (UAH) 2nd stage - Mozart (UAH) Total (UAH) Total (USD)
1 Hall rent $231,00 1641 2174 3815 $145,06
2 Posters $46,00 680 680 1360 $51,71
3 Invitations and playbills $50,00 200 300 500 $19,01
4 Travel and post expenses $108,00 1174 1275,13 2449,13 $93,12
5 Daily allowances $42,00 866 0 866 $32,93
6 Music sheet preparing $120,00 1760 2016 3776 $143,57
7 Printing Music sheet $140,00 4210 203 4413 $167,79
8 Bank fees and exchange gain/loss $4,90 146,228 21,74 167,968 $6,39
TOTAL $741,90 10677,228 6669,87 17347,098 $659,59


More details:

First event (Chopin's concert)

  • Hall rent – 1641.01 hrn (1630.50 hrn rent + 11.41 hrn bank fee)
  • Music sheet preparing – 1760 hrn (55 pages x 32 hryvnas per page)
  • Draft music sheet printing – 110 hrn (2 examples 55 pages x 1 hryvna per page)
  • Sheet music printing (50 copies) - 4100 hrn
  • Transport - 1173,24 hrn
    • - Musicians from Kharkiv, 2 persons – 533,24 hrn (incl. changing ticket due to changing the date of concert 32 + 32 , actual train tickets 109,91+182,24+111,63+65,46)
    • - Musicians from Rivne, 2 persons – 640 hrn (inkling bus tickets 160 + 160 + 160 + 160)
  • Daily allowances - 866,76 hrn
    • - Musicians from Kharkiv, 2 persons – 466,76 hrn (233,38 + 233,38)
    • – Musicians from Rivne, 2 persons – 400 hrn (200 + 200)
  • Banners– 680 hrn (25 format A3, 20 hrn per unit, and 15 format 12 hrn per unit)
  • Leaflets – 200 hrn (100 units, 2 hrn per unit)


TOTAL - 10677,228 hrn

Second event (Mozart's concert)

  • Hall rent - 2195.21 hrn (2174.00 hrn rent + 21.74 hrn bank fee)
  • Music sheet preparing – 2016 hrn (63 pages x 32 hryvnas per page, the others was prepared earlier)
  • Draft music sheet printing – 206 hrn (2 examples 103 pages x 1 hryvna per page)
  • Transport - 1275,13 hrn (collaboration with musicians from Vinnytsia):
    • - 1st rehearsal (in Vinnytsia, 1 person from Kyiv by train on and return) 336,62 hrn (199,12 + 137,50) +
    • - 2nd rehearsal (in Vinnytsia, 1 person from Kyiv by train on and return) 359,14 (219,30 + 139,84)
    • - the concert (travel 3 persons from Vinnytsia to Kyiv by car, patrool - 579,37 (310,37 + 269) hrn +
  • Banners– 680 hrn (25 format A3, 20 hrn per unit, and 15 format 12 hrn per unit)
  • Leaflets – 200 hrn (100 units, 2 hrn per unit)

TOTAL - 6648,13 hrn

Remaining funds[edit]

The funds remaining from this grant in the amount of US$82.30 were deducted from another grant payment for Grants:Project/Rapid/World classics in Ukrainian Vocal contest/Report.

Do you have any remaining grant funds?


82,3 USD

I request to apply this amount for next purposes:

  1. to publish extra 20 examples of Chopin songs (I could ask the same publisher) - aprox. 60 USD.
  2. to spent some money for sending copies of this publication to poets from other cities by post - aprox. 17 USD.

Anything else[edit]

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