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...manuscripts, which were discovered hidden away in a Ukrainian state archive in Kiev, contain nearly one hundred pieces of music composed by C.P.E. Bach that have never been performed before, in addition to compositions penned by J.S. Bach and other members of the Bach family...
...legend in Kiev is that a tank driver found them in a village and brought them back, but I don't think the manuscripts--about 90 crates--would have fit in one tank," Grimsted said...
...while Wolff said he is amazed that the documents survived the trip to Kiev in such good condition, he said he is most concerned with the future of the manuscripts...
...born in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, on Oct. 29, 1929, and is said to never have known his father, who by some accounts perished during the Stalinist purges of 1937. His parents seem to have separated before this, and Primakov was brought up in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, where his mother Anna was a gynecologist attached to a local textile factory. The family home was a 14-sq-m room in a kommunalka--a communal apartment where kitchen and toilet facilities were shared by a number of families. He left Tbilisi for Moscow in the late 1940s...
...former State Department vice consul at the U.S. Embassy in Kiev, Sievers recently completed a study on African development that won praise from the international community, Sachs said. Called the African Competitiveness Report, the study surveyed business leaders and government officials on prospects for growth in 24 African countries...