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August 2015
”It is the silence that is God's answer” - On Regina
Derieva
Bengt Jangfeldt, Tomas Venclova and Fiona Sampson
discussing Regina Derieva's life and work at the Sigtunastifelsen,
on the foundation's main stage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rbSHcyX_Ww
May 2015
"...frescoes
of our time.."
Book Launch Event for "Selected" by Regina Derieva
The launch of Regina Derieva's first posthumous publication,
the two-
volume 'Selected Poems and Prose' [recorded
and photographed by
Michael
Fateev], at 'Zvezda' Magazine Publisher's conference hall,
St. Petersburg.
With special guests, Yakov Gordin, Alexander Kushner
and
Valentina Polukhina, among others . 25th May 2015.
http://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2015/05...
Valentina Polukhina said:
"Her poems are frescoes of our time and man is in it".
February 2015
The volume of poetry, memoirs, essays, fiction, and photographs
in honor
of Regina Derieva, Curator Aquarum, was published in
2015.
The contributors to this book:
Cynthia Hogue / Chard DeNiord /
Per Wästberg
Ulrikka S. Gernes / Dennis Creffield
/ Fiona Sampson
John Kinsella / William Doreski /
Ellen Hinsey
Eric Pervukhin / Les Murray /
Tomas Venclova
Rimas Uzgiris / Frederick Smock /
Håkan Sandell
Annie Finch / Gunnar Harding /
Julian Birbrajer
Anthony Rudolf / Alev Adil /
Paddy Bushe / Bill Coyle
Valentina Polukhina / Ruth Fainlight
/ Jurek Holzer
Ewa Lipska / Igor Sakhnovsky /
Alexander Cigale
Sasha Dugdale / Ilya Kaminsky /
Bengt Jangfeldt
Leonard Schwartz / George Kilcourse
/ Tim Liardet
Malte Persson / Alan Shaw / Igor Yefimov
/ Jim Kates
Elisabeth Hjorth / Max Lapitsky /
Ilya Bernstein
Mariela Griffor / Aris Fioretos /
Petter Lindgren
Alicia Ostriker / Arcady Kotler /
Edward Wilson
Craig Czury / Margarita Meklina / Krystyna A. Steiger
Józef Walczak / Lars Palm /
Lasse Söderberg
Annika Bäckström / Heng Siok Tian
/ Toh Hsien Min
Yeow Kai Chai / Yong Shu Hoong /
Augustus Young
Rachel Loden / Henry Gould / Pavel
Rechensky
Richard J. Reisner / Véronique Lossky /
Alexey Purin
Robin Fulton / Cynthia Haven /
Donald Boström
Giannina Braschi / Tess O'Dwyer /
Antoni Albalat
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A video mix with fragments from the "Curator Aquarum"
book launch that took place at the second commemorative
evening
to honour Regina Derieva. London, 7th February, 2015.
http://youtu.be/CH0t1uy38LI
A video mix with fragments from the "Curator Aquarum"
book launch that took place at St. Eugenia in Stockholm
on March 12th, 2015.
http://youtu.be/UGSLGMyNVPs
October 2014
Oct 14, 2014 - As reported in today's Stanford
Dish:
Stanford University acquires archives of poet Regina
Derieva
https://library.stanford.edu/subjects/russian-literature
The
consecration of a tombstone on Regina Derieva's grave
The gravestone was consecrated by Fr. Dominik Terstriep
S.J.
on October 28, 2014.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLwyer31AEU
Februarry 2014
A
Commemorative Evening Reading for Regina Derieva in London
A commemorative evening-reading for Regina Derieva on
7th February,
2014 (Regina's birthday) in London, at the home of Valentina
Polukhina,
widow of Daniel Weissbort. Among those who participated
in this event
were Ruth Fainlight, Elaine Feinstein, Julia Kogan, Benjamin
Ramm,
Anthony Rudolf, Fiona Sampson, and Olga Shvarova.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfDHQufeEus
Regina Derieva's obituary by Yeow Kai Chai
in The Straits Times. Singapore, 4 Jan. 2014.
An interview with Bengt Jangfeldt for the Swedish Radio
by Max Lapitskij. 2013-12-16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezpmONCKHSE
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23 December 2013
Regina Derieva's funeral took place on December 23,
2013.
She was buried at the Norra Begravningsplatsen (Katolska
Kyrkogården).
The burial service was read by Bishop Anders Arborelius
of Sweden.
A tribute page for Regina Derieva is here.
12 December 2013
Regina Derieva died on Wednesday 11th December at 22.00.
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30 September 2011
A concert of sacred music was held at the Basilica di
Santa Maria delle Grazie
in Milan. Attendees enjoyed music performed by the Moscow
Synodal Choir
conducted by Alexei Puzakov and and the Symphony Orchestra
of the
Academy delle opera under the direction of Diego Montrone.
Works by Sergei Rachmaninov, Giuseppe Verdi and Frà
Armando Pierucci’s
“De Profundis” – a cantata based on the poems by Regina
Derieva were
performed.
"...concerning Fr Armando, we should say that this was
a revelation. Pierucci
is a 75 year old Franciscan, who is said to be a fine
organist and has lived for
many years in Jerusalem, where he once aroused a polemical
reaction about
Semitism and anti-Semitism. The fact is that his De
Profundis... is a powerfully
beautiful work for mezzo-soprano (the rough but strong
Polina Shamaeva),
flute (an excellent soloist whose name does not appear
in the programme),
choir and orchestra. It was written 10 years ago and
strikes an admirable
balance between classical and modern styles, with a harmonious
structure as
solid as it is audacious, and enriched with profound
and provocative
questions on the meaning of life and death."
An extract from the article by Paolo Viola
"Arcipelago Milano" 4-10-2011
There will be a new double cd (reissue) entitled “Via
Crucis – De Profundis”
released in October, 2011. It contains two Frà
Armando Pierucci’s cantatas
to the poems by Regina Derieva.
23 December 2010
Regina Derieva's new selected, CORINTHIAN COPPER,
was published in the fall of 2010 by Marick Press.
16 February 2009
Regina Derieva was awarded the Swedish Catholic Church
medal
ORA ET LABORA for her literary work.
25 January 2009
The Sum Total of Violations, the first
volume of Regina Derieva’s
poems to be published in England, will be launched in
Sweden
on Friday, February 6, at St. Eugenia's reading hall
situated at
Kungsträdgården 12 in central Stockholm.
http://www.arcpublications.co.uk
New Derieva's book, OAVBRUTET SVARTA
BILDER -
IMAGES IN BLACK, CONTINUOUS,
translated into Swedish by Håkan Sandell
and Håkan Sandvik,
is published by Carl Forsbergs Bokforlag, 2007.
