Mykola Leontovych, the Ukrainian composer of the famed festive song, lived in the eastern city of Pokrovsk. Months of Russian ...

Ukrainian choir Songs for Ukraine has sung a carol at the end of King Charles III's annual Christmas address. Details: The ...

Russian forces control about 95 percent of what’s left of the city, which they aggressively shelled like much of Ukraine they have sought to control.

Ukrainian choir "Songs for Ukraine" performed at King Charles III's Christmas address, showcasing a reimagined Carol of the ...

The legendary Ukrainian composition Shchedryk (Carol of the Bells) by Mykola Leontovych has been granted a permanent display in one of the world’s most prestigious concert halls. Now, visitors to New ...

Meet the history and politics of a world-famous Christmas song that started as Kyiv’s political message to the world a ...

In early 1919, when Ukraine's pleas for recognition were falling on largely deaf ears, it dispatched not only diplomats to ...

Concertgoers filled Carnegie Hall on a rainy Thursday in October 1922 for a 35-piece performance by the Ukrainian National Choir. It was the first stop on an American tour to promote Ukrainian culture ...

But it’s the historic repetition of that Ukrainian folk song over centuries - the one Americans know as “Carol of the Bells” that’s especially poignant and heartbreaking for a nation at war. “It’s ...

At Great Hearts Academy in Scottsdale, three middle schoolers stepped forward together, asking to perform Carol of the Bells as a trio; something they’d been quietly practicing for weeks.

The song known in English as The Carol of the Bells is widely recognized as a Christmas melody. But in the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, residents know it as Shchedryk, a work by the local composer and ...