‘Carol of the Bells’ Once Filled the Air Here. Now It’s Only Bombs.

Mykola Leontovych, the Ukrainian composer of the famed festive song, lived in the eastern city of Pokrovsk. Months of Russian ...
The Kyiv Independent on MSN

Carol of the Bells: the song that made the world speak about Ukraine

Mariana Hirniak is a journalist and public speaker on Ukrainian culture and history. In early 1919, when Ukraine's pleas for ...
National Catholic Register

How This Ukrainian Song Became a Christmas Carol You Know and Love

The well-known Christmas carol, “Carol of the Bells,” has quite a remarkable history. It’s difficult to believe that a Christmas carol with such a joyous tone originated more than a century ago in ...
The New York Times

‘Carol of the Bells,’ a Christmas Staple From Ukraine, a Century Later

It started as “Shchedryk,” a song about a little bird that was first performed in the United States in 1922. Its enchanting melody has since been sung by Beyoncé and Barenaked Ladies. By Rob LeDonne ...