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

The music school dedicated to the song's Ukrainian composer, Mykola Leontovych, was destroyed in Pokrovsk but has been reborn ...

Carol of the Bells, the Christmas classic heard everywhere from social media clips to shopping malls, began life as Shchedryk ...

I played “Carol of the Bells” on a public piano while shoppers were rushing through the holiday season — and for a moment, ...

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

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

For years, Snopes has covered the origins and myths attached to classic holiday songs such as "The Twelve Days of Christmas" ...

‘Jingle Bells’ is one of the most commonly sung Christmas songs in the world. Written by American James Lord Pierpont, it was ...

Harry Kalas passed away in 2009, but his recitation of the famous Christmas poem lives on. The origin story of Kalas' reading ...

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 ...