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, ...

What’s your favorite Christmas carol or holiday song? That was the question posed to coaches, players and fans at a couple of recent basketball games in Greenville. The answers varied, as expected.

That’s what Kevin McCallister said as he bolted his front door and began fortifying the home against invaders in one of the ...

Jack Black's fully in the holiday spirit ... rattling off a Christmas carol for us in his typical hard-rocking voice in New ...

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 ...

Yet when it comes to that perennial Christmas favourite, Mozart’s ‘Sleigh Ride’, the words ‘pot and kettle’ spring to mind. A ...

Supposedly 'offensive' lyrics in seasonal classic songs could come under the watch of the Government's new workers' rights ...

If you’re sick of hearing the same old festive cheese at this time of year, allow Kevin E G Perry to suggest an alternative ...