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 ...

Composed during World War I, “Shchedryk” folk song has survived the Nazi, communist, and now commercial eras to remind and revive the ties of hearth and home. The war between Russia and Ukraine has ...

From “Jingle Bells” to the street-corner bell ringers of the Salvation Army, the sound of the Christmas season is bells. But bell ringing has a rich history, integrated into daily and liturgical life ...

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 ...

"Carol of the Bells" is a Christmas staple in the U.S., but it was written by a Ukrainian composer and first came to the U.S. 100 years ago — when Ukrainians were fighting for freedom. UKRAINIAN ...

It’s been 26 years since Mariah Carey proved you could still create a Christmas staple—kicking off decades of copycats and wannabes trying to recreate her holiday hit, “All I Want For Christmas Is You ...

Concerts and radio stations at this time of year are filled with both Christmas and winter holiday music. It would be impossible to define “Christmas music” beyond the use of specific religious texts ...

This article was originally published on November 30, 2022. We’re rerunning it now in honor of the season. “Jingle Bells” doesn’t get more cringe than this. Momager, MasterClass instructor, and ...