Friends, this #Christmas each time you hear Ukrainian song called Carol of The Bells, please #PrayForUkraine Read a short story about this songs author: Mykola Leontovych was born and raised in the Podolia region of the Russian Empire. He was educated as a priest in the Kamianets-Podilskyi Theological Seminary and later furthered his musical education at the Saint Petersburg Court Capella and private lessons with Boleslav Yavorsky. With the independence of the Ukrainian state in the 1917 revolution, Leontovych moved to Kiev where he worked at the Kiev Conservatory and the Mykola Lysenko Institute of Music and Drama. He is recognized for composing Shchedryk in 1904 (which premiered in 1916), known to the English speaking world as Carol of the Bells. He is known as a martyr in the Eastern Orthodox Ukrainian Church, where he is also remembered for his liturgy, the first liturgy composed in the vernacular, specifically in the modern Ukrainian language. He was assassinated by a Soviet agent in 1921. #ГероїНеВмирають #Україна #Щедрик youtu.be/ON3HBINUqTU
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 03:03:09 +0000
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