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, the Christmas classic heard everywhere from social media clips to shopping malls, began life as Shchedryk, a Ukrainian folk carol composed more than a century ago by Mykola ...

A group of men and women in traditional embroidered dress took the stage at Carnegie Hall on Oct. 5, 1922, for a performance that the New York Tribune dubbed “a marvel of technical skill.” The New ...

Did you know that Carol of the Bells comes from Ukraine? Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych wrote Shchedryk in 1916, originally as a winter folk song. The Ukrainian National Chorus brought the carol ...