Can you name any Ukrainian composer? There is a reason why you probably cannot, even if you are a music lover and a regular visitor to concert halls. And that reason is not that Ukrainian classical ...

Before Russia invaded Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin said that "Ukraine actually never had stable traditions of real statehood." But in the decades since the country gained independence, groups of ...

On the morning of February 24, 2022, air-raid sirens wailed in the streets of Kyiv, heralding a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. When the composer Adrian Mocanu heard the noise, he had a ...

Correspondent photo / John Bagnola// Fred and Lil Yasnowski of Lordstown toured Ukraine’s most classic venues in 2018 because Fred was a member of the Ukrainian Bandurist Chorus. On Dec. 4, the chorus ...

The band describes its musical style as “ethno-chaos.” “Chaos is the first basis of everything, where different pieces of sound, instruments and genres create our musical universe,” Gorban said. They ...