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Mykola Leontovych, the Ukrainian composer of the famed festive song, lived in the eastern city of Pokrovsk. Months of Russian ...

There are songs I love so much that I try to limit how much I listen to them. Trying to preserve some sacredness in how they connect with me. But regardless of how often I’ve heard them, they never ...

A few great performances can’t save a musical that fudges history and narrative stakes in service of sentiment and sparkle ...

In 1908, Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych was forced to flee his job as a singing teacher at a railway school in Hryshyno ...

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Guntur: State Youth Welfare Commissioner S Bharani said that the core objective of State-level youth festival ‘Yuva 2025’ is to provide proper platforms for youth to showcase their talent and ...

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How artists across India are reclaiming visual culture as a political force as the communist movement marks one hundred years ...