From a dank Kyiv bomb shelter to the bright stage lights of Europe’s theaters, a Ukrainian youth choir’s hymns in praise of freedom offer a kind of healing balm to its war-scarred members.
The Shchedryk youth choir performs a Christmas concert at Copenhagens Church of the Holy Spirit, in Copenhagen, Denmark, Thursday, Dec. 8 2022. The Shchedryk ensemble, described as Kyivs oldest professional childrens choir, were in the Danish capital this week for a performance as part of an international tour that also took them to New Yorks famed Carnegie Hall.
“It is very difficult to gather the children,” said Marianna Sablina, the choir’s artistic director and chief conductor, whose mother founded the choir in 1971. Some of the members are"outside the borders of Ukraine, and only about a third of the forum currently lives in Kyiv.” “I think that we’re kind of getting used to it because it’s our job to do. We have a concert, so we just cannot skip any rehearsals,” she said.
At the core of the performance was the song “Carol of the Bells,” perhaps best known from the 1990 Christmas movie ‘Home Alone’.
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