Did You Know?…
...the popular Christmas tune, "Carol of the Bells", originated as a Ukrainian folk song? 2022 marked the one-hundredth anniversary of its United States premiere, where it debuted as "Shchedryk" at…
...the popular Christmas tune, "Carol of the Bells", originated as a Ukrainian folk song? 2022 marked the one-hundredth anniversary of its United States premiere, where it debuted as "Shchedryk" at…
...composer Max Bruch, whose cello work Kol Nidrei features Jewish melodies, was not Jewish? Bruch, a German Protestant, took inspiration while serving as conductor of Berlin's Stern’scher Gesangverein, a choir…
... "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer" was Nat King Cole's last top-10 hit? While not reaching the same prominence as perennial favorite "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire", the song…
...the namesake of Josef Suk's piano cycle About Mother was Antonin Dvořák's daughter? Written in 1907, the five-movement piece evokes memories of a dearly-loved woman who died prematurely, leaving behind…
...the plot for Pietro Mascagni's opera Cavalleria Rusticana is set on Easter Day? According to Ukrainian conductor Myron Yusypovych, who has conducted this opera at his home country's Lviv Opera House,…