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

The music school dedicated to the song's Ukrainian composer, Mykola Leontovych, was destroyed in Pokrovsk but has been reborn ...

I played “Carol of the Bells” on a public piano while shoppers were rushing through the holiday season — and for a moment, ...

Yet when it comes to that perennial Christmas favourite, Mozart’s ‘Sleigh Ride’, the words ‘pot and kettle’ spring to mind. A seasonal stocking-filler, its ho-hum harmonic predictability betrays a ...

Holiday hits. Hometown talent. Holly jolly cheer. Music adds magic to the holiday season, with everyone having their favorite ...

As the year draws to a close and the chill sets in, a stroll through the city shows storefronts and trees bright with lights, Bengalureans sporting red christma ...

Carol of the Bells, the Christmas classic heard everywhere from social media clips to shopping malls, began life as Shchedryk ...

According to Guinness World Records, “Jingle Bells” is officially recognised as the first song ever played in outer space.

In early 1919, when Ukraine's pleas for recognition were falling on largely deaf ears, it dispatched not only diplomats to Europe, but also a choir. Led by conductor Oleksandr Koshyts, the Ukrainian ...

Former MSNBC host Joy Reid has shared a video to her social media which claimed to reveal the racist background of the much-loved Christmas tune Jingle Bells as a blackface minstrel tune mocking ...

Did you know that the world’s first song ever broadcast from space was a Christmas carol?

Combining the traditional Jingle Bells song with a techno beat and Mongolian throat singing, Ummet Ozcan created a catchy hit that has taken social media by storm. Ozcan initially posted a short clip ...