{"id":41173,"date":"2025-12-20T12:21:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T12:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\/light-holds-on-shchedryk-performed-at-tpp-destroyed-by-russians\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T12:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T12:21:20","slug":"light-holds-on-shchedryk-performed-at-tpp-destroyed-by-russians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/war-in-ukraine\/light-holds-on-shchedryk-performed-at-tpp-destroyed-by-russians\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Light holds on&quot;: &quot;Shchedryk&quot; performed at TPP destroyed by Russians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The song &quot;Shchedryk&quot; was written at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1936, its English version was released, which is known to the world as &quot;Carol of the Bells&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/unn.ua\/_next\/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.unn.ua%2Fimg%2F2025%2F12%2F20%2F1766232755-3532-large.webp&amp;w=720&amp;q=75\" alt=\"&quot;Light holds on&quot;: &quot;Shchedryk&quot; performed at TPP destroyed by Russians\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At one of the DTEK thermal power plants destroyed by the Russians, the song &quot;Shchedryk&quot; &#8211; the world-famous work for choir by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych &#8211; was performed. This was reported by UNN with reference to DTEK.<\/p>\n<h2>Details<\/h2>\n<p>As reported by DTEK, this performance became part of our joint initiative with Svitlo Concert &#8211; an appeal to the world community with a request to strengthen support for Ukrainian energy during times of unprecedented challenges.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The light holds on<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 reads the description to the video.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Additionally<\/h2>\n<p>The song &quot;Shchedryk&quot; was written at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1919, it was performed by Oleksandr Koshyts&#039; choir, better known as the &quot;Ukrainian Republican Chapel&quot;. After tours in European countries (Czechoslovakia, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Germany, Poland, Spain) and in the USA in 1922, &quot;Shchedryk&quot; became known not only in Ukraine, but also throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>In 1936, the American composer of Ukrainian origin Petro Wilhovsky wrote an English version of the song, which is known as &quot;Carol of the Bells&quot;.<\/p>\n<h2>Recall<\/h2>\n<p>On the morning of December 20, due to Russian attacks, consumers were cut off from electricity in Mykolaiv, Kherson, Donetsk, and Odesa regions.<\/p>\n<p>UNN also reported that the National Bank of Ukraine dedicated a commemorative coin to the outstanding choral conductor Oleksandr Koshyts, who first introduced the Ukrainian work &quot;Shchedryk&quot; to the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The song &quot;Shchedryk&quot; was written at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1936, its English version was released, which is known to the world as &quot;Carol of the Bells&quot;. At one of the DTEK thermal power plants destroyed by the Russians, the song &quot;Shchedryk&quot; &#8211; the world-famous work for choir by Ukrainian composer Mykola [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-war-in-ukraine"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}