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Four Years

That’s four years too long.

Our thought, our song

Will not die, will not perish…

Oh there, people, is our glory,

Glory of Ukraine!

Taras Shevchenko

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I am partial to the written word, of course, but there are times when words can fail us. That’s where music comes in.

Ukrainian violinist Illia Bondarenko made a recording of himself playing in a shelter in Kyiv. Since posting, he has been joined by musicians around the world…

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Do you play? You can join in by downloading the score and making your own recording:

Violinists Support Ukraine – Participate

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Original Photo by Beth Rufener on Unsplash

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“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”

― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

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Photo by Jeb Buchman on Unsplash

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