On March 15, a New York Times headline declared , “Ukraine’s National Anthem Reverberates Around the World,’ and illustrated this with a video montage. The anthem, which begins with the words, “Ukraine’s glory hasn’t perished,” also provides powerful inspiration within the embattled country, where it is heard multiple times each day.

The story explained the origins of the anthem in the 1860s, when it was composed specifically to “revive and celebrate a Ukrainian heritage that was at risk of being lost to a process of Russification.” During the Soviet period the anthem was repressed and supplanted, but it returned after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and was sung repeatedly during the Maidan Square protests of 2013 and 2014.

Here, Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos, and Yo-Yo Ma perform the Ukrainian National Anthem

Here is the link to the New York Times story: Ukraine’s National Anthem used around the world as an expression of support