🎙️ ICYMI — Music as Witness feat. concert pianist Anna Shelest

My initial idea for this album was, of course, kind of my reaction to the Russian war in Ukraine. I think for me, playing Ukrainian music in general, this is something that I try to include in all of my programs now. It's a way that I feel like I can stay in solidarity with Ukrainians by playing music from Ukraine. And I've known that kind of, it's something that makes me feel, kind of eases my heart. But I was so surprised how when I even like post a piece by Ukrainian music or, you know, make like a little, you know, like social media post about it, oftentimes people from Ukraine would say, "Oh, this is so beautiful. Thank you for—" Like, it's something that means a lot, I think, to Ukrainians when people in other parts of the world present their culture. So This was, I think, kind of my initial first step in this process.

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