Shchedryk from Winter Nights by Lunacharsky's Radical Synth Board

This song is a Ukrainian shchedrivka, or New Year's song, known in English as "The Little Swallow". It was arranged by composer and teacher Mykola Leontovych in 1916, and tells a story of a swallow flying into a household to sing of wealth that will come with the following spring. "Shchedryk" was originally sung on the night of January 13, (New Year's Eve in the Julian Calendar), which is Shchedry Vechir. The song later was adapted by Alexander Koshetz in 1936 as Carol of the Bells which has exploded in popularity and become associated with Christmas, but this bombastic cover attempts to call to mind the dawning of the New Year and the new possibilities and struggles that come with it, as the original song once did.

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