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After years of struggling to make a living as musicians in Ukraine, Yevgen Dovbysh and Anna Vikhrova felt they had finally built a stable life. They were husband-and-wife artists in the Odesa Philharmonic -- he plays the cello, she the violin -- sharing a love for Bach partitas and the music from Star Wars. They lived in an apartment on the banks of the Black Sea with their eight-year-old daughter, Daryna.
After years of struggling to make a living as musicians in Ukraine, Yevgen Dovbysh and Anna Vikhrova felt they had finally built a stable life. They w
“I don’t have a gun, but I have my cello,” a musician says as he joins the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, which is made up of refugees who fled the war and artists who stayed behind.
The newly formed Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra will perform in Europe and the United States this summer, using music to oppose the Russian invasion.
The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra will make an 11-city tour of Europe and the United States. Learn more at Boston.com.