A Peaceful Moment of Music in Times of War

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Elianne Labrie

Artist try to bring joy in this awful time with their violon in Ukraine

Vera Lytovchenko, a violonist use her resistance weapon  to help her friends and family forget about the war for a second. The artist decide from a cave in Kharkiv to post a video of her playing ” What a moon lit night” to gives support to her friends. However, she never imagined that her video will end up viral with 1,8 million views on twitter. There is a need of positivity in this critic time. Like Vera said: ” It’s really difficult to play and stop thinking about anything else right now then war. But i decided that i needed to do something.”

Therefore, after the little girl who sing Let it go to cheer people up it’s Vera who is now doing it herself. Miss Lytovchenko got inspired to do this by seeing one of her students play in a metro for hope.

When the war started on februrary 24 her and her family hid in a safe-bom space but has the time pass more and more people join them. Everybody support each other and become close. Like she said: ” All these people are my brothers and sisters now” Since the viral video she plays a lot for the refugees that lives with her and post a lot of video of her playing to keep the good spirit going.

Vera Lytovchenko is a Ukrainienne who plays at the Opera of Kharkiv and teach music. This music soldier has done a lot of concert and even have a Youtube channel where she shows her talent. Her Youtube channel not only shows her talent but also some of her concert and some other musicien. But the best part of her channel is the videos where she shows how to play them. She is always ready to play no matter what time or place.