TSUSHIMA, Nagasaki Prefecture Shortly after the start of the new academic year, a class of high school freshmen was listening to Kim Kyoung-ah on the podium, who is in her seventh year of teaching Korean.
When Oksana Stepanyuk, an award-winning soprano with the Japan Opera Foundation, performs “Melody,” composed by Myroslav Skoryk, a Ukrainian, her voice turns into a wail of mourning. It s a pensive
The Ukrainian song has no words. When Oksana Stepanyuk, an award-winning soprano with The Japan Opera Foundation, performs “Melody,” composed by Myroslav Skoryk, her voice turns into a wail of mourning, a pensive but piercing prayer for her homeland. “It’s like I’m crying through the melody for people who are…