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"Playing Chopin as if she was channelling the burdens of a hard life": Ukrainian sisters who fled to the UK turn out to be musical prodigies (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 years ago by tardigrada to c/humanities

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Khrystyna Mykhailichenko, 17, has been awarded a full bursary for four years to study piano at the Royal Academy of Music in London. Her 12-year-old sister, Sasha, a violinist, has a scholarship to become a weekly boarder at the Yehudi Menuhin School. Both feel that classical music helped them to face the trauma of abandoning their home with their mother.

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[–] EnchantedWhetstones@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If only every Ukrainian refugee was a musical prodigy, they wouldn't risk being forced onto the street in countries that shelled out to turn their home into a war zone. But I guess when you compare it with the treatment of refugees from other countries to the US, UK, EU, etcetera, it's a cakewalk.