Photostockeditor.com Odessa’s famed Potemkin Stairs, the formal entrance to the city from the Black Sea. Although she has not returned in more than three decades, Inna Faliks says it’s difficult to be away from her native city during this time of conflict.
Photostockeditor.com Odessa's famed Potemkin Stairs, the formal entrance to the city from the Black Sea. Although she has not returned in more than three decades, Inna Faliks says it's difficult to be away from her native city during this time of conflict. As residents brace for Russian attacks, UCLA pianist Inna Faliks celebrates the city of her birth with an online performance As residents brace for Russian attacks, UCLA pianist Inna Faliks celebrates the city of her birth with an online performance For pianist Inna Faliks, Ukraine's historic port of Odessa is a symbolic tapestry that connects the most profound threads in her life. The city symbolizes her mother, lost to cancer four months ago. It symbolizes her marriage — to a childhood friend with whom she reconnected years after both their families had fled the city. And it symbolizes her music, which the Odessan child prodigy first shared with the world at the age of 7. Now, Odessa has taken on a new resonance for the UCLA piano professor, who awoke Feb.
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