EditorialDykyy, a professional accordion player and Ukrainian soldier with the 24th Mechanized Brigade, plays his instrument at a position near the front line outside Toretsk in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, March 7, 2023. (Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)
EditorialExperimental composer and performer Pauline Oliveros, who died in 2016 at the age of 84, plays her digital accordion at the ISSUE Project Room in Brooklyn, Sept. 14, 2013. (Richard Termine/The New York Times)
EditorialA very young busker plays the accordion on Andriivskyi Descent after dark in Kyiv, Ukraine on Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)
EditorialA youngster plays accordion for tips after dark on the Andriivskyi Descent, an ancient cobblestone street in the heart of Kyiv, Ukraine, Oct. 28, 2022. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)
EditorialHanna Oneshchak, 12, playing the accordion, with other Ukrainian students at the Irondale Theatre in Brooklyn, on Aug. 8, 2022. (Calla Kessler/The New York Times)