In the second in my series of Christmas music, a little bit of the traditional. (There are many reasons for the season, but there’s nothing like ancient music to ring it in, even if some of it has a modern ring.)
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Gabriel’s Message
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O Holy Night
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Carol of the Bells
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The Little Drummer Boy
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I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In
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Stille Nacht (Silent Night)
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O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree)
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And, just to wend you off to sleep…
King’s College Choir, Christmas Carols
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May the season be blessed and magical, as it was when we were children. More next week. Chat away, night owls.
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Congrats on 1st OG!!!
Excellent selection, LL. Kings College Choir has been a favorite since I first realized who was producing the magical music that is among the earliest memories I have of Christmas.
Hope all of you are enjoying the evening.
My Art Guild had our annual Xmas Party today and a good time was had by all. A great potluck buffet followed by the White Elephant gift exchange which is always fun involving pretty involved tactics as the rules always seem to be in flux.LOL
Ah, the politics of Kris Kringles!
Sweet post, LL. Thanks so much.
My pleasure, JOB.
Glad someone else came over.
Ok all, enjoy the music. Off to get a bit of novel editing done.
LL, when will you do the NON traditional Christmas Carols? 😆 😆
Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE these choices. In fact, “O Holy Night’ is my all time favorite carol.
I also enjoy ‘modern’ Christmas music, with particular leanings toward soul and jazz classics. The Temptations ‘Silent Night’ is a must for me. And so is Vince Guaraldi ‘Christmastime is here’ both with vocals and the instrumental version.
I must have been living under a bridge, because I think I only recently heard The Temptations’ version of ‘Silent Night,’ which absolutely fabulous!
Well, my first in the series was pop music Christmas songs: http://theobamadiary.com/2013/12/02/night-owl-chat-christmas-cheer-part-1
Liked the comparison of other Presidents fifth year in office on TRMS after Politico’s painting PBO’s 5th year being the worst of any past President.
Benen also lists all the accomplishments of this year by the president. More than any four years under GWB. Some very positive advancements this year. What is wrong with the Beltway press? Can’t stand that this dark man is brilliant!!!
Are you talking about GOPolitico.? You might as well say the GOP wrote up every word Politico wrote.
forus50 – This is for your father and for my mother – gone but not forgotten, especially around the Christmas season:
And this may be closer to the Latin (Gregorian chant) version your dad would have heard in church:
I love this 🙂
I do, too. If you close your eyes when they chant the first line, it’s breathtaking! I’ve heard priests in church who don’t even have good singing voices sound like angels singin’ it! Ha!
In the 1960s I attended a Benedictine monastic seminary, Mt. Angle Seminary, in Oregon for 2 1/2 years. We sang the Latin Gregorian chant, including this particular version of the Gloria in the Latin mass. Since I was a student of the piano they placed me in the minor seminary schola (the choir that led the chant- since the entire congregation sang)
Correction, that is Mt. Angel Seminary.
That sounds beautiful, Bill R. Too bad you don’t have a recording to share (or do you? !!!). My uncle also attended a seminary for about 2 1/2 years – never got to ask him anything about it, unfortunately. He had a lot of stories but that wasn’t one he ever shared – maybe too far back in time to talk about, for him (maybe late 1930s, early ’40s)!
So, you released from the clutches of the cold?
Almost. Still mushy headed, but feeling better than warmed over hairballs.
Something to make you feel better.
Thank you LL. . I’ve not heard Gabriel’s Message before. Noone touches English choirs for ethereal, purity of tone.
The first time I heard it it was sung by Sting. Magical song.
Not to ruin an uplifting post, but it suddenly dawned on me that the dreaded S.E. Cupp did a segment once about her visit to homophobe racist Duck Dynasty world, eating around the table with all of them:
If you skipped over it, go back and watch and LISTEN to Bing Crosby and David Bowie doing “Little Drummer Boy”. I don’t remember ever seeing or hearing it. SO COOL ON SO MANY LEVELS!!
The first time I saw that performance was during MTV’s first Christmas. I still remember sitting in front of the TV in my livingroom in NYC and thinking, “Wow, this is awesome”.
That is one of my favorite versions, too!
I LOVE that duet – has always been one of my favorite versions of “Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth” 🙂 🙂
Beautiful!
Ok, writing is done, and I’m still getting over my cold. See everyone tomorrow.
G’nite LL. Sleep tite. Hope you feel a lot better tomorrow 🙂
CONGRATULATIONS Donna Dem! What a joyous blessing! I am so very, very happy for you and your family.
This is another English boy’s choir which has been featured recently on PBS and will be on Jay Leno tomorrow night. A very nice rendition of “Carol of the Bells” Enjoy! 🙂
This is lovely:
He needs lots of praise 😉
This is one time I don’t agree (yes, I see your wink), even in joke. Boehner has spent years doing nothing that benefits the country AND collecting a good salary for it; now he finally remembers what he is supposed to be doing and I see twitter folks saying tell him thanks. IMO this is another example where GOPs have mucked up standards and expectations. They’ve lowered expectations so much that if we don’t watch it, Boehner may get knighted for doing what he should have been doing months, years ago – spineless wimp! PBO goes about doing all he can to improve the quality of life for everyone and (mostly) all he gets is criticism. I refuse to thank Boehner for doing his job at last.
Sorry, Bobfr. I read that over and I never knew all of that was lurking inside. This is not directed at you. My latent frustration at the way GOPs and MSM manipulate reality bubbled forth, I guess. Those two groups annoy me big time. My apologies to *you*.
I have been able to listen to all the video’s LL listed and go back and read all the posts I have missed today. Been so busy I hadn’t heard about Baucus yet. I know that many people here in MT had been hoping that Baucus could get thru some tax reforms before he retires next year. Not sure how I feel about him being Ambassador. However I truly trust this President. At least we have a Dem Governor is Baucus quits before next Fall. Will be interesting to see how this goes. Will change alot here in MT.
Party at the WH? My invite got lost in the mail.
This Bobfr!!!! I wonder if Rachel was there?
Good news if true news
Thanks for these great classics LL. I just can’t get enough of the Bing and David Bowie classic. Amazing harmony. I hope you’re feeling better!!
A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack is the one CD I would take to a desert island. Vince G. rules.
Amen!
My question – why is anyone so sure that GOPers “wouldn’t be that stupid”
“My own take on this is that there’s no evidence Christie knew about or ordered the bridge closure. I can’t believe he’d be that stupid or that his pals would be that stupid to involve him directly. ”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/christie-cronies-get-two-day-delay
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/christie-allies-get-two-day-extension-on-traffic-jam-scandal-subpoenas
Hubris kills. And, Christie is terminally infected with the Hubris virus. Stupid is just one of the many symptoms of that viral infection.
We are on the same wavelength Bob – after Nixon – why would we trust anyone to not be that stupid.
Sharing some sublime Benjamin Britten …
… and hope all of you have a fine Thursday.
#FORWARD Together
Found it!!!
Lovely having these two recordings side by side …
Good night …
Goooooooooood Morning Ms Chips…UT….and all of TOD
Good Morning TOD!
Okay I slept through all of the celebrating last night but wanted to at least share this one with you all.
Cuuute. Congrats double grammma. Lucky you.
Thanks amk. My family’s indeed blessed with this early Christmas present.
You should write a story that starts with, ‘Twas the week before christmas’.
Both are adorable.
What a blessed picture to wake up to. God is good, huh? I am so happy for your family.
SQUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!! ADORABLE!! I love, love, love little babies!!! 😆 😆 😆
Deliciously Perfect.
Congrats Donna.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to You and Yours 😉
Mooooooorning Early Birds!
http://theobamadiary.com/2013/12/19/early-bird-chat-107/
When A Child Is Born.
Johnny Mathis