Tag Archives: Christmas music

Listen at Christmas: Laurence Housman and Chanticleer

December 26, 2018 · by Lori | in holidays, Listen:, video | tagged Albrecht Durer, Chanticleer, Christmas, Christmas music, Epiphany, Laurence Housman, Magi | Leave a comment

I found the voices lovely, but not  unfailingly intelligible, so I benefited from reading the original poem [Read more]

Listen at Christmas: John Schmidt and Steven Sharp Nelson

December 22, 2018 · by Lori | in holidays, Listen:, video | tagged cello, Christmas Carol, Christmas music, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, John Schmidt, music, O Come O Come Emmanuel, piano, Steven Sharp Nelson, The Piano Guys | 1 Comment

Though only one of them plays the piano, these two are part of the group “The Piano Guys.” [Read more]

Listen at Christmas: What Child is This + Child of the Poor

December 8, 2018 · by Lori | in Listen:, social issues, video | tagged Child of the Poor, Christmas music, music, poverty, Scott Soper, The Hound and the Fox, What Child is This?, William C. Dix | 2 Comments

Who is this who lives with the lowly,
Sharing their sorrows,
Knowing their hunger?
This is Christ, revealed to the world
In the eyes of a child, a child of the poor. [Read more]

Listen at Christmas: Matthew Culloton and The Singers

December 23, 2017 · by Lori | in Listen:, video | tagged Algonquian, Christmas, Christmas music, First Nation, Huron, James Taylor, Jesus, Matthew Culloton, music, Native peoples, Some Children See Him, song, The Singers, Twas in the Moon of Wintertime, Wyandot | Leave a comment

Within a lodge of broken bark
The tender babe was found
A ragged robe of rabbit skin
Enwrapped His beauty round [Read more]

Listen at Christmas: Home Free

December 20, 2017 · by Lori | in Listen:, video | tagged A Cappella, Christmas, Christmas music, Cuban missle crisis, Gloria Shayne, Home Free, Noël Regney, peace, singing | Leave a comment

If you tend to freeze in sympathy when others are cold, I recommend grabbing a cozy blanket [Read more]

Listen at Christmas: Mormon Tabernacle Choir

December 16, 2017 · by Lori | in Listen:, video | tagged bullying, Christ, Christmas, Christmas music, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, friendship, gifts, giving, help, kindness, love, Mormon, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, service | 2 Comments

Here’s hoping that we can keep from getting confused about what sorts of gifts [Read more]

Listen at Christmas: Yo-Yo Ma & Alison Krauss

December 13, 2017 · by Lori | in Listen:, video | tagged Alison Krauss, carol, Christmas music, holiday, learning, memory, Park City, sleep, Wexford carol, Yo-Yo Ma | Leave a comment

but for precisely those reasons they were, of course, unable to get away. Isn’t that how things so often turn out? [Read more]

[puts face in hands]

December 7, 2017 · by Lori | in Listen: | tagged asterisk, Christmas music, correction, editor, links, mistake | Leave a comment

I’ll be fixing that. [Read more]

Listen at Christmas: (Wannabe) heavenly hosts

December 24, 2016 · by Lori | in Listen:, Uncategorized, video | tagged Angels from the Realms of Glory, Angels we have heard on high, Christmas Carol, Christmas music, David Archuleta, Jesus Christ, Jon Schmidt, Mormon Tabernacle Choir, music, Peter Hollens, Piano Guys, singing, Steven Sharp Nelson | Leave a comment

I understand that a world record was secured in the filming of this video, which doesn’t have much to do with its musicality, but adds to its trivia cred. [More….]

Listen at Christmas: Gerhardt and Ebeling

December 21, 2016 · by Lori | in Listen:, Uncategorized, video | tagged A Cappella, Cambridge Singers, carol, Catherine Winkworth, Christmas music, Johann Georg Ebeling, music, Paul Gehrhardt, Sacrum Cantus, singing | Leave a comment

Hark! a voice from yonder manger,
Soft and sweet, doth entreat, “Flee from woe and danger [More….]