Yes, I know, it’s usually Christmas-time when I post this–My Love’s an Arbutus, sung by the Fairhaven Singers. I won’t try to get you to believe it’s a hymn. But I find it reminds me that a loving God is Lord of all creation.
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‘My Love’s an Arbutus’
It was my custom, for years, to post this beautiful song around Christmas-time, as a present to my readers. With all the chaos here lately, I’d completely forgotten it. Until today.
So here it is: My Love’s an Arbutus, sing by the Fairhaven Singers conducted by Charles V. Stanford.
It makes a brief and lovely appearance in 1951’s Scrooge with Alistair Sim.
A Christmas Present from Me to You
Things have not been quite as they should be around here, this Christmas season. I’m not happy with my leadership. Well, live and learn.
Meanwhile, as I like to do for Christmas, as a present to all of you, I post this: My Love’s an Arbutus, sung by the Fairhaven Singers. If it sounds familiar, you’ve probably heard it as Alice’s Theme in Scrooge starring Alistair Sim.
I think I’ll listen to it again.
A Gift for You (Again)
(I wanted this scheduled for Tuesday, but I got distracted and wound up posting it today. I think I have deleted it. Now I can try again for Tuesday. I think.)
I like to post this at Christmastime every year, a kind of Christmas present to all of you out there. It doesn’t really have much to do with Christmas, beyond being Alice’s theme in 1951’s Scrooge, with Alistair Sim. If it seems familiar to you, that’s probably where you’ve heard it.
Anyway, as I work to trim our Christmas tree, here it is–My Love’s an Arbutus, sung by the Fairhaven Singers. Merry Christmas, everybody.
A Gift from Me to You
It’s become my yearly custom, at Christmas-time, to present you with this, My Love’s an Arbutus, sung by the Fairhaven Singers, for no other reason but its simple sweetness.
If it sounds familiar to you, and yet you can’t quite place it, you probably heard it as background music in Scrooge (1951, the one with Alistair Sim), as Alice’s theme.
Anyway, here it is. Merry Christmas, everybody.
‘My Love’s an Arbutus’
It’s my custom, around Christmas-time, to post this, My Love’s an Arbutus, performed by the Fairhaven Singers. I’ve never seen an arbutus, and there’s but a tenuous connection between this song and Christmas. It’s used as Alice’s theme–the girl young Scrooge should have loved and married–in A Christmas Carol, the 1951 classic starring Alistair Sim. We watch it every year, and it never, never fails to move us. If its message of redemption and renewal is not the Christmas message, well, then, I don’t know what is.
Special Treat: ‘My Love’s an Arbutus’
This isn’t genuine Christmas music, but I always associate it with Christmas because if features prominently in my favorite Christmas movie–Scrooge, the 1951 version of A Christmas Carol starring Alistair Sim. It’s used as the theme for Alice, the sweet young woman Scrooge loved once and should have married. We’re going to watch it this afternoon–a Christmas tradition at our house.
If you can’t quite make out the lyrics, never mind. The melody evokes gentleness, sweetness, and love: in the words of our esteemed colleague, “Unknowable,” the beauty of goodness.
I can’t put it better than that.