I’ve never, until now, heard the words that go with this beautiful melody. Thanks to Thewhiterabbit for sharing it with us on Facebook. Performed by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
We’re going to keep taking Christmas music requests. I think till New Year’s.
Well, we couldn’t let Christmas go by without posting Silent Night, could we? Thanks, Phoebe, for requesting it.
Here we have it from the choir at Kings College, Cambridge.
Requested by SemperSoloDeoGloria, we have Joy to the World, sung by Phil Wickham and friends–with a little bit of Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee thrown in.
I have given in to the temptation not to write or post any nooze, these next two days.
Requested by Phoebe: Away in a Manger. I think this was the first Christmas carol I learned, and it has never failed to move me.
Sung here by John Denver (couldn’t find it be Pavarotti)/
Requested by Erlene: O Holy Night, sung by Donna Roberson (I couldn’t get Carroll).
Hooray! I had my cigar, then got out of the chair and back indoors without a mishap.
Requested by SemperSoloDeoGloria, Angels We Have Heard on High, performed by For King and Country (on a hilltop that looks kind of tricky to me–don’t fall, anybody).
Requested by Phoebe, Adeste Fideles, sung by Luciano Pavarotti at the cathedral in Montreal. You’ll have a hard time topping this.
Requested by Thewhiterabbit: The Little Drummer Boy, sung by Carrie Underwood.
This has long been one of my favorite hymns. I’d like to post everybody’s favorite Christmas carols–we’re open for your requests.
Requested by Teddy Kiara–and you’re right, Teddy: it’s very hard to keep a dry eye while watching this.
Narrated by Hugh Bonneville, backed up by the Tabernacle Choir and a cast of re-enactors, It Is Well With My Soul was written by Horatio Spafford who, in 1873, after he’d lost most of his wealth in the Great Chicago Fire, then lost his four children in a shipwreck.
That was when he composed the hymn.
Mr. and Mrs. Spafford were to have further troubles in their lives (only two of their seven children survived to adulthood).
But as you will hear, they never gave up.
[16 minutes, but well worth your time: very inspiring]
Requested by SemperSoloDeoGloria, we have O Holy Night performed by Tomee Profit with Tauren Wells and Svircina.
I’ve never heard it done so energetically.