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I love the Transiberian Orchestra''s Christmas music. The song "Appalachain Snowfall" is just beautiful, and it''s not super cheesy Christmas-y. Call me a humbug, but half of those annoying Christmas songs they play over and over AND OVER in the malls make me want to scream. I LOVE it when they play the piano "peanuts" music from the Charlie Brown Christmas movie. And I love the song Carol of the bells, as long as it''s all instrumental. Those kinds of songs really get me in the Christmas mood. Songs like that awful "Last Christmas I gave you my heart..." and that Mariah Carey one just irritate the heck out of me! "the Man with the Bag is one cutesy one that doesn''t bother me though.
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But I hate that Ba Rum Pum Pum Pum song!!!


Whoops I didn''t expect to type that much. Sorry for the rant!
 
Oh sorry guys
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I just realized I said I didn''t like some songs you posted about. My bad.....
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But I thought of more stuff I like. I love the Epcot Candlelight Processional music. We used to go there and sing with them for High School Chorus. The songs are really powerful and beautiful at the same time. And I also really love the Hark the Harold Angels Sing from the Charlie Brown movie too. And when they play songs like Silver and Gold or anything else from the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer movie I get really happy too. Reminds me of being a kid and being SOOOOOOOOOO excited for Christmas!

There, I hope I undid some of my earlier humbug-ish-ness
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Date: 12/6/2008 1:57:52 PM
Author: Kelli


half of those annoying Christmas songs they play over and over AND OVER in the malls make me want to scream.

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But I hate that Ba Rum Pum Pum Pum song!!!
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Chacun a son gout or, as my husband says, "That''s why they make vanilla and chocolate" :-).

Although I usually go for the medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque carols...and do not like "Frosty, the Snowman" I like The Harry Simeone Chorale vesion of, "The Little Drummer Boy" very much because of the harmony in that arrangement. (I am a great fan of vocal harmony, which is why I love madrigals.)

I guess we will just have to tolerate each others'' taste in Christmas music until the season is over ;-).

Peace on earth to men of good will,
Deb
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Date: 12/6/2008 2:08:44 PM
Author: Kelli


Oh sorry guys
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I just realized I said I didn't like some songs you posted about. My bad.....
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But I thought of more stuff I like. I love the Epcot Candlelight Processional music. We used to go there and sing with them for High School Chorus. The songs are really powerful and beautiful at the same time. And I also really love the Hark the Harold Angels Sing from the Charlie Brown movie too. And when they play songs like Silver and Gold or anything else from the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer movie I get really happy too. Reminds me of being a kid and being SOOOOOOOOOO excited for Christmas!

There, I hope I undid some of my earlier humbug-ish-ness
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I didn't see this until after I posted in response to you, Kelli. I hadn't "turned the page", you see ;-). I still stand by my earlier posting, however. We will just have to tolerate each other :-).

Love and hugs,
Deb
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love, love Carol of the Bells....and like Freke not the trans-Siberian version, though its good in its own way.

Just found this song this year and am obsessed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGVNzgUxE-g

also the new Michael Buble holiday mini-cd...its 4 songs on itunes...awesome!
Baby its Cold Outside is also good

I don''t know if its supposed to be a christmas-y/new year''s song but I love a song, I think its by Coldplay, but am probably wrong since I couldn''t find it.
 
Date: 12/6/2008 2:30:12 PM
Author: AGBF









Date: 12/6/2008 2:08:44 PM
Author: Kelli


Oh sorry guys
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I just realized I said I didn''t like some songs you posted about. My bad.....
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But I thought of more stuff I like. I love the Epcot Candlelight Processional music. We used to go there and sing with them for High School Chorus. The songs are really powerful and beautiful at the same time. And I also really love the Hark the Harold Angels Sing from the Charlie Brown movie too. And when they play songs like Silver and Gold or anything else from the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer movie I get really happy too. Reminds me of being a kid and being SOOOOOOOOOO excited for Christmas!

There, I hope I undid some of my earlier humbug-ish-ness
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I didn''t see this until after I posted in response to you, Kelli. I hadn''t ''turned the page'', you see ;-). I still stand by my earlier posting, however. We will just have to tolerate each other :-).

Love and hugs,
Deb
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Very true
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I most certainly didn''t mean any offense, just mindlessly typed while thinking of the countless hours I spent in the mall on black Friday with very little sleep the night before. I guess I got too grumpy, and this isn''t the season for that so I apologize. And most people don''t like the music I do, so my opinions don''t matter anyway!
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I grew up on Vince Guaraldi''s "A Charlie Brown Christmas" album. During the holidays, my mother would play this album as we made batch after batch of holiday cookies for family and friends. I still love it now, it''s my favorite Christmas CD. We also listened to a lot of Disney and Muppet Christmas tapes.
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Other favorite songs:
The Man With The Bag (various artists have recorded this, love swinging jazzy versions)
Christmas Canon (TSO)
The Christmas Song (Nat King Cole)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (BNL and Sarah McLachlan)
O Holy Night (Josh Groban)
 
My family tries to go to at least one live performance of Handel''s, "Messiah" each year at Christmas time. If I can find a performance and the time in our schedule, I also try to get to a live performance of, "Amahl and the Night Visitors", but I have to say that I have not been very lucky in making it to live performances of the latter. I used to love it when they showed it on television every year at Christmas. I own the video, but it was a shared experience when it was on television, espeicially since back then there were only about four stations!

Another problem now with Amahl is that my daughter doesn''t want to come with a friend (which was once an inducement to her) because my crying is embarrassing ;-). And nothing makes me cry like, "Amahl and the Night Visitors"!!!


Deborah
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"Have You Seen A Child?" from "Amahl and the Night Visitors"


This video clip is not much to look at, but I think the voices are lovely. It is one of the most moving arias from, "Amahl and the Night Visitors". In it the poor widow with whom the three kings, who are following a star, have taken shelter asserts that her son has all the qualities that the kings say they are looking for in the baby they seek. It is a real testament to a mother's love and poignant since Amahl is crippled and they are poor with no food and no wood to burn. She could desperately use some of the gold that the kings are bringing to the baby.


Deborah
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Date: 12/5/2008 9:08:43 PM
Author: AGBF





Some years I have gotten a lot of pleasure from holiday recipe threads-especially cookie threads-but I think that this year I have been too down. I think that I have needed more instant gratification and that that is why this thread has been so wonderful for me :-). When I come here, all I have to do is to click on a link and I am transported to an audio or an audio and video clip that someone else really likes. (I had never heard the song, ''Old City Bar'', that Gwendolyn gave the link for just above. This year I have really been exposed to the Trans-Siberian Orchestra.)


This thread has also led me to search YouTube for recordings of music I know and has led me to wander around on Amazon sampling carols in different genres. Sometimes I get frustrated that others are not posting as much here as I am, but then I think of Skippy and how actively she was posting in the cookie thread while I had no energy to do so. I guess we are all where we are supposed to be!


Merry Christmas, everybody!!! And happy other holidays, too!


Deb

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AGBF, I''m sorry you''re feeling a bit down this holiday season. I hope this thread has helped to cheer you up at least a bit--I don''t know about you, but I find that music can greatly affect my emotions, both by raising my mood and, sometimes, by bringing it down. I hope, more often than not, it''s the former, for both of us.
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While this isn''t specifically a Christmas song, it gets most of its play around this time, so it seems like one. So moving
 
I had really hoped to keep this thread front and center until Christmas, and have been doing my best to do so. I love the recording of, "The Trumpet Shall Sound" to which I posted a link. Any "Messiah" aficionados who have never heard Teddy Tahu Rhodes sing this aria will, I think, be pleasantly surprised. (I was swept off my feet!) I had never heard of the singer, though; I am not an opera buff. It turns out that he has been turning heads in the opera world! Some of the pictures on Google Images were too risqué and too controvrsial to post here, but this one was, I thought, just enticing. I thought it might make some of you want to go watch that clip of him singing the aria from, "The Messiah"! He is being called a, "Barihunk" and the Brad Pitt of the opera world.


Deborah
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The Holly and The Ivy


This recording of, "The Holly and the Ivy" was made at Winchester Cathedral in London. There are others available on YouTube which I like, but I think that this has the advantage of being the clearest.


Deborah
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I LOVE Mariah Carey''s "All I Want For Christmas Is You"!!! I just have to hear the very beginning notes and I get all Christmas-y and happy! We used to play it over and over again when I was the manager of the store I buy for. One time we put it on repeat and listened to it at least 4 times until customers complained. Hilarious!

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thing2of2, I love that Mariah Carey Christmas song also.

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The Nutcracker Suite


No one has mentioned "The Nutcracker Suite" ( Pyotr Illych Tchaikovsky) yet, but its many melodies herald Christmas for people all over the United States if not all over the Western World. One certainly hears it playing in public places if he is shopping! I have linked to the "Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy", but there are so very many little melodies that run through it, all of them familiar if heard!

And for some people seeing, or dancing in, the ballet is a tradition! One year my younger brother took me to see a production of it at Radio City Music Hall. I will never forget his doing that!


Deborah
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I do like The Nutcracker! I also like a lot of the more traditional/religious songs. Silent Night, Hark The Herald Angels Sing, Little Drummer Boy, etc. I love the David Bowie and Bing Crosby version. I don''t know if anyone''s linked it already but here it is:

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Deb, you posted 2 of my faves, with The Holly and the Ivy, and the Nutcracker. Real classics.



Here''s one of my favorite contemporary songs. Again, so appropriate now.
 


Date: 12/14/2008 7:55:56 PM
Author: thing2of2

I do like The Nutcracker! I also like a lot of the more traditional/religious songs. Silent Night, Hark The Herald Angels Sing, Little Drummer Boy, etc. I love the David Bowie and Bing Crosby version. I don't know if anyone's linked it already but here it is:

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Thing, I had heard that version of, "The Little Drummer Boy", but I never knew where it came from! It was great to see that video clip (which really introduced it with some dialogue) and to see David Bowie and Bing Crosby singing it...and it gave me chills, as well! I love Bing Crosby's voice, but David Bowie had the part that soared in this version. Very nice indeed for a contemporary song!



Deborah
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"Christmas Dream" sung by Perry Como


This clip of, "Christmas Dream", sung by Perry Como, was featured in the movie, "The Odessa File". It was a very moving as well as a very exciting movie. I remember its Christmas setting as I remember the Christmas setting of part of, "The Godfather" because of how strongly Christmas was evoked. In both films Christmas and terror were juxtaposed to good theatrical effect.

Jon Voight, featured in this film clip, is the father of Angelina Jolie. It is hard for someone of my generation to believe!


Deborah
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I love the traditional hymns such as O Holy Night, and Handel''s Messiah is so beautiful!

But here is a gorgeous contemporary Christmas song. The first time I heard it, I had to call the radio station to find out the name of it. There were two You Tube versions, and the one with text only had the words wrong! So I had to post this one that has some movie footage.

Here With Us, sung by Joy Williams (listen to the end!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om5-95_Byjo&feature=related
 
"Here With Us" sung by Joy Williams






Date: 12/15/2008 9:34:29 PM
Author: diamondseeker2006


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om5-95_Byjo&feature=related
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Wow! Somehow I knew, given the other pieces that you loved, diamondseeker, that you were going to post something beautiful...but I had no idea. That was breathtaking. I loved the video as well as the song! Thank you for sharing that. I don't want to lose that one!


Deborah
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Date: 12/16/2008 10:31:06 AM
Author: AGBF







''Here With Us'' sung by Joy Williams







Date: 12/15/2008 9:34:29 PM
Author: diamondseeker2006


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om5-95_Byjo&feature=related
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Wow! Somehow I knew, given the other pieces that you loved, diamondseeker, that you were going to post something beautiful...but I had no idea. That was breathtaking. I loved the video as well as the song! Thank you for sharing that. I don''t want to lose that one!


Deborah
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Aww, Deb, you have such good taste that I was almost afraid to post it! But I am delighted that you loved it! I can''t ever recall calling a radio station before to ask about a song, but it stayed with me and I had to know what it was! Rarely does a contemporary Christmas song come along that is extraordinary, but this one is, at least to me.
 
Baby It''s Cold Outside, and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
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Date: 12/16/2008 9:01:52 PM
Author: diamondseeker2006

Aww, Deb, you have such good taste that I was almost afraid to post it!
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Oh, my gosh, DS! The other day I found I could send a video of the Sugar Plum Fairy as a Christmas card on YouTube. Having learned that I could use YouTube videos as cards, I decided to use the Joy Williams song and the nativity video you posted with it as a Christmas e-card to some of my close family members and friends. I copied down e-mail addresses today and plan to send out that video in card form because I find it so moving!

I really cannot tell you how much the song has touched me; I want to reach out with it and touch others, too! Thank you again. :-)

Deb
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