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Date: 12/3/2008 9:46:57 PM
Author: Elmorton
My favorite Christmas song is Hark the Herald Angels Sing
You''re welcome. It''s a great song indeed.Date: 12/3/2008 5:08:07 PM
Author: AGBF
Ellen, I am sure that I have heard that John Lennon song hundreds of times, but somehow I never really ''heard'' the lyrics. I needed to see them the way I could when I watched this video to which you linked us. I found it really powerful, especially since I had heard it so many times and yet had never heard, ''The war is over...if you want to''. I had heard the supertext, but not the subtext.
Thank you for posting this.
Deb
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Lovely song, and that church is stunning.Date: 12/4/2008 6:32:32 AM
Author: Lorelei
Christmas for me only really begins when I watch Carols From Kings on Christmas Eve. Linked is one of my favourites.
Yep, it is a beautiful song, and here are some images of the Kings College Chapel in Cambridge.Date: 12/4/2008 7:00:46 AM
Author: Ellen
Lovely song, and that church is stunning.Date: 12/4/2008 6:32:32 AM
Author: Lorelei
Christmas for me only really begins when I watch Carols From Kings on Christmas Eve. Linked is one of my favourites.
It really is!!Date: 12/4/2008 7:38:49 AM
Author: Ellen
Oh wow, you really get the flavor of how massive that place is by the outside shots. Awesome.![]()
"From the first, the College''s buildings were intended to be a magnificent display of the power of royal patronage and Henry went to great lengths to ensure that King''s College Chapel would be without equal in size and beauty"Date: 12/4/2008 7:33:47 AM
Author: Lorelei
Incredible history of the chapel
http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/visitors/history.html
Date: 12/4/2008 12:28:31 AM
Author: Cind11
I have two Chrsitmas CD''s that I love - one is ''Christmas Night Carols of the Nativity'' and the other is ''Christmas with the Cambridge Singers'' both sung by The Cambridge Singers and the City of London Sinfonia and conducted by John Rutter. Many of the carols I was not familar with, but they are beautiful.
Date: 12/3/2008 10:57:50 PM
Author: AGBF
Date: 12/3/2008 9:46:57 PM
Author: Elmorton
My favorite Christmas song is Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Yes...that is among my top five. Singing the harmony to the ''Glorias'' in chorus is another cherished childhood musical memory! You would think we never sang except at Christmas time! (Perhaps that was true! We did seem to do a lot of songs in chorus for the Christmas performances!)
I have that CD. That is a great version!!!Date: 12/4/2008 6:11:23 AM
Author: Ellen
You''re welcome. It''s a great song indeed.Date: 12/3/2008 5:08:07 PM
Author: AGBF
Ellen, I am sure that I have heard that John Lennon song hundreds of times, but somehow I never really ''heard'' the lyrics. I needed to see them the way I could when I watched this video to which you linked us. I found it really powerful, especially since I had heard it so many times and yet had never heard, ''The war is over...if you want to''. I had heard the supertext, but not the subtext.
Thank you for posting this.
Deb
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However, I didn''t watch the whole video/read the words before I posted it. I just listened to it minimized once I knew the pic didn''t change, and it should actually read, ''if you want it''. Whoever made that vid goofed.![]()
Also, I read your last post on the first page. Did you make sure to clear out the URL box before you tried linking? Try again!
And Cind, I love Carol of the Bells too. Here''s one of my favorite versions.![]()
Most welcome, it is fascinating stuff!Date: 12/4/2008 7:44:04 AM
Author: Ellen
''From the first, the College''s buildings were intended to be a magnificent display of the power of royal patronage and Henry went to great lengths to ensure that King''s College Chapel would be without equal in size and beauty''Date: 12/4/2008 7:33:47 AM
Author: Lorelei
Incredible history of the chapel
http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/visitors/history.html
Check! So interesting Lorelei, thanks for posting this.
*must read the rest*![]()
Singing with the other teachers sounds like it would have been great fun! I had a "record" store try to order some other Cambridge Singers CD''s for me, but they were unable to get them in for some reason. I should probably try Amazon.Date: 12/4/2008 8:54:45 AM
Author: AGBF
Date: 12/4/2008 12:28:31 AM
Author: Cind11
I have two Chrsitmas CD''s that I love - one is ''Christmas Night Carols of the Nativity'' and the other is ''Christmas with the Cambridge Singers'' both sung by The Cambridge Singers and the City of London Sinfonia and conducted by John Rutter. Many of the carols I was not familar with, but they are beautiful.
I have the CD, ''Olde English Madrigals and Folk Songs at Ely Cathedral'' by John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers. I have a particular fondness for madrigals so this is the right one for me! I sang one of the songs on the CD (''Now is the Month of Maying'') with a group of other teachers who were willing to sing in our free time years ago when I was teaching school! It is not really Christmas music, but it has some songs like, ''Greensleeves'', on it that are played at Christmas time.
Deborah
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Date: 12/5/2008 10:33:19 PM
Author: Elmorton
Deb, whoa - I made the same mistake!!! Angels we have heard on high...I'm a fan of the glorias also...and the line 'and the mountains in reply' - I don't know why, I've always liked the phrase/image.
I'm sorry to hear that you, I hope things start looking up. And no need to apologize, I like seeing you around.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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I am so glad!Date: 12/5/2008 10:33:19 PM
Author: Elmorton
Lorelei, I''ve been listening to that hymn all week - my dad recorded the music at our midnight mass last year to make a CD for a friend I grew up with who was serving in Iraq, and I lucked out with a copy. You''re absolutely right - I get chills down my spine when I hear the soloist sing those first few lines, and then it really is Christmas when the organ hits the first chord of the second verse and we all begin to sing
Deb, whoa - I made the same mistake!!! Angels we have heard on high...I''m a fan of the glorias also...and the line ''and the mountains in reply'' - I don''t know why, I''ve always liked the phrase/image.