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To: JenB
Well I like eggnog and bourbon balls. :) Most Christmas music is overdone and I'm sick of hearing it. I'm looking for Christmas music that is not so well known.
44,468 posted on 11/30/2002 9:40:47 AM PST by Overtaxed
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To: Overtaxed
I guess I'm not as cold and cynical as I often pretend. Christmas makes me feel all happy and warm inside, and I do like the music. As long as it isn't too secular. I mean, "Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer" is good for a run-through once a year - but how does it compare to Messiah, for instance?
44,469 posted on 11/30/2002 9:43:33 AM PST by JenB
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To: Overtaxed
I'm looking for Christmas music that is not so well known.

OK I'm heavily into the classical genre when it comes to Christmas music, so how about Benjamin Britten's "Ceremony of Carols"; anything at all done by the group Anonymous 4; "A Renaissance Christmas" recorded by Boston Camerata; and anything by John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers.

On the more contemporary side, I like George Winston's "December"; A Winter's Solstice V; "The Carols of Christmas" a Windham Hill Collection, 1996, and "Celtic Christmas Spirit" done by Caroline Peyton produced by Spring Hill Music Group, 1998.

My taste in Christmas music is about as eclectic as my taste in music in general. It goes from the sublime, Anonymous 4 doing 15th century Hungarian Christmas songs, to the ridiculous, Trisha Yearwood doing a very torchy "Santa Claus is Back in Town".

44,609 posted on 11/30/2002 8:55:56 PM PST by SuziQ
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