FReeper Canteen ~ MERRY CHRISTMAS 2020 ~ 25 December 2020

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[Kathy in Alaska]

[Publius]

Sergei Rachmaninov plays “The Star Spangled Banner”

[radu]

Carol of the Bells - Mormon Tabernacle Choir

The Appointed Time – JohnMichaelTalbot

O Holy Night - Andy Williams

Angels We Have Heard On High - Libera

Christmas Canon - Trans-Siberian Orchestra

O Come, All Ye Faithful - Voctave

The Little Drummer Boy - The Vienna Boys Choir

Do You Hear What I Hear – Bing Crosby

Joy to the World - George Fox University music department

What Child Is This – San Ramon Valley High School Concert Choir

It Came Upon a Midnight Clear arr. Matthew Culloton

[left that other site]

Merry Christmas, Everybody!

(((HUGS)))

[BykrBayb]

Merry Christmas, Kathy. 🎄

[Kathy in Alaska]

Our CHRISTmas thread will run for 2 nights.

~ MERRY CHRISTMAS 2020 ~

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MERRY CHRISTMAS

[Kathy in Alaska]

Merry Christmas Eve, Publius....thank you for Rachmaninov’s “The Star Spangled Banner”.

[2111USMC]

Merry Christmas Canteeners!

[2111USMC]

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy. Merry Christmas!

Got our internet back in time for the Christmas thread. I wasn’t sure that we would with the foul weather we had this morning.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Happy Christmas Eve, radu...and thank you for the Christmas tunes. Several favorites in there.

Hope you don’t have any snow.

[radu]

Howdy, Publius. Merry Christmas!

Everything going well out there on the west coast these days?

[Publius]

MERRY CHRISTMAS

BRAHMS: “SPIRITUAL LULLABY”, OP. 91/2

Although this has a high opus number, it dates from Jo’s younger years before he grew the full-face beard and exchanged his four-pack-a-day habit for top-shelf Cuban stogies. In a way, it’s his attempt at a Christmas carol. The poem is Spanish, from Lope de Vega, translated into German by Emmanuel von Geibel. It’s Mary asking the treetops to quiet down lest it wake her infant.

From the beginning you can hear that no amateur singer could possibly handle this; it requires an operatic contralto. There is an obbligato role for viola, which plays an actual German Christmas carol over the vocal and piano lines. This is Andre Previn on piano, Cecil Aronowitz on viola, and Janet Baker handling vocal duties. In German with English subtitles.

Brahms: “Spiritual Lullaby,” Op. 91/2

[radu]

You’re welcome, Kathy. More Christmas music lined up to post tomorrow.

I might get a little “out there” at times with music tastes - LOL - but when it comes to Christmas, I’m very traditional.

No snow so far but it’s in the area. It’s plenty cold though. BRRRRRRR

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[Publius]

MERRY CHRISTMAS

ADAM: “CANTIQUE DE NOEL”

Classical composers never managed to write a successful Christmas carol. That task was left to amateurs like Thomas Wade, Franz Gruber and Anonymous, who wrote so many great tunes. Handel and Mendelssohn had carols attributed to them, but the tunes had their sources elsewhere and were adapted long after the composers’ deaths when they couldn’t complain.

The one significant exception was “Cantique de Noel,” known in English as “O Holy Night.” The composer, Adolphe Adam (accent on the last syllable of both names) is best known for the ballet “Giselle.” But this tune guarantees him a place in the Composers’ Hall of Fame. In the last verse it requires the singer to hit a fifth over the high tonic (not a drink!) and run down the scale to the tonic, sounding each note separately, not using portamento to slur the notes. It’s inadvisable to hand this to church congregations; the results can be comical.

This is an Italian conservatory concert with some fine work from all concerned. In French.

Adam: “Cantique de Noel”

[Kathy in Alaska]

Merry Christmas, ML..((HUGS))...will and Penny be sharing Christmas dinner with your sister and family?

and

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thank you.

And Merry Christmas to you.

[Kathy in Alaska]