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Posted on 12/24/2015 5:58:29 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
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It's quite good, but I know people who just don't like the taste.
We aren't the first generation to decry the commercialization of Christmas. William Chappell, editor of a collection of such ballads, explained it as thus. "So long as landlords received their rents in kind, their barns and stores were full, they were lavish of hospitality to the country folk at Christmas. When rents began to be paid in less bulky forms of money, luxury increased and ladies began to spend more on their dress." This song is wonderfully funny, and the arrangement emphasizes the humor.
That is SO clever!! Merry Christmas! :)
You are a victim of my desktop computer trying to die. My reply won’t post. So off to the laptop....
Hunkered down and toasty...single digits, but headed to mid 20s and possible snow on Christmas Day.
Storming at your place?
God Bless You & Yours
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Merry Christmas!
This ballet failed at its premiere, and it took a long time to catch on with the public. Today it's one of the most beloved orchestral and dance works in the repertory, a holiday perennial. The story is by E. T. A. Hoffmann, the great German fantasist of the early 19th Century.
The first act advances the plot, and the purpose of the second act is to show off the dancers' moves.
This is the complete ballet, all 105 minutes of it, a Russian production from St. Peterburg taped in 2012.
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Celtic Woman~The Christmas Song
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This performance is totally different from the familiar version recorded in 1967 by David Willcocks. This recent recording not only uses period instruments and period vocal techniques, but Marc Minkowski and his Musicians of the Louvre pull the piece out of the early Baroque and move it back to the late Renaissance, which is probably where it belongs. For those familiar with the 1967 recording, this is the shock of the new.
*HUG*
Good night sweetheart!
Praise Him always and everywhere!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Merry Christmas to you, too!
I dont even remember if I spent Christmas out to sea but Jesus always had the boat
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I will.
Merry Christmas
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