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Christmas Spirit in music
- Thread starter Dalia
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I have a special love for the sound of children singing. When our Choirmaster and his wife left our church one week, I took over the children's choir and learned how wonderful children singers are, and how much the church loved hearing the children sing any time we did for that year until the children fortunately got some better training from musicians educated to be real teachers. Even so, it blessed me much to hear the children each and every week for that interim year.beautress thank you so much! glad you like this....it means a lot to me! ^^^
I also have a fondness for songbirds, and found this one in which this woman sounds so like a songbird:
Baby in the family? This hours-long music box classics has been shown to aid in relaxing babies and assists in brain development. I'm not sure anyone knows why. 
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YUCK ! ! For me the most nausiating aspect of yuletide insanity is having sugar coated ‘classical favourites’ dragged out after Christmans dinner when most of those inflcting a flood of sentimental tosh on others would never, ever listen to any form of classical music for the rest of the year. Not that I have any particular dislike for Mr Tchaikovsky’s little lollipop, but please, spare me the overdose in the 25th.
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Not music, but a true song resonating from within Linus' BIG heart
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One of my favorite Christmas songs is “I Heard the Bells on Christmas day.” The song delivers the perfect Christmas message; the ultimate triumph of faith over doubt and despair. The lyrics are from a poem written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the story behind the poem is both tragic and inspiring.
Longfellow and his wife Fanny had been married 18 years and had five children when misfortune struck. On July 11, 1861, Fanny had just trimmed their young daughter’s hair and wanted to preserve a few strands in an envelope which she tried to seal by using hot sealing wax. In the process her dress caught fire and she was quickly engulfed in flames. Longfellow bravely extinguished the flames with his own body, but was unable to save his wife. Fanny died the next morning and Longfellow's face arms and hands were severely burned making it impossible for him to attend her funeral.
On Christmas day following his wife's death, Longfellow wrote, “How inexpressibly sad are all holidays.” On the next Christmas (1862), still depressed, Longfellow wrote in his journal, "'A merry Christmas' say the children, but that is no more for me." Almost a year later, Longfellow's oldest son Charles, a lieutenant in the Army of the Potomac was badly wounded; he survived but was crippled. Personal tragedy and the ongoing Civil War had caused Longfellow to doubt his faith. He became despondent and withdrawn. The prolific writer barely wrote a word in his journal. Then, something mysterious and wonderful happened; some force or influence known only to Longfellow intervened , rekindled his spirit and gave him hope. On Christmas Day of 1864, his faith restored, he wrote "Christmas Bells." Here are the three most popular verses:
I heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
And in despair I bowed my head
“There is no peace on earth,” I said,
“For hate is strong and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.”
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
“God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail
With peace on earth, good will to men.”
The following rendition of the song is one of my favorites. I hope you guys and gals enjoy it.
Longfellow and his wife Fanny had been married 18 years and had five children when misfortune struck. On July 11, 1861, Fanny had just trimmed their young daughter’s hair and wanted to preserve a few strands in an envelope which she tried to seal by using hot sealing wax. In the process her dress caught fire and she was quickly engulfed in flames. Longfellow bravely extinguished the flames with his own body, but was unable to save his wife. Fanny died the next morning and Longfellow's face arms and hands were severely burned making it impossible for him to attend her funeral.
On Christmas day following his wife's death, Longfellow wrote, “How inexpressibly sad are all holidays.” On the next Christmas (1862), still depressed, Longfellow wrote in his journal, "'A merry Christmas' say the children, but that is no more for me." Almost a year later, Longfellow's oldest son Charles, a lieutenant in the Army of the Potomac was badly wounded; he survived but was crippled. Personal tragedy and the ongoing Civil War had caused Longfellow to doubt his faith. He became despondent and withdrawn. The prolific writer barely wrote a word in his journal. Then, something mysterious and wonderful happened; some force or influence known only to Longfellow intervened , rekindled his spirit and gave him hope. On Christmas Day of 1864, his faith restored, he wrote "Christmas Bells." Here are the three most popular verses:
I heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
And in despair I bowed my head
“There is no peace on earth,” I said,
“For hate is strong and mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men.”
Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:
“God is not dead, nor doth He sleep;
The wrong shall fail, the right prevail
With peace on earth, good will to men.”
The following rendition of the song is one of my favorites. I hope you guys and gals enjoy it.
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