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This is a stunningly beautiful rendition of the Wexford Carol by Allison Krauss and Yo Yo Ma.
For your advent meditations…
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Hope it’s not too late to include this. It’s about New Years too, so I think it’s still relevant. This is my favorite Christmas tune because it is about peace, nonviolence, coming to our senses as moral beings.
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Marry did you know by Pentatonix and Carol of Bells.
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Thought I’d dust this thread off in case anyone else comes across anything new of interest. I just came across this on Fb. It is an upbeat rendering of a popular Christmas tune but being played by five grand pianos certainly adds interest.
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New to me. Nice melody.
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Gaudete
(Chorus)
Rejoice, rejoice! Christ is born
Of the Virgin Mary - rejoice!
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The time of grace has come - what we have wished for,
songs of joy let us give back faithfully. -
God has become man, with nature marveling,
The world has been renewed by Christ who is reigning. -
The closed gate of Ezekiel is passed through,
Whence the light is raised, salvation is found. -
Therefore let our gathering now sing in brightness
Let it give praise to the Lord: greeting to our King.
One of the better flash mobs. I knew it as the John Wanamaker Department Store, ‘back in the day’, and still remember the animated mechanical Christmas window displays I saw as a child.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
For the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
The kingdom of this world
Is become the kingdom of our Lord,
And of His Christ, and of His Christ;
And He shall reign for ever and ever,
For ever and ever, forever and ever,
King of kings, and Lord of lords,
King of kings, and Lord of lords,
And Lord of lords,
And He shall reign,
And He shall reign forever and ever,
King of kings,…
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Mannheim Steamroller - Cantique De Noel. Always on repeat, every year. The song has always had special meaning, but this version just grabs me. When I was a kid, my voice was insanely high, and I was always afraid that I would get stuck singing the high parts. About third grade, girls were trying to hit notes, but off key, so hit them for them. Thought I would be doomed to sing that song the rest of my life, but they never did.
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Christianity is awful, such dreary Christmas music! 
Boston
Methinks I see a heav’nly host
Of angels on the wing;
Methinks I hear their cheerful notes,
So merrily they sing.
Let all your fears be banished hence;
Glad tidings we proclaim,
For there’s a Savior born today,
And Jesus is his name.
Lord! and shall Angels have their Songs,
And Men no Tunes to raise?
O may we lose these useless Tongues
When they foget to praise!
Glory to God that reigns above,
That pitied us forlorn,
We join to sing our Maker’s Love,
For there’ a Savior born.
From the album notes:
Source: William Billings, The Singing Master’s Assistant (Boston, 1778) Billings’ jaunty setting of his own poetry is, characteristically, resonant with echoes of English folksong – yet the music is unmistakably his alone.
My mom LOOOVES the 5 Browns! such a talented fam.
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