Favourite Christmas Carol

[Bry Nylon]

Little Donkey is f***ing SHIT

Gotta be time for THIS again ...

 

[ROSM]

1. the Coventry carol - by miles and miles. Always have a tear in teh eye after singing that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjjTqG2mpfw

Sung by mothers to their sons as herod is sending his men to kill them


Dave - spot on. Best Carol ever FACT

 

[Dave the OAP]

1. the Coventry carol - by miles and miles. Always have a tear in teh eye after singing that

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjjTqG2mpfw

Sung by mothers to their sons as herod is sending his men to kill them


Dave - spot on. Best Carol ever FACT

 

[ROSM]

First time I had to sing it in the school choir, the teacher explained what it was all about and how you had to sing it as you meant it.

There were pubescent kids crying sniffling everywhere. Me included.

It never hurts to show a softer side

 

[Lady Whistledown]

The Muppets CHristmas Carol







Always liked We Three Kings of Orient Are at school.

Altogether now "One in a taxi, one in a car. One on a scooter, beeping his hooter, smoking a fat cigar"

 

[withdeanwombat]

Vorderman,innit?

 

[tedebear]

Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, Robin Flew Away...

Wonderwoman lost her bosom, flying T A A

Oh

Jingle bells jingle bells...

 

[Croydonbloke]

Tried to do this as a Graham but could not work it out.

So anyway.

Mine has got to be Hark the Herald. Smashing tune to belt out the words to in sprited fashion!!

Also..Away in a Manger (English version) sung by the little ones a a school nativity. Brings a lump to the throat!!

Hark now hear the Palace sing.

Away in a minger is a good one.

 

[The Grub]

I don't like carols or anything religious, just don't believe in it.

 

[Woodchip]

I don't like carols or anything religious, just don't believe in it.

Don't like, or don't believe? How can you hate something that in your mind does not exist?

 

[Dave the OAP]

I don't like carols or anything religious, just don't believe in it.

you dont have to be religious or "believe in it" to like good music.

Mozart's Requiem is IMHO the most sublime piece of music ever written, the fact that it is a requiem for someone's wife is neither here nor there.

 

[magoo]

Once in Royal David's City!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7HTv7d1wgk

 

[Man of Harveys]

you dont have to be religious or "believe in it" to like good music.

Mozart's Requiem is IMHO the most sublime piece of music ever written, the fact that it is a requiem for someone's wife is neither here nor there.

Exactly and that is a mighty good call. See Gwylan's comments on Bach too, somewhere.

That's why I like Silent Night. It's possible for a piece of music to evoke the tranquility of, say, a snowy Xmas Eve (although the Austrian priest who wrote it had clearly never done Xmas Eve down West Street) without caring whether the baby was the son of god and all that mullarky. You don't have to believe in god to think that cathedrals are fantastic either.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Once in Royal David's City!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7HTv7d1wgk

I never quite understood the lyrics.

Once in Royal david's City, stood a lowly cattle shed.

Well it didn't, as Bethlehem was a village in the district of Nazareth. I thought Royal David's City was Jericho.

 

[Titanic]

Not exactly a Christmas Carol, but truly beautiful when sung at Christmas Eve 'Mass'... Cantique de Jean Racine - Gabriel Fauré

also O Holy Night by Placide Cappeau, set to haunting music by Adolphe Adam.

 

[Titanic]

I never quite understood the lyrics.

Once in Royal david's City, stood a lowly cattle shed.

Well it didn't, as Bethlehem was a village in the district of Nazareth. I thought Royal David's City was Jericho.

"And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem (because he was of the house and lineage of David)" (Luke Ch.2,v.4)

 

[Dave the OAP]

Not exactly a Christmas Carol, but truly beautiful when sung at Christmas Eve 'Mass'... Cantique de Jean Racine - Gabriel Fauré

also O Holy Night by Placide Cappeau, set to haunting music by Adolphe Adam.

the Cantique de Jean Racine is what Shoreham Oratorio do best IMHO. Again a beautiful piece of music, superb setting ( St Mary De Haura) and faure at his best. When our conducter Michael Ades passed away, he requested we sing it at his memorial service - not a dry eye in the house.

I will look out for Holy Night. i have not heard that

 

[Dave the OAP]

"And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judaea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem (because he was of the house and lineage of David)" (Luke Ch.2,v.4)

You learn something new every day. Cheers

 

[Titanic]

A quick Google search throws up this 'interesting' information about Bethlehem and it's place as the 'City of David'

http://www.crystalinks.com/bethlehem.html

 

[Titanic]

I will look out for Holy Night. i have not heard that

The most common version is the one arranged by John Williams, and used in Home Alone (the scene when he runs into the church to escape the old man and he hears the choir practising).