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I just heard mine for the first time this year: Carol of the Bells. I could sing that all year, and sometimes do. I'll put it on when I think of it and miss it. I'll change certain words if it's not Christmas season. It's mystical, magical, inspiring and uplifting. I like the choral arrangements and also the instrumental bell chimes.
I just heard mine for the first time this year: Carol of the Bells. I could sing that all year, and sometimes do. I'll put it on when I think of it and miss it. I'll change certain words if it's not Christmas season. It's mystical, magical, inspiring and uplifting. I like the choral arrangements and also the instrumental bell chimes.
I have other favorites, of course!
Yours?
My daughter's high school chorus winter concerts always ended with Carol of the Bells, and former students/chorus members who might be attending were invited to come up and join. I love it, too.
I can't go wrong with Silent Night. One of my favorite childhood memories was the Christmas Eve Candlelight service, when everyone was given a candle upon entering and at the end of the service, they shut out the lights, someone walked with a big candle up the aisle lighting the candle of the person at the end, and then the flame was passed candle to candle and we all sang Silent Night together.
My Episcopal Church did it, too, but it was always badly coordinated. They'd forget to shut off the lights, the pianist would start playing and people would start singing before everyone was lit. It annoyed me because ruined the magic of it.
I think my top favorites are O Come O Come Emmanuel/Veni Veni and Coventry Carol. Both of them have aspects of them that are ancient, which makes them appealing to me because I like early music a lot.
I think my top favorites are O Come O Come Emmanuel/Veni Veni and Coventry Carol. Both of them have aspects of them that are ancient, which makes them appealing to me because I like early music a lot.
I love O Come O Come Emmanuel, but I didn't say that because it's an ADVENT song.
Another one I came to know when a girl in my daughter's high school chorus with an amazing voice sang Breath of Heaven (Mary's Song), which I had never heard before. I think everyone in the audience, religious or otherwise, was moved by it.
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