Author Archives: Kelly Sedinger

An eternal favorite. Judy Garland’s performance of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” is, for me, so iconic that I can barely stand any others. (Insert my usual rant about Frank Sinatra destroying the song’s meaning by changing the lyrics … Continue reading →

From King’s College in London, here is “O Holy Night”.

Victor Herbert’s “March of the Toys”.

Well, seeing as how nuclear annihilation seems to be back on the table as an option, here’s Weird Al and “Christmas At Ground Zero”.

I first heard this piece by John Rutter performed by the local high school choir at a Christmas concert a few years ago. It is, quite simply, one of the most achingly beautiful pieces I have ever heard. Here is … Continue reading →

Several different versions of “The Little Drummer Boy”. Which do you prefer?

This piece isn’t performed by the Canadian Brass, even though it’s titled “A Canadian Brass Christmas Suite”. Nevertheless, it’s pretty cool.

A few Christmas selections by Yo Yo Ma (and whichever friends he brings along)!

Here’s one I play each year in acknowledgement of Christmas’s way of making us think, amidst the joy and light and gift-giving, of the loves that might have been, the lives we might have lived, and the dreams that sometimes … Continue reading →