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Your Daily Dose of Christmas (Sunday edition)

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Kelly Sedinger

Check out this lineup: Sarah McLachlan, Loreena McKennitt, Andrea Corr, Hayley Westenra, Jana Mashonee, and Amy Petty. Wow.

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas (Saturday edition)

Posted on December 17, 2018 by Kelly Sedinger

You know what the lesson this year is? I need to get back to my previous years’ practice of pre-selecting music and scheduling posts. Wow, I am not good at this in 2018.

That said, here is Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Fantasia on Christmas Carols.

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

Posted on December 14, 2018 by Kelly Sedinger

I always share this one, because it seems to me a perfect illustration of the kind of wistful emotions that are inevitably a part of this season.

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

Posted on December 13, 2018 by Kelly Sedinger

Dean Martin!

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas (from Wednesday)

Posted on December 13, 2018 by Kelly Sedinger

John Rutter’s “Candlelight Carol”. This piece is achingly beautiful.

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas AND Tone Poem Tuesday

Posted on December 11, 2018 by Kelly Sedinger

Two birds, one stone! Here’s a symphonic poem by British composer Arnold Bax, titled “Christmas Eve”. Apparently it was originally titled “Christmas Eve in the Mountains”, but Bax revised the work some years later and shortened the title. It’s an atmospheric and dense work, typical of Bax’s sound. There is no specific “Christmas” material here, but the work is redolent of Bax’s usual meditations on nature and mood. Here he is after the feel of a cold, crystal-clear morning in the mountains, and what morning is colder or clearer than Christmas Eve?

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THE CHILLING KILLING WIND is OUT!!! *

Posted on December 11, 2018 by ksedinger

That’s right, the book is out!

* As of this writing, it’s only available in paperback. I’m still working on formatting the ebook version, so that’ll be along in due course. But hey! It’s a new book and you should read it!

Here’s where you get it!

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