I remember watching this sketch on Saturday Night Live years ago, but I’d never seen it on YouTube until now.

And then there’s this, which I’ve used before:

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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 here.)

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

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Victor Herbert’s “March of the Toys”.

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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”.

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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 the Candlelight Carol.

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

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

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

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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 we barely remember dreaming.

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