Tag Archives: Daily Dose of Christmas

Complete the sentence: I love ____ and yet I don’t partake enough of it! For me, it’s vocal music. I tend to strongly default to orchestral music for my usual listening, and there’s not anything exactly wrong with that…after all, there is … Continue reading →

Speaking of “Lucky finds by the YouTube algorithm”, we have this wonderful rendition of one of my absolute favorite Christmas songs of all time. AND, it has the correct lyrics! (I won’t repeat the rant this year, but if you’re … Continue reading →

Fifty-six years ago today, the greatest James Bond movie ever made, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, premiered. I have written about OHMSS extensively here and also here (as part of my Definitive Ranking Of All The Bond Films), so I won’t go … Continue reading →

Longtime followers of this site may recall that as Christmas draws nearer–and as of this posting, we’re less than ten days out–this feature shifts focus to be more and more reflective of my sentiment regarding Christmas. This is when old … Continue reading →

A harpsichord will have around 61 keys. Some more, some less. A piano famously has 88 keys…but not always. The Bosendorfer company makes pianos with up to 97 keys. A pipe organ can have as many as 200 keys…and adds … Continue reading →

I would absolutely wear overalls to a Christmas party, were I to be invited to one…but I’d also likely not get invited to the kind of Christmas party where wearing overalls was a serious faux pas. Anyway, I always like this one.

My alma mater, Wartburg College, puts on a big music concert every year for Christmas. Called Christmas With Wartburg, it’s a big production that involves several, if not all, of the school’s largest music ensembles in a night of Christmas music … Continue reading →

I’ve noticed that I listen to chamber music more in the colder months than I do during the warmer. I’m not sure why that is, but maybe being inside more results in me responding more to the intimacy of good … Continue reading →

I went to YouTube and searched under “The Night Before Christmas read by”, and obviously my hope was to find a good, solid reading of the classic poem. But then I saw this.

So, what is a “carol”, anyway? In our time, the only “carols” we think about in the musical sense are Christmas carols, which seem to be a subset of “Christmas songs” in general: the carols are the traditional ones that … Continue reading →