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Your Daily Dose of Christmas (Today edition)

Yo Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott play Bach and Gounod.

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas (Sunday edition)

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)

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 … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

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

Dean Martin!

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas (from Wednesday)

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

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas AND Tone Poem Tuesday

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 … Continue reading

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas (yesterday edition)

OK, I messed up and forgot yesterday. So here’s an entire album of medieval carols! This is very peaceful, meditative music. I love it!

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas

At least once or twice I year I try to find something completely gonzo for this feature, and this certainly qualifies. It’s the Christmas Timpani!

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Your Daily Dose of Christmas (yesterday edition)

Willie! (Yesterday was another busy day and I totally forgot to post. Sorry!)

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