Tag: Daily Dose of Christmas

Here’s an entire album for you! The Many Moods of Christmas is a collection of four suites of Christmas carols, set by Robert Russell Bennett. It was recorded in the 1960s, and then it was re-recorded in the 1990s for the Telarc label by Robert Shaw and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. It’s one of the best such recordings in existence, and here it is!

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From Mr. Lennon, via Ms. McLachlan.

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Sometimes you gotta swing!

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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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