Tag Archives: Daily Dose of Christmas

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

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

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 … Continue reading →

The United States military is home to some really good musicians, and they do a lot more than just play “Hail to the Chief” and “The Stars and Stripes Forever”.

A Christmas Overture by John Rutter. Rutter is mainly known for his melodic and lyrical choral music, but this is quite nice. (Rutter will likely turn up again this month.)

I love John Williams, obviously, but I do have to admit that I prefer his music to have a darker tinge to it. When he gets into full-on “happy” mode, I find that…well, it’s like eating a very rich and … Continue reading →

One of my every-year favorites. Here is Tchaikovsky’s Suite from The Nutcracker.

In Generations, the first Star Trek movie to feature the cast of The Next Generation, the plot involves an evil scientist whose goal is to do whatever he needs to do to get back into “the Nexus”, which is some … Continue reading →

I don’t know anything at all about the band Sixpence None the Richer, but I gave a random listen to their rendition of my favorite Christmas hymn, “Angels We Have Heard On High”, and…well, hear it for yourself. I quite … Continue reading →

Baroque composer Arcangelo Corelli wrote this wonderful concerto grosso and inscribed it: “Made for the Night of Christmas. It’s not known exactly when he wrote it; it survives because of its publication in a posthumous collection of all of Corelli’s … Continue reading →