Tag Archives: Daily Dose of Christmas

It’s December, so here we go with our daily roundup of Christmas favorites old and new!

Merry Christmas and a joyous Holiday season to everyone!

No theme today. Christmas is near now, so very very near!

‘Tis the season for choral music! Lots of choral music.

Every December when the Trans Siberian Orchestra brings its Christmas show to town, there’s some inevitable scoffing at the thing. A lot of it ends up taking the form of “You know that they’re just a hair band, don’t you?” … Continue reading →

From the world of classical music:

One of these years I’ll make it to see a live performance of The Nutcracker. Until then, this can suffice: Don’t have time for the whole thing? Here’s the Suite that Tchaikovsky arranged. I played this every year in college, … Continue reading →

For some reason, this has been on my mind for a bit this year…and I’m not sure I’ve thought about it in years before that. It’s the first season Christmas episode of The Wonder Years. In this episode, young Kevin … Continue reading →

You don’t often hear straight performances of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” these days, do you? It seems that every take on that song has to introduce at least some sort of comedic element, like the Johnny Carson version I … Continue reading →