Tag Archives: Daily Dose of Christmas

I was a huge fan of Friends for just about all of its run (it lost some steam in its last season), and to this day, one of its Christmas episodes is among my favorite episodes of any teevee show, … Continue reading →

Someday I’ll see this live: here’s the “Waltz of the Flowers” from Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker:

This is pretty cool. I found it just by searching on “Joy to the World”. An organist named Martin Setchell wrote a toccata that song and performs it here. My mother-in-law, who was a fine organist, would have enjoyed this.

In the first season of The West Wing, the Christmas episode had a storyline in which Toby Ziegler (the communications director, and my favorite character on the show) was contacted when a homeless man died wearing one of his overcoats. … Continue reading →

Something Celtic is always needed at Casa Jaquandor during the season. Here are the Chieftains with the “Christmas Bells of Dublin”.

Time for a little break from the general musical thrust of this series, so here’s the Food Network’s Alton Brown, on the topic of Christmas cookies! Part two: I love me some cookies….

A gorgeous and sad song of the season…here’s Sarah McLachlan singing Joni Mithcell’s “River”.

Here’s one of my favorite singer-songwriters, Canadian Allison Crowe, singing “In the Bleak Midwinter”.

Hector Berlioz is often stereotyped as a composer who wrote for enormous orchestras in enormous halls, but he had his quiet and meditative side, as is seen best in his gentle oratorio L’Enfance du Christ (“The Childhood of Christ”). Since … Continue reading →

Continuing on with our daily trek of Christmas stuff, here are John Denver and the Muppets. And wow, does John Denver look ridiculous dressed up in Dickensian gear or what!