Tag Archives: Daily Dose of Christmas

This post is really simple: selections of music and/or songs from movies that may be Christmas movies directly, or may be Christmas movies even though they don’t initially seem like Christmas movies but really are, or movies that really are not … Continue reading →

One week to the big day! Wow! It’s coming, folks! This may be the last “new thing to me” that I post for this year; usually as Christmas gets very near, I start posting all of my old favorites, including … Continue reading →

Just a very short selection today (we were out and about, even with the snow! Yay!), but it’s cool not just because this rendition of “Jingle Bells” is a classic, but so is the equipment used to play it. Check … Continue reading →

Time for some Christmas comedy! This one is not safe for work. Probably neither is this one.  

Sorry to be so late with today’s selection, but it was a very busy day at work. Here is the Carol Symphony by Victor Hely-Hutchinson. We’re heading into the time of this yearly feature when I start playing more and more … Continue reading →

Here’s something interesting: a short (20 minutes) documentary I found about the kid-sized monorails that were used in some large department stores, usually in the toy sections, in the mid-to-late 20th century. These monorails–suspended from an overhead rail, as opposed … Continue reading →

Just twelve days left to the big day, huh? Hard to believe! It still feels to me like Christmas is a month away…but it’s not. Anyway, here’s an album: Carols from Clare, in which the Clare College Singers and Orchestra, conducted … Continue reading →

After mentioning Ralph Vaughan Williams yesterday, let’s listen to a bit of Gustav Holst today. Holst was born a couple years after RVW, so the two were roughly contemporaneous, and the two of them form pillars in England’s great musical … Continue reading →

Time for some sacred music. I feature the first work here, by Ralph Vaughan Williams most years: his Fantasia on Christmas Carols is a well-known work that is heard often in classical music settings this time of year. It’s quite a … Continue reading →

I just saw this on Facebook: And I thought, “What a great prompt!” And then I thought, “That’s such a good prompt that I’ll bet I’ve used it before.” And, sure enough! Well, I can use a prompt again, can’t I? Why, … Continue reading →