Tag Archives: Daily Dose of Christmas

Well, as I write this, it’s actually the 22nd and all of The 716 is going nuts in advance of both Christmas and what is at this point promising to be a winter storm for the ages. As you’re reading this, … Continue reading →

If I don’t post a rendition or two of this every year, I get in trouble with someone important!  

Hector Berlioz, L’Enfance du Christ. This work has been a popular Christmas piece almost ever since Berlioz wrote it–it was one of the few outright successes he got to enjoy during his life–even though it’s not about the birth of Christ but … Continue reading →

Not much intro needed here. In its complete glory, Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NriGrNnJZTc And if you want just the short version:  

I think it’s always important to realize that Christmas is not a time of unremitting happiness and cheer. For many people Christmas is a deeply difficult time, and for those of us who are lucky enough to still be able … Continue reading →

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 →