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Your Daily Dose of Christmas!
Never let it be said I don’t take requests! In comments to yesterday’s post, a reader asks about the possibility of the hammered dulcimer making an appearance in this series. I confess to not being familiar at all with this … Continue reading
Your Daily Dose of Christmas!
OK, today I provide a public service, if you so desire. You may be familiar with a game called Whamageddon, in which you try to get as deep into December as you can without hearing “Last Christmas” by Wham!. Why … Continue reading
Your Daily Dose of Christmas
It’s December, so here we go. This year things feel markedly different. I suppose there’s only one way to avoid having to celebrate a first Christmas without your mother, and…well, I’m not signing up for that. But still. I’ve always … Continue reading
Your Daily Dose of Christmas!
And at last we come to it: the day of The Birth, if you’re a believer. But you don’t have to be to get at least something out of the story and the emotions surrounding it. I hope that whatever your beliefs … Continue reading
Your 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
Your Daily Dose of Christmas!
If I don’t post a rendition or two of this every year, I get in trouble with someone important!
Your Daily Dose of Christmas!
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
Your Daily Dose of Christmas!
Not much intro needed here. In its complete glory, Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. And if you want just the short version:
Your Daily Dose of Christmas!
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
Your 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