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Aural Advent Calendar: Day 20
Today’s installment is brought to you courtesy of Frere Mussel who is celebrating his birthday in La Suisse. The carol is Quelle est cette odeur agréable?, which is awkwardly translated in English versions as Where Is That Goodly Fragrance?
The tune is quite mesmerizing in the way that Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine is and [...]
Aural Advent Calendar: Day 19
The tree of life my soul hath seen,
Laden with fruit and always green:
The trees of nature fruitless be
Compared with Christ the apple tree.
2. His beauty doth all things excel:
By faith I know, but ne’er can tell
The glory which I now can see
In Jesus Christ the apple tree.
3. For happiness I long have sought,
And pleasure dearly [...]
Aural Advent Calender: Day 18
Reader Pat suggested these 3 minutes of silliness in the comments from yesterday’s post and really, who among us has not sat through a performance that pretty well matches this one? Its generous lashings of earnest and awful combined with a dash of Christmas cheer equals endearing.
If it’s your job to provide the Christmas [...]
Aural Advent Calendar: Day 17
It’s 1977, Jimmy Osmond is still a treble and powder blue was the wardrobe colour of choice for the Mormon Tabernacle costume department.
Heady days in Salt Lake City, folks.
With the whole Osmond family on hand to close out the show, sporting outfits in complementary shades of the focal colour, that year’s Christmas [...]
Aural Advent Calendar: Day 16
Jingle Bells and Deck The Halls are carol-sing basics and for good reason. They’re peppy and have words that are easy remember and are nostalgic for a time none of us where alive to remember, so there aren’t any spoilsports around to ruin the rose-coloured view. Perfect.
Here, the King’s Singers, Julie Andrews [...]
Aural Advent Calendar: Day 15
A bit of a backlog in the Calendar department these last couple of days folks. A terrible disappointment indeed, but there is a bright side, so not all is lost. What is this mysterious upside of which Miss Mussel speaks? Well, not having a door to open (as it were) yesterday or [...]
Aural Advent Calendar: Day 14
With its premiere performance completed a mere 22 days ago, this tune could quite possibly be the newest Christmas song around. As with all new compositions, its place in the canon is as yet to be decided but since Stephen Colbert is immensely popular and, as it happens, funny enough to make a person [...]
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