Showing posts with label LastMonth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LastMonth. Show all posts
Monday, December 26, 2016

For The Season #9: "Good King Wenceslas"

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One of the ongoing pleasures of the holiday season for me is revisiting Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol , first in its original fo...
Friday, December 25, 2015

For The Season #8: "The Cherry Tree Carol"

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One of the most charmingly poignant of all English Christmas carols is also one of the oldest, a fitting companion in both its age and it...
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Monday, December 21, 2015

Nick Reynolds And "Goodnight, My Baby, Goodnight"

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The late Nick Reynolds was allotted by Providence with a greater range of talents and interests than most of those mere mortals among us ...
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Thursday, December 25, 2014

For The Season #7: "The Coventry Carol/Lully, Lullay Thou Little Tiny Child"

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(L -  François-Joseph Navez, 'The Massacre of the Innocents,' 1824) The seasonal celebrations that occur around the winter solsti...
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Monday, December 23, 2013

For The Season #6* :"The Bitter Withy/Mary Mild"

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The picture to the left is a detail from a 14th century mural found in an abandoned Orthodox Christian  monastery in Ethopia. The scene d...
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Friday, December 21, 2012

For The Season #5: "Noël Nouvelet/Sing We Here Noël"

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The fifth Christmas post on this site (the other four are linked at the bottom of the page) presents one of the more haunting and mysteri...
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Saturday, December 8, 2012

Shane and Drake's "The White Snows Of Winter"

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I am not among those for whom the Christmas holidays commence before the scent of the Thanksgiving turkey has left the home, and though...
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Friday, December 23, 2011

For The Season #4*: "The Gloucestershire Wassail Song"

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Among the most delightful of Christmas customs for centuries have been caroling and taking a nip of good cheer of one sort or another, and ...
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