It’s not that I don’t like Christmas music. It’s more that I don’t like Christmas music on the radio. I have to avoid an entire station here after Thanksgiving (which is better than Utah were there are two stations after Thanksgiving, and one of them starts November 1st – 1/6th of their year is Christmas music!).
But I do absolutely love Christmas music. So instead of subjecting myself to the radio, I have a “station” on Pandora that I’ve put together that is all instrumental Christmas music. It’s absolutely lovely. So many fun arrangements and so peaceful. Christmas music has a peace that other music just quite can’t achieve. And I have a bunch of CDs that I love to play this time of year.
And asking me to pick a favorite is an impossible question to answer. Away in a Manger. Silent Night. O Holy Night. Carol of the Bells. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen. What Child is This. We Three Kings. Good King Wenceslas. There are so many good ones.
I spent two Christmases in Brasil as a missionary. The second year the missionaries who were in the city put together a Christmas choir and went around town singing at different places. They also put together a CD of the songs. I was outside the city at the time and didn’t participate. But I did come home with a CD. And it is one of my favorite to listen to at Christmas time. Particularly this song. It’s a Portuguese version of “The Shepherd” from Michael McLean’s The Forgotten Carols. And it’s just beautiful.
What are your favorite Christmas songs? What arrangements of them do you love the most?
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Okay, I really like O Holy Night sung by Celine Dion. Good thing I moved to Quebec, right? 🙂
That is a good one. :whistle:
I love the traditional stuff that hasn’t been pop-ified. I DESPISE radio Christmas music… Leave well-enough alone, I say. The world could do with a little less “Feliz Navidad.” 🙂
Carol of the Bells (particularly Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s version), O Holy Night (if it’s good, there are some crap arrangements/singers out there), and I Want a Hippopotamus For Christmas because it’s just good fun.
I <3 Christmas music.