post youtubes of your favorite Christmas music here

[Eupher]

Gotta put my guys in there too, yunno:

[youtube]https://youtu.be/_Qs3BFCuHzs[/youtube]

[Texacon]

http://youtu.be/HGVNzgUxE-g

I don't know if it's been posted yet, but this is one of my favorites.

[Texacon]

And another;

http://youtu.be/qJ_MGWio-vc

[dutch508]

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr-csOGecGc[/youtube]

Anonymous Four. Probably my favorite A Capella group, they do mostly medieval and renn music. Was introduced to them while I was studying medieval history at King's College.

[Eupher]

a la Stan Kenton...

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_cyCE_Wii0[/youtube]

[J P Sousa]

Not really a fan of LeAnn Rimes but she NAILS this one; "Carol Of The Bells"

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpLkynbjl5s[/youtube]

[BattleHymn]

And now for something completely different:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1eUsgsIBQk[/youtube]

[J P Sousa]

Some joker sent me this link, daring me to post it.

https://youtu.be/10mMDtpfcQM

I'm vaguely familiar with it; I guess it was a big deal in its time.

It was a number ONE early 60's. Interesting story behind the nun; http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2053



(I need to  use Chrome to see vids but it's so slooooowwwww  )

[Eupher]

Wayne Bergeron is one of the hottest trumpet players on the Least Coast. Complete with sheet music. Follow along!

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RS9BFZ6ek0[/youtube]

[franksolich]

Wayne Bergeron is one of the hottest trumpet players on the Least Coast. Complete with sheet music. Follow along!

Uh, excuse my presumption sir; as you know, I'm about the last person who can be accused of having qualifications to be a music critic.

But really, isn't the speed of that quite a bit--quite a bit--slower than what people usually prefer?

[BlueStateSaint]

Uh, excuse my presumption sir; as you know, I'm about the last person who can be accused of having qualifications to be a music critic.

But really, isn't the speed of that quite a bit--quite a bit--slower than what people usually prefer?

Speaking as a vocalist, rushed and fast is generally not what we're after.  It's incredibly difficult to pronounce all of the lyrics properly, if the tempo is fast.

[franksolich]

I'm not in favor of amateur congregation singing; I think the music, especially sacred, should be left up to professionals.

But anyway, others have differing opinions.

From the most wonderful cathedral that has ever graced this planet:

https://youtu.be/ioiLHXkYfRA

[franksolich]

I'm not in favor of amateur congregation singing; I think the music, especially sacred, should be left up to professionals.

But anyway, others have differing opinions.

From the most wonderful cathedral that has ever graced this planet:

https://youtu.be/ioiLHXkYfRA

Wow.  I wonder why that's done.

Apparently some youtube videos can be viewed only on youtube.  Sorry.

[BlueStateSaint]

I'm not in favor of amateur congregation singing; I think the music, especially sacred, should be left up to professionals.

But anyway, others have differing opinions.

I do, for example--Singing is "praying twice."  My church's congregation sings along.  I've been in other churches in my Diocese where people looked funny at me for singing along with the music.  I kept going.

[franksolich]

Ah, childhood memories.

<<<remembers this exact record cover from when toddler.

https://youtu.be/eW79ejQcrDo

To give such an excellent group credit, I went and looked them up:

http://amorartis.org/?page=pictures

They all look like class people, quality people, not the sort usually found in singing groups that primitives like.

[Eupher]

Speaking as a vocalist, rushed and fast is generally not what we're after.  It's incredibly difficult to pronounce all of the lyrics properly, if the tempo is fast.

Excellent point about the lyrics - I tend to overlook them as I'm principally an instrumentalist.

The style of the arrangement that Bergeron plays is what I would call a rock ballad. It's a slow piece, but it's not a dirge. I think the tempo is just right.

[franksolich]

https://youtu.be/DlwcZT1XVss

[franksolich]

https://youtu.be/F1hNPy1ecMk

[Maverick1987]

Just for fun since I've had a few Jack and Cokes:

Merry Christmas, Cavers

[youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zz0O9VBIaWU[/youtube]

[Chris_]

Nothing wrong with a few libations or adult beverages. 

[franksolich]

I know Christmas is still ten days away yet, and there's a lot of music left to hear, but this has to be the best piece of Christmas music I've "heard," period:

https://youtu.be/MVewzMm1uts

I must say that those choirs and other music assemblies in the former East Germany, Latvia, and Bohemia, strongholds of Lutheranism where God was forbidden by the socialists 1945-1991, have got to be some of the most vigorous, the most enthusiastic singers of the Glories of God around.

The God-Haters might take note of what happens when God and religion are suppressed.....but no, they'll never learn.  Stupid people never do.

For the longest time, I looked around for a rendition of "A Mighty Fortress is Our God" played with the full force and power it deserves, finding nothing.  Even the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, with its Matterhorn-sized organ and thousands of voices, performs it weakly and timidly.

It's like, "well, we don't want to offend, by being too enthusiastic, too energetic, so we'll keep it toned down....."

One expects better for the most perfect piece of music ever composed and played.

They're still far from giving "A Mighty Fortress is Our God" the full treatment, but this far along, I've found that choirs from former socialist paradises, where God and religion were suppressed, give it the best treatment.

[franksolich]

Okay now, this can't possibly be real.

https://youtu.be/7obBIEVZ9kM

I mean, it probably is real, but how?

[Eupher]

Wet fingers on crystal glass rims. Lightly brush the rim and you get a pitch. Adjust the glass sizes and amounts of water for different pitches. Arrange them in whatever order (might be on the lines of an accordion's left buttons, but that's just a guess) and work out the choreography with the hands.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDm4IphrlYg[/youtube]

[franksolich]

Okay, this isn't strictly a Christmas song, but I believe it's appropriate for the season.

I'm having real problems with this, though, because it doesn't seem anyone's given it the full force, the vigor, the enthusiasm, the strength, it deserves.  Not even the 10,933-voice Mormon Tabernacle Choir with its organ the size of Mount Everest. 

It seems performers are holding back, fearful of offending by being "too vigorous."

The first is music only, with printed text on the screen.  As far as I can tell, this is the way the song should be played, although with ten or twelve or twenty times the force, the enthusiasm.

https://youtu.be/6ZRWv90hafE

Now, I haven't yet gotten that amplifier for the computer--the local telephone company told me yesterday, Tuesday, that it should arrive on Thursday of this week--and since that amplifies things by four times, I may begin to finally at long last "hear" some vigor, some strength.  We'll see, but at any rate, every time I or someone else add something to this computer to assist in the sound, it gets better.  It's been an incremental, little-by-little, process.

The second is both the music and the words, probably the best I've "heard" of any version of this song--but still, I'd like to "hear" more vigor, more enthusiasm.

https://youtu.be/2w71qRqLt20

[franksolich]

Awesome.

There are no words in the English, or any other language, to describe how awesome this is.

https://youtu.be/PgySLmyUOxY