I love the old traditional Christmas music. If this doesn’t get you in the mood for Christmas Eve, nothing will — “Lo, How a Rose” by Michael Praetorius (probably February 15, 1571 – February 15, 1621). For those who don’t associate roses with Christmas, the words the children are singing are below.
Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming from tender stem hath sprung!
Of Jesse’s lineage coming, as men of old have sung.
It came, a floweret bright, amid the cold of winter,
When half spent was the night.
This Flower, whose fragrance tender with sweetness fills the air,
Dispels with glorious splendor the darkness everywhere;
True man, yet very God, from sin and death He saves us,
And lightens every load.
I’ll see your Rose and raise you a King’s College Cambridge.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZm2NsZnJHE
Since I couldn’t find my rare recording of “The Chipmunks Messiah” (Alvin does some of his best work on it.) I will just ask, does the name Rowley Birkin mean anything to you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iry2IumYMa4
Arrrgghhhh!!!! The link looks dead, try “Rowley Birkin Sings Merry Christmas”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iry2IumYMa4
Bah humbug! 🙂 Happy this time of year and a prosperous New Year to all you Mahabloggers!
Happy holidays to all. May 2010 be a better year.
This is not Christmas music, it’s a number from the Broadway version of “1776”, circa 1970. It’s timely, because it’s the song ‘Cool, Cool Considerate Men’, sung by the conservative members of the Continental Congress opposed to the idea of American secession from England. But it defines todays Senate GOP to a ‘T’.
The song was so offensive to Nixon, that he got his friend, Warner, who was the film producer to cut the song from the film version and burn the negative. The current video version has the song, recovered from a positive that survived.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pjaiscf4hc