Sound and scent are so especially conducive to a contemplative state of mind. Music like this, specially reserved for one particular time of year, thus heightening its emotional intensity, combined with the smells of cedar and pine, mistletoe and sugarplums, sage and holly, and, of course, freshly baked foods — well. Who needs heaven?
Friday, December 24, 2010
The Only Good Thing Ever to Come Out of Religion Was the Music
I know it's de rigueur for the blognoscenti to avow their hatred of Christmas music, but I love it. Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, carols like "O Holy Night", "Angels We Have Heard on High", "What Child Is This", "Away In a Manger", and even "The Little Drummer Boy" are some of my favorite pieces of music, holiday or otherwise. Being in the Appalachian region, it's easy to find lots of instrumental versions of Christmas music featuring traditional folk instruments, and I especially love the version of "Snowbird on the Ashbank" on this compilation. (Here's three other favorites that I've collected and listen to every year.)
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Yeah, the music gets ya close to the real spirit of the thing. (Not that 'Victory Chapel' shit either, this stuff):
A bit of golden light for the holidays.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7o7BrlbaDs
That was really cool; thanks. I love listening to choral music.
All well and true...but may I, as a Scrooge, replace the image of a Choir singing Handel with the image of the all too typical Ned Flanders in a (scratchy) flannel shirt strumming his guitar and warbling about his man love for Jesus? LOL
You're gonna make fun of me again, but Joan Jett does a great rendition of "Little Drummer Boy". She makes it sound like an S&M scene.
"Silent Night" in German is surprisingly beautiful.
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