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"Mickey Mouse and I grew up together." - Ruthie Tompson, Disney animation checker and scene planner and one of the first women to become a member of the International Photographers Union in 1952.
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For the music while the congregation receives communion on Christmas Eve, my choirs talked me into to doing this (well, gave me the slight push in the direction I wanted to go anyway). Not, it is not the happy clappy or dance like music but i our case on Christmas eve, we are looking at something that fits also with the navitity and the greater theology behind the incarnation.
1. A stable lamp is lighted
Whose glow shall wake the sky;
The stars shall bend their voices,
And ev'ry stone shall cry.
And ev'ry stone shall cry,
And straw like gold shall shine;
A barn shall harbor heaven,
A stall become a shrine.
2. This child through David's city
Shall ride in triumph by;
The palm shall strew its branches,
And ev'ry stone shall cry.
And ev'ry stone shall cry.
Though heavy, dull, and dumb,
And lie within the roadway
To pave His kingdom come.
3. Yet He shall be forsaken,
And yielded up to die;
The sky shall groan and darken,
And ev'ry stone shall cry.
And ev'ry stone shall cry,
For stony hearts of men:
God's blood upon the spearhead,
God's love refused again.
4. But now, as at the ending,
The low is lifted high;
The stars shall bend their voices,
And ev'ry stone shall cry.
And ev'ry stone shall cry,
In praises of the Child
By whose descent among us
The worlds are reconciled.
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"Mickey Mouse and I grew up together." - Ruthie Tompson, Disney animation checker and scene planner and one of the first women to become a member of the International Photographers Union in 1952.
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This woman looks amazingly like Hubby's mom. She has a series of videos of Xmas carols played on vintage instruments.
"Mickey Mouse and I grew up together." - Ruthie Tompson, Disney animation checker and scene planner and one of the first women to become a member of the International Photographers Union in 1952.
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Transiberian Orchestra
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Me too.Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Thu Dec 14, 2023 8:59 am I love that video!!! The musician is hysterical!!!!
Edit: From Wikipedia:
"The Typewriter" is a short composition of light music by American composer Leroy Anderson, which features an actual typewriter as a percussion instrument.
Composition
Anderson completed "The Typewriter" on October 9, 1950 in Woodbury, Connecticut.[1] "The Typewriter" received its first performance on September 8, 1953 during a recording Anderson and the Boston Pops Orchestra made in New York City for Decca Records.[2] Anderson composed the melody for symphony and pops orchestras; William Zinn and Floyd Werle arranged it for string orchestras and wind bands respectively.[3]
Jerry Lewis performed the typewriter part several times in movies and TV."The Typewriter" is a short composition of light music by American composer Leroy Anderson, which features an actual typewriter as a percussion instrument.
Composition
Anderson completed "The Typewriter" on October 9, 1950 in Woodbury, Connecticut.[1] "The Typewriter" received its first performance on September 8, 1953 during a recording Anderson and the Boston Pops Orchestra made in New York City for Decca Records.[2] Anderson composed the melody for symphony and pops orchestras; William Zinn and Floyd Werle arranged it for string orchestras and wind bands respectively.[3]
Another performance:
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I couldn't resist another.
Spike Jones with Billy Barty (and friends)
Spike Jones with Billy Barty (and friends)
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OK, "Carol Of The Bells" wins my vote.
I wish I knew who wrote the arrangement we did in High School. I always loved the tenor part in that arrangement, and I sometimes had to back up the altos too. If I had a change I might growl with the basses, but I did skip the sopranos.
I wish I knew who wrote the arrangement we did in High School. I always loved the tenor part in that arrangement, and I sometimes had to back up the altos too. If I had a change I might growl with the basses, but I did skip the sopranos.
Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls Would scarcely get your feet wet
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Peter Wilhousky? That's the arrangement done my most.keith wrote: ↑Sun Dec 17, 2023 3:34 am OK, "Carol Of The Bells" wins my vote.
I wish I knew who wrote the arrangement we did in High School. I always loved the tenor part in that arrangement, and I sometimes had to back up the altos too. If I had a change I might growl with the basses, but I did skip the sopranos.
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Try Not To Be a C---, It's Christmas
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"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write."
John Adams
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always have to include this
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I have posted this song, sung by Chanticleer, earlier, but they did a new video of it earlier this month, and it is just as beautiful.
When I first heard this song, sitting in the music library song at school, I had to collect my emotions before getting up. If I had to pick a few songs that would be among my favorites, this is one.
The text, which is generally an adaptation of the Roman Catholic Angelus prayer:
When I first heard this song, sitting in the music library song at school, I had to collect my emotions before getting up. If I had to pick a few songs that would be among my favorites, this is one.
The text, which is generally an adaptation of the Roman Catholic Angelus prayer:
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Breathtaking.
"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears… To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies." -Octavia E. Butler
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Haven't been following this thread too closely, so apoligies if it's a duplicate.
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In honor of what I am playing tomorrow, I have changed my avatar.
The Chord (gift link)
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The Chord (gift link)
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‘Everyone Wants to Hear’ This One Chord in a Christmas Carol
A moment in “O Come, All Ye Faithful” is so popular, it’s printed on T-shirts. But it’s also symbolic, and important to music history.
By Hugh Morris
Published Dec. 21, 2022
Updated Dec. 27, 2022
Of all the music heard around Christmas, few passages rival the awe and mystery of one chord, known as the “Word of the Father” chord.
It’s a rare instance of powerful drama in holiday liturgical music, more akin to Edward Elgar’s depiction of God in “The Dream of Gerontius,” or the opening of the fifth door in the Bartok opera “Bluebeard’s Castle”: a moment of total release, embracing the unknown.
In British choral circles, this moment is referred to simply as “The Chord.” It comes halfway through the final verse of the popular Christmas carol “O Come, All Ye Faithful” (or “Adeste Fideles”), in a mid-20th century arrangement by David Willcocks, an original editor of the widely used “Carols for Choirs” series and a former director of music at King’s College, Cambridge. Willcocks, following a rising figure full of anticipation, places an explosive, half-diminished seventh chord under the text “Word,” resolving it elaborately over the next few measures.
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The only Christmas song I like....
"He sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see, He tries to tell me what I put inside of me
He's got the answers to ease my curiosity, He dreamed a god up and called it Christianity"
Trent Reznor
He's got the answers to ease my curiosity, He dreamed a god up and called it Christianity"
Trent Reznor
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For your consideration:
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The video of another old favorite from my Dr. Dememto holiday CD:
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I remember when Star Wars was cool... *sob*
Anyway this is epic.
Anyway this is epic.
Hic sunt dracones
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That was trippy!
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I loved it.
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Its Christmas Day here now, so I leave you with the following advice.
Hic sunt dracones
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Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls Would scarcely get your feet wet