Piano Guys are the best. If you don’t follow them, search for them on You Tube. Sometimes humorous, often bring a lump to your throat. I love folks that truly love life.
I get more than a lump in my throat with this one! Balled my eyes out but it was very needed. Between the election fraud, the semi-dictatorship my state is, and too many people I know still losing their minds over this virus, it was cleansing.
Thank you Menagerie for posting this once again, it is one of my very favorites of the Christmas songs. The singing and imagery are both so beautiful – soul touching.
I think if you are not bawling your eyes out …well those who are not touched are those who need God’s grace and our prayers so very much.
It is sublimely beautiful to remind us that absolutely nothing we are enduring can touch what is divine and ongoing for our salvation.
God IS with us.
Merry Christmas, we are loved and He made life sacred!
Peter Hollens is well known in the A Capella world, and has collaborated previously with a great American country vocal band known as Home Free. I would invite Sundance and anyone reading this post to watch their video of How Great Thou Art on YouTube, which they filmed in the Austrian Alps. It is the best version with the richest harmonies of that great hymn I have ever heard. Also, their version of O Holy Night is also top notch.
Thank you Menagerie for sharing this. I’m spending Christmas Eve alone because my husband is working tonight and none of our family is getting together because some family members have Covid. Thank you for brightening our Christmas with this beautiful song. Merry Christmas and may God Bless You.
Alone , too, because of covid. God knows, God sees and will richly bless each and every one of us if we just “see”! This is one of His blessings! That and the awareness that we are not alone in our separation. May the God of Hope fill you all to the brim and surround you and comfort you this season of our lives. Come Holy Spirit. Merry Christmas….I love this site!
Thank you and prayers for healing for your family and all affected.
Jimmy R
December 24, 2020 10:38 pm
And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.9 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear.10 And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.12 And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,14 “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”
Luke 2:8-14 ESV
That “virus” spent FIVE weeks of my Life trying to kill me. I am 65 and survived by using vitamins and Faith. I went from passing out on to the floor to getting up in the Morning because of Faith and a decided effort to remain HERE in HIS Service…there is no other earthly explanation for my survival…Just Grace…I love you…Me.
Praise God, praise God. May He continue to strengthen you! Merry Christmas!
Everett R Owens
December 25, 2020 3:47 am
I love this song but the absolute draw dropping version of this is the Mormon Tabernacle Choir with the lovely soprano Sissel, check it out and bring your kleenex.
YogicCowboy
December 25, 2020 3:53 am
I am – was – a semi-professional chorister. I have performed in many ensembles during the past nearly twenty years, with personal highlights including performing in Star Wars in Concert (at ARCO and then-HP Pavilion, and the West Coast edition of The Lord of the Rings in Concert (at San Jose CPA).
More than anything else, I have performed in Christmas concerts, annually, multiple times, for church services and for public venues, for many years, as well as sometimes in what was locally called Rent-A-Carols: paid quartets or double quartets in formal attire, for private and public parties. I have often performed gratis for churches, but it was a welcome additional income at times.
Santa Clara County has a rich tradition in choral – especially a cappella choral – music. That is largely the legacy of one woman, Charlene Archibeque, while at San Jose State University (for forty-three years, as I recall). Her chamber choir, The Choraliers, took Choir of the World honors in 1991.
I am seeing that rich tradition dying before my eyes. I know many musicians, and they cannot perform – or teach – their art in any reasonable way (zooming choir?).
I am one who does not believe in multiplied coincidences. I do not consider this is an unintended consequence, but an intended one: This kind of music is a central part of the development of Western Civilization, through Biblical Christianity. There would be no “Common Practice” (i.e, established major-minor keys, with rules for leading-tone usage) music without the 371 SATB Chorales arranged by Johann Sebastian Bach for the parishioners in the Lutheran Church.
The left seeks to destroy all of this – just as was done in China. This is a communist revolution. I do not see any of our elected representatives making any attempt to thwart the vicious assault on our unalienable rights, which emphatically include gathering for worship and celebration! What value is there in elections? They all meekly submit to the tyranny, and expect us to do the same.
I have not sung – at all – in a very long time. I am alone, my mother is slowly dying, and I am unable to see her.
(To those who choose to criticize me for posting something like this, I ask: Where else am I going to post this? Performing live Christmas choral music is not exactly a mainstream thread on any blog; anywhere else, it would be regarded as off topic.)
Pete de Leon
December 25, 2020 5:31 am
At the birth of Jesus, the angels sang a song of praise to God singing “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace among those with who is pleased”
Merry Christmas to one and all!
So true! THANKS. ~~~PS, a favor: what is the name of that magnificent, solo voice (sung by boy soprano?) piece played @ midnight Christmas…—–hauntingly lovely…every line/every part of it touches your heart, your soul. (To me, straight from Heaven) Would love to play it over and over…. Can you help? Big thanks.–L.
John55
December 25, 2020 1:51 pm
John55
December 25, 2020 3:34 pm
Anne
December 25, 2020 11:33 pm
Absolutely magnificent. Yes, it brought me to tears, but even more it brought glory to God and our Savior. Thank you so much for sharing.
Piano Guys are the best. If you don’t follow them, search for them on You Tube. Sometimes humorous, often bring a lump to your throat. I love folks that truly love life.
I get more than a lump in my throat with this one! Balled my eyes out but it was very needed. Between the election fraud, the semi-dictatorship my state is, and too many people I know still losing their minds over this virus, it was cleansing.
Thank you Menagerie for posting this once again, it is one of my very favorites of the Christmas songs. The singing and imagery are both so beautiful – soul touching.
Merry Christmas to you and yours!
I think if you are not bawling your eyes out …well those who are not touched are those who need God’s grace and our prayers so very much.
It is sublimely beautiful to remind us that absolutely nothing we are enduring can touch what is divine and ongoing for our salvation.
God IS with us.
Merry Christmas, we are loved and He made life sacred!
Beautifully expresses the Reason for the Season…
Thank you Menagerie & Merry Christmas!
Just beautiful. Merry Christmas everyone.
Peter Hollens is well known in the A Capella world, and has collaborated previously with a great American country vocal band known as Home Free. I would invite Sundance and anyone reading this post to watch their video of How Great Thou Art on YouTube, which they filmed in the Austrian Alps. It is the best version with the richest harmonies of that great hymn I have ever heard. Also, their version of O Holy Night is also top notch.
Both those selections were quite good, thanks for the tip.
Amen?
KING JESUS!
A happy and Blessed Christmas to all of you
A very merry Christmas to all Sundance, administrators, Treepers and families and God’s blessings to all. From the land downunder.
Merry Christmas treepers!
Thank you Menagerie for sharing this. I’m spending Christmas Eve alone because my husband is working tonight and none of our family is getting together because some family members have Covid. Thank you for brightening our Christmas with this beautiful song. Merry Christmas and may God Bless You.
My family is also separated because of COVID. God bless, and prayers for healing for yours and mine and all families affected.
Alone , too, because of covid. God knows, God sees and will richly bless each and every one of us if we just “see”! This is one of His blessings! That and the awareness that we are not alone in our separation. May the God of Hope fill you all to the brim and surround you and comfort you this season of our lives. Come Holy Spirit. Merry Christmas….I love this site!
Thank you and prayers for healing for your family and all affected.
And in the same region there were shepherds out in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.9 And an angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were filled with great fear.10 And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.12 And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in swaddling cloths and lying in a manger.”13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,14 “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”
Luke 2:8-14 ESV
heard for the first time today.
I am partial to this one …
Me too.
yes, very nice!
Lucian Pavarotti Christmas Concert
Notre Dame Montreal 1978
Stunning!
https://youtu.be/x3We0thypJ4
My favorite this year.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/i-heard-the-bells-on-christmas-day/291831478?i=291831512
That “virus” spent FIVE weeks of my Life trying to kill me. I am 65 and survived by using vitamins and Faith. I went from passing out on to the floor to getting up in the Morning because of Faith and a decided effort to remain HERE in HIS Service…there is no other earthly explanation for my survival…Just Grace…I love you…Me.
Praise God, praise God. May He continue to strengthen you! Merry Christmas!
I love this song but the absolute draw dropping version of this is the Mormon Tabernacle Choir with the lovely soprano Sissel, check it out and bring your kleenex.
I am – was – a semi-professional chorister. I have performed in many ensembles during the past nearly twenty years, with personal highlights including performing in Star Wars in Concert (at ARCO and then-HP Pavilion, and the West Coast edition of The Lord of the Rings in Concert (at San Jose CPA).
More than anything else, I have performed in Christmas concerts, annually, multiple times, for church services and for public venues, for many years, as well as sometimes in what was locally called Rent-A-Carols: paid quartets or double quartets in formal attire, for private and public parties. I have often performed gratis for churches, but it was a welcome additional income at times.
Santa Clara County has a rich tradition in choral – especially a cappella choral – music. That is largely the legacy of one woman, Charlene Archibeque, while at San Jose State University (for forty-three years, as I recall). Her chamber choir, The Choraliers, took Choir of the World honors in 1991.
I am seeing that rich tradition dying before my eyes. I know many musicians, and they cannot perform – or teach – their art in any reasonable way (zooming choir?).
I am one who does not believe in multiplied coincidences. I do not consider this is an unintended consequence, but an intended one: This kind of music is a central part of the development of Western Civilization, through Biblical Christianity. There would be no “Common Practice” (i.e, established major-minor keys, with rules for leading-tone usage) music without the 371 SATB Chorales arranged by Johann Sebastian Bach for the parishioners in the Lutheran Church.
The left seeks to destroy all of this – just as was done in China. This is a communist revolution. I do not see any of our elected representatives making any attempt to thwart the vicious assault on our unalienable rights, which emphatically include gathering for worship and celebration! What value is there in elections? They all meekly submit to the tyranny, and expect us to do the same.
I have not sung – at all – in a very long time. I am alone, my mother is slowly dying, and I am unable to see her.
(To those who choose to criticize me for posting something like this, I ask: Where else am I going to post this? Performing live Christmas choral music is not exactly a mainstream thread on any blog; anywhere else, it would be regarded as off topic.)
At the birth of Jesus, the angels sang a song of praise to God singing “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace among those with who is pleased”
Merry Christmas to one and all!
Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah
It wouldn’t be Christmas without the “Charlie Brown Christmas” theme – Linus and Lucy by Vince Guaraldi! 😉
So true! THANKS. ~~~PS, a favor: what is the name of that magnificent, solo voice (sung by boy soprano?) piece played @ midnight Christmas…—–hauntingly lovely…every line/every part of it touches your heart, your soul. (To me, straight from Heaven) Would love to play it over and over…. Can you help? Big thanks.–L.
Absolutely magnificent. Yes, it brought me to tears, but even more it brought glory to God and our Savior. Thank you so much for sharing.
Thank you!