Airing tonight on PBS is an hour-long program called “Happy Holidays with the Boston Pops” in which Keith Lockhart leads the orchestra in Christmas music. In honor of that, here’s Arthur Fiedler conducting one of their versions of “Sleigh Ride.” There are at least three different albums in which he and the orchestra played it, …
I’ve admired James for a long time; I remember when “Sweet Baby James” came out back in 1970. One of my fraternity brothers played it over and over again (that happened with Simon and Garfunkel’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water” too, but it was a different fraternity brother). He did something more to justify that admiration …
Mike Marshall performs an instrumental version of “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,” the title track of his 1997 album
The fabulous Tony Bennett teamed up with Count Basie’s Big Band in 2008 and they released a wonderful album cleverly titled “A Swingin’ Christmas.” There were forty years between Christmas albums for Mr. Bennett; the first was “Snowfall,” originally released in 1968 and first out on CD in 1994.
“Un Flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle” was written in the French region of Provence in the 16th century about the birth of Jesus. The listener is exhorted to speak softly to keep the newborn child from waking. On Christmas Eve in Provence children dress as milkmaids and shepherds as they go to Midnight Mass, carrying candles and …
Here are Allison Krauss & Yo Yo Ma performing “The Wexford Carol,” from Ma’s 2008 album “Songs of Joy and Peace.” The carol is very old, although claims that it originated in the 12th century are disputed. It comes from County Wexford in Ireland and was published in the first edition of The Oxford Book …
The story goes that Silent Night was composed on guitar by Franz Gruber to lyrics by Joseph Mohr in 1818 and performed for the first time at Mass on Christmas Eve of that year. Here’s Steven Wiseman from his “Christmas in the Rockies” album performing it as Gruber might have played it back then.
The version of “Mele Kalikimaka” most people know was sung by Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters in 1950. It’s been covered by many folks since then, of course, but I’ve never heard one that captures the feel of it quite like this one by Kacey Musgraves, performed here on the Country Music Association’s Country …
Here George Winston plays “The Holly and the Ivy” on his 1982 album “December.” For a version that’s a lot more dramatic, here’s Loreena McKennitt singing it on her 2008 album “Midwinter’s Night Dream.”
Here you are, ladies and germs. From USA Today, Here are all the matchups for this season’s bowl schedule. Game One is this Saturday at the New Mexico Bowl in Albuquerque. You’ll notice that there are four more that day. You may also notice that all but four or five of these games are shown …
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