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gypsi
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response 50 of 67:
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Dec 21 19:48 UTC 1999 |
Yes!!!! =)
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drewmike
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response 51 of 67:
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Dec 21 20:54 UTC 1999 |
I long ago decided that I'd never want to be her boyfriend. I couldn't
endure all the poetry.
But the cans might be the deal-maker for me in deciding whether to see
the movie.
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katie
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response 52 of 67:
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Dec 21 21:52 UTC 1999 |
I got my Christmas card from Jonathan Edwards today. This year it's a CD!
Two songs: Jingle Bell Rock and The Night Before Christmas. I'll listen to
it tonight.
(For the younger set: Jonathan Edwards sang the hit "Sunshine" ("Sunshine,
go away today...I don't feel much like dancin'...") which is now pretty much
only heard on Oldies stations.)
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gnat
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response 53 of 67:
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Dec 22 01:42 UTC 1999 |
Jonathan Edwards?? As in "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"? Heck,
I didn't even know he was still alive, let alone putting out albums!
Are Jewel's cans recyclable?
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hhsrat
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response 54 of 67:
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Dec 22 03:28 UTC 1999 |
Snoopy and the Red Baron
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goose
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response 55 of 67:
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Dec 23 15:42 UTC 1999 |
Everytime Jewel comes on the TV screen or whatnot, my neighbor chines in with:
"Awwwww...who made the pretty girl cry?"
Note to self: See civil war movie with Jewel....
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orinoco
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response 56 of 67:
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Dec 23 16:19 UTC 1999 |
Re#53: Yeah. Didn't you hear? - he's gone goth.
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lumen
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response 57 of 67:
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Dec 23 21:28 UTC 1999 |
resp:6 No. Although the Messiah is traditionally performed at
Christmas, there is enough material in there that portions of it could
be done (and have been) for Easter cantatas.
resp:8 Although I love little kids, too many of them have just ruined a
lot of carols for me-- or at least to the point that I don't like
singing a lot of them. The ones you mentioned, Steve, I think are gems,
but the kids forget the majority of the words.
Another case in point-- most kids forget the intro to "Rudolph the Red
Nosed Reindeer."
resp:40 resp:45 "Veni, Veni, Immanuel" started out as a Gregorian
chant written in 12th century France. I'm sure you might find it more
refreshing if you sang it in the original Latin. If you don't have the
lyrics, they are easy to find on Mannheim Steamroller's _A Fresh Aire
Christmas_, along with a fabulous version of "Carol of the Bells," which is
Ukranian, by the way.
Some of my favorites are a little more obscure: while "Silver Bells" is
well-known, "Los Peces en el Rio" is not. I never did learn the lyrics,
but my youngest sister did and shared them with us. (Spanish is quickly
becoming the second language of my family).
Others are more light-hearted: Jorge Jorgeson's "Yingle Bells" and
"Santa Claus at the PTA" are other faves :)
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lumen
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response 58 of 67:
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Dec 24 00:51 UTC 1999 |
resp:2 You mean the 12 Days of Christmas by the Mackenzie Brothers?
They may be Yooper-sounding, but they are Canadian characters.
Evidently the dialect is on both sides of the border.
"I'm Gettin' Nuttin' for Christmas," by.. I can't remember.
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krj
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response 59 of 67:
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Dec 24 05:44 UTC 1999 |
NP: Dan Crary, "Christmas Guitar." Bluegrass guitar. The idea of this
seemed too Musak-y to tolerate, but I was getting to like it as I was
hanging out at Elderly Instruments today so I brought it home, and Leslie
loves this style of guitar playing.
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sspan
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response 60 of 67:
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Dec 26 01:15 UTC 1999 |
oh... did anyone mention Spinal Tap's 'Christmas with the devil'?
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krj
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response 61 of 67:
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Nov 24 01:07 UTC 2000 |
In our house, Thanksgiving marks the official opening of Christmas music
season. NP: "A Roman Christmas," a collection of Italian concertos and
cantatas on the Naxos label. This material all dates from around 1700.
The Alessandro Scarlatti cantata is clearly for Christmas, and the
Corelli concerto was designed to be the background music for shepherd
plays at Christmas. The brief liner notes say the rest of the music is
associated with the holiday, but I really don't hear it. To my uneducated
ear, if you plopped this disc in the player in June, you'd say, "Nice baroque
album." $7, like all Naxos discs.
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dbratman
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response 62 of 67:
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Nov 24 18:40 UTC 2000 |
#1 Christmas disc in this house: "We Three Kings", by the Roches.
Baroque music, specifically Christmas-oriented or not, works well too.
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krj
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response 63 of 67:
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Dec 4 00:58 UTC 2000 |
NP: "Carols at Christmas," Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band.
This 1998 album might be my favorite of the four? Prior Christmas
albums, if only because it's live, and also exceptionally well
recorded. Besides Prior's voice (with lots of harmony support)
you also get the odd jazz riff (derived from Charpentier ?!?) and
some singing from Rosie Kemp on two songs; I assume Rosie is
Maddy's daughter.
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arianna
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response 64 of 67:
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Jul 19 05:37 UTC 2001 |
One of my favs is "I wonder as I wonder."
Toss in there the entirety of Menotti's opera "Amahl and The Night Visitors."
Fun trivia: "For Unto Us a Child Is Born" from Handel's Messiah was
originally an diddy Handel wrote called "No, di voi non vo fidarmi" (No,
never will I trust you), and in a time crimp, trying to get the piece done
for the date it had been commissioned, he wiped it free of its lyrics and
put the new (and present) text in place of the old. I got to perform the
original, "No, di voi," while at Interlochen, my first summer at camp
('94) with the High School Women's Choir.
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dbratman
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response 65 of 67:
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Jul 24 05:35 UTC 2001 |
I'd like to hear that sometime.
I know, of course, (and prefer) the original words to the US National
Anthem, "To Anacreon in Heaven".
At one time I was pleased to be able to unearth the original words of
the Mendelssohn work later adapted and labeled "Hark the Herald Angels
Sing". The original is a hymn to Gutenberg.
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orinoco
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response 66 of 67:
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Jul 24 20:40 UTC 2001 |
I'd be curious to read that. Do you still have the lyrics about Gutenberg?
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dbratman
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response 67 of 67:
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Jul 25 18:13 UTC 2001 |
somewhere ...
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