Choral Christmas-y Stuff

[DesertRose]

So, I sing in a community chorus, and we gave our Christmas concert last night.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3oKdoz7u5WPq69KZjDX4SfChFZinZFUs  Here is a link to a YouTube playlist I made of our performance.  Two songs are missing, and I'm not too sure what happened to them; they were "Away in a Manger" and "Silent Night."  (I think "Silent Night" may not have videoed so well, because we dimmed the lights and lit candles.)  I'm the third from the left in the first row, and I had two very brief solos in the last song on the playlist, that go "The stump of a little old pipe he held tight in his teeth" and "Like a bowl full of jelly."

Some of the music is serious, some of it is silly, and some of it is just plain fun!  Enjoy, and happy holidays, whatever you celebrate this time of year! 

[Jerusha]

Lovely performance, DR.  Thanks for sharing! 

[Elkhound]

One of my Christmas songbooks has the original version of 'Silent Night.'  It is a waltz.

Not surprising, Gruber was an Austrian and a contemporary of Schubert.

Which tune did you use for "Away in a Manger"?

[DesertRose]

Thank you, Jerusha! 

Elkhound, my choral director got the brainwave to use both tunes for "Away in a Manger."  We sang verse 1 twice, once with each tune, and then alternated for verses 2 and 3.  That was a singalong, and the congregation kind of looked at him funny when he asked them to do that.  We had practiced it that way, so we were prepared to jump back and forth.  Fortunately, in the hymnals that church uses, both tunes are in the key of F, so it was easy to jump between the tunes.