Or maybe Veni Veni Emmanuel / O Come O Come Emmanuel (which I suppose many Christians would classify as an Advent hymn, but since my church doesn't celebrate Advent I call it a Christmas carol)
I really liked Carol of the Bells and 12 Days of Christmas when I was a kid and before I had to sing them in choir. Carol of the Bells is terrible to sing if one is not a soprano (and not that much fun as a soprano either), and 12 Days of Christmas is... well, we sang this every year at a Christmas party where each choir member led a table or two of happy drunk people singing each number, which I have to say was actually pretty fun but I could do with not ever having to sing it again.
While Silent Night is not generally my favorite, I also have to link this gorgeous arrangement of Silent Night which may in fact be one of my favorite Christmas arrangements. The choir director said, "I've done a lot of Christmas music and I'm never impressed by new arrangements... but I was impressed by this one," and our church choir did it last Christmas. I bought a cheapo viola so I could play the cello part and sweated bullets to flog the rest of the string quartet (besides me, two 9-year-old kids and one 12-year-old kid... it is insane that this actually worked) into being ready to do; the parts aren't hard but the counting can be difficult if you're 9, let's just say.
A's favorite, somewhat oddly, is Good King Wenceslas. Our plan is to do a very silly home video of this this weekend!
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My favorite is maybe Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen / Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming
Or maybe Veni Veni Emmanuel / O Come O Come Emmanuel (which I suppose many Christians would classify as an Advent hymn, but since my church doesn't celebrate Advent I call it a Christmas carol)
I really liked Carol of the Bells and 12 Days of Christmas when I was a kid and before I had to sing them in choir. Carol of the Bells is terrible to sing if one is not a soprano (and not that much fun as a soprano either), and 12 Days of Christmas is... well, we sang this every year at a Christmas party where each choir member led a table or two of happy drunk people singing each number, which I have to say was actually pretty fun but I could do with not ever having to sing it again.
While Silent Night is not generally my favorite, I also have to link this gorgeous arrangement of Silent Night which may in fact be one of my favorite Christmas arrangements. The choir director said, "I've done a lot of Christmas music and I'm never impressed by new arrangements... but I was impressed by this one," and our church choir did it last Christmas. I bought a cheapo viola so I could play the cello part and sweated bullets to flog the rest of the string quartet (besides me, two 9-year-old kids and one 12-year-old kid... it is insane that this actually worked) into being ready to do; the parts aren't hard but the counting can be difficult if you're 9, let's just say.
A's favorite, somewhat oddly, is Good King Wenceslas. Our plan is to do a very silly home video of this this weekend!