Pretty amazing Don Feder could actually top himself this late in the year !!!
PING!
Posted on 12/07/2006 1:01:42 AM PST by goldstategop
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum,
wie treu sind deine Blätter!
Du grünst nicht nur zur Sommerzeit,
Nein auch im Winter, wenn es schneit.
O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum,
wie treu sind deine Blätter!
O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum!
Du kannst mir sehr gefallen!
Wie oft hat nicht zur Weihnachtszeit
Ein Baum von dir mich hoch erfreut!
O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum!
Du kannst mir sehr gefallen!
O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum!
Dein Kleid will mich was lehren:
Die Hoffnung und Beständigkeit
Gibt Trost und Kraft zu jeder Zeit.
O Tannenbaum, o Tannenbaum!
Das soll dein Kleid mich lehren.
Very glad you posted this, goldstategop.
Ping!
The usual greeting is Hag Sameach ("Happy Holidays!") The only holiday that has a unique traditional greeting is Rosh Hashana.
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
And whatever you think of her politics or her talent, you have to admit that she's one of the few that has the voice to do justice to that hymn. (And few of the others who can will ever be household names.)
Anyway, I don't own those albums, but my wife (check my tagline) does, and had there ever been a problem with my playing Christmas CDs in the office, they would've shown up the next day.
This reminds me of an incident at a school south of me about 20 years ago. The school had a tradition of celebrating the outstanding artwork of its students by exhibiting it throughout the school building. One student's painting was of the Crucifixion. This artwork had been hanging on the wall for a number of years. A Jewish couple moved to the school district with their child. Within a very short time after enrolling their child at the school, they had filed a lawsuit against the school saying that their child was made uncomfortable by this particular painting. After a year of raging debate, the school removed the painting.
This was my personal introduction to the War on Christianity. Ironically, our own elementary school principal was Jewish, and not only did he organize Christmas caroling, he strolled through the neighborhood, singing carols with us, both secular and religious. No one does that anymore. You can't even hear kids sing religious carols at a Christmas concert anymore.
The awesome spirituality is gone from the public arena.
PING!
Luciano Pavarotti - nobody does it better.
It literally chokes me up every time I play his Christmas album [ yep, still usin' vinyl :-) ]
(IMO Ave Maria has to be sung by a Tenor.)
Actually, Christkindlmarket means Christ Child Market. So, the City of Chicago bans the movie "The Nativity" about the birth of the Christ child from the Christ Child Market festival. I'm not making this up.
I'm Jewish, and my elementary school music teacher was Jewish, and he organized Christmas caroling and taught the school choir Christmas songs, and one or two Hannukah songs and organized a Christmas concert. So much for the good old days.
Thanks for the ping, Alexander. I second your thumbs up to goldstategop for posting this.
I remember when Celine Dion sang "God Bless America" during the TV concert for 9/11, right after 9/11. She did an *amazing* job! One of the most moving songs I've ever heard, but boy was I frustrated that it was sung by a French Canadian! The "My home sweet home" part wasn't quite right...
The leader of the Catholic Church in Bavaria in the 1930s-40s, Cardinal Faulhaber, was anti-Hitler. When the Nazis ordered that the Jews had to wear arm bands, Cardinal Faulhaber had embroidered yellow Star of David arm bands put on the all the statues of Christ, the Virgin Mary, St. Joseph, St. Anne, St. John the Baptist, in the whole archdiocese of Munich.
Faulhaber's books were banned, and in 1934 and 1938 attempts were made to assassinate him. He continued to say and do things that demonstrated resistance to the Nazis, for instance he encouraged choral singing of classics from Bach and Handel. Why was this important? Hear me out: because it was virtually the only that young German Christians exposed to, and could publically celebrate, Old Testament (Jewish) Scriptures.
Connecting the dots, I learned that several of the heroic White Rose group --- ultimately bneheaded for trying to organize resistance to the Nazis in wartime Munich--- had met each other singing about such subversive things as "God's promises to Abraham and his seed forever..."
The leader of the Catholic Church in Bavaria in the 1930s-40s, Cardinal Faulhaber, was anti-Hitler. When the Nazis ordered that the Jews had to wear arm bands, Cardinal Faulhaber had embroidered yellow Star of David arm bands put on the all the statues of Christ, the Virgin Mary, St. Joseph, St. Anne, St. John the Baptist, in the whole archdiocese of Munich.
Faulhaber's books were banned, and in 1934 and 1938 attempts were made to assassinate him. He continued to say and do things that demonstrated resistance to the Nazis, for instance he encouraged choral singing of classics from Bach and Handel. Why was this important? Hear me out: because it was virtually the only that young German Christians exposed to, and could publically celebrate, Old Testament (Jewish) Scriptures.
Connecting the dots, I learned that several of the heroic White Rose group --- ultimately bneheaded for trying to organize resistance to the Nazis in wartime Munich--- had met each other singing about such subversive things as "God's promises to Abraham and his seed forever..."
"White Rose" rebels were BEHEADED? I always thought they were shot.
My daughter took German in school.
Every year I try to remember this song, but cant seem to get past the first line.
Sigh. Must be getting old.
Perhaps that's because observant Jews tend to be conservative politically too, and secular Jews tend not to be.
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