Posted on 12/21/2012 6:05:20 PM PST by AZamericonnie
A very Merry Christmas to you & all your family Luvie! *Hugs*
I gotta go make some dinner & just a couple more dozen cookies to bake.
Thanks! Mmmm...I’m comin’t to your house! LOL!
You don’t have to gaze long at the night sky to marvel at the wonder of God’s awe-inspiring handiwork. The massive stretch of galaxies and the cloudy mass of our own Milky Way remind us of the spectacular creation and the sustaining work of Jesus by whom it is all held together (Col. 1:16-17). It’s as though all of us have front-row seats in the theater of God’s creative power.
But the nightly show we experience is nothing compared with the glory that God displayed when He sent His Son to Earth. While shepherds were watching their flocks, the sky was suddenly ablaze with angelic messengers praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest!” (Luke 2:14). Even Magi from a foreign land came and worshiped the King when God planted the brightest of stars in the east, which led them to Bethlehem.
While “the heavens declare the glory of God” nightly (Ps. 19:1), never before or since has the theater of the universe been more alive with His glory than it was with the announcement that the Creator of this universe loved us enough to come to our planet to save us from our sin. Keep that thought in mind the next time you marvel at the stars!
Read: Psalm 19:1-6
“Still in the Night”
“O Come All Ye Ambivalent”
“Random Chance Rest Ye Merry Gentlepersons”
“O Little Town of the Occupied Territories”
“Hark, the Herald Ancient Aliens Sing”
“O Inclusive Night”
“We Three Democratically Elected Presidents of the Indigenous Peoples of Asia Are”
“The Height-Challenged Transgendered Percussionist Boy/Girl”
“Do You Hear What I Hear (Closed Captioning Provided)”
“The Obese, Pipe Smoking, Commercialized, Unshaven Unauthorized Distributor of Entitlements is Coming to Town”
“I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus, and My Other Mommy is Really Pi$$ed Off”
“Testosterone Producing Units Roasting on a Properly Vented, Thoroughly Safe, Non-Fossil-Fuel-Consuming Emission-Free Heat Source”
”It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, and the ACLU is Going to Sue Your A$$ Off for That”
“I’m Dreaming of an Ethnically Diverse Solstice”
George Frederick Handel wrote a magnificent cantata. (The politically incorrect word would be oratorio, but that would imply prayer, coming from the Latin orare, “to pray”, and we all know that there’s no one there to listen, don’t we?) The one-word title of this piece is so politically incorrect that it can barely be translated without offending someone! A proper translation into Politically-Correctese would be:
”Person Who Has Symbolically Had Vegetable Oil Poured on His/Her Head, Thus Signifying That He/She is Special (But No More Special Than Anyone Else!)
The politically correct version of this towering work contains:
(I may just burn in heck for all eternity for this entry.)
Then there is the beloved Winter Holiday ballet by Tchaikovsky known as “The Hypo-Allergenic Non-Peanut-Cracker (Produced on Equipment That Does Not Process Peanuts or Other Tree-Related Products)”
This includes:
Now, for our Winter Holiday festivities, a list of politically correct movies:
”It’s a Wonderful Life, Unless You’re a Member of an Oppressed Minority”
“Easily Explained Scientific Phenomenon on 34th Street”
“How the Grinch Brought Diversity and Cultural Sensitivity to Whoville”
“Multicultural Solstice” (except for the problem that the music was written by a member of the Zionist Entity, Irving Berlin)
Canteen members, add your own!
The Interior (middle of Alaska) is always MUCH colder.
It's -8 and still dropping at my house right now.
Praying for him and you.
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Here is a list of the songs in the Jukebox:
Artist/s - Song Names:
Alazan - Ave Nocturna
Antonio Cartagena - Apaga La Luz
Arrancando - Mi Vecina
Arrancando - Suena Sabroso
Cache - Descarga Cache
Celia Cruz Y Oscar D'Leon - El Son De Celia
Cheo Feliciano - Experto En Ti
Cheo Feliciano - Recordando A Louie
Cheo Feliciano Y Pete El Conde Rodriguez - Soneros De Bailadores
Chino Espinoza Y Los Duenos Del Son - Secreto Escondido
Cumbia Mix - Colombian
Cumbia Mix
Diabloson - Cuidate
Diabloson - Descarga
Diabloson - Gracias A La Vida
Eddie Palmieri - Pa' Huele
Hector Lavoe - Mi Gente
Ismael Rivera - No Soy Para Ti
La India Y Marc Anthony - Vivir Lo Nuestro
Luis Enrique - La Manana
Orquesta De La Luz - Somos Diferentes
Orquesta Guayacan - Alabio, Alabao
Pancho Cataneo - Amore Con Salsa
Ray Barreto - Acid
Rubén Blades - Pedro Navaja
Salsa Con Clase, Johnny Y Ray - No Vale La Pena
Siempre Salsa All - Stars - Salsa Para Siempre
The Best Of Latin Tiempo-2 - Alejate Viento De Agua
The Best Of Latin Tiempo-2 - Cantando Vivire
The Best Of Latin Tiempo-2 - El Cielo, El Mar Y El Sol
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There is an old saying in the classical music game, “Good composers borrow, but great composers steal.” George Frederick Handel stole from himself constantly, but he also freely stole from others, once saying of another composer, “That melody was too good for him.” The composer gets credit for “Joy to the World”, but only because someone stole part of a Handel chorus for a carol of his own. It was a case of karmic payback years after the composer was dead and wasn’t in a position to complain.
Felix Mendelssohn gets credit for “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” because a tune from one of his cantatas was stolen as a replacement melody for Charles Wesley’s original solemn tune. Those early Methodists were definitely solemn! Temperance will do that to you, especially around Christmas.
In his day, Franz Schubert was as prolific a songwriter as Paul McCartney or George Gershwin, penning more than 600 tunes written to German poetry. At the Vienna Choir Boys School, Antonio Salieri ran a musical gym for Schubert, and the young composer tried his hand at everything from poems to old Italian opera libretti. In this period Schubert even tried writing a Christmas carol, but the song remains forgettable and unknown.
Johannes Brahms turned a poem by Emmanuel Geibel into “Lullaby of the Spirit”, a song for contralto with piano and viola accompaniment as his Christmas contribution. (Don’t confuse this song with the famous “Brahms Lullaby”.) The text of the poem is Mary’s plea, asking the treetops to be still lest they wake the baby Jesus. While the contralto sings Brahms’ musical line of Geibel’s poem, the viola sings a completely different German Christmas carol under her as a counter-melody. It’s a brilliant achievement, but not something that can be sung by anyone with a voice of less than operatic quality.
The classical winner has to be Adolphe Adam (accent on the second syllable of both names), the French composer of the rather insipid ballet “Giselle”. On one of his better days, he composed Cantique de Noel, known in English as “O Holy Night”. That alone qualifies him for a spot in the Composer’s Hall of Fame – despite “Giselle”.
“Cantique” is written in D-flat Major (5 flats) which can be a bit of a problem for inexperienced organists; occasionally there is transcription to the less difficult keys of C or D Major. But the real challenge is for the vocalist. At the end, Adam expects his tenor or soprano to hit a high A-flat and come down to D-flat, carefully sounding each note separately, not using portamento to slur the notes. Good singers can handle this, and some church choir soloists are quite up to the job, even if transposition to a different key is necessary.
But the fun really starts when a well meaning choir director decides to have the congregation sing along. I recall all too well listening to my fellow congregants fall flat on their – ahem! – faces at the those eighth notes at the end.
You’re not supposed to giggle in church!
That is hilarious!!...and makes my TEETH hurt! ROFL!!
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Bing Crosby ~ White Christmas
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