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Posted on 12/23/2016 6:03:48 PM PST by Kathy in Alaska
We can trace this to 1560 and Nikolaus Hermann, and it may have preceded him by some years.
Yoda!!! He’s all dressed up in his Christmas finery.
Wagner and WW2 makes sense, but somehow I think Rimsky-Korsakov had a hand in the War on Terror, depicting the Arabian Nights in Scheherazade!
(Or maybe it’s all Moussorgsky’s Fault with that Bald Mountain stuff!)
I love this “Early” Music.
What a memorable day...and such practical presents. I like practical.
Greetings to all at the Canteen!
To all our military men and women, past and present,
THANK YOU
for your service!
Margaret Dean-Smith, in her commentary on the Playford dances, alludes to this as a wassail song, along with a lot of other possibilities.
“Bright Day Star” is a great Christmas CD. I saw them live in Vancouver in 1998 and Seattle in 2002. They put on quite a show.
It IS lovely. Thank you for sharing it with us tonight.
Every year, around Christmas Eve, I take a moment to remember someone you’ve probably never heard of. Even though he is unknown to most of the world, that same world uses the thing he invented every day. In fact, you probably did today. His name is Professor Reginald Fessenden.
“Who?”, you say? Read on...
On December 24th, 1906, in small shack near Brant Rock, Massachusetts, Canadian-born Reginald Fessenden was preparing to run an experiment as night fell across the eastern seaboard of the United States.
Out at sea, an unknown number of ships were cruising throught the night upon the North Atlantic. Freighters, trawlers, fishing boats…and many of them with the new contraption called a ‘wireless’. Using Morse code, the invention of Gugliermo Marconi allowed ships and land to talk to each other in the dots and dashes of Morse Code.
You can imagine it…a young radioman, pulling watch on a frieghter on the North Atlantic, a day or so out of Boston. It’s late, and the ship’s cook has brought by a steaming mug of coffee to the young man to help him through his watch. He sips the mug, listening to the dots and dashes as news travels through the ether.
All of a sudden, he sits bolt upright, almost spilling his coffee. He can’t believe what he’s hearing….he frantically calls for the captain and whoever is within earshot. Within moments, the small radio room is crowded with men as the radioman explains excitedly what he’s hearing. The men in the room hush as they gather ‘round the radioman’s tiny headphones, turned outward so they can all faintly hear…
A human voice.
Professor Fessenden, from his lab in Brant Rock, was making the world’s first broadcast of human voice and music. He gave a Christmas greeting, read the Bible passage of the Christmas story out of Luke, chapter 2, and then picked up his violin and played the very first song ever heard on radio…”O Holy Night”. (Betcha didn’t know that!)
He ended with a wish of a joyous New Year, and that was it.
On December 26th, he repeated his broadcast.
Now, Prof. Fessenden didn’t get the credit he should’ve for this world-changing feat until the 1960’s, when someone doing some research on him came across the records of what he did that Christmas Eve so long ago. And, while Marconi got the credit for radio, the true credit goes to Fessenden for allowing mankind to talk over radio.
So this Christmas season, if you hear ‘O Holy Night’ over your radio, think of the man who, 110 years ago this year, made it all possible.
Howdy, PRO!
Hope you’ve had a good day. Still freezing your tookus off up there?
Fairly warm here tonight but windy as rain moves in.
The content is allegorical. What is the dance, and who is the true love? It’s a look back to the Old Testament, interpreted as Christ and the Church, or Christ and the soul. In Cornwall, where William Sandys picked up this song, there existed a tradition of mystery plays. The speculation is that all in attendance would have sung this at the end of the play, and the words were transmitted orally through the years. Custer LaRue handles vocal duties.
Still cold but, hey, it's winter here.
I had a good week with son and I hanging out most of Wednesday and then having both kids here for most of the day.
Lunch and hanging out at my place.
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Pentatonix ~ Hallelujah
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