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Dan Forrest was born in Breesport, New York, and began piano lessons with his elementary school music teacher at age 8. In high school Forrest won numerous piano awards, accompanied honors choirs, and performed the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Elmira Symphony.
In common with many traditional songs and carols, the lyrics vary across books. The versions compared below are taken from The New English Hymnal (1986) (which is the version used in Henry Ramsden Bramley and John Stainer's Carols, New and Old), [1] [13] Ralph Dunstan's gallery version in the Cornish Songbook (1929) [14] and Reverend Charles Lewis Hutchins's version in Carols Old and Carols ...
The lyrics were recently set to a new, original melody by composer Dan Forrest who also wrote a choral arrangement of the piece. Forrest's composition won a prize in a choral composition contest, was performed, and was published by Hinshaw Music in 2006.
Dan Roberts – bass guitar Chris Brown – Hammond organ , Wurlitzer piano , universal organ , piano Kenny Wollesen – drums , percussion , chimes , sleigh bells , timpani on "Little Drummer Boy," tom tom on "Little Drummer Boy"
A second version of "Blue Christmas" was recorded with Martina McBride using mainly acoustic instrumentation in order to obtain a similar arrangement to the one used in the informal segments of Presley's '68 Comeback Special. Also, shots of McBride performing the song were digitally inserted into footage, taken from the original special, of ...
Requiem for the Living is a choral composition in five movements by Dan Forrest, completed in 2013, an extended setting of the Requiem, scored for boy soprano, soprano, choir and orchestra. The Latin text that Forrest set combines sections from the Requiem with biblical texts from Ecclesiastes and the Book of Job. The composition was published ...
Forrest Gump costars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright are reuniting for another epic love story — and fans will get to see them looking as young as they did in the 1994 classic. Sony released its ...
It was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 19 December 1958 with the St. Martin-in-the-Fields Concert Orchestra and Singers conducted by John Churchill, and produced by Noel Iliff and Geraldine Stephenson. [4] The work presents a sequence of carols and scenes bookmarked between God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen and The First Nowell: [3]