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The U.S Army Band performs a Christmas concert in 2010.. Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music regularly performed or heard around the Christmas season.Music associated with Christmas may be purely instrumental, or in the case of carols, may employ lyrics about the nativity of Jesus Christ, traditions such as gift-giving and merrymaking, cultural figures such as Santa Claus ...
It was written for the Christmas season of 1734 and incorporates music from earlier compositions, including three secular cantatas written during 1733 and 1734 and a largely lost church cantata, BWV 248a. The date is confirmed in Bach's autograph manuscript.
According to William Studwell in The Christmas Carol Reader, "Up on the Housetop" was the second-oldest secular Christmas song, outdone only by "Jingle Bells", which was written in 1857. It is also considered the first Yuletide song to focus primarily on Santa Claus.
Some view Christmas carols to be only religious in nature and consider Christmas songs to be secular. [1] Many traditional Christmas carols focus on the Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus, while others celebrate the Twelve Days of Christmas that range from 25 December to 5 January or Christmastide which ranges from 24 December to 5 ...
ELLWOOD CITY ― The Ellwood City Area Civic Chorale announced its Christmas concert series of well-known secular and sacred songs. Shows are: Nov. 26: 6 p.m. ... Quite a history.
A Decca re-release charted on the Music Vendor Christmas list of 1963. Lombardo first performed the song on radio in 1929. Kenny G: 1999 Subtitled "The Millennium Mix". Peaked at No. 7 on Billboard 's Hot 100 singles chart on the week ending January 8, 2000. [40] [41] "Away in a Manger" Reba McEntire: 1987
Run-DMC, "Christmas in Hollis" The 1987 Special Olympics charity album, A Very Special Christmas, had some incredible contributions from A-list artists like Madonna, Whitney Houston, Bruce ...
In addition, in December 2018, Bauer launched a temporary Christmas music service, Greatest Hits Christmas, broadcast on 105.2 FM in Birmingham and The Black Country during the period leading up to the relaunch of the frequency as Greatest Hits Radio in January 2019; GHC played Christmas music with announcements regarding the impending new ...