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Peter Warlock was a prolific composer of songs, with over 119 to his name. His choral music is less well-known, but within that genre, "Bethlehem Down" is one of Warlock's most famous carols. [2] [3] The poet and journalist Bruce Blunt told the story behind the creation of "Bethlehem Down" in a letter to Gerald Cockshott, dated 1943. [4]
Stephen Toussaint (born 22 March 1965) is a British actor and writer. He first gained prominence through his role in the ITV crime drama The Knock (1994–2000). Currently, he plays Lord Corlys Velaryon in the HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon .
A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 is an extended choral composition for Christmas by Benjamin Britten scored for three-part treble chorus, solo voices, and harp. The text, structured in eleven movements, is taken from The English Galaxy of Shorter Poems, edited by Gerald Bullett. It is principally in Middle English, with some Latin and Early Modern ...
Here are our 30 favorite Christmas poems. Related: We've Got 25 of the Best Religious Christmas Songs—Go Tell It on the Mountain. ... Music On Christmas Morning. Canva/Parade.
The opera won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music. [66] A Christmas Carol, composed by Iain Bell to a libretto by Simon Callow based on Dickens's A Christmas Carol, premiered on 5 December 2014 at Houston Grand Opera. The work is a 90-minute chamber opera for orchestra and one singer in which he portrays multiple characters in the story.
Find the best Christmas movie quotes, including funny and heartwarming lines from famous holiday films like "Elf," "Home Alone" and all the other classics.
Lux Aurumque ("Light and Gold", sometimes "Light of Gold") is a choral composition in one movement by Eric Whitacre.It is a Christmas piece based on a Latin poem of the same name, which translates as "Light, warm and heavy as pure gold, and the angels sing softly to the new born babe". [1]
[citation needed] King Henry VIII was a Renaissance monarch who was educated in music and several languages. [5] The King wrote "Green Groweth the Holly" as his own take on the developing Christmas carol style. It is not known exactly when King Henry wrote the carol but it is known to have been published in 1522. [6]