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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.
"The First Nowell" in Carols, New and Old (1879) [1] "The First Nowell" (or Nowel), [1] modernised as "The First Noel" [2] (or Noël), is a traditional English Christmas carol with Cornish origins most likely from the early modern period, although possibly earlier. [3] It is listed as number 682 in the Roud Folk Song Index.
"This Have I Done for My True Love", or "Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day", Op. 34, no. 1 [H128], [1] is a motet [2] or part song [3] composed in 1916 by Gustav Holst. The words are taken from an ancient carol , and the music is so strongly influenced by English folk music that it has sometimes been mistaken for a traditional folk song itself.
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"
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.
Robert Craig Wright (September 25, 1914 – July 27, 2005) was an American composer-lyricist for Hollywood and the musical theatre, best known for the Broadway musical and musical film Kismet, for which he and his professional partner George Forrest adapted themes by Alexander Borodin and added lyrics.
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 ...
An increase of Christmas songs occurred on the Hot 100 in 2010 when 6 holiday songs appeared on the survey with 4 more Bubbling Under the Hot 100. On December 25, Coldplay reached No. 25 on the Hot 100 with "Christmas Lights", making it the first holiday song in their top 40 in the past 11 years. [318]