Comments on: Holiday Tunes http://www.sequenza21.com/2008/12/holiday-tunes/ The Contemporary Classical Music Community Wed, 22 May 2013 02:29:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Pamela Marshall http://www.sequenza21.com/2008/12/holiday-tunes/comment-page-1/#comment-15060 Pamela Marshall Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:47:15 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/?p=1013#comment-15060 Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker Suite is what we trim our tree by.

]]> By: Jay C. Batzner http://www.sequenza21.com/2008/12/holiday-tunes/comment-page-1/#comment-15017 Jay C. Batzner Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:20:19 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/?p=1013#comment-15017 Around here, it isn’t Christmas without John Denver and the Muppets. Best version of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” ever.

]]> By: Mark Winges http://www.sequenza21.com/2008/12/holiday-tunes/comment-page-1/#comment-15009 Mark Winges Sun, 28 Dec 2008 02:28:25 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/?p=1013#comment-15009 Vaughan-Williams: “Fantasia on Christmas Carols” and Haydn: “Missa Sancti Nicolai”
Both of them “work” really well (I just conducted them and have a more profound appreciation for what can “work” on one rehearsal with the strings, and can still keep me engaged at a midnight mass); the Haydn is just plain fun.

Britten: “A Boy is Born” (will someone somewhere perform the WHOLE thing? I’ve had to make do with a recording) – so motivically tight and well-paced.

Bach: “Christmas Oratorio” with a crackerjack early music ensemble never ceases to knock me out.

Anonymous 4′s early recording “On Yoolis Night”

Messiaen: “La Nativité” – a colleague of mine played it at 10pm on December 10 (Messiaen’s birthday); the acoustic was right for the piece and I had a ringside seat (I was turning his pages).

]]> By: Sparky P. http://www.sequenza21.com/2008/12/holiday-tunes/comment-page-1/#comment-15007 Sparky P. Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:59:10 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/?p=1013#comment-15007 This year, the Christmas playlist consisted of:

The Phil Spector Christmas album (natch)
A Rhino Rockin’ Collection with the usual folks (Brenda Lee, Chuck Berry, Bobby Helms) BUT, for me, the real star of that show is a KILLER version of “Jingle Bells” by Santo and Johnny
The Stephen Colbert Christmas Special: The Greatest Gift of All
Aimee Mann: Another Drifter in the Snow
The Fab 4′s Christmas discs and the Rubberband’s Beatmas Xmas (whereby familiar Christmas tunes are fashioned into Beatles tunes (i.e. “Rudolph” in modo di “I Saw Her Standing There” and “Jingle Bells” in modo di “Tomorrow Never Knows”)
“Christmas Wrapping” by the Waitresses (eternally)

And I did not hear “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” at all this year

]]> By: Christian http://www.sequenza21.com/2008/12/holiday-tunes/comment-page-1/#comment-15004 Christian Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:47:07 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/?p=1013#comment-15004 Elvis goes without saying. :)

]]> By: J.C. Combs http://www.sequenza21.com/2008/12/holiday-tunes/comment-page-1/#comment-15002 J.C. Combs Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:56:56 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/?p=1013#comment-15002 definitely Elvis.

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