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10. The Advent and Christmas carol list

There’s a compromise on this list in that certain versions of certain carols I scoured youtube, trying dozens of versions … this was some years back, settling on particular versions, e.g. Stille Nacht in that square, plus Juan Diego Flores with Cantique Noel … The Little Drummer Boy must be that version, Joy to the World on the 25th, those Bulgarian chn etc.

Many carols … the version is really up to anyone … what you consider best. Once settled though, I’d like to retain that version every year, maybe to be consistent, to give us some concept of eternity, nothing changing. I’ve tried to do similar with Unherdables formatting … loathe to make wholesale changes, as we have enough of those from globo-psycho … new world order and all that.

So I see it as a mix of old, eternal, unchangeable … plus some tweaking here and there, esp. at your behest … eyes and ears ever open to your suggestions. Certain carols are not going to be run … Jingle Bells, Rudolph, I saw Santa kissing Mommy … at least not until the week following Christmas Day. Idea was to start with light of tone, British Isles theme, gradually more serious up until Christmas Day … Boxing Day needs to be Stephen … after that … whatever.

But that still leaves gaps in the middle as you’ll see on the scrawled chart below and some of those had carols from DAD, some from other chaps … we need some from “our” gals too, from our Americans.

Can anyone remember that one of Dame Kiri te Kanawa, something with saeculorum in it?

9. Brown Boots

… my Ole Da would have liked this too: