It's Christmas
No vacation on the western calendar has the frame of track committed to it that Christmas does. Some of the greatest composers and lyricists who have ever lived had covered Christmas music in their repertoires and the legacy they left is some of the most emotional tune there's.
I have a bunch of favorite Christmas songs and carols, It would be impossible to pick a single favorite. One that rarely fails to bring a tear to my eye is In the Bleak Midwinter.
In the Bleak Midwinter was originally written as a poem by Christina Rossetti some time before 1872. The American Magazine Scribner's Monthly requested a Christmas poem from her and she delivered In the Bleak Midwinter.
In 1906, no less than Gustav Holst set it to music and a classic was born. Holst set his arrangement up for congregational singing and his version, the version here, is known as the Cranham. In 1909 Harold Edward Darke rearranged it to accommodate soloists and the Darke setting comes across as feeling more triumphal and is the version usually performed by full choirs
So now that it is Christmas, I need to wish all of you a merry one and I need to thanks for any other remarkable 12 months at Kitchen and Residential Design.