Category: Christmas
Church and Culture – December 22, 2018 – Hour 1 – Deal Hudson shares Christmas sung by Caruso, Muzio, Ponselle, Karen Carpenter, and more.
The 5 Best YouTube Videos for Christmas
Deal W. Hudson December 11, 2017 YouTube has become a treasure trove of musical delights, which I enjoy exploring especially at the season of Christmas. I offer the five best videos of live performances of Christmas music that I have found thus far. Live performances add a much-needed visual element to the performances of familiar… Continue reading The 5 Best YouTube Videos for Christmas
Church and Culture – December 23, 2017 – Hour 1: Deal’s Christmas Special
Church and Culture: Deal Hudson – Hour 2 – Advent Music, December 23, 2017
Church and Culture – December 16, 2017 – Hour 2: Advent Special
Rev. Phillip De Vous: – Hour 2 – reads and comments on a variety of Advent and Christmas poems, December 26, 2015
Brother Mark Dohle: – Hour 1 – retreat master at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit, gives spiritual advice to those who get the Christmas “blues.”, December 19, 2015
Bob Reilly: – Hour 1 – discusses 12 pieces of Christmas music that should be better known, December 12, 2015
An Anti-Nativity Scene in the Bleak Midwinter
Deal W. Hudson December 24, 2009 A poem by Christina Rosetti, published posthumously in 1904, became a favorite Christmas carol after Gustav Holst set it to music for the English Hymnal two years later. The poem underscores the harsh setting of the nativity – the first stanza reads: In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth… Continue reading An Anti-Nativity Scene in the Bleak Midwinter