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Holiday Entertainment Omnibus
Phillip Dampier:
A thread for holiday entertainment, music, movies, and whatever else you do to enjoy the season... share gift ideas, send holiday wishes, and more.
Andrew:
It finally got seasonably cold in Boston - and finally hit freezing at night, three weeks after the normal first frost. Farewell my impatience! (the flower, not impatience for the holiday season to arrive, which is still alive)
So David selected our first holiday CD concert last night. These are festive classical concerts discreetly seasoned with arrangements of carols so the latter haven't gotten pounded into the ground by the time the real day arrives.
And I have a recommendation from our concert: Christmas Goes Baroque (the discreet seasoning)
These are very clever and very well done arrangements of carols as if they had been composed by Baroque composers. In some of them, like Jingle Bells, the tune peeps out in a cunning way from the eighteenth century business, such that you can even miss it, or experience it subconciously.
This music is on the budget Naxos label so the price is right (US$8 or $9 for new). You can hear samples from this CD and its volume 2 at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Goes-Baroque/dp/B0000013OL/sr=1-2/qid=1164203626/ref=sr_1_2/002-6314108-6466443?ie=UTF8&s=music
http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-Goes-Baroque/dp/B0000013OL/sr=1-2/qid=1164202405/ref=sr_1_2/002-6314108-6466443?ie=UTF8&s=music
Or you can hear audio samples, and if you like it get it directly, at the Naxos site:
http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.550301
http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.550670
You do need to log in with email address and pass before you can hear audio at Naxos.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Andrew on November 22, 2006, 10:08:28 am ---And I have a recommendation from our concert: Christmas Goes Baroque (the discreet seasoning)
These are very clever and very well done arrangements of carols as if they had been composed by Baroque composers. In some of them, like Jingle Bells, the tune peeps out in a cunning way from the eighteenth century business, such that you can even miss it, or experience it subconciously.
--- End quote ---
Although I can't provide links to buy or listen, that reminds me of a couple of my Christmas favorites, Christmas in the Aire and A Fresh Aire Christmas, by Chip Davis and Mannheim Steamroller.
These collections include arrangements of carols that didn't exist in the Renaissance as if they had been composed in the Renaissance. A Fresh Aire Christmas includes an arrangement of "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing" "in 16th-century style" that makes it sound right out of the court of Henry VIII.
And for something completely different, and/or for jazz fans, there is always the soundtrack recording from A Charlie Brown Christmas, by the Vince Guaraldi Trio. ;D
dot-matrix:
I have all the Celtic Christmas Cd's for anyone looking for something a little different but stilll in keeping with the spirit these are a nice change of pace. I also just got the new Loreena McKennitt CD, An Ancient Muse , excellent gift for anyone who enjoys her clear as a bell voice and Celtic or Medieval Music, just beautiful.
dot-matrix:
OK from the serious to the upsurd. My Dad collects copies of Frederick Remington Bronzes and I was surfing the net the other day, also looking for cowboy ornaments so I could have Ennis and Jack on my tree this year and I came across this "stocking stuffer" which has to be right up there with one of the stupidest products ever marketed IMO...you be the judge for yourself...
Pooping Sheep Candy for Christmas… OMG…they’re not kidding…I wonder what Ennis and Jack would have thought of this, or the coiner of the phrase, Ebenezer Scrooge himself…
a little plastic sheep wearing a Santa hat…If you check out the expression on its face, you'll notice the sheep is mighty grumpy. This is either because he hates the Holidays or he is constipated. Perhaps it's both.
He does have a special skill, though. When you press down on its back, Baa Humbug! LIFTS HIS TAIL and POOPS OUT JELLY BEANS! And to drive home the point, the jelly beans are varying shades of brown.
Apparently there are also pooping reindeer and pooping pigs available, What will they think of next. My initial thought was WHO buys this stuff and then I thought of some young boys I know and thought...hmmmmm maybe there's a market after all.
;)
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