20061225

The First Noel (from the Christmas CD)

I know I have some French listeners... Noel is French, right? I'm curious on this holiday why so many of our great Christmas carols come from France... O Holy Night, The Sleep of the Baby Jesus, and so on. But I won't ramble. Merry Christmas!

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20061215

O Come Emmanuel (from the new CD)

Hello again, everyone! I hope this holiday season is everything you want it to be. Over the month of December, I'll be featuring a few of the tracks from my new Christmas CD, Snow and Ivory (soon to be available on CD Baby.)

Today's selection is a bit different, since I wanted to accentuate the mystery of O Come Emmanuel, which in and of itself is almost chant-like. The reverberations of the ambient piano echo through time, providing the opportunity to contemplate those prophets who spoke of this One who would be born in Bethlehem Ephrathah of a virgin, and would be called "Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace."

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