Carols I love to sing: Quem Pastores, O Come All Ye Faithful, People Look East, The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy (Dr S HATES this one!), Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day, In the Bleak Midwinter (the Holst tune), In Dulci Jubilo, Good King Wenceslas, Green Grow'th the Holly, Joy to the World, Coventry Carol, Angels from the Realms of Glory.
Other carols I love (don't mind singing these either): Carol of the Bells, Ding Dong Merrily on High, The Angel Gabriel, The Boar's Head Carol, The Holly and the Ivy, Noel Nouvelet, I Wonder as I Wander, Jesus Christ the Apple Tree, Un Flambeau, Jeanette, Isabelle.
Carols I really could do without: The First Nowell (I have to fight to stay awake when singing it), O Little Town of Bethlehem (ditto, except for one particular tune that you hardly ever hear but that I heard on a tape of a King's College music that L made me), What Child is This, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (except when sung in a round), We Wish You a Merry Christmas, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear. Oh, and O Holy Night is quite heinous; it brings out the warbler in people.
P.S. If anyone's out there I would be interested in your favourite and least favourite carols, too.
P.S. If anyone's out there I would be interested in your favourite and least favourite carols, too.
That's pretty funny: I was just thinking yesterday I could do without O Holy Night in the longer term myself. Great minds.
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Hi Kelly. I agree with most of your likes and dislikes. I don't see "Once in Royal David's City". King's College, Cambridge starts off their famous service of lessons and carols with a boy soprano singing the first verse... then the choir joins in for the second... then everybody comes in on the third. I've always loved that service and Jocelyn and I've been there (twice!). It was always one of my mum's faves, too. She was a crier. So, it's impossible for me not to connect all those dots when I hear them do that... usually resulting in welling-up of water on the eye... often spilling over onto the cheek.
ReplyDeleteWelcome back! I forgot "Once in Royal David's City." I do like that one. Also, "All Poor Men and Humble."
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