King’s College Choir, Cambridge performing O Holy Night from 2009.

 

 

 

Baroque Christmas music by Ludwig Guttler Brass Ensemble with In Dulci Jubilo released in 2009.
 

 

Leon Russell with Christmas In Chicago (I've had plenty of those) from '72 (hey! I was there!).

 

 

In case there are any jazz enthusiasts amongst us there's a little bit of everything for everyone.

New York Jazz Lounge with A Holly Jolly Christmas released in 2012.

 

 

Christmas in Milan in 2020 to the tune of Silent Night.

 

 

 

Christmas from London 2021.
 

 

Darlene Love with Phil Spectors wall of sound.

 

Christmas in Mönchengladbach.  Haven't been back there since I was born, LOL.

 

 

5 minutes ago, NE1 said:

Darlene Love with Phil Spectors wall of sound.

 

"Phil Spector's wall of sound."  Love the sax.  Excellent selection.  

Christmas in Madrid set to Coldplay's Fix You.

 

 

Christmas in Paris set to Jean-Philippe Ichard's Paris In Love.
 

 

Christmas Just Ain't Christmas (without .......... Some soul!)

Dramatics~ " Christmas Just Ain't Christmas "( Without The One You Love )~ ~ ????????~1997 - YouTube

Christmas in Dublin set to We Wish You A Merry Christmas by Kevin MacLeod.
 

 

5 minutes ago, Madgee said:

Christmas just ain't Christmas without .......... Some soul!

Santa delivers . . . even in Thailand (he's the fat, grizzled farang in swimming trunks).

 

Otis Redding with Merry Christmas Baby from '67.

 

 

Jackson 5 with I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.

 

 

Santa Claus Go Straight To The Ghetto by James Brown from '68.  Uh!

 

 

I dont do Christmas and haven't for over thirty years and i absolutely hate carols/caroling , never have and never will .

18 minutes ago, keith101 said:

I dont do Christmas and haven't for over thirty years and i absolutely hate carols/caroling , never have and never will .

but did you hate it when you were a young child ? did you have a bad experience or was it something else ?

21 minutes ago, lodstewart said:

but did you hate it when you were a young child ? did you have a bad experience or was it something else ?

I dont remember ever really enjoying it and dont have any particular reason why even when my kids where young i enjoyed the look on their faces as they opened the presents buts that's it .

Tippaporn,

Thank you, you have been busy & I am enjoying a renewed sense of the Christmas spirit thanks to you Merry Christmas to you & yours

2 hours ago, keith101 said:

I dont do Christmas and haven't for over thirty years and i absolutely hate carols/caroling , never have and never will .

Bah! Humbug!

 

My favourite from the last few years.

19 hours ago, keith101 said:

I dont do Christmas and haven't for over thirty years and i absolutely hate carols/caroling , never have and never will .

Life is filled with symbolism.  Individual symbolism.  Symbolism which we ourselves are responsible for attaching whatever meaning we wish.

 

If Christmas represents, per it's original intention, I believe, good will and good cheer to all men then Christmas is worthy of celebration and joy.

 

If Christmas represents something of the opposite, or given no meaning at all, or even given meaning such to be delusional, pagan fantasy unfounded in reality, then Christmas is to be scorned and even ridiculed.

 

If Christmas represents good will and good cheer to all men but it is wholly evident that it has been allowed to be perverted by, say greed, and the corruptive nature has been allowed to spoil or dampen one's original symbolic representation then Christmas may well be justifiably shunned.

 

Whatever your precise symbolic definition of Christmas it is not for me to say but your words give evidence to a sour meaning attached to it.  If you are satisfied with your symbolism then that's just fine.  Keep Christmas in your own way.  If you are dissatisfied and wish to alter it then Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is a wonderful telling of how the spirit of Christmas can be had.

The '51 version is my favourite.  The movie is not so much to be seen as it is to be felt.
 

 

 

18 hours ago, Happy Howard said:

Tippaporn,

Thank you, you have been busy & I am enjoying a renewed sense of the Christmas spirit thanks to you Merry Christmas to you & yours

Merry Christmas to you and yours as well, Happy Howard.  And a Merry Christmas to all who read this.
 

 

21 hours ago, keith101 said:

I dont remember ever really enjoying it and dont have any particular reason why even when my kids where young i enjoyed the look on their faces as they opened the presents buts that's it .

it can come from having too much all the time when young, what some may call 'lucky', particularly in modern times.

so , you could say that the younger ones among us , missed out on a fantasic time in our childhood.

there are some things  money cannot buy.

thanks for the reply sir , it's an interesting point, stay safe

 

 

As a Christmas treat there's not much else I can think of that is more enchanting than Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker.

 

I've watched a number of Nutcracker performances and for me the best was by the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, in December 2012.  There are other yearly performances of the Nutcracker by the Mariinsky Theatre but the 2012 performance is my favourite.   My nine y.o. daughter has been watching this since age 2.

 

Must watch it on YT, though.

 

 

Nina Kaptsova and her amazing performance of Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy in 2010.

 

 

40 minutes ago, Tippaporn said:

As a Christmas treat there's not much else I can think of that is more enchanting than Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker.

 

I've watched a number of Nutcracker performances and for me the best was by the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, in December 2012.  There are other yearly performances of the Nutcracker by the Mariinsky Theatre but the 2012 performance is my favourite.   My nine y.o. daughter has been watching this since age 2.

 

Must watch it on YT, though.

 

 

Always a treat to see in person....Even if not by a "name" troupe....Most metro areas have large enough facilities & talent to offer several full stage/orchestral productions....