Why are "Away in a Manger" and "Silent Night" presented

Hardrada

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Thu Dec-18-08 07:03 PM
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Why are "Away in a Manger" and "Silent Night" presented

on television and radio with 400 voice choirs and Mahler-scale symphony orchestras?
These songs are lullabies and not operatic choruses!

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Lydia Leftcoast

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Thu Dec-18-08 07:06 PM
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1. I don't know

I dislike both songs, and I don't understand their appeal. There are much better Christmas carols around.

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Hardrada

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Thu Dec-18-08 07:20 PM
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2. The ones I loved no one around here knows or sings.

Jeg er saa glad paa Julekveld, Deilig er den Himelblaa, Steh'Ich bei Deine Krippe hier, O du Heilige, O du selige, Gnadenbringende Christenheit and the one we learned in college: Psallite Unigenito!

Alpha es et O, Alpha es et O. :cry:

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Lydia Leftcoast

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Thu Dec-18-08 07:29 PM
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3. Hey, I know all of those!

That what comes of being a Norwegian-German-Latvian ex-Lutheran-turned-Episcopalian.

You hear them in Minneapolis to a certain extent.

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Hardrada

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Thu Dec-18-08 10:50 PM
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4. I'm glad you do.

I could hear them at Luther or Wartburg but one has to reserve tickets way in advance and it's a concert. Nothing like it was when I was a kid and sang them in church. Ah well. (They tossed out the old liturgy and settings too.)I can understand why people got upset when the Latin Mass was discontinued.

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