Since it appears I am no longer doing live air shifts at WWFM, other than the odd pledge drive – and therefore have no outlet for my love of Christmas music, beyond the limited scope of my specialty shows – I thought I would make the most of Facebook and, this being the first day of Advent, initiate kind of a musical Advent calendar.
Every day through Christmas, I will try to offer something seasonal, if not in the body of my regular post, then as a special “Advent calendar” supplement.
I’ll kick things off with music of Sergei Lyapunov. After all, today is his birthday (see my main post). Here is his “Fêtes de Noël” (“Christmas Festival”), Op.41:
It falls into four tableaux:
No. 1 “Nuit de Noël” (“Christmas Night”)
No. 2 “Cortège de mages” (“Procession of the Magi”)
No. 3 “Chanteurs de Noël” (“Christmas Carolers”)
No. 4 “Chant de Noël” (“Christmas Carol”)
And since my guest tonight on “The Lost Chord” is Peter Schickele, here is P.D.Q. Bach’s “Consort of Christmas Carols.”
No. 1 “Throw the Yule Log On, Uncle John”
No. 2 “O Little Town of Hackensack”
No. 3 “Good King Kong Looked Out”
The “Consort of Christmas Carols” will be among the works performed on Dec. 5, when Schickele appears at The College of New Jersey in Ewing. “The Lost Chord” can be heard at 10 p.m. ET, with a repeat Wednesday evening at 6, at http://www.wwfm.org.
Happy Holidays!
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