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Holiday Countdown Day 4

Hope you had fun playing Name That Carol yesterday!
As promised, here are the answers:

  1. Break Forth, O Beauteous, Heavenly Light
  2. Frosty the Snowman
  3. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
  4. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
  5. Here Comes Santa Claus
  6. The Holly and the Ivy
  7. The Huron Carol/T’was in the Moon of Wintertime
  8. Jingle Bell Rock
  9. Jingle Bells (Dashing through the snow…)
  10. Let it Snow (Oh the weather outside is frightful)

BUT WAIT…we’re not done! It’s time for some classical music trivia. How many of these questions can you answer without resorting to Google!?

  1. When and where was Handel’s Messiah first performed?
  2. In 1750, Handel began presenting annual performances of the Messiah at what London location?
  3. The “O Antiphons” are the basis of what popular Christmas hymn?
  4. “Wolcum Yole!” The text of Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols (1942) is written in what language?
  5. Who commissioned Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and when and where was it first performed?

Be sure to check our post tomorrow for the answers…and for movie suggestions from BEC choristers and board members!

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