Last night I went to the Third Day of Christmas Carol Sing
at the Lutheran Church where I used to sing, and Rich and Kathbert joined me. I
love this carol sing because Christmas shouldn’t be over on the 25th
but just beginning, and also my OTHER choir director chooses such wonderful
carols. We sang “The Only Son from Heaven,” which has such a lovely early music
sound to it, and the Sussex Carol, which gets my vote for happiest tune of all
time. (For all those who say I only like minor key music, I will point out my
love of the Sussex Carol as evidence that a really lilting major key tune can
move me.) During “Angels We Have Heard on High,” my OTHER choir director
stopped playing the organ on one of the middle verses and just let us singers
take it, and it sounded beautiful! Lots of harmony, and such lovely voices. Here
is an amazing piece of news: someone anonymously donated a cool million to this
Lutheran church, so they were able to retire their debt from construction
projects and do some new projects. Isn’t that wonderful Christmas news? After
the carol sing, my OTHER choir director invited Rich, Kathbert, me, and a
couple of other people over to his house for Swedish fruit soup. He showed us
his excellent Christmas present from a friend: a piece of cardboard that says “Nothing”
on it. Yes, he got nothing for Christmas! I can’t quite put my finger on why,
but this has been the best Christmas yet… and it isn’t even over! There are
still eight more days of it!
Famous Hat
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