"Christmas is.....any number of things, I suppose. For
you, the listener, Christmas is perhaps the sound of the first off-key carolers
of the season, the first snowfall, or the absence of Thanksgiving leftovers
on your dinner plate. For me, I encounter Christmas in an African-American
spiritual, Appalachian, English, French, German, and Latin carols, and in
a small town of my dreams. In reality, Christmas is where our hearts are at.
Mine is in and among the snow-shrouded forests that make up the Pine Curtain,
a place where music, imagination, friendships, and simple hope dwell. It is
a place you can find yourself at when you listen to ‘Christmas In the
Pines’."
Click on highlighted songs to listen to a short clip
from the song.
1. Here We Come A Caroling
(English carol)
2. Alma Redemptoris Mater (Latin plainchant)
3. Silent Night (German carol)
4. Angels We Have Heard on High (French carol)
5. I Wonder As I Wander (Appalachian carol)
6. Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (JS Bach)
7. Oh, Little Town of Bethlehem
8. Go, Tell It On the Mountain (African-American Spiritual)
