For Christmas – Yo-Yo Ma and Allison Krauss play “The Wexford Carol”
One of the oldest extant carols, and more properly called The Enniscorthy Carol (according to Roisin O’Gray of Tonos)
For Christmas Eve: Mitch Miller & the Gang, We Three Kings of Orient Are
Mitch Miller supposedly incarnated the worst of 1950s popular music, nearly destroying Sinatra with novelty numbers and generally inflicting cliché upon cliché that would be blown away in the 1960s.…
Have a Julie London Christmas: I’d Like You For Christmas / Warm December
Julie London was a singer / actress blessed with a beautifully understated voice that combined clarity with a husky warmth. She was possibly rather typecast into singing “bearskin rug music”,…
For Christmas Eve: Judy Collins, Christ Child Lullaby
Here is the great Judy Collins singing a wonderfully atmospheric a capella rendition of the Christ Child Lullaby: Have as happy, safe, and reflective Christmas as possible. As the years…
Ashmolean Museum Advent Calendar
At Art and Theology, Victoria Emily Jones has a bumper collection of music, short films, books and art for the season. She features an online advent calendar from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the…
On distractions — Curving toward the center
Of course there are distractions, says the Lord: When there are others, they are the distraction, and when you are by yourself, you are the distraction! You can try to…
Séamus Sweeney 