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A post on Christmas songs in Feburary
Feb. 27th, 2009 05:32 amI know this is a bit odd, but I think I've just realized my favorite Christmas song. I always though it was Angels We Have Heard on High, which admittedly is a pretty soft and comforting song. I like it for that exactly those reasons. It just puts me at ease.
It wasn't until I went to see the Saks Fifth Avenue Christmas Lights for the first time that I started questioning that. Walking out of Rockefeller Center and hearing the music cue up, it stopped me in my tracks. It was the most dramatic version of Carol of the Bells that I've ever heard. And it was coordinated with the lights of the snowflakes. I stood there amidst the crowds, just awestruck. And just when you think it's over, it comes back for one more amazing explosion of lights and sound. *sigh* I used to go there for Christmas just to see that every year and it's never failed to captivate me. For the longest time, I've tried finding that version of the song but the most I'd ever gotten was that it was once upon a time on a Christmas CD put out by Saks Fifth Avenue that is now out of print and obscure as hell. I could never find a version of it, something depresses me every year because inevitably, after watching that music and light show, I go home to go and search for it. And I've never been able to find it.
Generally, I stop thinking about it entirely once the Christmas season ends. It wasn't until tonight as I was watching the Noel episode of The West Wing that I heard this song again, this time with lyrics. It is not the first time I've heard this song, not even the first time I've heard it with words. And yet for some reason, it made me pause, just as the Saks Fifth Avenue light show made me pause that first time in New York. It was a Christmas episode, Josh and Donna were walking out of the White House past street carolers and they were singing Ring, Christmas Bells (the Christmas song done in English to the music of Carol of the Bells) and they punctuated each beat with hand bells in the same way the Saks Fifth Avenue Christmas Light Show did it with lights. It was beautiful.
It was at that moment that I realized that no matter how comforted, or peaceful Angels We Have Heard on High, I think Ring, Christmas Bells with its fast and swift moving tempo and bells has it completely beat.
And this is yet another late at night post about something completely random... I have to admit though, I will definitely look back on this and marvel. It will definitely be lots of marveling...
It wasn't until I went to see the Saks Fifth Avenue Christmas Lights for the first time that I started questioning that. Walking out of Rockefeller Center and hearing the music cue up, it stopped me in my tracks. It was the most dramatic version of Carol of the Bells that I've ever heard. And it was coordinated with the lights of the snowflakes. I stood there amidst the crowds, just awestruck. And just when you think it's over, it comes back for one more amazing explosion of lights and sound. *sigh* I used to go there for Christmas just to see that every year and it's never failed to captivate me. For the longest time, I've tried finding that version of the song but the most I'd ever gotten was that it was once upon a time on a Christmas CD put out by Saks Fifth Avenue that is now out of print and obscure as hell. I could never find a version of it, something depresses me every year because inevitably, after watching that music and light show, I go home to go and search for it. And I've never been able to find it.
Generally, I stop thinking about it entirely once the Christmas season ends. It wasn't until tonight as I was watching the Noel episode of The West Wing that I heard this song again, this time with lyrics. It is not the first time I've heard this song, not even the first time I've heard it with words. And yet for some reason, it made me pause, just as the Saks Fifth Avenue light show made me pause that first time in New York. It was a Christmas episode, Josh and Donna were walking out of the White House past street carolers and they were singing Ring, Christmas Bells (the Christmas song done in English to the music of Carol of the Bells) and they punctuated each beat with hand bells in the same way the Saks Fifth Avenue Christmas Light Show did it with lights. It was beautiful.
It was at that moment that I realized that no matter how comforted, or peaceful Angels We Have Heard on High, I think Ring, Christmas Bells with its fast and swift moving tempo and bells has it completely beat.
And this is yet another late at night post about something completely random... I have to admit though, I will definitely look back on this and marvel. It will definitely be lots of marveling...
