“O Holy Night” is one of the most dramatically beautiful Christmas carols ever penned but is unfortunately performed only rarely because of the melody’s extended range. This resplendent ...

Themes: Christmas; festivals; special days; music; friendship. Summary: The much-loved carol 'Silent Night' was first performed on Christmas Eve, 1818. Originally it was sung to a simple guitar ...

The 13th century saw St. Francis of Assisi introducing joyful hymns during his nativity plays, making carols a central feature of Christmas worship. Classics like "Silent Night", composed in 1818 ...

Two hundred years of Silent Night How a church sings when a choir can't meet What are Level 4 rules in Wales over Christmas? Mr Ellis said: "A carol for Wales will hopefully, in the strangest of ...

On the eve of Christmas Eve one of the places I visited on our Austrian Pilgrimage, was the village of Obendorf. That is the place where the famous carol "Silent night, Holy night" was first ...