Tag Archive for the term: christmas music

Lately I’ve been digging up old traditionals that I’ve grown up with - songs I sang in choirs, folk songs my mom used to sing at bedtime, melodies from films I grew up with and never forgot, American Spirituals I picked up along the way. The bulk of my recreational piano-playing/singing has been to these [...]

Christmas means different things for everyone. For my childhood best friend, it means sleeping on the cold wood floor of her cousins’ attic listening for reindeer. For my half-Jewish-half-Catholic roommate, it means devouring fresh-baked chocolatines at her Grandmaman’s house minutes before midnight strikes on Christmas Eve. For my cousins in New York, it means [...]