HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1953-12-03, Page 6CONGRATULATIONS TO
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"There's
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And nobody
est wrath among
than our benevolent
For the busingssinan,
seem * -to 'bit' a constant running
Irith_Sovernment departments
iftwattoos.Fed up, a local
man wrote to a particularly irritat-
ing department last week , His
letter read; in part:".' . your De-
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ness men ara magicians. It is
almost impossible any more to
cope ,with the regulations of your
department unless one Is able to
support a staff equivalent in sire
to that of the Civil Service."
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DECEMBER 5,
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A. pretty giri with a lovely song bring § thoughts of home and Christmas to these soldiers
of the 25th Brigade in Korea. The boys got together and dug an amphitheatre out of the
side of a Korean hill and Wendy Cox, a Vimeonver vocalist, travelled over eight thousand
miles to perform in it. By the intent look on the faces of her audience it was a suecess-
ful meeting.
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By Walter Monfried in the Mil- lish Methodist musician, W. H.
Cuminings, thought of attaching
verses ot Charles Wesley, a found-
er of Methodism, to Mendelssohn's
music. The resultant marriage ts
unsurpassably happy.
The immortal Handel is often set
down as composer of "Joy to the
World," • but actually he wrote only
the first few notes—not much of a
task, indeed, for the song begins
with -a simple descending scale..
Isaacs Watts an 18th century.,Eng-
lish hymn Writer, supplied the
verses by rewriting the 98th psalm.
"Away" In A Manger" is among
the oldest of the perennial favor-
ites. It is -often eallea ".Luther's
Cradle Hymrt," and quite possibly
Martin Luther did write the words
to this beloved lullaby.
founder of Lutheranism was ade
with tunes and verses. -
Probably the best known and
best loved of all the Christmas an-
thems. is "Silent Night, Holy
Night:' with its indestructible
memories of childhood's faith, and
affection. The story behind tt,w
song is almost as well known
the song itself: Little Oberndorf,
in Bavaria, was snowbound that
Christmas eve of 1818. The church
organ was broken. In this emerg-
ency Organist Franz Gruber and
Vicar Joseph Mohr decided a spec-
ial song must be composed, and
they did it forthwith in' time for
the midnight Mass.
Among English people the favor-
ite carol, beyond dispute, is "God
Rest You ,Merry, Gentlemen" (and
please note where the comma is).
As a combination of cherriness,
vigor and religious sentiment, it is
hardly to be surpassed. The Eng-
waukee Journal
"In the year 1644 the unfortun-
ate people of England had to keep
Christmas as a-• fast, because it
',happened to fall on the last Wed-
nesday in the month — the day
which the Long Parliament hail
ordered to be kept as a fast. In
1647, the Puritan Parliament abol-
ished Christmas." So we are re-
; minded in the "Oxford Book of
;Carols."
• Under such restrictions the Yule-
! tide folk tunes, which had been
j flourishing for several centuries,
took a considerable beating. They
went undeg ground, and when they -
were permittedto emerge, they
were not the same. Some were
!forgotten, some were altered, and
• Isome garbled into meaninglessness.
• Even the word 'carol" was wrong-
• ly - broadened to mean any song
• connected with Christmas. Ae-
• tually' a carol, while having a• re-
• 1 •
I ligious impulse, is popular, Simple
• I and jolly, suggesting the Greek
• word .from which it is derived—
, chorauIes,' (choral dance). "The
• First Nowell," some 300 years old,
! is a favorite example of true Brit-
t•ish carol, even though it Probably
• loriginated in France. The Yuie
•
• , song with the more solemn im-
• pact is, of course, a hymn.
•
• Since thePuritan revolution, we
I ha t had o grow a new clop of
ichristmas songs, and we have had
• , likewise to import liberally from
• continental Europe. Our present
• • stock is extensive, varied, and es-
sentially singable. It takes a cold,
unmusical heart to resist their
• spontaneity and appeal;
-The songs are relatively modern.
"Adeste Fideles" ("0 Come All Ye
aithful ) was written in Latin. but
it probably goes back no farther
to the empire of the Caesars than
1700. The tune may have been
Portugg_e4e...0.L.Po.ssiblY.A.Avas_w_r
ten by the English organist of ,a
Portuguese chapel in London. At
any rate, the duke of Leeds, a
music lover, heard it .at the chapel
and presented it as "The Portu-
guese Hymn. The Latin text has
been translated‘dozens of times.
The innumerable singers o( Yule
airs May be surprised to learn they
are interpreting words of the
masters of symphony, opera and
ballet. Consider Adolphe Adam,
for example, who Wrote "0 Holy
Night, the stars are shining
brightly; it is the night of the
dear Savior's birth" ---a gracious
melody with its long, flowing line.
This Adam Was a 19th century
Frenchman who composed a suc-
cession of cothic operas and ballets
Itis ,"Giselle," borrowed from a
,Gernaan legend of Heinrich Wine,
is considered among the grehtest
of ballets-.
Mendelssohn's Gift to Christmas
Carols
;"Hark, the ilerald,-Arigels Sin'
j iga product of Mendelssohn's gen-
ius. However, he didn't write it
forChristmas • hut for a Leipzig,
festival celebrating Gutenberg's in-
vention of printing and he made
It only a second chorus at that!
The grand old tune would have
expired, no doubt,,had not an Eng-
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ish rural minstrels devised it
nearAy 300 years ago, and it nuclei
its way to the cities and the world.
At times its words were altered
for political campaigns. In Dick-
ens' "A Christmas Carol" (which
-is---not-a-earol---at -thngin
of this tune makes a colorful epi-
sode. Another carol—"I saw three
ships come sailing in, come sailing
in"—stems from the same British
period and surroundings as "God
Itest You," but it has never attain-
ed a comparable following in Am-
erica, although it is gaining.
Bohemian, Song From Sweden
A 10th century Bohemian king,
Wenceslas looked out on the feast
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of Stephen saw a poor man gather-
ing fuel and talked the matter over
with his page; The resultant dia-
log, coming to England by way of
Sweden, was made into an espec-
ially well liked number by an ail-
ing pastor, John Mason,Neale. He
likewise assembled "Good Chris-
tian men, rejoice with heart and
soul and voice" from another carol,
"In Dulci Jubilo.'!
Nahum Tate, • who ffourislicd
around 1700, was an English poet
laureate, but not the greatest. He
wrote the liberetto to the durable
opera "Dido 'and Aeneas," he but-
chered Shakespeare's plays and he
wrote "While Shepherds Watched
Their. Flocks." This Christmas
hymn, for which there are several
tunes, is likely to outlast the rest
of'therate product'
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