URGENT: St. Nicholas's is Dec. 6!

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PhiloMed said:
I thought Turkish Delight only existed in Dickens novels and Harry Potter world.
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And the chronicles of Narnia, when Edmund is tempted with it by the White Witch.

I read a rewrite of The Snow Queen, where the boy is trapped by fragments of the magic mirror that are like ice. The Queen is traveling to her palace with the boy, and asks him if he wants turkish delight. The boy doesn’t know what she means, and she says never mind, it’s just a joke. The book is Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu.
 
silver_moon said:
I always like to see the German Christmas Nativity Pyramids:

pinterest.com/pin/274367802272992684/

Do you know Anonymous 4 (four women who sing religious and secular music mostly from the Middle Ages) have done several Christmas CDs, including one about St. Nicholas? Legends of St. Nicholas, it can be purchased on its own or as part of a 4-CD set called Noel.

Information on Noel:
anonymous4.com/discography.php?21

Information on the group:
anonymous4.com
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Ooooooh, another Anonymous 4 fan! It breaks my heart that they’re ending the group this year, but I can quite understand that they have their own projects and such to pursue.

I got to hear them in concert once, and meet them, too! I was in my senior year and studying music in no small part because of their CDs and scholarship. Drove about 5 hours each way to hear them on a school night; didn’t even get home until after 4 AM, and then had choir practice (no excuses for missing!) at 9. Didn’t care–it was a dream fulfilled.

After the concert, I stuck around for a bit and saw the concert coordinator. I’d gotten the news that week that I was accepted to grad school. Buttonholed her, and said, “Would you mind passing on to Anonymous 4 that tonight they had someone in the audience who first heard their music at 13, and now, ten years later, is about to go to grad school for musicology because she wants to do what they’re doing?” The coordinator laughed and said, “Tell you what, why don’t you tell them yourself?” and brought me backstage. Lovely women; they took several minutes to chat with me about music.

Of course, I left after one semester of grad school 'cause I could tell that academia was not a place I’d be terribly happy long-term, but it’s still a wonderful, wonderful memory. I was still on such a high the next day that I didn’t mind having only two hours of sleep.
 
UbiCaritas said:
Ooooooh, another Anonymous 4 fan! It breaks my heart that they’re ending the group this year, but I can quite understand that they have their own projects and such to pursue.

I got to hear them in concert once, and meet them, too! I was in my senior year and studying music in no small part because of their CDs and scholarship. Drove about 5 hours each way to hear them on a school night; didn’t even get home until after 4 AM, and then had choir practice (no excuses for missing!) at 9. Didn’t care–it was a dream fulfilled.

After the concert, I stuck around for a bit and saw the concert coordinator. I’d gotten the news that week that I was accepted to grad school. Buttonholed her, and said, “Would you mind passing on to Anonymous 4 that tonight they had someone in the audience who first heard their music at 13, and now, ten years later, is about to go to grad school for musicology because she wants to do what they’re doing?” The coordinator laughed and said, “Tell you what, why don’t you tell them yourself?” and brought me backstage. Lovely women; they took several minutes to chat with me about music.

Of course, I left after one semester of grad school 'cause I could tell that academia was not a place I’d be terribly happy long-term, but it’s still a wonderful, wonderful memory. I was still on such a high the next day that I didn’t mind having only two hours of sleep.
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Wow, that’s wonderful 🙂 I’ve never seen them in concert so I’m glad it worked out so well. I am listening to them now in fact, Wolcum Yule. Their Christmas music is probably my favorite, but I also like their CDs in honor of Mary, and I own several others as well. I’m glad you got to go backstage and had such a great experience.

I remember being disappointed when they took a break about 10 years ago. I agree with you that it’s understandable they’d want to move on, but still sad.
 
silver_moon said:
Wow, that’s wonderful 🙂 I’ve never seen them in concert so I’m glad it worked out so well. I am listening to them now in fact, Wolcum Yule. Their Christmas music is probably my favorite, but I also like their CDs in honor of Mary, and I own several others as well. I’m glad you got to go backstage and had such a great experience.

I remember being disappointed when they took a break about 10 years ago. I agree with you that it’s understandable they’d want to move on, but still sad.
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Wolcum Yule is hands-down my favorite Anonymous 4 Christmas album. 😃

If you live anywhere near their last few concert venues, I’d strongly suggest you spring for a ticket. Worth every penny! And they often do concerts in fairly inexpensive venues, so it may not be an arm and a leg–I think I spent all of $20 to hear them.

I worked at a bookstore while in college. As I’m in the South, there are a fair number (to put it mildly) of people who aren’t at all familiar with medieval church music. However, I got not a few hooked by introducing them to “American Angels” (the first album of early American revival hymns), and then they’d come back for more by the same artists…evil cackle
 
UbiCaritas said:
Wolcum Yule is hands-down my favorite Anonymous 4 Christmas album. 😃

If you live anywhere near their last few concert venues, I’d strongly suggest you spring for a ticket. Worth every penny! And they often do concerts in fairly inexpensive venues, so it may not be an arm and a leg–I think I spent all of $20 to hear them.

I worked at a bookstore while in college. As I’m in the South, there are a fair number (to put it mildly) of people who aren’t at all familiar with medieval church music. However, I got not a few hooked by introducing them to “American Angels” (the first album of early American revival hymns), and then they’d come back for more by the same artists…evil cackle
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Great sales technique 🙂

I’m in Maryland. I’ve been wanting to visit New York during the holidays for a while. I checked and saw they are giving their last concert together at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, a 6:30 and 8:30 performance. Called The Last Noel, tickets need to be purchased by phone.

metmuseum.org/events/programs/met-live-arts/anonymous-4-2

I’m thinking of going. I’ll have to check with my husband but this sounds like tickets are still available. He is a fan also. We’d probably take the train up and stay overnight.

I’m wondering if I should start a Christmas music thread in the back fence. I’m curious about your other favorites. I grew up listening to Noel by Joan Baez which is still one of the ones I like best.
 
silver_moon said:
I always like to see the German Christmas Nativity Pyramids:

pinterest.com/pin/274367802272992684/

Do you know Anonymous 4 (four women who sing religious and secular music mostly from the Middle Ages) have done several Christmas CDs, including one about St. Nicholas? Legends of St. Nicholas, it can be purchased on its own or as part of a 4-CD set called Noel.

Information on Noel:
anonymous4.com/discography.php?21

Information on the group:
anonymous4.com
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We have one of these, but I can’t find the right sized candles.
 
Andre1000 said:
To us he comes both times. 😃
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Maybe he has surplus stock?

(Or he has favourites!).
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lax16:
Re: URGENT: St. Nicholas’s is Dec. 6! This is a fantastic website all about St. Nicholas. Be sure to check out what he really looked like!

stnicholascenter.org/page…s-st-nicholas/
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  • really like this link. The ability to multi-task must be tripled when one has a free daily flying reindeer taxi service at one’s disposal.
 
silver_moon said:
Great sales technique 🙂

I’m in Maryland. I’ve been wanting to visit New York during the holidays for a while. I checked and saw they are giving their last concert together at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, a 6:30 and 8:30 performance. Called The Last Noel, tickets need to be purchased by phone.

metmuseum.org/events/programs/met-live-arts/anonymous-4-2

I’m thinking of going. I’ll have to check with my husband but this sounds like tickets are still available. He is a fan also. We’d probably take the train up and stay overnight.

I’m wondering if I should start a Christmas music thread in the back fence. I’m curious about your other favorites. I grew up listening to Noel by Joan Baez which is still one of the ones I like best.
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Do it! Dooooooooo it! 😃 Then come back and tell us about it so I can live vicariously through you! Oh my gosh, Christmas music by Anonymous 4 at the MET?!! How much more awesome can you get?

Other favorites? Eclectic list, to be sure.

“Now is the Caroling Season,” recorded in the 40s or 50s by Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians. That and “Wolcum Yule” are probably about tied.

Mahalia Jackson’s Christmas album–“Silent Night,” I think?

A recording of a Christmas Mass–Gregorian chant and hymns, and Palestrina’s “Missa Hodie Christus Natus Est” (IIRC) done by a choir from the Yale community back in the mid-90s.

Several tracks from Anne Sofie von Otter’s Christmas album. Some of the tracks on there are quite dreadful, especially when she tries to sing some American pop Christmas music, but there are a few that are haunting beautiful: “Koppangem,” a Swedish song about Advent, “Sankta Lucia” (Swedish hymn, as you might guess, to St. Lucy), and perhaps one or two more.

Mario Lanza’s Christmas album. He was an Italian-American tenor from the 40s/50s era; truly stunning voice without being too saccharine, except perhaps during the track “Our Father.” Lanza died at all of 38 years old, but apparently inspired both Jose Carreras and Placido Dominingo to pursue opera careers…not a bad legacy!

And it wouldn’t be Christmas without Nat King Cole’s Christmas album, would it?
 
I’m pretty sure there’s a Christmas album thread already going…
 
UbiCaritas said:
Wolcum Yule is hands-down my favorite Anonymous 4 Christmas album. 😃
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I had never heard of Anonymous 4 until now. Searched them out on Google Play and fell in love! Am downloading Wolcum Yule as I write. THANKS!
 
Today as in our tradition the children woke to candy coins in thier shoes. Then, as we do every year we went door to door and punched heretics.

The kids love it more than caroling!
 
EasterJoy said:
My German ancestors did not bother with slippers. There was no chocolate during Advent; St. Nicholas filled a huge bowl with nuts and oranges and orange-flavored candies. (Some of us are old enough to remember when oranges were not available year 'round…)
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Yes
The elders would regale us with tales of when the trains with Pacific Fruit Express cars would arrive with exotic fruit, i.e. oranges, during the holidays.
 
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