Thursday, December 18, 2014

Silent Night - a Christmas carol, its origin

During the evening hours of December 17, 2014, the Third-graders at the Turtle Bay Elementary School, Redding, California presented a Christmas music program at the gym of the school.

The program included Carols in different languages like Hebrews, English, and Latin.

Marie Kim (8), my grand-daughter, was chosen to present the choir to the audience singing the carol entitled "Silent Night". Before the Choir singing she walked out of the seat, took the microphone, and introduced to the audience the origin of Silent Night saying, "Silent Night was written when an organ broke on Christmas Eve  in 1818 in a small Austrian church. The song was finished just in time for midnight mass. The words were sung in German and accompanied by a guitar. It is one of the best loved carols."


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