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' Dylan Serrao ' playing 'We Three Kings of Orient ' 🎄 Welcome, to ‘Christmas around the Piano’…a nostalgic musical journey!🎄 Last Day - January 6, 2026 (Feast of the Epiphany) : “We Three Kings”  — originally titled “Three Kings of Orient”  — was written in 1857  by John Henry Hopkins Jr. , an American priest, writer, and musician. Hopkins was serving as the rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Williamsport, Pennsylvania  when he composed it. He wrote the carol specificall

Dylan Serrao playing a non-traditional version of ' God rest ye merry, Gentlemen ' 🎄 Welcome, to ‘Christmas around the Piano’…a nostalgic musical journey!🎄 Day 14 - December 14, 2025 “ God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen ,”  is one of the oldest traditional folk and most beloved English Christmas carols. Dating back to the 1500s, this joyful song was once sung by London night watchmen , preserved through centuries of cultural change, and later revived in the Victorian era throug

OneMoreSong Chorus (SSA) & OneMoreSong Jr. Choral Ensemble singing Joy, Joy, Joy to the World (Lyrics: Isaac Watts | Music: George F. Handel | arr. Ken Berg ) 🎄 Welcome, to ‘Christmas around the Piano’…a nostalgic musical journey!🎄 Day 13 - December 13, 2025 : ‘ Joy to the World ’: A carol born by accident! was written in 1719 , by English minister and hymnist Isaac Watts  as a poem — not  a Christmas song. It appeared in his book Psalms of David Imitated in the Langua

Sonia, Ravina, Ruby, Laveena, Karen, Lynette, Larissa (Voice) | Samuel (Piano) (Lyrics: Phillips Brooks | Music: Lewis Redner ) 🎄 Welcome, to ‘Christmas around the Piano’…a nostalgic musical journey!🎄 Day 11 - December 11, 2025 : The carol was written in 1868  by Phillips Brooks , an American Episcopal priest. Brooks had visited Bethlehem in 1865 , three years earlier, during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. The peaceful night he spent there deeply moved him and inspired t

Rafael Almeida (Violin) | Samuel Dsouza (Piano) playing “ When Christ Was Born of Mary Free ” 🎄 Welcome, to ‘Christmas around the Piano’…a nostalgic musical journey!🎄 Day 10 - December 10, 2025 : “ When Christ Was Born of Mary Free ” is not a mainstream carol, and is one that is still relatively unknown to general audiences. I myself stumbled upon it during this Project. Let’s step back into the 15th century  with the timeless Medieval English carol  which celebrates the

Mirika Noronha playing ' Mary did you know ' (Lyrics: Mark Lowry | Music: Buddy Greene ) 🎄 Welcome, to ‘Christmas around the Piano’…a nostalgic musical journey!🎄 Day 9 - December 9, 2025 : “ Mary, Did You Know? ” is one of the rare modern Christmas songs that has become a global classic — and its creation story is surprisingly recent.  It was written by Mark Lowry  (a Christian comedian and singer) in 1984, while preparing a Christmas program for a Christian university in