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OneMoreSong Chorus (SSA) & OneMoreSong Jr. Choral Ensemble  singing ' We wish you a merry Christmas ' ( Arthur Warrell  | arr. Emily Crocker ) 🎄 Welcome, to ‘Christmas around the Piano’…a nostalgic musical journey!🎄 Day 25 - December 25, 2025 : “ We Wish You a Merry Christmas ” is one of the few Christmas carols that isn’t religious in origin. Its earliest roots trace back to the English West Country , likely the 16th century , where it was sung by carolers who visited weal

Rafael Almeida  (Violin) and Larissa Rose Fernandes  (Piano) playing ' Angels we have heard on high ' (Lyrics: James Chadwick ) | Samuel Dsouza  (Piano) playing ' A child this day is born ' (Lyrics: William Sandys ) 🎄 Welcome, to ‘Christmas around the Piano’…a nostalgic musical journey!🎄 Day 20 - December 20, 2025 : “Angels We Have Heard on High” - The 18th‑Century “Glooooooria” Melisma courtesy the French! “ Angels We Have Heard on High ”  is originally a traditional Frenc

Samuel Dsouza playing ' March of the Kings ' (Music: Georges Bizet | arr. Noble Cain ) 🎄 Welcome, to ‘Christmas around the Piano’…a nostalgic musical journey!🎄 Day 17 - December 17, 2025 : “ March of the Kings ” (French: La Marche des Rois ) is one of the oldest, dramatic and most iconic traditional melodies, in the Christmas tradition, from medieval Provence , France.  Its origins stretch back to the 13th century , where it existed as a regional folk tune, long before it

Sonia Pereira & Larissa Rose Fernandes (Voice) | Samuel Dsouza & Adelle Lewis (Piano) 🎄 Welcome, to ‘Christmas around the Piano’…a nostalgic musical journey!🎄 Day 16 - December 16, 2025 : “Infant Holy, Infant Lowly”  one of the most beloved yet misunderstood Christmas carols, was originally a Polish hymn titled “W Żłobie Leży” . “Infant Holy, Infant Lowly: The Medieval Polish Carol with a Royal Secret” It may date back to the 13th century  and with its medieval origins, i

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

Rafael Almeida (Violin) | Samuel Dsouza, Larissa Rose Fernandes and Aarav Vian Pinto (Piano)  🎄 Welcome, to ‘Christmas around the Piano’…a nostalgic musical journey!🎄  Day 3: December 3, 2025 : Today, let’s compare two carols, both involving Angels! “ It Came Upon a Midnight Clear ” vs “ Hark! The Herald Angels Sing ”   “ It Came Upon a Midnight Clear ” is a reflective Christmas carol written in 1849, by Edmund Hamilton Sears  (1810–1876), a Harvard Divinity School graduate

Samuel Dsouza playing 'Good Christian Men Rejoice - In Dulci Jubilo' (Music & Lyrics: Heinrich Seuse | English Translation: John Mason Neale | arr. David Lantz) 🎄 Welcome, everyone to ‘Christmas around the Piano’…a nostalgic musical journey!🎄  Day 2 - December 2, 2025 : ‘ Good Christian Men, Rejoice ’ is a joyful medieval Christmas carol. The carol comes from ‘ In dulci jubilo ’, a jubilant medieval hymn, composed in the 14th century (around the 1320s–1330s), by Heinrich Se