One More Song!

Zoe Dsouza playing ' Silent Night ' (Lyrics: Joseph Mohr | Music: Franz Xaver Gruber ) 🎄 Welcome, to ‘Christmas around the Piano’…a nostalgic musical journey!🎄 Day 6 - December 6, 2025 : ' Silent Night ', or ‘ Stille Nacht ’ in the original German, was first performed on Christmas Eve 1818 at the Nikolauskirche in Oberndorf, Austria . The carol began as a poem written in 1816, by a young priest, Joseph Mohr , who later asked Franz Xaver Gruber , a local schoolteacher and

Andrea Correia Serpes (Voice) | Larissa Rose Fernandes (Piano) ( Hugh Martin  & Ralph Blane) 🎄 Welcome, to ‘Christmas around the Piano’…a nostalgic musical journey!🎄 Day 5 - December 5, 2025 : “ Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas ” is a warm, bittersweet timeless holiday classic that blends gentle nostalgia with heartfelt hope, but behind its warm melody lies a surprisingly emotional dramatic backstory. It was written in 1943 by Hugh Martin  and Ralph Blane , for the fi

Ethan Avner Almeida playing 'Waltz of the Flowers', 'Arabian Dance', 'Trepak' from The Nutcracker Sweets (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | arr. Dan Fox) 🎄 Welcome, to ‘Christmas around the Piano’…a nostalgic musical journey!🎄 Day 4 - December 4, 2025 : “ Nutcracker Sweets ” refers to the Nutcracker Suite , a selection of eight pieces from Tchaikovsky’s full-length ballet The Nutcracker  (1892). These pieces were arranged into a concert suite that became wildly popular — often ev

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

O Christmas Tree (O Tannenbaum) (Tune: Melchior Franck | Lyrics: Ernst Anschutz) | Adelciya, Salome, Lynette, Lovey, Larissa (Voice) | Samuel Dsouza (Piano) 🎄 Welcome, everyone to ‘Christmas around the Piano’…a nostalgic musical journey!🎄  Day 1 - December 1, 2025 : Today, as we step into December 2025, let's bring in the festive season with a spin on the carol ‘O Christmas Tree’. Is it even related to Christmas? Well, grab a cup of cocoa, cozy up with your loved ones, and

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Oh, the excitement of being in a Music Store, surrounded by Musical Instruments, and buying a new Keyboards! Indeed, my version of heaven...

A few weeks ago, Sam and I watched this movie 'Vivo', when it digitally released on August 6, 2021, on Netflix! We both lapped it up 😆,...