In 1986, Webb produced the cantata The Animals ' Christmas, with Art Garfunkel, Amy Grant, and the London Symphony Orchestra, which tells the Christmas story from the perspective of animals.

In addition to his cantata, The Animals ' Christmas, he has always included religious songs in his albums —" Psalm One-Five-O ", " Jerusalem ", and " I Will Arise " are a few examples — and his lyrics have included biblical verses and allusions.

* Born a King, a Christmas cantata for Soloists, Chorus and Organ

* YouTube video of Gardiner directing the opening chorus of the first cantata in J. S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248

Daquin's surviving music includes four harpsichord suites, a Nouveau livre de noëls for organ and harpsichord ( settings of Christmas pastorals, which include some of his harpsichord improvisations ), a cantata, and an air à boire.

He wrote the words for comic operas such as Three's Company and Christmas Story, and a children's cantata Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo.

In 1960, he won a Grand Prix du Disque and composed L ' enfant à L ' étoile, a Christmas cantata.

In December 2005, an additional performance of Britten's cantata St. Nicolas and Arthur Honegger's A Christmas Cantata with the Basel Girls ' Choir were successfully brought to the stage.

In 1886 Crosby and William Howard Doane wrote Santa Claus ' Home ; or, The Christmas Excursion, a Christmas cantata, published by Biglow & Main.

* A dramatization of J. H. Maunder's Bethlehem: a Christmas cantata, done in the manner of the medieval miracle play ; written by Catharine Morgan ( c. 1939 )

The Christmas cantata Uns ist ein Kind geboren, formerly attributed to Bach as BWV 142, is most likely composed by Kuhnau.

His father died in 1996, shortly before the first performance of Frederik Magle's Christmas cantata A newborn child, before eternity, God !, which is dedicated to him.

In 1988, two of his larger works, the cantata We are afraid, and the " mini-musical " A Christmas Child, were premiered in Grundtvig's Church in Copenhagen before an audience of 2, 000 people.

The Christmas cantata A newborn child, before eternity, God !, with text from a kontakion by the 6th century hymnographer Romanos the Melodist ( translated into Danish by the priest Kristian Høeg ) was given its first performance in 1996, commissioned by Kulturby 96 – the European Capital of Culture 1996, and was released on CD in 1997, as recorded in Messiaskirken in Charlottenlund with the soloists Ingibjörg Gudjonsdottir, soprano, Elisabeth Halling, alto, Gert Henning-Jensen, tenor, Christian Christiansen, bass, two mixed choirs, two children's choirs, brass band, organ and percussion, conducted by Steen Lindholm.

Christmas cantata.

The White House had chewing gum until it could chew no more, and every Christmas, Mr. Wrigley sent the President a check for $100, to be divided among all the help.

It was a merry if somewhat soggy Christmas for me that year.

`` Tell me what to get her for Christmas ''.

A fresh crop of beginners' guns showed up in 1961, and they're good bets for your Christmas gift list if you're wondering what to get for a youngster.

The bridegroom's children were here for the Christmas holidays and can't return.

The fund's statewide quota this year is $8,250 to provide Christmas gifts for needy youngsters.

I did my shopping, had my dentist appointment, and from there I went to the women's lunch at our parish church where we discussed plans for the annual Christmas bazaar, so that dusk was beginning to gather when I drove home in the late afternoon.

The territory is administered from Canberra by the Department of Regional Australia, Local Government, Arts and Sport, which is also responsible for the administration of the territories of Christmas Island, Cocos ( Keeling ) Islands, the Coral Sea Islands, Jervis Bay and Norfolk Island.

After Roman times, Einhard mentions that in 765 – 6 Pippin the Younger spent both Christmas and Easter at Aquis villa (""), which must have been sufficiently equipped to support the royal household for several months.

In the year of his coronation as King of Franks, 768, Charlemagne came to spend Christmas at Aachen for the first time.

She stayed for two years, winning a good-conduct medal in December 1836, and returning home only during Christmas and summer holidays.

The Electron was developed during 1983 as a cheap sibling for the BBC Micro with the intention of capturing the low-cost Christmas sales market for that year.

Although Acorn were able to shrink substantially the same functionality as the BBC into just one chip, manufacturing problems meant that very few machines were available for the Christmas period — to the extent that some shops reported eight presales for every delivered machine.

Besides the operas, oratorios ( Agar et Ismaele esiliati, 1684 ; Christmas Oratorio, c. 1705 ; S. Filippo Neri, 1714 ; and others ) and serenatas, which all exhibit a similar style, Scarlatti composed upwards of five hundred chamber-cantatas for solo voice.

Grant followed up this album with the first of her Christmas albums — albums that later would be the basis for her holiday shows.

The head of NBC took notice of Grant's performance and called her manager to book her for her own Christmas special.

That year, she also recorded a duet with singer Randy Stonehill for his Love Beyond Reason album, entitled " I Could Never Say Goodbye ", and recorded The Animals ' Christmas with Art Garfunkel.

Atari was a sponsor of the 1984 Summer Olympics and planned to push the 7800 aggressively in time for Christmas that year.

Nintendo had no problems supplying retailers with the Game Boy for the Christmas season while Atari Corp. only managed limited distribution of their Lynx by year's end.

In Massachusetts and Connecticut, for example, blue laws dating to the Puritans of the 17th century still prohibit most retail stores, including grocery stores, from opening on Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Four holiday specials were produced — one for Halloween, two for Christmas and one for Thanksgiving.

A brass band playing Christmas carols.

Shortly before, in 1878, the Salvation Army, under Charles Fry, instituted the idea of playing carols at Christmas, using a brass band.

" Krippenspiele " ( Nativity plays ), special festive music for organ, vocal and brass choirs and candlelight services make Christmas Eve one of the highlights in the Lutheran Church calendar.

In the wake of Disney's inarguable triumph with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, Paramount top brass finally acquiesced to Fleischer's longstanding appeals to produce feature-length animated films — and now they wanted one for a Christmas 1939 release.

Mergenthaler reportedly got the idea for the brass matrices that would serve as molds for the letters from wooden molds used to make " Springerle ," which are German Christmas cookies.

In the centre of the park is the Victorian bandstand which is used regularly in the summer months by local brass bands and for events such as the annual Matlock Victorian Christmas Weekend-held on the first weekend of December.

Listeners were invited to choose a Christmas carol or hymn while a Salvation Army brass band stood by in the studio to play their request live.

In Britain, however, it was released in late November after Stiff Records noticed a line referring to the festival — " I wish I was at home for Christmas " — and the specific style of brass instruments and bells in the chorus as a " Christmas-style " theme.

It was home to a brass works between 1700 and 1840, and is home to events such as ' Music in the Park ' during the summer ( although this event stopped in 2006 due to council regulation ), and ' Carols in the Park ' at Christmas.

Each year on the Tuesday before Christmas Eve villagers gather on the village green to sing traditional carols accompanied by a local brass band.

His work includes Spiritual Jazz Suite, four pieces arranged for brass quartet, Three sets of Christmas Jazz suites ( 4 pieces in each ) and a Christmas Jazz Medley arranged for saxophone quartet, a book of classical saxophone duets, A beginning, intermediate, and advanced methods for the understanding of jazz technique, and a book of jazz saxophone duets exemplifying jazz styles.