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.

" Christmas cantata, for brass band, choir, soloists, organ and percussion ( 1996 )

Christmas cantata.

Each year on Christmas Day, " Aladdin the Christmas Camel " recreates Washington's 1787 hiring of a camel for 18 shillings to entertain his guests with an example of the mount that brought the Three Wise Men to Bethlehem to visit the newborn baby Jesus.

In December 1948 Sal is celebrating Christmas with his relatives in Testament, VA when Dean shows up with Marylou ( having left his second wife, Camille, and their newborn baby, Amy, in San Francisco ) and Ed Dunkel.

One Christmas Eve in present day Tokyo, three homeless people —, a middle-aged alcoholic,, a transsexual and former drag queen, and, a runaway girl — discover an abandoned newborn while searching in some trash.

Any needy family living in San Francisco can obtain toys by writing to Christmas Toys, 676 Howard street, San Francisco 5, and listing the parent's name and address and the age and sex of each child in the family between the ages of 1 and 12.

Queen Victoria as a child was familiar with the custom and a tree was placed in her room every Christmas.

El Niño is Spanish for " the little boy " and refers to the Christ child, because periodic warming in the Pacific near South America is usually noticed around Christmas.

Bogart was born on Christmas Day, 1899 in New York City, the eldest child of Dr. Belmont DeForest Bogart ( July 1867, Watkins Glen, New York – September 8, 1934, Tudor City apartments, New York City ) and Maud Humphrey ( 1868 – 1940 ).

However in this tale, he writes as if he remembers spending Christmas in Venice, with the echo of singing gondoliers, once as a child and again with his wife and daughters.

He visits a department store Father Christmas, just like a child, although he asks for a CD from either Dire Straits or Phil Collins.

His wife, in shock, tends to her husband as he is badly hurt, and he tells her he was wrong to believe in Father Christmas like some small child.

" Petrov also said that Gagarin had been baptised into the Orthodox Church as a child, and a 2011 Foma magazine article quoted the rector of the Orthodox church in Star City saying, " Gagarin baptized his elder daughter Elena shortly before his space flight ; and his family used to celebrate Christmas and Easter and keep icons in the house.

Hippos were mentioned in the novelty Christmas song " I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas " that became a hit for child star Gayla Peevey in 1953.

She was a child actor in the 1990s, starring in movies such as All I Want for Christmas ( 1991 ), Patriot Games ( 1992 ), Hocus Pocus ( 1993 ), Monkey Trouble ( 1994 ), Now and Then ( 1995 ), and Alaska ( 1996 ).

** Christmas ( People give one another gifts, often supposedly receiving them from Santa Claus, the Christ child or Saint Nicholas.

In this program, underprivileged children write down a wish they have for Christmas and tie them onto the Christmas tree, each member of the church then takes the wish and buys the gift for the child.

One Thursday before Christmas, the elderly physician Dr. Emlyn McCarron tells a story about an episode that took place early in his long and varied career: that of a patient who was determined to give birth to her illegitimate child, no matter what, despite financial problems and social disapproval.

Other likely influences were a visit made by Dickens to the Western Penitentiary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from March 20-22, 1842 ; the decade-long fascination on both sides of the Atlantic with spiritualism ; fairy tales and nursery stories ( which Dickens regarded as stories of conversion and transformation ); contemporary religious tracts about conversion ; and the works of Douglas Jerrold in general, but especially " The Beauties of the Police " ( 1843 ), a satirical and melodramatic essay about a father and his child forcibly separated in a workhouse, and another satirical essay by Jerrold which may have had a direct influence on Dickens ' conception of Scrooge called " How Mr. Chokepear keeps a merry Christmas " ( Punch, 1841 ).

Nagurski married his childhood sweetheart Eileen Kane December 28, 1936, and the couple had a child Christmas Day 1937, whom they named after his father.

The name El Niño, from the Spanish for " the little boy ", refers to the Christ child, because the phenomenon is usually noticed around Christmas time in the Pacific Ocean off the west coast of South America.

* Yano Anaya ( born 1972 ), former child actor ( A Christmas Story ), owns a store in Bethel's downtown district.

Joanna's turn to religion is frustrating for Christmas, who as a child ran away from his abusive adoptive parents who were conservatively religious.

Brown is Christmas ' business partner in a moon-shining enterprise and is the father of Lena's child ; Lena knew him as Lucas Burch.

Before Christmas ' escape attempt, Hightower delivered Lena's child in the cabin where Brown and Christmas had been staying before the murder, and Byron arranges for Brown / Burch to come and see her.

She then appeared on NBC television as Anna Stieman in A Boy Called Ciske, a Kraft Mystery Theatre production, in May 1958, and in a vignette entitled " Miracle in the Orphanage ", part of " The Christmas Tree ", a Hallmark Hall of Fame production, in December 1958 with fellow child actor Richard Thomas and veteran actors Jessica Tandy and Margaret Hamilton.

They became engaged once again on Christmas Eve 2007, just a few days prior to the birth of their second child on January 8, 2008.

and on Christmas Day, 1890, Hardy wrote: `` While thinking of resuming ' the viewless Wings Of Poesy before dawn this morning, new horizons seemed to open, and worrying pettinesses to disappear '' ( Early Life, p. 302 ).

One of Johnson's last significant acts as President was to grant unconditional amnesty to all Confederates on Christmas Day 1868, after the election of Ulysses S. Grant but before he took office in March 1869.

The work was finished 9 years later and transported via warship, steamship, and finally mule train before being dedicated on Christmas Eve.

A third single was released amid controversy before Christmas 1984: a revival of " It Ain't Necessarily So ", the George and Ira Gershwin classic ( from Porgy and Bess ) which questions the authenticity of Biblical tales.

On 18 November 2008 the band released The BBC Sessions, which features songs from the period of 1996 – 2001 ( including the last recordings featuring Isobel Campbell before she left the band ), along with a second disc featuring a recording of a live performance in Belfast from Christmas 2001.

Canada's Boxing Day has often been compared with the American Super Saturday, the Saturday before Christmas.

Caltech is on the quarter system: the fall term starts in late September and ends before Christmas, the second term starts after New Years Day and ends in mid-March, and the third term starts in late March or early April and ends in early June.

The Christmas ceremony dates to a period prior to the American Revolutionary War, but lapsed before being revived by University President Nicholas Murray Butler in the early 20th century.

Jed tried to blackmail Tony, leading to a confrontation on Christmas Eve in Underworld when Tony strangled Jed in a fit of rage, just before the Christmas party.

It was marketed by Zircon as " Channel F Jet-Stick " in a letter sent out to registered owners before Christmas 1982.

Nowadays, opłatek is mostly shared with members of the family and immediate neighbors before the Christmas Eve supper ( Wigilia in the Polish language ).

One of Thomas ' last poems, " Do not go gentle into that good night ", was a villanelle to his father, who died from pneumonia just before Christmas 1952.

In addition to performing for the Pope, the singer participated in a live broadcast on British television for Christmas Eve in 1997, before she flew home to County Donegal to join her family at midnight Mass.

Shortly before Christmas, he left for Kyoto but failed to meet with the Emperor.

In December a chest specialist was summoned from Glasgow who pronounced Orwell seriously ill and a week before Christmas 1947 he was in Hairmyres hospital in East Kilbride, then a small village in the countryside, on the outskirts of Glasgow.

However, because Government House has not been a residence for fifteen years, O ' Farrell also announced that the Governor will initially move into a smaller adjacent building, called the chalet, while refurbishments of the main wing occur, with a proposed move into the main house " before Christmas ".

Coon Dog committed suicide two days before Christmas Day, 1958, devastating the young Gram and the rest of the Connor family.

Other notable ' 70s slasher films include Bob Clark's Black Christmas ( 1974 ), which was released before Halloween, and was another start of the sub-genre.

In Greece, ham, or hiromeri () as it is called, used to be prepared right before Christmas.

The feast of the Annunciation ( which commemorates the virginal conception and the Incarnation of Jesus ) is celebrated on 25 March, nine months before Christmas Day.

The content is the same regardless of the marketing name, although the length of time it is stored before bottling differs ; however, the beverage is more closely associated with Christmas, somewhat less with Easter and traditionally not at all with the summer.

On the basis of the account in Luke, the Catholic calendar placed the feast of John the Baptist on June 24, six months before Christmas.

After Braddock's defeat in 1755, royal approval for a new regiment, as well as funds, were granted by Parliament just before Christmas 1755 – hence the regiment's traditional birthday of Christmas Day.