New holiday music gets written on a fairly regular basis, but rarely any new Christmas carols.
Christmas carols are also often employed in order to be consistent with the holiday spirit.
He also debunks the claim that angels sang at the birth, a staple theme of Christmas carols.
One of the reasons Christmas carols bring such a sense of consolation and connection is surely their familiarity.
Every night we have a celebration - there are Christmas carols, singing in the square and inside the church.
Christmas means different foods, carols and customs around the world, but the spirit of the season stays the same.
Carolers will sing two carols to 14 homes over a five-street route, exceeding the minimum requirements to establish the record.
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Many of us, well muffled up, have carried lanterns around our local area to sing carols to friends and neighbours.
Rutter fell in love with Christmas carols when he was a chorister in grade school, but he gradually became more ambitious.
All this, too, is in the style of ancient carols, which translated the Christian mysteries to local places and contemporary dress.
Department stores are decorated, houses are lit, and all the little Hoos in Hooville are gathering around the tree to sing Hanukkah carols.
As the word carol - a joyful song - suggests, carols bring us together and connect us in groups of shared experience and feelings.
As for the future of his own carols, Rutter isn't sentimental.
An excellent organist, he would play the school organ, moving it from room to room, playing requests and Christmas carols till the atmosphere was really jolly.
The artist has previously designed Jersey Post Christmas carols stamps in 2007, children's books stamps in 2010 and some Jersey Trees for Life stamps last year.
The chapel at King's College is the venue for the Christmas Eve service, A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, which is broadcast to millions around the world.
At half-time 15, 111 people sang 8 carols for 15 minutes.
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It becomes the focal point of much of the celebrations of the event, choirs take turns to sing carols underneath it, the next door church lays out the manger.
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Mr. NAT KING COLE: (Singing) Chestnuts roasting on an open fire, Jack Frost nipping at your nose, yuletide carols being sung by a choir and folks dressed up like Eskimos.
In the service - known as the plygain - members of the congregation are invited to perform carols, often handed down through families over generations, and almost always sung unaccompanied by music.
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On a cruise ship, they can build a gingerbread house, see Santa arrive by parasail, or sing carols together while someone else makes the beds, prepares the meals and baby sits when you want some adult time.
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Teams seem to play on most days of the week and, with the station being the number one football service in the region, football fans would expect coverage if one of our teams were playing on the night we had designated to sing carols.
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Many of us are lucky enough to recall with pleasure the Christmases of our childhood: the gifts left by the chimney for Father Christmas, carols sung in biting cold weather, nativity plays, the warm glow we felt as Mother carried in the flaming Christmas pudding decorated with holly.
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