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her. on december the 20 fall the $1818.00 the young priest you'll save more sent out for open golf australia to visit his friend from school but. i'm together they wanted to set his poem which dylan knocked silent night to music. he needed to him to

perform at the christmas mass in his parish that same night. at the time gruber was a teacher organist and cyclist and on store for a small community north of zounds board. he was expecting his friends who are arrive by the early evening bounty knew how long and arduous the journey was in winter.

the 2 friends both musicians did not take long to find the right melody to accompany moore's contemplated what. it is only a simple composition without any special meaning gruber wrote in his diary.

vyner christmas 1818. on christmas eve $1818.00 a time marked by bitter poverty and tom the original german version of silent night holy night or less 1st song during christmas mass on an open door of by the 2 friends to the sound of a guitar line is on. this road only it was intended to be a song of peace and hope in the difficult years after the napoleonic wars. mass water time fatalities famine epidemics and found harvests had created a mood of despondency of those of more himself or grown up in grinding poverty and had enjoyed much in the years before he penned the poem that would go on to become a world famous carol. google or more to gether with france goober he

created a song sung today by 2000000000 people across the globe during the christmas season one that has been translated into more than 300 languages and dialects of business to become but it took 117 years and a very long journey via hamburg new york and los angeles before silent night became the most popular christmas carol of all time. the journey takes years to the california desert to palm springs at the time the home of green cross be being crossed. by then being crosby was already the most successful singer of his day he live just outside palm springs in the small away series of rancho mirage.

his company's offices however were located on hollywood sunset boulevard the building stone exists today. i grew up it was a big progress on. and we knew it in english from being crosby and we knew it in spanish because those were the 2 languages that were the most famous i would say in america but every schoolchild around the world will sing the song in their language and that's that's how you know the song is just completely transcendent popular culture into into world history. like being crosby came to sing silent night by chance one sunday late in the autumn of 1934 he and his brother larry would busy preparing for an annual christmas radio special when a missionary they knew came calling. please accept my apology larry this morning for this intrusion i have a proposal for mr crosby is he at homes mourning. her

father it's been a while what can i do for you i have a proposal for you do have a minute could you perhaps sing silent night. sacred songs are a little out of my reach. for a crooner like myself mr crosby the recording will only be heard at the parish father ran a hand talked bang into recording this. what song has meant in the annals of history to so many people was something i had italy

didn't know when i 1st recorded the song i was basing my understanding of the song on other artists i heard sing it it was a cover of another christmas song you know i didn't deep dive into the history of it because i was so concerned about how we would make it new i didn't i wasn't thinking so deeply about the old with it and so to learn about its roots in salzburg to learn about its history through the course of the last many generations sends chills down your spine and it's an incredible. gift that keeps on giving as a singer to know about. a story that deep and that profound and inspires whenever i sing in the future so and so it's a lovely lovely story. a.

little. game. 6 literally my 1st experience outside the u.s. when i was a sophomore in high school we went to vienna that was the very 1st place we went and we literally met in a boys' choir and got to hear them sing and it was so magical i mean you have like

teenagers who are generally listening to music like that sobbing like because it was so beautiful an energy something about about the boy singing like that before they become men when you hear something that moves you and moves you no matter what the languages and there's just some songs and i feel like silent night is one of those that when you sing it doesn't it doesn't even it's so weird it transcends the lyrics it transcends the music. around 1820 life in austria is tour all region was as hard as it was across the rest of europe and the alpine winters were particularly harsh mountain dwellers only left the house when necessary and it took them hours to get down into the valley the musical rhino siblings lived in the valley and it was this family quartet that helped spread silent night.

in the winter of 1822 and pro france heroes of austria and russia alexander the 1st were residing if you can cast on one evening the wryness siblings were hired to entertain the guests. silent night was among the songs they performed. the illustrious cast was so taken by their performance that desire invited them to visit russia. as a result the siblings began a tour across europe. am.

can you. tell you. they performed on recommendation in many european cities up to 1839. they even sang for england's king george the 4th in windsor castle. i. heard. that same year the wryness siblings traveled to the united states after what must have been a difficult crossing of the atlantic they arrived in new york just before christmas . relieved to have arrived safely the musical family visited trinity church on broadway to give thanks they sang silent night for the 1st time ever in english in

the united states.

were. to ask when did i 1st sign it nice kind of like. when she 1st brief. us is that i cannot remember i say that such

a crazy thought i just kind. it's. a non. really strong a. i've always been a big christmas obsessed so when it gets to the time i even like a little bit close to it. i'm just going for it like i make it i am. an addict my house and myself i mean yes there is a money making thing we mustn't deny this was a you know so it's valentine's day but so. i don't can't raise much money as you know i am having fun with it and think that i'm and so is everyone else but i know christmas marks the birth of jesus christ. if a christmas day falls on december 25th a public holiday is the celebration start the previous evening on christmas eve

again. in there but in most countries where the holiday is marked the christmas season already gets underway november with christmas lights and christmas markets in the house back so often so that's true insult to where the crist can go market is a tradition that stretches back 525 years that the history of europe's christmas market states to the late middle ages on dates used in many parts of the former roman empire. the pursue for common visitors come to look for gifts to enjoy themselves in. chicago. by now strides in solid support of christmas time inside sport is simply fantastic i was here for my 1st mozart weekly preview

a new production of the opera lucho cielo was being staged here and i was there for the rehearsals on this. it's so wonderful so spiritual is it really is something very special. in mexico find that in mexico a lot of music is played at christmas had. the music there's a lot of rhythm to that music and these are the christmas songs called d.n.c. cause are important. you celebrate with a lot of joy happiness and light and christmas spent with family and friends of course it's a wonderful time and when it's. many as $300.00 from my 1st christmas recollection is of not yet a pass it's a song that just comes when we're all together in the normal which are there was no more tragic time to be trying to do what you did i went to a german school in of course i learned there that the original is in german i don't

you just have. to soviet history so really this is perhaps the most famous christmas song that there is he is keep to you has been translated everywhere. if you like my hits so perhaps my 1st memory of christmas music is this song is still i mean that beginning. on what it is without words it soothes you. the same in that melody and it lets us . has been very good moves us really like like a lullaby. i says kind of but it isn't a lullaby it also has something that lets our soul dance. and then again.

these are believing in these movements and the music they build that's become the one. one done oh no no no. no no i enter this is my finally it opens up like a flower but it's not over yet it's not a heroic song. lead then it goes. i'm movin it comes back to earth once more to everyone for us the very urgently so it's big it starts like a caress that goes on and on and on my nightgown 5 times i tell you bruce your chest opens up the music comes out and then it returns moving inwards again with everything that the message carry said not just us the big boy to the is hurt. it comes back to us. in this is in that says silent night is perfect as a title i was

a statement on this steely silent night it's fantastic. the . war. was. mostly the the oscars the. bird. was the world. the. poet. so this is

a national. interest in smaller cities the atmosphere is very different to that of the christmas capital such as london or new york or the new york that you certainly don't feel that it's a silent time of year site as you have this. book it's wonderful all the same in its am black. played

it played. christmas is a little colder a little doco in england. christmas feels much additional. but. they make a good gauge make a lot of effort there on the close of christmas feeling and posses and keep around but i. think like i do i think the christmas miracle special. place. to. place.

blame. for the song i'm he's actually is very intimate knows about the people close to surround you. see. the connection with them on a holiday spirit you know holy days are so beautiful because it's a chance to start again by a slight spot of fresh. and. obviously this don't always like a religious idea but i think it's been adopted by 6 of the slain tyrants be together and be around people and you people are gifts because enough in. place.

now. she. said tom was. sir. for me christmas has to be wiped off. the christmas in paris but it makes sense

they celebrate christmas and now still a very beautiful way with all the lights it's a very it's one of my favorite time of the year. all. the. silent night is. deeply linked with christianity. but to me this song belongs to humanity it belongs to a lot of people to every single person regardless your religion or what you believe .

i'm from indonesia so indonesia is the biggest muslim country in the world so i'm from a muslim family but my father. was an author who is a book writer he wanted his children to have. a very open mind and super tolerant and he prefers and that's why he put us in a catholic school so i did all my education with the 9.

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i think dad this song has nothing to do with a place or time. it has something to do with spirit and with connecting people together because i think that everyone in the world as we see now in this song in silent night there's plenty of versions in all kind of languages all over the world and it connects people and i think that's the purpose of this song and that's what's great about it that it connects people together and it brings everyone together. sontag.

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c hold. on well the 1st time i heard this song was that i was maybe 3 years old and it was in arabic says arab so that's the 1st version i've ever learned to sing. and i wanted to and a lot of people in the world don't know that it exists in arabic because they don't know that they are you know christian arabs and i was like. ok let me sing it in arabic and show you that we have our own version. and i love this version i think it adds some. authentic. spirit to the song and gives another you know buy a view to silence. was.

was. was. was was. was. was. was the i. was. feeling and many legends and stories around the christmas truce along the western front of world war one in 1914 in one half probably the most accurate account was recorded by british commanding

officer field marshal douglas haig in his diary and. the other british every british soldier received a small package as a gift from the king on the on the island it also included a princess mary box. which contain chocolate cigarettes tobacco and a greeting card from the princess. of the gate on the other side of the german soldiers received a communally funded gift box from their hometowns as well as parcels from their families with warm clothes food with alcohol cigarettes and letters to get it to the place in contrast to the later years of the war there was still no significant scarcity of foodstuffs and luxury goods in germany in 1914 or. so the amount that the country's military command also sent tens of thousands of

miniature christmas trees to the german front to be lit up at christmas and i thought of it as. douglas haig said count of wartime events is listed in the us goes well memory register of documentary heritage. there on this. friday 40 december 1940. 5 motor down to some american dining of the king of the prince of wales to. their. kin seem very cheery but inclined to think that all our troops are by nature brave and is ignorant of all the effort which commanders must make to keep up the

mirage of their men in war and all of the training which is necessary in peace in order to enable a company for instance to go forward as an organized unit in the face. of almost certain death. i told him of the crowds of fugitives who came back down the 1000000 road during the battle. having thrown everything they called including that rifles and packs in order to escape. the look that soon turned up on their faces such as i have never before seen. on any human being.

on christmas eve 914 and almost closely calm descended on the british trenches the men were chilled to the bone by the bitter cold and the horrors of war. hero. was a live in the. in the german trenches men began singing and now the wind carried their voices across enemy lines echoing eerily in the ears of british troops hunkered down in their own trenches initially they thought it was a trap until one of the british soldiers recognized the children and began singing the carol in english. law with. all. all.

virgins. oh it is. slowly been hey i only mean he didn't sleep in the hit of the game. according to field marshall hates diary entries december 25th 1914 was a surprisingly warm winter. this day. the sun was shining even a hint of spring seemed to be in the ass when a german sergeant made a spontaneous and brave decision.

on dom's the british book path for combat. but one noncommissioned officer recognised the german sanctions intentions and quickly decided to reciprocate the peaceful gesture of chapter 7 shows.

only the 1st person. you are. one of the others but if i did i did not know this will stop a long life like. this is how silent night not only brought about a miraculous christmas truce in 1914 it also became a song that symbolizes world peace the 1st was the cease fire that took. place was an authorized it came about soley because on both sides people shanta christian idea that christmas is a celebration of maybelline not. was was.

i am. which is ironic is it not that the. abiding memory of that war should be that moment of peace of humanity. in 115 when i was commander in chief. there were calls for us to repeat that almost us. and we. i. would not allow. to see. does no good for

fighting or rot. to see your elite as humans. of course. no good at all. years old and duncan we should be thankful that humankind has the right to live on this wonderful planet it's really the planet that we call her a house that. is old we should look inward hide and contemplate the gift but queens to us by more and grew back with their song that silent night feel and at the end of us. is that we should join together in celebrating the true spirit of christmas and lovingly this community and peace and.

funds in the end when we hear the 1st notes of the song or sing them our sounds even. then we can get a sense of what more if war and france gruber must have felt was back then them us on christmas of the year 1818. man a land. border man. sarah. all raimi street. man. parent will leave bowl. game to.

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