i actually have to say it's one that i think is one of the best traditions when it comes to christmas and really expresses that christmas spirit and you get to find out how far away santa is from your home indeed i had to tell time thank you so very much indeed thank you. you're up to date now on feet of the new i'll be back again at the top of the hour from me and the entire team in berlin and thanks for watching. it's. the adventures of the famous naturalist and external. objects on the front it's 250th birthday we're importing them on a voyage of discovery. expedition voyage on t.w. .

her. on december the 24th 1818 the young priest yourself more sent out from off and off austria to visit his friend france gruber. and together they wanted to set his poem

not 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 organised and sacristan and on store for a small community. he was expecting his friend to arrive by the early evening but he 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 and.

christmas 1818. come out on christmas eve $1818.00 a time marked by bitter poverty and named home the original german version of silent night holy night is less 1st song during christmas mass on an open door of by the 2 friends to the sound of a guitar big land because of. this road only it was intended to be a song of peace and hope in the difficult years after the napoleonic wars over mass water time fatalities famine epidemics and failed harvests had created a mood of despondency as if 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 to gether with france 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 us to the california desert to palm springs at the time the home of a mccroskey 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 still exists today. i grew up it was a big broad based on. and we knew it in english from big 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 transcended popular culture into into world history. but being crosby came to sing silent night by chance one sunday late in the autumn of 1934 he and his brother larry were 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 proposal for mr crosby is enormous mourning for. her father it's been

a while what can i do for you i have a proposal for you do you have a minute could you perhaps sing silent night. sacred songs are a little out of my league 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 been

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 so it's an incredible. gift that keeps on giving as a singer to know about. a story that deep and that profound and and inspires whenever i sing in the future so and says it's a lovely lovely story. 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 the been a boys' choir and got to hear them sing and it was so magical i mean you have like

teenagers who aren't 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 some songs and i feel like silent night is one of those that when you're seeing 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 terrell 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 preference here was of austria and russia czar alexander the 1st were residing if you can castle on one evening the rhine a siblings were hired to entertain the guests. silent night was among the songs they performed. our. the last tryst cast was so taken by their performance that bizarre i invited them to visit russia. as a result the siblings began a tour across europe. am. i

you. either believe. they performed on recommendation in many european cities up to 839. they even sang for england's kin 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. they are.

worth. some. ask when did i 1st silent night is kind of like. when she 1st briefing. is how one of us is that i cannot remember i say that such

a crazy thought i just kind. see. we are on a. i've always been a christmas obsessed so when it gets to the turn i even like a little bit close to where. i'm just going for it like i make her come. and i think a house and myself i mean yes there is a money making thing we mustn't deny this was it is you know so it's valentine's day but somehow. i don't catch phrase much money if you like i'm having happened to have picked irish and so is everyone else i know what christmas marks the birth of jesus christ. the for christmas day follows on december 25th a public holiday is the celebration start the previous evening on christmas eve to

get. them out in most countries where the holiday is marked the christmas season already gets underway in november with christmas lights and christmas markets in the house america. 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 state to the late middle ages when they exist in many parts of the former roman empire has. to be super common visitors come to look for gifts to enjoy themselves. which come. by next tides insides were christmas time inside sport is simply fantastic i was here for my 1st mozart weekly preview

a new production of the opera lucho cielo it was being staged here and i was there for the rehearsals on disease. 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. free music there's a lot of rhythm to that music and the christmas songs called b. and c. cause are important and you celebrate with a lot of joy happiness and light and christmas spent with family and friends of course it's a wonderful time it's an eternity. many as 13 of them from my 1st christmas recollection is i'm not sure that it's a song that just comes when we're all together in the north troupe was no more true than time to me trying to do what you can i went to a german school in of course i learned there that the original is in german i was

going chased. to soviet 53 so really this is perhaps the most famous christmas song that there is a cd is keep us in translated everywhere. if you like market so perhaps my 1st memory of christmas music is this song is still i mean that beginning of funk. on the board without words it soothes you. the same in that melody and it lets us. is be big it moves us really like like a lullaby. i just kind of but it isn't a lullaby is it also has something that lets our soul dance and. i don't know and then again on that note.

these have been in these movements in the music they build that's become the high. one down. and listen it's mine finally it opens up like a flower but it's not over yet it's not a heroic song sleet then it goes. for . a month then it comes back to earth once more to everyone for us the very urgently so it think it starts like a caress that goes on and on and on like down 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 kerry said not reached last the big boy to the is hot it comes back to us. in the zenith that says silent night is perfect as a title i was statement on this steely silent night it's fantastic.

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so this is crucial. in claims. all i see it is the atmosphere is very different to that of the christmas capital such as london or new york or that you hope that you certainly don't feel that it's a silent time of yap and cite this yahoo's. book tate's wonderful all the same in it sounds like.

christmas is a little colder little daca in england. christmas is for the most traditional. that's why. they make a good gauge making a lot of effort. chris was feeling policies and people around the. guy things like i do like christmas morning his 1st stuff.

before the song is actually is very insular you know it's about the people closest to rouse you. feel. you can actually with them on a holiday spirit you know holidays are so beautiful because it's a chance to start again to wipe the slate and install a fresh new media and. obviously just don't always like a religious idea but i think it's been adopted by 6 of the sort of quiet times be together and be around people and you people are gifts because nothing.

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celebrate christmas announced in a very beautiful way with all the lights it's a. 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 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 that this song has nothing to do with a place or time. it has something to do with spirit and with connecting people together as i think that everyone in the world as we see now in this song in silent night there is 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. john.

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her. was love. well the 1st time i heard this song was when 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 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 there's another you know by a view to silence. i was.

was. was was. the it. was. the. sound. the it. was the air. feeling and many legends and stories surround 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 and sat 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 give it in a 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 the last of it was. doubtless headaches account of wartime events is listed in the unesco's world memory register of documentary heritage. on this. friday 40 december 1914. and noted down to some omerta of the king prince of wales to. their. king 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 morale 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 probe bet. having thrown everything they called including that rifles and packs in order to escape the look. that suit turned on their faces such as i have never before seen. on any human being.

on christmas eve $914.00 and almost closely calm descended on the british trenches the men were chilled to the bone by the bitter cold and the horrors of all. a live hour. in the german trenches men began singing still 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. wall with. all. all.

virgins. oh only. slowly been held a room only he didn't sleep in the same. according to field marshal hates diary entries december 25th 1914 was a surprisingly warm winters 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.

and alms of the british prepared for combat. but one noncommissioned officer recognized the german sergeant's intentions and quickly decided to reciprocate the peaceful gesture of chapter 7 shows.

me the 1st person. who i am. one of the lot but a lot so i still on this day job have all looked like life. at 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 quest for ceasefire took place was an authorized. it came about soley because on both sides people shanta christian idea of christmas as a celebration of neighborly not. was .

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

fighting with iraq. to see your eliminate as human. of course. he's. no good at all. years old and dunk we should be thankful that humankind has the right to live on this wonderful planet from the planet but we call her a house that. is owed to we should look inward high and contemplate the gift bequeath to us by more and group back with their song silent night and elevate and others. these are we should join together in celebrating the true spirit of christmas and lovingly this community and peace and.

once 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 you said more war and france gruber must have felt back then them eyes on christmas so by the year 1818. landed land. war on. earth. oh ari meet. karen believes come. game.

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