to ask when that i 1st heard silent night is kind of like me when she 1st breathed in the heart of us is that i cannot remember i say that such a crazy thought i just can't. see. from a. i've always been a 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 may come. and i declare my house and myself i mean yes there is a money making big we must 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 happened to have think irish and so is

everyone else but her 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 to get. them out in most countries where the holiday is marked the christmas season already gets underway 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 states to the late middle ages when they exist in many parts of the former roman empire. to pursue for common visitors come to look for gifts to enjoy themselves and to shop for calm.

by next tides inside sort of christmas time inside sport is simply fantastic i was here for my 1st mozart week the new production of the opera lucho cielo was being staged here and i was there for the rehearsals on these songs 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 has. been 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 and happiness and light and christmas spent with family and friends of course it's a wonderful time is and when it's. many as $31.00 from my 1st christmas recollection is of not yet a pass it's a song that just comes when we're all together nor much or the past nor true there

are more time to be trying to daughters and i went to a german school in of course i learned there that the original is in german and i was going. to soviet k.g.b. so really this is perhaps the most famous christmas song that there is is keep your presence in translated everywhere. if you like mind it 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 of that melody and it lets us . has been very good moves us really like like a lullaby. i was just kind of but it isn't a little advice it also has something that lets our soul dance. and then again.

you know. these have been in these movements and the music they build that's. going to wind down no no no no. no no. i and this is my finally it opens up like a flower but it's not over yet it's not a heroic song or sleet then it goes. for. a month then it comes back to earth once more to everyone for us 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 carries that not just us the big boy to the is hurt.

it comes back to us. in this is you know in that sense silent night is perfect as a title i have a statement on this steely silent night it's fantastic. the . war was the. oh. come on oscars the. bird. was. a week in. america the.

poet. says this is crucial. in class 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 and cite this you have this. about it's wonderful all the same in it i'm like.

i. plague. place. christmas is a little colder little daca in england. christmas is for the most traditional. but . they make a good they make a lot of effort here on the slopes of christmas feeling in policies and people around but i. think like i do i think christmas miracle some stuff christmas. player.

play. for a song is actually very consumer you know is about the people closest to rouse you . feel. the connection with them on a holiday spirit and you know holidays are so beautiful to be close to chance to stop the jam from wipe the slate and spot a fresh. and. obviously just don't place like the religious idea but i think it's been adopted by secular loosely plaints hines be together and be around people and give people gifts because we love him. play.

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some a christmas has to be wiped off. the christmas in paris but it makes sense they celebrate christmas in our 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 and what you believe.

unfun internees and satan is just 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.

i sing 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.

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was. 7 told. that i. own well the 1st time i heard the song was when i was maybe 3 years old and it was in arabic since. 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 other you know by a view to silence. was was. was was. was was a. was . the eat. around. the it. was a week. feeling came 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 pocket. 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 a set 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 to them. 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 that there were. doubtless headaches account of wartime events is listed in the unesco's world memory register of documentary heritage out. there on this. friday 4th of december 1948. down to sun omerta dine of the king a prince of wales should. there . the 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 mirage of their men in war and all of the training which is necessary in peace in order to enable a company for his students 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 eeprom bet. having thrown everything they called including that rifles and packs in order to escape. the look that soon turned in their faces such as i have never before seen. on any

human being. on christmas eve 914 and almost ghostly calm had descended on the british trenches the men were chilled to the bone by the bitter cold and the horrors of war. hero or. a good hour 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. your. version. oh it is so. silly been held a i only be. sleeping in the game. according to field marshal hague's 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.

that. alarms the british the path for combat. but one noncommissioned officer recognised the german sergeants intentions and quickly decided to reciprocate the peaceful gesture our chaps are shown said showed.

up at the 1st hammersmith. you are. one of the last bulbs in the fight so i still like the school stuff a lot and i feel like. that 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 west the ceasefire that took. place was unauthorized it came about solely because on both sides people shanta christian idea that christmas is a celebration of maple enough. was

was. and was. which is ironic is it not that the. abiding memory of that war should be that moment of peace on humanity. in 1915 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. no good at all. years old and duncan we should be thankful that humankind has the right to live on this wonderful planet from the planet that we call her the house it. is owed to we should look inward high and contemplate the gift but queens to us by more and grew back with their song silent night feeling at the end of us.

these are we should join together in celebrating the true spirit of christmas fire in love and leave the 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 use of more from war and france gruber must have felt back then them eyes on christmas by the year 1800 and day 18 of. man land. warning. bell. oh mom are a treat. then

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