in 2019 who are only a handful of the 160 part quiet were allowed to perform and wore helmets and protective suits to conform to security protocols last year's fire destroyed the church's roof and spire the french government has promised to reopen the church of the public in 4 years' time. and that's all for now up next our documentary series struck well i'll see you at the top of the next hour of a. young moroccan immigrants. they know the police will stop but. the road is not the solution. their flight could be single. not an option shattered dreams starts january 18th on t.w.

. her. on december the 24th 1818 the young priest yourself was sent out from open golf

austria to visit his friend france group. and together they wanted to set his poem which dylan knocked a 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 alms door for a small community north of sounds fork. he was expecting his friends who are arrived 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.

via nothing christmas 1818. on christmas eve $1818.00 a time marked by bitter poverty and need the original german version of silent night holy night it was less 1st song during christmas mass in opened off by the 2 friends to the sound of a guitar plant 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 failed harvests had created a mood of despondency with those of more himself or grown up in grinding poverty and had endured much in the years before he penned the poem that would go on to

become a world famous carol. kobo 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 in the home of being a cross between being crossed. by then being crosby was already the most successful singer of his day he lived

just down signed 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 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 transcended 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 narey 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 a proposal for mr crosby is he in holmes 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 of father ran a hand talked being into recording the song. what

song has meant in the annals of history to so many people was something i had been a leader to 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 and inspires whenever i sing in the future so that's it's a lovely lovely story.

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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 them in a boys' choir and got to hear them sing and it was so magical i mean you invite teenagers who aren't generally listening to music like that sobbing like because it was so beautiful and initiate 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 reiner siblings lived in the 2 little valley and it was this family quartet that helped spread silent night. in the winter of 1822 and preference heroes of advanced and russians are 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. the last tryst cast was so taken by their performance that the zara invited them to

visit russia. as a result the siblings began a tour across europe was carrying. out a new. interview. they performed on recommendation in many european cities up to 1839. they even signed 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. they are.

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to ask when did i 1st saw that nice kind of like me when she 1st briefing. is one of us is that i cannot remember i say that such a crazy thought as your comment. see. non. wrong. i've always been a big 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 it home. and i think my house and myself i mean yes there is a money making thing we mustn't deny this was it is you know so violent i'm saying but so. i did can raise much money as you like i'm having one can think i'm and so is everyone else i know christmas mocks the bath of jesus christ.

if a christmas day falls on december 25th a public holiday. this is the celebrations start the previous evening on christmas eve because. they're not 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. to arkansas 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. and the super common visitors come to look for gifts to enjoy themselves until shop because.

by next sides the sides would have christmas time inside sport is simply fantastic i was here for my 1st mozart week because you are a new production of the opera lucho seal that was being staged here and i was there for the rehearsals what is this song 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. film music there's a lot of rhythm to that music and these are the christmas songs called b. and c. cause are important i mean 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. yet. many yesterday november my 1st christmas recollection is of not yet a pass it's a song that just comes when we're all together with them and seeing all the troop

was no more true there no more time to be 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'll staunched. it's. to soviet k.g.b. so really this is perhaps the most famous christmas song that there is c.d.'s keep us in translated everywhere. if you like mine 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 could do some of that melody and it lets us. is be very good moves us really like like a lullaby. i says kind of but it isn't a lullaby is it also has something that lets our soul dance. and then again.

these have been big and these movements in the music they build. done. ah it's my finally it opens up like a flower but it's not over yet it's not a heroic song sleet then it goes. 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 the 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 and not just us the big boy to the is hot

it comes back to us. in the zenith in that says silent night is perfect as a title. statement on this steely silent night it's fantastic. both. the. war 2. 0. 0. 00000000000000000000000000 scripts was the 1st. bird. was the world. do you know what i was going to marry her the.

poem was so this is crashing. in class in smaller cities the atmosphere is very different to that of a christmas capital such as london or new york or new york then you certainly don't feel that it's a silent time of year sight this year house. about it's wonderful all the same in its i am glad. that.

i. this christmas is a little colder a little doco in england saying christmas is full of most traditional. buttstock they make you could they make a lot of effort here on the close of christmas feeling and possibly some people around but i. think like i do i think christmas miracles 1st christmas.

before the song is actually is very intimate knows about the people closest arouse you. feel. a connection with them on a holiday spirit you know holy places so beautiful because it's a chance to start again soon wipe the slate and install a fresh new and. obviously just don't always like the religious idea but i think it's been adopted by the secular society points widescreen scanner and the american people and you people gifts because nothing.

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a christmas in paris and that it makes sense they celebrate christmas and now they're 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 the king 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. to

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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 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. and sontag.

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7 told. me. own well the 1st time i heard the song was when i was maybe 3 years old and it was in arabic since i am 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 there's another you know by of you soundbite. was was. was. was. was was a. was . found. was the i. was the air 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 hake in his diary and pocket. the british every british soldier received a small package as a gift from the king on the under home and it also included a princess mary box. which contained chocolate cigarettes tobacco and a greeting card from the princess and. they gave 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 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 that there are. doubtless hague said count of wartime events is listed in the us goes wild memory register of documentary heritage out there. on this. friday 40 december 1914. i've noted down to some omerta dining at the king or prince of wales to. their. kin seem very cheery here 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. and told him of the crowds of fugitives who came back down the 1000000 road during the battle. having thrown everything they called them clued in that rifles and packs in order to escape. the look let's assume turner on their faces such as i have never before seen. on any human being.

on christmas eve 914 and almost ghostly calm descended on the british trenches the men were chilling to the bone by the bitter cold and the horrors of war. hero. a good hour the 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. all in.

all. all. virgins. oh only year. slowly been hailed only he didn't sleep in the game. according to field marshal 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.

alarm to the british to pass for combat. but one noncommissioned officer recognised the german sergeant's intentions and quickly decided to reciprocate the peaceful gesture of trapped our survey shows a. place .

of the 1st person. your last. one off the lot but if i'd like to follow this case it was. michael's life. laugh. at this his house 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 cease fire that took. place was an authorized it came about soley because on both sides people chanted christian idea that christmas is a celebration of maple enough. was

. 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 on the steps. then we. i. would not allow. to see. it is no good for

fighting moron. to see your elite as human and. 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 for the planet but we call her her house it. is owed to we should look inward high and contemplate the gift but queens to us by more and through back with their song silent night and at the end of us. 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 from war and france gruber must of felt back then them us on christmas by the year 1918. land a land. border games man. oh rain sleet. then. and then we'll leave. again.

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