ITL #13: The Christmas Special
Impolite to Listen: Classical Music Conversations
English - December 18, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 124 MBPerforming Arts Arts Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Chris and Sridhar say goodbye to 2020 with an epic Christmas Special. They discuss classic--and Classical--Christmas music, what makes music sound Christmassy, their favorite things to listen to around this time of year, and yes...The Nutcracker.
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Useful Links:
Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas is You
Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War is Over)
Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime
E.T.A. Hoffmann - The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
The Nutcracker - Coffee (Arabian Dance) played on theremin
White Christmas (weather) - wikipedia
Charles Dickens - "the man who invented Christmas"
Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream
Santa's Midsummer Night's Dream
A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack
Brian Setzer jazzy Nutcracker arrangement
Ding Dong Merrily on High - Philharmonia Brass Quintet
German Brass - "Now you are well avenged" from Bach's Christmas Oratorio
German Brass - "Let honor be sung to You, O God" from Bach's Christmas Oratorio
Matthias Höfs - A Spanish Christmas
Béla Fleck & the Flecktones - Jingle All the Way
Jingle All the Way starring Arnold Schwarzenegger
Handel's Messiah - Christopher Hogwood/Academy of Ancient Music
Tom Lehrer - A Christmas Carol
Tom Lehrer - concert in Copenhagen
Eric Idle - Monty Python comedian/musician
Eric Idle - Boozy Philosopher's Song
Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite
Boston Pops Sleigh Ride - conducted by John Williams
Boston Pops Sleigh Ride - conducted by Shaq
John Sergeant - Home Alone/Nutcracker medley
Verily, He is Worthy - Russian Orthodox chant
Irving Berlin/Bing Crosby - White Christmas
Some of our favorite Nutcrackers:
San Francisco Ballet (audio only)
New York City Ballet (movie w/Home Alone kid)