For the needs of the school choir, led by mathematician Ernest Berger (1904–58), the school’s director, his edition of ‘Zbiór pieśni kościelnych’ was published in 1941 at Villard de Lans.Rudolf Rygiel (1910–86), a soldier in the 1939 Polish defensive war, reached France in 1940, where he became an active member of the resistance movement, as well as working as a conductor and composer. The present paper is dedicated to these songbooks.A Polish junior and senior high school named after Cyprian Kamil Norwid operated in 1940–46 at Villard-de-Lans near Grenoble. It was for their needs that songbooks comprising arrangements of Polish Christmas carols for unaccompanied choir were published in exile. Summary/Abstract: Choirs and vocal ensembles sprang up in many places where Poles lived or stayed during the war and military occupation of Poland. Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk Keywords: Christmas carols choir songbook World War II Pokish music Polish composers 20th-century music Subject(s): Cultural history, Music, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949) I would love to hear about your most beloved Christmas songs – be they vintage or modern renditions – as I’m always looking to expand my repertoire of holiday tunes.Chóralne wydania polskich kolęd na obczyźnie w czasach II wojny światowejĬhoral Editions of Polish Christmas Carols Published Abroad during World War II Author(s): Marcin Łukasz Mazur I hope that you enjoyed this festive playlist, it is chalked full of some of my favourite holiday classics (it was tricky to limit this list to just twenty, as I could have easily kept going to fifty or more!). Many singers that tie in with our beloved vintage era – such as Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby – even recorded whole Christmas albums over their own over the years, meaning that there’s a decent chance that you can find many more of your holiday favourites by fantastic yesteryear music stars. Thanks to the fact that many Christmas carols and songs are decades (and in some cases, centuries) old, a great deal of them have been recorded by a vast array of artists over the years. The selection of marvellous holiday songs above is but the tip of the festive tune iceberg. So don your coziest red vintage sweat, gather in the light of a glowing fireplace, and join me in listening to the following selection of timelessly fantastic vintage holiday songs. Given the unpredictable nature of how long music videos stick around on YouTube sometimes, I can’t guarantee that all of these videos will still be up until December 25th, but most of them should be, and moreover the selection itself is a great starting point for your Christmas playlist. These are some of the tunes that radiate an endless sense of Christmas cheer, of festive goodwill, and the happiest of tidings. Reflecting fondly on those sweet, joyful memories of youth and celebrating the bounty of holiday favourites that I cherish in my heart today, I thought it would be delightfully fun – and festive! – to gather up twenty beautiful Christmas songs sung (or preformed) by artists and groups from our beloved mid-twentieth century era.īelow you’ll find YouTube videos of some of the best holiday songs of all-time. These are traditional tunes that I poured over the lyrics of in our family’s well-thumbed copy of the Reader’s Digest Merry Christmas Songbook, never tiring of imagining that I was an old fashioned caroller. They’re the songs that I associate with the gripping chill of frosty nights, the taste of piping hot apple cider, the unmistakable rustle of wrapping paper being portioned off the roll, and the simply joy of a multi-coloured string of twinkling lights strung around a freshly chopped fir tree. These are the songs that have become soundtracks for the world’s holiday season, played as often in Hollywood movies as in shopping malls, at gala parties and as the background music at countless holiday dinners. Many were rich in old school tunes, others were very of the moment, some fell in between and others were a delightful jumble of songs from many eras and crooners.Īs such my taste in Christmas music is rather diverse, yet the warmest spot in my holiday tune loving heart is reserved (naturally) for vintage Christmas songs, those beautiful classics that were performed by some of the best artists of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. When I was growing up my parents were very keen on Christmas tunes, playing a menagerie of festive records, tapes, and later CDs, each a smidge different from its music shelf neighbours. There’s something thrilling wonderful about having songs that we (by and large) only get to hear and sing for a few short weeks a year. Before I’ve even blown out the candles in my jack-o-lanterns, I’m usually humming a few bars from Frosty, Rudolph or Silver Bells. Few things get me excited about the magic of the holiday season like Christmas songs.
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