Christmas Classics Videos
Ron Clancy, author of the beautiful Christmas Classics series of Christmas carol books, has now created a number of "The Story Behind The Music" videos recounting the histories of several Christmas carols. Three were released in late July 2009; other titles were released from early November through early December. Are are available at YouTube.
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Contents The Story Behind The Music of ... Chapter 1. The Little Drummer Boy Chapter 2. O Little Town of Bethlehem Chapter 4. I'll Be Home For Christmas Chapter 5. Rudolph & Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree Chapter 6. Do You Hear What I Hear? Chapter 7. The New York Influence Chapter 10. Santa Claus is Comin' to Town Chapter 12. The Alfred Burt Carols Chapter 13. Christmas Eve in My Hometown Chapter 15. From Harvard Composers Chapter 16. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear Chapter 17. I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day Chapter 18. We Three Kings of Orient Are Chapter 19. I Wonder As I Wander Chapter 21. The Shepherd's Carol World War II - Honoring Those Who Served About the Christmas Classics - The Millennia Series
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American Christmas Classics Introduces
22 Fascinating Video Stories of Familiar Favorites
(PRWEB) December 8, 2009 -- In the culmination of a 4,000 mile journey taking over a year, Ron Clancy is introducing twenty-two videos that trace the history of some of the most popular American Christmas carols on his website. (Click here for review of all videos.) The videos, available on his website, provide compelling, little-known personal stories behind the music and act as a partner for Clancy’s American Christmas Classics boxed set-collection spanning 200 years of American Christmas music. The stories, mostly about traditional gems found in the collection, are also about a few carols from his first title Best-Loved Christmas Carols and his fourth book/CD collection Sacred Christmas Music. The music collection, one of the largest and mostly highly copyright protected ever assembled for public sale, represents both secular and religious favorites written in America. Ron Clancy’s life long dream to create the classics collections combining historical perspective, fascinating stories, period art, song lyrics, and music CDs is a reality and is further augmented by the production of the videos. The author’s travels started in Savannah, GA, and the “Jingle Bells” Church where the song’s composer, who fought for the Confederacy while his brother fought on the Union side in the Civil War, was music director. Clancy then visited St. Helena, SC, once a port of call for the slave trade, where the spiritual “Mary Had a Baby” may have originated. The journey continued through North Carolina, Michigan, Boston, New York, and ended in Philadelphia where, amongst other stops, he went to Independence Hall and the Holy Trinity Church on Rittenhouse Square, to shed light on one of our most endearing carols, “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” Its author, Rev. Phillips Brooks, one of the country’s most prominent preachers at the time, was grief-stricken over the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and the horrors of the Civil War so, for solace, he went to the Holy Land. As he witnessed a Christmas Eve service there, the Rev. Brooks was inspired to compose his carol poem. (Click here to see video.) American Christmas Classics special boxed set and 3 CDs is not available in stores but can be ordered from the website for $29.95 - half off the suggested retail price. There is no better way to celebrate the Christmas holiday than with hours of the most popular Christmas music in the country and a better understanding of how that music was written. William E. Studwell, a foremost authority on Christmas carols, once wrote: “Clancy’s exceptional publications are probably better than anything I may have produced. I can take vicarious joy in having even a slight connection with these masterpieces of holiday literature. They are the ultimate Christmas collection.” According to Joel Welin, Herald Tribune, Sarasota, Fl, “Each Season, some company attempts to span the decades of holiday music with a compilation of favorites… and most often falls short… But for timeless carols and songs (no contemporary tuneage here, dude) and immaculate presentation, nothing this season holds a candle to Ronald M. Clancy’s “Best-Loved Christmas Carols” and “American Christmas Classics.”
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The Christmas Classics Chronicles
Chapter 1.
The Story Behind the Music of
The
Little Drummer Boy
Chapter 2.
The Story Behind the Music of
O Little
Town of Bethlehem
Chapter 3.
The Story Behind the Music of
White
Christmas
Chapter 4.
The Story Behind the Music of
I'll Be
Home For Christmas
Chapter 5.
The Stories
Behind The Music Of
"Rudolph" & "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"
Chapter 6.
The Stories
Behind The Music Of
Do
You Hear What I Hear?
Chapter 7.
The Story Behind The Music
With New
York Influence
Chapter 8.
The Stories
Behind The Music Of
Carol of
the Bells
Chapter 9.
The Stories
Behind The Music Of
Jingle
Bells
Chapter 10.
The Stories
Behind The Music Of
Santa
Claus is Comin' to Town
Chapter 11.
The Stories
Behind The Music Of
Silent Night
Chapter 12.
The Stories
Behind The Music Of
The Alfred
Burt Carols
Chapter 13.
The Stories
Behind The Music Of
"Christmas
Eve in My Hometown"
Chapter 14.
The Stories
Behind The Music Of
Two
Spirituals
Chapter 15.
The Story Behind the Music
From
Harvard Composers
Chapter 16.
The Story Behind the Music of
It Came
Upon the Midnight Clear
Chapter 17.
The Story Behind the Music of
I Heard the
Bells on Christmas Day
Chapter 18.
The Story Behind the Music of
We Three
Kings of Orient Are
Chapter 19.
The Story Behind the Music of
I Wonder As
I Wander
Chapter 20.
The Story Behind the Music of
The Cowboy
Carol
Chapter 21.
The Story Behind the Music of
The
Shepherd's Carol
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Christmas Classics-The Millennial Collection
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Christmas Classics - The Millennia Collection Series
This video describes the Christmas Classics-Millennia Collection Series, a series of books with stories describing the origin of Christmas music, carols, and songs with special emphasis on American contributions to the international repertoire.
Inspired by those who nobly served our country, especially the veterans of World War II.
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