Christmas Eve, Sarajevo – Official!

Yes, there is now an official version of this annual video I post, and it allows embedding, so here it is!

Long-term visitors will already be well aware of this truly excellent video, featuring the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and a really great child as the production's fully deserved star, as I am sure the TSO members would unanimously agree...

Christmas Greeting

This short greetings video comes from a Vietnamese studio, and is quite effective. I think it serves well as my one-minute-past-midnight 'blog greeting for Christmas Day!

Christmas 2012 – O Holy Night

Well, this is that night, as we celebrate it, regardless of what history tells us now, told us before, or might tell us one day in the future. As this appears, it is just a couple of minutes before midnight on Christmas Eve.

The important thing is the celebration of Jesus Christ's birth on Earth, the fact rather than the precise timing, so for us this is that Holy Night, and to bring us to it is that most beautiful of carols O Holy Night. As per my own tradition, it is again Michael Crawford and the Sarajevo Children's Choir, along with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and this is because I still have not found another version that is as special as this one...

Songtaran Carols

Who is singing? No, it's not Who, it's Strax the Sontaran, with his own (brief) offbeat take on some seasonal Earth carols...

We Have Not Forgotten

...but for those who have, or have fallen into the (admittedly easy) trap of dismissing it all on a probably unwitting error, here is a timely reminder from the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church and School in the USA...

Christmas 2012 – John Lewis

This year's John Lewis Christmas television advertisement is a bit so-so, I thought, despite a (more gentle than the original) version of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Power of Love as the soundtrack. You'll probably be seeing it quite a few times over the next week or so anyway.

Therefore I am featuring last year's offering instead, which is extremely good and very well performed, especially by the young boy who was perfect for this...

Christmas 2012 – Wizards in Winter, New Light Show

Yup, this light show to accompany the Trans-Siberian Orchestra classic Wizards in Winter is new this year, and is actually quite good and well worth an airing here (by now, you know just how much of an old fuss-pot I have become)...

Christmas 2012 – Christmas Canon Light Show

This is my perennial Christmas Canon by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and the Sarajevo Children's Choir – but this time we don't see the children, just a new light show produced this year.

It isn't one of the best of these light shows, but it works well enough with this canon, and is enjoyable enough to be well worth the sharing...