Does anyone else dislike holiday music?

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BillT

Discussion Starter · Dec 25, 2014

Here in the States, holiday music (including Christmas carol and other well-known gems) are played endlessly not only in stores and public places but also on the radio of classical music stations, including our local public radio station and on the classical station on satellite radio (Sirius XM).

Even when played and sung by classical stars, I hate the stuff. I am sick of it, not from last year, but from so many years past (I hate to say how many). The stuff bores me silly.

Does anyone else feel the same way, or are you enjoying it, at least when it's played or sung well, in a "classical" fashion?

Merry Christmas to you (if you do that), or Happy Holidays in any case. Or if you are in a country which does not celebrate Christmas, I wish you peace.

Thanks,

Bill

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Ingélou

· #4 · Dec 25, 2014 (Edited)

I know what you mean. I like the tunes and the words, mostly. It's the treatment that makes the difference.
I like singing carols, and I like listening to them when they're sung by good singers who are 'ordinary people'. But I don't like the syrupy commercial Mary's-Boy-Child stuff in supermarkets, the piped Jingle Bells on Rotary Club Sleighs, (with a Father Christmas ho-ho-ho-ing in the background, it drives me mad

) and even the careful diction and dulcet tones of Cambridge King's College Choir singing folk carols sometimes get to me. Professional minstrels singing glees can set my teeth on edge. I like a bit of naturalness - carols with tousled hair.

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Ingélou

· #38 · Dec 26, 2014

Ingélou said:
I know what you mean. I like the tunes and the words, mostly. It's the treatment that makes the difference.
I like singing carols, and I like listening to them when they're sung by good singers who are 'ordinary people'..... I like a bit of naturalness - carols with tousled hair.

This is what I mean - an American and not very traditional rendition of an English wassail song, but it's lovely because it's fresh and natural. :cheers: Wassail, TC-ers!

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Ingélou

· #51 · Dec 27, 2014

Nope - Christmas is over for me. Back to auld claithes and parritch!

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Ingélou

· #54 · Dec 27, 2014

It's the old calendar, isn't it? Appalachian versions of The Cherry Tree Carol preserve that tradition too.
Whenever I hear examples of the orthodox liturgy, it always sounds wonderful.

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