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unusual facts about Christmas carols



Buford Tower

The bells play Westminster Quarters on the hour, and Christmas carols during the Christmas season, as well as chiming the hours.


see also

Gaspar de Verlit

His anthology of Christmas carols was published in 1657 while those by Guillielmus Borremans, singing master at the Saint Gaugericus Church, and by Gaspar, were published in 1660.

Henry Ramsden Bramley

Along with earlier 19th-century composers such as William Sandys and John Mason Neale, Bramley and Stainer are credited with fuelling a Victorian revival of Christmas carols with their 1871 publication of Christmas Carols, New and Old, which popularised carols such as "The First Nowell", "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" and "The Holly and the Ivy".

Jane Doyle

She also has hosted Carols by Candlelight where she also displayed her talent for singing with some renditions of classic Christmas carols.

José de Cañizares

Also extant are a few of Cañizares' non-dramatic works, most notably a collection of lyrics for villancicos de Navidad (Christmas carols) commissioned by the Royal Chapel of Madrid, and two examples of Gongorine-style funereal prose in honor of the Dauphin of France, father of Felipe V.

Junichi Inagaki

His 1992 ballad "When The Christmas Carols Play" (クリスマスキャロルの頃には Kurisumasu kyaroru no koro ni wa) was featured on the TBS drama series Homework (ホームワーク), and remains one of the most popular holiday songs in Japan.

Tatachilla Lutheran College

The college also hosts the McLaren Vale Community Christmas Carols each year, with the choirs from the college and other schools, a guest artist and invites musicians from all over the Fleurieu Peninsula to form an orchestra for the event.

Wojciech Rybicki

Compositions, like Etudes (2003), 26 Mazurkas (2004), 2 books of Waltzes (2005), Polish folk dances (2005), Włocławian Stories (2005), 26 Preludes (2006) as well as tangos, Polkas, Christmas carols, piano miniatures; author of poem collections, e.g. Wierszowane życie (2004) and Meetings with XI Muse (2006).