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12-21-2014, 06:34 PM
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Originally Posted by trisigma212
The Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah (music major here...hence my hatred). First, its completely inappropriate since its supposed to be performed at Easter. For the 10 years of my life that chorus made me its bitch, we did the HC at every single holiday concert. At this point I have the alto, tenor, and soprano parts memorized. There's a radio station here that plays the entire oratorio on christmas day.
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Originally Posted by MysticCat
Preach. Give me "And the Glory of the Lord" or "For Unto Us a Child is Born" any day.
And thank you for calling it Messiah instead of The Messiah.
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Since this thread got bumped ...
I actually have no problem with the Hallelujah Chorus being performed at Christmastime. It's definitely associated with Easter rather than Christmas:
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"The kingdom of this world / Is become / the kingdom of our Lord, / And of His Christ, and of His Christ"
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because Jesus died on the cross for our sins. But it's arguably the most memorable and powerful movement in the oratorio.
Last weekend, the chorale that my husband and I just joined performed Handel's Messiah for the first time. (Edit to clarify: It's not the first time the chorale has performed it, but it's the first time my husband and I have performed it.) We performed the entire thing - Christmas, Good Friday / Easter, the Second Coming. I have to say that it was awesome to see everyone in the audience stand up when we got to the Hallelujah Chorus.  (And it was rather amusing to see some people leave immediately after. Uh, folks, there are a few more movements to go, including "I know that my Redeemer liveth" and "Worthy is the Lamb / The Great Amen". Oh well, their loss.)
I'm an alto, so obviously I know that part. I know the soprano part by virtue of having heard it so many times - my parents played a recording of Messiah every year during Christmas and Easter breakfasts. And my husband is a tenor, and sings FREAKING LOUD, so I've probably learned the tenor part by osmosis. LOL.
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12-21-2014, 11:02 PM
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Can I say something about that damn Christmas Shoes song?
The kid needs an education on the funeral industry because if mom does bite the dust they're not going to put the f'ing shoes on her feet in the casket. So you just wasted all your money. Dumbass.
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All the lolz. For real.
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12-21-2014, 11:23 PM
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Christmas Shoes. Gag. Has anyone seen the movie? I'm guessing it can't be good.
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12-21-2014, 11:40 PM
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Any traditional song performed by Trans Siberian Orchestra. Actually, anything performed by Trans Siberian Orchestra.
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12-22-2014, 05:54 PM
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Christmas Shoes. Gag. Has anyone seen the movie? I'm guessing it can't be good.
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There's a movie? Putting that on my "never ever watch" list.
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12-22-2014, 06:33 PM
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This time of year reminds me that even Paul McCartney can put out a real dud of a song.
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12-22-2014, 07:00 PM
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This time of year reminds me that even Paul McCartney can put out a real dud of a song.
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12-22-2014, 08:29 PM
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Any song I hear six different versions of during a one hour shopping trip.
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12-22-2014, 09:05 PM
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There's a movie? Putting that on my "never ever watch" list.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0330152/
Yeah, and apparently, Rob Lowe is in it.
The only reason I recognize his name immediately at this present point in time is because of the recent direct tv versus cable commercials. Ew.
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12-22-2014, 11:13 PM
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Christmas Shoes. Gag. Has anyone seen the movie? I'm guessing it can't be good.
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I want to know who composed that picture. They're backwards, not to mention fugly.
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12-23-2014, 07:24 AM
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Sitting around the fire, eating cookies, laughing chatting, and drinking mulled wine and Jingle Bells as sung by Barking Dogs comes on the streaming music
crickets and awkward silence as we had a collective WTH?!?
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12-23-2014, 10:44 AM
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Robert Goulet
Still Can't figure out if it should be
This Christmas, I Spend with You
This Christmas I will Spend with You
Or This Christmas I am Spending with you?
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12-02-2015, 03:30 PM
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My least favorite is still the same but I'm getting heartily sick of the Christian groups who are setting the lyrics of old Christmas hymns to cruddy music that they made up.
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12-03-2015, 05:26 AM
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While minding my own business waiting for my order in a hamburger joint today, I was reminded -- against my will! -- of just how much I hate the "So This is Christmas" dirge. Ugh!
(That "Ugh!" goes double because I was so distracted by that song playing while I was ordering that I forgot to ask for no mushrooms on my burger, and had to pick the little rubbery intruders off of my sandwich while driving back to my office, thus endangering innocent people on the roads. I mean, lives could have been lost.)
I think my hatred for that song is second only to my hatred for that schlocky "Feee duhhh wuhhh-huhhhh!" Bob Geldof sing-along nightmare. Double ugh!
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12-03-2015, 09:37 PM
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Not sure if this has been brought up (in 19 pages, I'm sure it has) but my least favorite Christmas song ever is Santa Baby, in all of its incarnations. Michael Buble's Santa Buddy is just as heinous.
That being said, I'm sick of Buble this season. The local Christmas station here loves him.
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