Coming up ahead of us. Her. On december the 24 all the 18 a team and the young priest yourself more set out for open golf austria to visit his friend france group of. Time together they wanted to set his poem which dylan knocked a silent night to music. He needed to him to perform at the Christmas Mass in his parish that same night. At the time gruber was a teacher organised and sacristan and arms doff a Small Community north or south fork. He was expecting his friends who i arrived by the early evening bounty knew how long and arduous the journey was in winter. The 2 friends both musicians did not take long to find the right melody to accompany moores contemplated words. It is only a simple composition without any special meaning gruber wrote in his diary and. Value nothing christmas 1818. Come out on Christmas Eve 1818. 00 a time marked by bitter poverty and neato the original German Version of silent night holy night it was less 1st song during Christmas Mass an open door of the 2 friends to the sound of a guitar plant on israel. Is so deadly it was intended to be a song of peace and hope in the difficult years after the napoleonic wars or mass water in fact tallaght is famine epidemics and found harvests had created a mood of despondency of those of more himself or grown up in grinding poverty and had endured much in the years before he penned the poem that would go on to become a world famous carol. Google more to gether with france he created a song sung today by 2000000000 people across the globe during the Christmas Season one that has been translated into more than 300 languages and dialects of places to become but it took 117 years and a very long journey via hamburg new york and los angeles before silent night became the most popular Christmas Carol of all time. The journey takes is to the california desert to palm springs at the time the home of a man crossbreed being crossed. By then being crosby was already the most successful singer of his day he live just outside palm springs in the small away series of rancho mirage. His companys offices however were located on hollywood sunset boulevard the building stone exists today. I grew up thinking as being from. And we knew it in english from being crosby and we knew it in spanish because those were the 2 languages that were the most famous i would say in america but every schoolchild around the world will sing the song in their language and thats thats how you know the song is just completely transcended Popular Culture into into world history. Like being crosby came to sing silent night by chance one sunday late in the autumn of 1934 he and his brother mary would busy preparing for an annual christmas radio special when a missionary thing you came calling. Please accept my apology larry this morning for this intrusion but i have proposed for mr crosby is ian holmes morning. Oh father. What can i do for you i have a proposal for you do you have a minute could you perhaps sing silent night. Sacred songs are a little out of my league for a crooner like myself mr crosby the recording will only be heard at the parish father ran a hand talked bang into recording this. What song has meant in the annals of history to so many people was something i had been italy didnt know when i 1st recorded the song i was basing my understanding of the song on other artists that i heard sing it it was a cover of another Christmas Song you know i didnt deep dive into the history of it because i was so concerned about how we would make it new i didnt i wasnt thinking so deeply about the old with it and so to learn about its roots in salzburg to learn about its history through the course of the last many generations sends chills down your spine and so its an incredible. Gift that keeps on giving as a singer to know about. A story that deep and that profound and and inspires whenever i sing in the future so and so its a lovely lovely story. A. Gate. Literally my 1st experience outside the u. S. When i was a sophomore in high school we went to vienna that was the very 1st place we went and we literally met in a boys choir and got to hear them sing and it was so magical i mean you have like teenagers who are generally was into music like that sobbing like because it was so beautiful an Energy Something about about the boy singing like that before they become men when you hear something that moves you and moves you no matter what the languages and there are some songs and i feel like silent night is one of those that when youre seeing it doesnt it doesnt even its so weird it transcends the lyrics it transcends the music. Around 1820 life in austria is terrell region was as hard as it was across the rest of europe and the alpine winters were particularly harsh mountain dwellers only left the house when necessary and it took them hours to get down into the valley the musical reiner siblings lived in the 2 Little Valley and it was this family quartet that helped spread silent night. In the winter of 1822 and profound series of advanced and rushes are alexander the 1st were residing if you can castle on one evening the rhine a siblings were hired to entertain the guests. Silent night was among the songs they performed. Our. The last trees cast was so taken by their performance that bizarre invited them to visit russia. As a result the siblings began a tour across europe was carried you. Have you. Knew. They performed on recommendation in many european cities up to 1839. They even sang for Englands King george the 4th in windsor castle. I was. A girl. That same year the wryness siblings traveled to the United States after what must have been a difficult crossing of the atlantic they arrived in new york just before christmas. Relieved to have arrived safely the musical family visited Trinity Church on broadway to give thanks they sang silent night for the 1st time ever in english in the United States. Were. Still. Ask when did i 1st silent night is kind of like. When she 1st 3. Of us is that i cannot remember i say thats such a crazy thought i just cut everything. See. Me wrong. Ive always been a Big Christmas obsessed so when it gets to the time i even like a little bit most where. Im just going for it like i make one. And i pick up my house and myself i mean yes there is a money making thing we mustnt deny this was a you know so its valentines day but so. I dont cant raise much money if you like im having happened to think that i am so everyone else i know christmas marks the birth of jesus christ. If a Christmas Day falls on december 25th a Public Holiday is the celebration start the previous evening on Christmas Eve to get. Them out in most countries where the holiday is marked the Christmas Season already gets underway november with Christmas Lights and Christmas Markets in the house back. So often so thats true insult to where the crist can go market is a tradition that stretches back 525 years that the history of europes Christmas Market state to the late middle ages when they exist in many parts of the former roman empire has. To be super common visitors come to look for gifts to enjoy themselves so. Come. By next tides sides or christmas time inside sport is simply fantastic i was here for my 1st mozart weekly public through a new production of the opera lucho c. L. R. Was being staged here and i was there for the rehearsals and business. Its so wonderful so spiritual is it really is something very special. In mexico find that in mexico a lot of music is played at christmas had. Free music theres a lot of rhythm to that music and the Christmas Song is called the on sea cause are important i mean you celebrate with a lot of joy happiness and light and christmas spent with family and friends of course its a wonderful time its an eternity and. Many as 3 room from my 1st christmas recollection is of not yet a pass its a song that just comes when were all together. Through pause nor transit time to be trying to do what you can i went to a German School in of course i learned there that the original is in german a staunch is. So very confusing so really this is perhaps the most famous Christmas Song that there is the escaped you has its been translated everywhere. If you like my not so perhaps my 1st memory of Christmas Music is this song is still i mean that beginning. On what it is without words it soothes you as much the same of that melody and it lets us. Has been very good moves us really like like a lullaby. And this is kind of but it isnt a lot of ice it also has something that lets our soul dance. And then again. These have been in these movements and the music they build. On. One done oh no no no. No no ah and this is my finally it opens up like a flower but its not over yet its not a heroic song leads then it goes. Im oh then it comes back to earth once more to everyone for us very urgently so its big it starts like a caress that goes on and on and on by the vitals i tend to bruise your chest opens up the music comes out and then it returns moving inwards again with everything that the message carries that not just us the big boy to the is hurt. It comes back to us. In this is you know in that sense silent night is perfect as a title and theres a statement on this silent night its fantastic. Oh. Come close crisp was the. Words. The world. In. The. Poem. So to say was. In class in smaller cities the atmosphere is very different to that of the christmas capital such as london or new york or the new york that you certainly dont feel that its a silent time of year sight its your house. Its wonderful all the same in it sounds like. A lead player. Play. Christmas is a little colder a little documenting the same christmas list for the much additional. Cuts. They make you could they make a lot of effort there on the slopes of course was feeling cause hes been keep around but i. Think that i play i do my christmas number of posts from. Atlanta. Yes it. 2 was. Played. Played. For a song i was actually just break in smoke you know is about the people closest around. Feel. The connection with them on a holiday spirit in a homeless is so beautiful because the chance to start again to wipe the slate and stop the freshmen and them. Obviously just dont place like a religious idea but i think it has been adopted by a secular loosely claims heinz pizza keller and the American People and to people gifts because it doesnt. Play. She. Said. Tom force. Me. Sir. For me christmas has to be wiped off. The christmas in paris but it makes sense they celebrate christmas in our very beautiful way with all the lights its a very its one of my favorite time of the year. All. The. Silent night is. Deeply linked with christianity. But to me this song belongs to humanity it belongs to a lot of people to every Single Person regardless your religion or your belief. Unfun internees im sorry engine is just the biggest Muslim Country in the world so im from a muslim family but my father. Was an author who is a book writer he wanted his children to have a very open mind and super tolerant and he prefers and thats why he put us in a Catholic School so i did all my education with the 9. To. Do. I sing dad this song has nothing to do with a place or time. It has something to do with spirit and with connecting people together because i think that everyone in the world as we see now in this song in silent night there is plenty of versions in all kind of languages all over the world and it connects people and i think thats the purpose of this song and thats whats great about it that it connects people together and it brings everyone together. Zhan. Was the. Bad. News. All. Gone. Gone gone. Holy. Spirit. Was. 7 slowly. Oh well the 1st time i heard this song was when i was maybe 3 years old and it was in arabic since. So thats the 1st version ive ever learned to sing and i wanted to a lot of people in the world dont know that it exists in arabic because they dont know that they are you know christian arabs and i was like. Ok let me sing it in arabic and show you that we have our own version. And i love this version i think it adds some. Authentic. Spirit to the song and heres another you know by a view to sound bite. Was was. Was was. Was was a. Was. Was. The. Sound. Was the i. Was. Feeling and many legends and stories around the Christmas Truce along the western front of world war one in 1914 in one half probably the most accurate account was recorded by british Commanding Officer field Marshal Douglas hake in his diary and pocket. The other british every british soldier received a small package as a gift from the king on the on the island it also included a princess mary box. Which contained chocolate cigarettes tobacco and a greeting card from the princess. Of the gate a set on the other side of the german soldiers received a Community Funded gift box from their hometowns as well as parcels from their families with warm clothes food with alcohol cigarettes and lettuce to give it a place in contrast to the later years of the war there was still no significant scarcity of foodstuffs and luxury goods in germany in 1914 or. So the amount that the countrys military command also sent tens of thousands of miniature Christmas Trees to the german front to be lit up at christmas and i thought of it as. Douglas haig said count of wartime events is listed in the us goes world memory register of documentary heritage out. There on this. Friday the 4th of december 1948. Ive noted down to some american dining at the prince of wales to. Me. There. You can seem very cheery but inclined to think that all our troops are by nature brave and is ignorant of all the effort which commanders must make to keep up the moron of their men in war and all of the training which is necessary in peace in order to enable a company or for his students to go forward as an organized unit in the face of almost certain death. I told him of the crowds of fugitives who came back down the 1000000 road during the bet. Having thrown everything they could do to gin that rifles and packs in order to escape. The look that soon turned on their faces such as i have never before seen. On any human being. On Christmas Eve 914 and almost closely calm descended on the british trenches the men were chilled to the bone by the bitter cold and the horrors of war. Period. A year. In the german trenches men began singing still and now the wind carried their voices across enemy lines echoing eerily in the ears of british troops hunkered down in their own trenches initially they thought it was a trap until one of the british soldiers recognized the children and began singing the carol in english. Law with. All. Your. Young virgins. Oh only year. Silly been handed lonely he was sleeping in the game. According to field marshall hates diary entries december 25th 1914 was a surprisingly warm winter. His day in the sun was shining even a hint of spring seemed to be in the half when a german sergeant made a spontaneous and brave decision. To adopt the british prepared for combat. But one noncommissioned officer recognised the german sergeants intentions and quickly decided to reciprocate the peaceful gesture of chapter 7 shows. Me the 1st person. That. You are. One of the loves love god so i thought this was just a lot. Like his life. At this his house silent night not only brought about a miraculous Christmas Truce in 1914 it also became a song that symbolizes world peace the 1st was the cease fire that took. Place was an authorized it came about soley because on both sides people shanta christian idea that christmas is a celebration of neighborly not. Was was. And. Which is ironic is it not that the. Abiding memory. Of that war should be that moment of peace on humanity. In 115 when i was commander in chief. There were calls for us to repeat that armistice. And we. Would not allow. To see. It is no good for fighting in iraq. To see your eliminate as human. Of course. No good at all. Desert and duncan we should be thankful that humankind has the right to live on this wonderful planet its really the planet that we call home for housing that. Is owed to we should look inward high and contemplate the gift bequeath to us by more and grew back with their song silent night fear and elevators. These are we should join together in celebrating the true spirit of christmas in lovingly this community and peace and. In the end when we hear the 1st notes of the song or sing them our sounds even. Then we can get a sense of what yosef more war and france gruber must have felt back then them eyes on christmas by the year 1818. Land in land. Orleans man. Oh nice to meet. A man leave come. Again. Sucker the worlds favorites for. The wonder spectacular gold. Plenty of emotion. The best of game day. Kickoff 30 minutes on the double click. Listen to his play my hunch at real estate speculation. A historian in the city is fighting back her strongest weapon the label shops with history. 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