Adventist Wrote Lyrics to Christmas Tune Made Famous by Judy Garland and More News Shorts
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January 6, 2021
In this week’s news round-up, a story about Adventist Hugh Martin, who wrote the famous song “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” circulates, plus Adventist news from China, the UK, Zambia, and the United States.
Adventist Wrote Lyrics to Christmas Tune Made Famous by Judy Garland. According to
The Times, Seventh-day Adventist Hugh Martin who died in 2011, wrote “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” The lyrics Martin originally wrote went as follows: Have yourself a merry little Christmas, it may be your last Next year we may all be living in the past. Judy Garland, who sang the song in the movie
The week in classical: Live from London Christmas; Louis Andriessen premiere – review Fiona Maddocks
Amid the blizzard of images crazing our senses this year, one stood out last week: an elite choral ensemble from Oakwood, Alabama – the Aeolians – singing their hearts out to a riotous
Star Wars-meets-gospel version of Joy to the World, all wearing masks. They encapsulated at once the struggle and determination of musicians to perform. They made us think afresh, in sickness or health, what it is to fill our lungs with air. As each singer from this Seventh-day Adventist university choir drew breath, the fabric of their masks inhaled and exhaled with them, muffling their rich sound. They weren’t deterred. Nothing could quench their pleasure at singing.