John Berry Christmas concert at Classic Center uplifts in dark times
Why have you gone away? Where is the laughter you used to bring me? Why can’t I hear music play?” Thank you, Faith Hill, for writing and recording this melancholy classic that has, all too often, defined the season of Advent and Christmas in 2020. It hasn’t been the same, you know. No crowded shopping malls. No busy sidewalks. No hustle and bustle. No large family gatherings. Just “misty water-colored memories, of the way we were.” (That last recorded by Barbra Streisand as written by Bergman/Bergman/Hamlisch.) There have been so many long-standing Christmas traditions th...