Carol Of The Bells
Leontovych's music wasn't forgotten and in 1936 new lyrics were written by American composer Peter J Wilhousky, who was also of Ukranian heritage. He said that the music reminded him of hand bells, which inspired the song's first line 'Hark the bells'.
Carol of the Bells
Even the more traditional choral arrangements can't help but add a bit of 'camp' to the tune, like this performance from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The song is given a lively, racing tempo, with the hundreds of singers joined by a group of hand bell players, a full-scale orchestra and a set of tubular bells.
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According to Wikipedia, Wilhousky reworked the music for orchestra with new lyrics for NBC radio network's symphony orchestra, focused around the theme of bells because the harmony reminded him of handbells, which starts "Hark! How the bells". It was originally aired during the Great Depression, and Wilhousky copyrighted the new lyrics in 1936 and also published the song, although the song had been published nearly two decades earlier in the Ukrainian National Republic.
Its first popularity arose largely from Wilhousky's ability to reach a wide audience as his role as an arranger for the NBC Symphony Orchestra. It is now strongly associated with Christmas because of its new lyrics, which reference bells, caroling, and the line "merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas".
"On its hem you shall make pomegranates of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, around its hem, with bells of gold between them, a golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe. And it shall be on Aaron when he ministers, and its sound shall be heard when he goes into the Holy Place before the Lord, and when he comes out, so that he does not die." Exodus 28:33-35
But instead, she decides to surprise her friend, take him out on Christmas, and show him what she does on the holiday to make it special. She takes him to the streets, watching carolers, and then goes to several different homes to give kids toys for Christmas, trying to bring a smile to his face.
Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 is an instrumental medley of "Carol of the Bells" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" first released on the Savatage album Dead Winter Dead in 1995 as "Christmas Eve (Sarajeveo 12/24)." It was re-released by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, a side project of several Savatage members, on TSO's 1996 debut album Christmas Eve and Other Stories. The piece describes a lone cello player playing a forgotten Christmas carol in war-torn Sarajevo.
The song is a new years well wish, sung after Christmas - with the rebirth of the sun, life being freed from icy death, the birds were harbingers of good news in pagan times, and so she brings good news of hope, prosperity, abundance to the land lord in the beginning of the new year. and the renewal of all things. All shedrivky have these themes. These are not Christmas carols, never sung in church, but by girls house to house, rewarded for their efforts. The boys sang the carols proclaiming the renewal of creation with the birth of Christ (sun of enlightenment). With the coming of grace in the holy spirit (melting of the ice) and the freedom from the icy death and sin - given renewal, eternal life in Christ, and a renewed relationship with the creator. ( to be dark browed was a sign of beauty)Carol of the Bells" (also known as the "Ukrainian Bell Carol") is a choral miniature work originally composed by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych. Throughout the composition, Leontovych used a four note motif .as an ostinato which was taken from an ancient pagan Ukrainian New Year's chant known in Ukrainian as "Shchedryk" [the Generous One] KILLED by the KGB for being a Ukrainian Nationalist. He lives on in his music
the song is a new years well wish, sung after Christmas - with the rebirth of the sun, life being freed from icey death, the birds were harbingers of good news in pagan times, and so she brings good news of hope, prosperity, abundance to the land lord in the beggining of the new year. and the renewal of all things. All shedrivky have these themes. These are not christmas carols, never sung in church, but by girls house to house, rewarded for their efforts. The boys sang the carols proclaiming the renewal of creation with the birth of christ (sun of enlightenment). With the comming of grace in the holy spirit (melting of the ice) and the freedom from the icey death and sin - given renewal, eternal life in christ, and a renewed relationship with the creator. ( to be dark browed was a sign of beauty)Carol of the Bells" (also known as the "Ukrainian Bell Carol") is a choral miniature work originally composed by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych. Throughout the composition, Leontovych used a four note motif .as an ostinato which was taken from an ancient pagan Ukrainian New Year's chant known in Ukrainian as "Shchedryk" [the Generous One] KILLED by the KGB for being a Ukrainian Nationalist. He lives on in his music. 041b061a72