Today’s Christmas carol comes to us from a Victorian, who
wrote it on his sickbed in 1859. It’s technically for Epiphany (which is the
post-Christmas season), but my house, my rules and I’m putting it here.
The melody for “As with Gladness Men of Old” may be more
familiar to you from one of my favorite Thanksgiving hymns, “For the Beauty of
the Earth”. It lends itself to beautiful harmonies regardless of the lyrics. As
you can hear in this rendition from the Wells Cathedral Choir.
Wells Cathedral was one of my surprise discoveries when I
lived in Britain. You walk into a 14th Century building and see an
example of scissors arches that you think had to date from the latter part of
the 20th Century. See what I mean?
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