Friday, December 25, 2015

Sing in exultation

Ah, the Big Day at last. Let’s pull out all the stops, open our hearts and throats, and fill wherever we are with joyful sounds. What better to do it with than “Adeste Fidelis”?

I associate this one with midnight masses, the anthem that sends folks out bundling up into the cold night toward whatever their Christmas celebration entails. What is love most about it is the descant on the verse that starts out “Sing, choirs of angels.” That sucker just makes my chest tighten, whether I’m singing it or hearing it.

Here are my pals at King’s College, Cambridge, doing it for you.


Happy Christmas to us all.


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