I HEARD THE BELLS ON CHRISTMAS DAY🔔🔔 | Instrumental With Lyrics | Christmas Song
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“I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day“:
A Few years ago, I led a Christmas Cantata based on the Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called I Heard The Bells By Christmas Day. This poem has always resonated with me, but has a number of different melodies that have been created for it.
I decided to take a couple of the different melodies and combine them together, along with some Hallelujah’s & Amen’s I created; to make a new Instrumental arrangement with lyrics. It’s a little bit different, but totally appeals to the musician in me.
Background of the poem...
On Christmas day, 1863, Longfellow—a 57-year-old widowed father of six children, the oldest of which had been nearly paralyzed as his country fought a war against itself—wrote a poem seeking to capture the dynamic and dissonance in his own heart and the world he observes around him. He heard the bells that Christmas day and the singing of &q