NoNaYet Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 Just a bit more dramatic than when I played Silent Night for the family gathering last night. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuZ1g2pYmZE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Chambers Posted December 26, 2013 Share Posted December 26, 2013 (edited) Wow, that's a dramatic location alright! It's a Christmas carol with a special poignancy and resonance for me, that always makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck and brings a tear to my eye, since it is said that the spontaneous (and highly unofficial) Christmas Truce of 1914, in the First World War, was sparked by the singing of it by a German tenor, and my grandfather, John/Jack Chambers, was an "Old Contemptible" whose Battalion (2nd Bedfordshire Regt.) "fraternised with the enemy" in no-man's-land during it - a wonderfully human and humane gesture in that terrible time, which truly evokes "the spirit of Christmas". Edited December 26, 2013 by Stephen Chambers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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