Christmas Kodály

Kodály Christmas 2

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Sleeping a in Stable I’d like to tell you a sad story about my composition, Sleeping a in Stable… with a happy ending! I wrote Sleeping in a Stable for a school nativity and the brief was they needed something for them to sing in the stable part of the nativity. The school later said they’d forgotten […]

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Winter Elves… are out tonight!

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I LOVE Goblins are Around Tonight which appears in David Vinden’s Songs for Singing and Musicianship. I changed the lyrics to make them cute and Christmassy. I found that my students really took to the Winter Elves. I showed them pictures of different winter elves and they had to choose which elves they thought this

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