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12/19/16 - NNHS Newsletter - Sussex Carol
“When
Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, -
Ella Wheeler
Wilcox
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Dear Friends and Schoolmates,
Have you heard this
traditional Christmas carol yet this season?
BONUS #1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZm2NsZnJHE - Sussex Carol - Choir of King's College, Cambridge, 2008
BONUS #2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbJunQIfkvo - Sussex Carol - The King's Singers and Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra, 2014
BONUS #3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxgasOnXhYM - Sussex Carol - Maddy Prior with The Carnival Band, 1987
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussex_Carol:
The "Sussex Carol" is a Christmas carol popular in Britain, sometimes referred to by its first line "On Christmas night all Christians sing". Its words were first published by Luke Wadding, a 17th-century Irish bishop, in a work called Small Garland of Pious and Godly Songs (1684). It is unclear whether Wadding wrote the song or was recording an earlier composition.[1][2]
Both the text and the tune to which it is now sung were discovered and written down by Cecil Sharp in Buckland, Gloucestershire, and Ralph Vaughan Williams, who heard it being sung by a Harriet Verrall of Monk's Gate, near Horsham, Sussex (hence "Sussex Carol").[3] The tune to which it is generally sung today is the one Vaughan Williams took down from Mrs. Verrall and published in 1919.[2]
An earlier version using a different tune and a variation on the first line, "On Christmas night true Christians sing", was published as early as 1878 in Henry Ramsden Bramley and John Stainer's Christmas Carols New and Old.[4] The carol has been arranged by a number of composers. Vaughan Williams' setting is found in his Eight Traditional English Carols.[5] Several years earlier, Vaughan Williams had included the carol in his Fantasia on Christmas Carols, first performed at the 1912 Three Choirs Festival at Hereford Cathedral.[6] Erik Routley's arrangement in the 1961 University Carol Book adds a modal inflection to the setting.[7] The carol often appears at the King's College "Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols", where it is performed in arrangements by either David Willcocks or Philip Ledger, both former directors of music at the chapel.[8][9] Willcock's arrangement appears in the first OUP Carols for Choirs...[10]
THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS:
Happy Birthday today to
Durwood Adams ('57) AND the late
Suzie
Bauz ('63)
(deceased 11/03/14)!
Happy Birthday tomorrow to
Ellen Carney Manson ('63) of SC!
Happy Birthday this week to:
21 -
Ray Stinnette ('63) of VA;
22 -
Kitty Norman Haskins ('57) of VA
AND Elliott Schlosser ('63)
AND
Dottie Pegram Daniels (NNHS /
George
Washington HS - '64) of WV
AND
Harry Barritt ('64) of VA AND
Dale Mueller ('64) of VA
AND
Bill
Rash ('67) of VA;
23 -
Tom Flax ('64) of VA AND
Holly Hill Campbell (Hampton Roads Academy -
'72) of VA
24 -
James Gay ('57)
AND
Ann W. Hutcheson ('57)
AND
Malcolm Davis ('65) of
VA
AND
Sandye Jordan
Frost ('67) of NC;
25 -
Patsy Bloxom Meider ('57) of NC
AND
Doug Dickinson ('69) of VA!
Many Happy Returns, One and All!
http://www.nnhs65.com/Happy-Birthday.html
| THIS DAY IN WWII: |
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December 19, 1941 - Adolf Hitler became Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army. December 19, 1941 - Limpet mines placed by Italian divers sank the HMS Valiant (1914) and HMS Queen Elizabeth (1913) in Alexandria harbour. |
THIS DAY IN 1966:
| Monday, December 19, 1966 - Singer-songwriter and producer
Chuckii Booker was born in
Los Angeles,
California. Monday, December 19, 1966 - Cricketer Rajesh Chauhan was born in Ranchi, Bihar, India. Monday, December 19, 1966 - Skier Alberto Tomba was born in San Lazzaro di Savena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Monday, December 19, 1966 - Ice hockey player and coach Eric Weinrich was born Eric John Weinrich in Roanoke, Virginia. |
From My Friend, Susan, of NC - 12/18/14:
| “Being humble means
recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become,
but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others.”
-
Gordon B. Hinckley |
Thanks so
much, Susan!
FOR THE ARCHIVE:
Do you recall
a few days
ago when I posted an exciting offer from the son of
Mrs. Helen Hardy
Shelton, Bob Shelton of Northern VA, for a few of her yearbooks?
Do you further recall that I mentioned I had already gleefully jumped at
the chance to have her copy of the 1951 Anchor??
Well, he sent he sent that
outstanding volume to me a few days ago, so here's the second of many
treats I gleaned from it!By the way, the 1950, 1952, and 1956 yearbooks are still looking for a happy home. With Bob's permission, I posted his offer on the NNHS Alumni Facebook page. Meanwhile, if you feel that happy home is with you, contact Bob directly: Bob SheltonSpringfield, Va. rsheltonrhs@aol.com
Thank you again, Bob!
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http://www.nnhs65.com/SITE-MAP.html http://www.nnhs65.com/faculty.html - brand new image! |
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1951 Anchor, p. 78 Courtesy of Bob Shelton of Northern VA Thanks so much, Bob! |
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| 12/19/16 |
From Joan
Lauterbach Krause ('60) of VA -
12/18/15:
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Thanks, Joan!
Merry Christmas! |
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“I
saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with Guess on it. I said, Thyroid problem?”
-
Arnold
Schwarzenegger |
From George Helliesen ('61) of VA
- 11/20/16 - "Four Legged Soldiers (#29 in a series of 30)":
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MORE WOWZERS!
Thanks, George!
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Thanks, Shari!
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BONUS
CHRISTMAS STORY:
Hmmm. For a variety
of "interesting" reasons, this feature seems to be missing today. It
could be remedied if I could actually think straight, but, ah, that's
not going to happen today. Sorry!
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