According to the lovely Margaret, we still have one more week of Christmas! The Baptism of the Lord is next week (from baby to 30 year old in a week–ha ha), and then Ordinary Time begins.
Huzzah!
Now I can feel OK about the fact that my tree is only half down ( or not even half…).
If you haven’t bought Josh Groban’s Christmas CD, Noel, yet, do so!
It’s a great album and it also, coincidentally, the best-selling album of 2007, surpassing High School Musical 2 (which shows me that The End is Not As Nigh).
Some of my favorite tracks:
–Silent Night
–It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
–Angels We Have Heard On High
–I’ll Be Home For Christmas (which is interspersed with messages from soldiers–awesome!)
–The Christmas Song
–The First Noel (duet with Faith Hill)
“It Came” is a special favorite because it is arranged very cleanly and simply. It really shows off his voice and the arrangement is unique in its sparseness, but it’s still very moving. The same is true for “The Christmas Song”. It’s done in an understated, classy way that emphasizes the song’s natural beauty, as opposed to demonstrating vocal histronics.
