Christmas 2022

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Silent Night.

On this day in 1818 Joseph Mohr, parish priest in the Austrian village of Oberndorf, took some words he’d written a couple years before over to organist Franz Gruber, in neighboring Arnsdorf, asking him to work up a melody, with guitar accompaniment, in time for that night’s mass. Seems flooding had caused the organ in Mohr’s church to go wrong, and so none of the usual musics would do.
This was something of a rush job. But Gruber, he delivered. And thus that night was heard for the first time “Stille Nacht.” Which the Englishers know as “Silent Night.”
At mass that night was Karl Mauracher, organ builder; taken with the tune, he brought it home with him to Zillertal. Where he passed it on to two families of traveling folksingers, the Strassers and the Rainiers. Who then spread it across the lands. Soon, it was all and everywhere.
To this day “Silent Night” remains amenable to rush jobs. In 2015 a performer scheduled to appear in the Netflix special A Very Murray Christmas failed to show. Murray then asked Miley Cyrus, originally signed for but a brief walk-on, if she’d do a song for him. Sure, she said. What would he like? He suggested “Silent Night.” She said she didn’t know that one. Somehow, in all her sojourns through the musics, she had never encountered the night that is silent. But, Cyrus said, give her an hour to learn it, and she’d come back with something for him. So, she went off and did that. And when she returned, she delivered this. In one take.

Little Hannah Montana does a nice rendition....

 

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The cat seems bored as fuck. He has taken up climbing the Christmas tree, deliberately knocking ornaments off the tree, trying to bite the flashing LED lights, and drinking the water out of the tree stand despite having plenty of fresh water in his drinking bowl. I just threw the little bastard outside to play with the skunks and raccoons which seem to spend their nights in our yard.