Music of Christmas 28

An exquisitely beautiful choral version of today’s Christmas hymn:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsVnvN3EVxY

This is a Christian folk hymn from the American South.  It was first published at Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1811, and has been called a “white spiritual.”  That aspect is clearly brought out in these two quite different videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu9KjxaVEC4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g26dbNJYJI

Here’s a very simple version, accompanied by curiously touching photographs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_48iI1RBtnc

Posted from Richmond, Virginia