O HOLY NIGHT—THREE VERSIONS

One of the angel's in the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Choir performing a solo rendition of "O Holy Night."

VERTICAL RENDITIONS—One of the most beautiful holiday carols ever has been recorded several times over the years.  In this vertical offering here are three versions on You
Tube:

1.  Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Choir:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT3NFuofDfk

1.  Mormon Tabernacle Choir:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd05fz89boA

1. Celtic Woman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ-8jYpa1-o&list=RDa5MpQsLJvOw


Who wrote "O Holy Night?"
"Cantique de Noël" is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem "Minuit, chrétiens" (Midnight, Christians) by Placide Cappeau (1808–1877). Cappeau, a wine merchant and poet, had been asked by a parish priest to write a Christmas poem. Unitarian minister John Sullivan Dwight,[2] editor of Dwight's Journal of Music, created a singing edition based on Cappeau's French text in 1855. In both the French original and in the two familiar English versions of the carol, the text reflects on the birth of Jesus and of humanity's redemption.