Oh Holy Night

by Lydia Holly

Title

Oh Holy Night

Artist

Lydia Holly

Medium

Photograph - Photography-digital Art

Description

Oh Holy Night is one of my favorite Christmas songs. While working on this Winter photograph I determined the most fitting title would be named such as I really desired to offer this as a Christmas card. However, it can also be made available without the text in the various sizes listed.

I personally enjoy the light and shadow in this photo, and the tint, that I believe convey a perfect wintery evening scene. " Oh Holy Night The Stars Are Brightly Shining, It is The Night Of Our Dear Savior's Birth." Just imagine that star the Magi saw may have looked similar to the one in the upper right corner. On the other hand, the light may also represent a beautiful moonlit night.. Whatever you want it to be it can be!

The following was taken from this website:http://www.sharefaith.com/guide/Christian-Holidays/holiday-songs/o-holy-night,-the-song-and-the-story.html

Placide Cappeau (1808-1877) was born in France. At eight years old his hand was surgically amputated following a tragic gunshot accident. In spite of Placide's handicap he went on to win awards as an artist and a journalist. In addition, he studied law and followed in his father's footsteps to become a merchant of wines and spirits. Placide was an outspoken socialist with anti-clerical viewpoints. In 1847 while traveling by stagecoach to Paris, Placide penned the words to a poem about the birth of Christ. He wrote the poem at the request of a local parish priest. He called it Minuit Chretien.


Adolphe Charles Adam (1803-1856) was also born in Paris. His father was a composer and professor at the Paris Conservatoire. Early on, Adolphe proved to have a musical gift. He preferred to improvise rather than to study music. At the age of 18, at his father's insistence, Adolphe agreed to begin taking his music seriously. After graduation from the Paris Conservatoire Adolphe went on to write or co-write more than 50 ballets, operas and musical scores. Adolphe was asked to write a musical score for Placide's poem. The music and poem together were named Cantique de Noel.


In 1855, a Unitarian minister, John Sullivan Dwight (1813-1893)was America's first influential classical music critic. He translated the carol into English. On Christmas Eve, 1906, Reginald Fessenden, a Canadian inventor, broadcast the very first AM radio program which included him playing a violin solo. The hymn he chose as the first musical piece to ever be broadcast via radio airways was O Holy Night.

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