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John Dalmas <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 12 Mar 2000 16:30:36 -0500
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Andrys Basten wrote:

>The very 2nd lp I bought was in the mid 50s, when, walking downtown I
>heard the most wonderful "I heard the bells on Christmas Day,,,

I wonder if this was Roger Wagner's album "Joy to the World," carols in
arrangements by Wagner and Salli Terri.  A couple of years later a second
Christmas lp came out entitled "It Came upon a Midnight Clear" with the
Wagner Chorale, the Sinfonia of London and tenor soloist Richard Levitt
in the "Sweet Little Jesus Boy" carol, evidently a favorite of Wagner's.

Having attended UCLA in the late 50s, where the Chorale was a regular
presence in concert on campus, I got used to hearing the Wagner sound, but
was already by then much more touched by other, less souped up arrangements
of the carols.  I taped off the lps and still play them occasionally
however.

John Dalmas

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