Description
The popular Christmas song, Ukrainian Bell Carol, was adapted by the Ukrainian composer, Mykola Leontovych, from a Ukrainian folk song. It premiered in the United States in 1922 at Carnegie Hall to an enthusiastic audience. The words for the Christmas song, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, are based on a poem by Longfellow, where he tells of his despair on hearing the Christmas Bells during the Civil War where “hate is strong,” but ends with the bells carrying to him a message of renewed hope for peace among men. Longfellow’s poem was set to music in 1872 by the English organist, John Baptiste Calkin. In this Bells of Christmas arrangement, Harp 1 and Harp 2 have several lever or pedal changes that are not difficult, while Harp 3 does not have any chromatic changes. Performance time for Bells of Christmas is about three minutes.
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