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From:  Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...>
Karen Mercedes <dalila@R...>
Date:  Fri Nov 30, 2001  8:32 pm
Subject:  Re: [vocalist] A Sunny Christmas?


FROM AFRICA
"He Came Down"
"Good News for Everyone"
"Poor Folk Hear Him Gladly"

FROM KOREA
"Ku-ju na-sheon-ne" (The Saviour is Born)

FROM AUSTRALIA
W.G. James and John Wheeler: "Christmas Bush for His Adorning", "Christmas
Day, "The Three Drovers"
"The Silver Stars are in the Sky"
"Sing Gloria"
"Carol of the Birds"
Colin Jenkins: 5 Australian Christmas Carols
W.H. Keith Young: 20 Australian Carols

FROM THE PHILIPPINES
"May luha ang pasko"
"Pasko't bagong taon"
"Ang pasko ay sumapit"
"Pasko na naman"
"Sa maybahay ang aming bati"
"Dapat magsaya"
"Pasko na sinta ko"
"Pasko sa aming bahay"
"Pasko sa Maynila"
"Aming bati ay Magandang Pasko"
"Maligayang pasko sa inyo"

FROM MEXICO
"A la rorro nin~o"

FROM BRAZIL
Villa Lobos: "Praesepe"

OTHER LATIN AMERICAN CAROLS
Carlos Gustavino: "Cancion de Navidad"
Ariel Ramirez: "Navidad en Verano"
Jose Feliciano: "Feliz Navidad"
"A la huella, a la huella"
"Campan~a sobre campan~a"
"Claveles y rosas"
"Duermete, nin~o chiquito"
"El tamborilero"
"En brazos de una doncella"
"Hacia belen va una burra"
"Las posadas"
"Los peces en el rio"
"Llegaron ya los reyes"
"Una pandareta suen~o"



Actually, most countries use the European carols - but they often add
their local flair to them. In Jamaica, you hear lots of reggae versions of
traditional carols; in Latin America, it's salsa versions of the same.

Karen Mercedes
http://www.radix.net/~dalila/index.html
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Verdi and Wagner delighted the crowds
With their highly original sound.
The pianos they played are still working,
But they're both six feet underground.
- Michael Palin



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