Wham!’s “Last Christmas” from 1984 and Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” from 1958 demonstrate how different ...

Christmas music is a nostalgia trip. Generally speaking, pop music prizes novelty — fresh songs, surprising sounds, this week’s hit, the Next Big Thing. But once a year, a soundtrack that reaches back ...

I’d say that anyone who has listened to Saint-Saëns’s Oratorio de Noël has started down the classical Christmas rabbit hole. Now, let’s go a bit further down. A Symphony of Carols by Victor ...

The holiday season is packed with festive TV specials and movies. On Dec. 1, Derek Hough hosts “The Wonderful World of Disney ...

Who better to present an Olde English Christmas program than, well … an old Englishman? But age is little more than a state ...

Vojtech (The Story of the Easter Robin) illustrates a classic carol about the nativity seen from the animals’ point of view. Each page contains one or two lines of the song and a full-page ...

On Nov. 1, Mariah Carey announced that Christmas music, and her iconic song in particular, are back for the holiday season. All Things Considered staffers beg to differ. On November 1, Mariah Carey, ...

KEARNEY — As a guitarist who specializes in Celtic fingerstyle music, Jerry Barlow connects with Christmas songs. “A lot of the contemporary pop music, things like ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little ...

The soft strains of an old English Christmas carol called “Down in Yon Forest” filled the auditorium of Roosevelt Elementary School in Allentown on Wednesday night, teased from the violins and cellos ...