Adolphe Adam (1803-1856) was a French composer best known for the ballet Giselle and the Christmas carol O Holy Night. He also wrote many works for the Paris Opera and taught at the Paris Conservatory ...

This is John Sullivan Dwight’s translation from 1855. He was a Unitarian minister and a schoolmaster at the Brook Farm commune who went on to become America’s first influential music critic. That ...

While I can no longer remember who said it and in which class, I recall being taught in seminary that we learn much of our theology from hymn writers. And, at least for me, there is no greater season ...

It’s a notorious fact that O Holy Night, the most reverent of Christmas hymns, was created by a man of little piety, who ultimately preferred socialism to Christianity. Or at least that was true of ...

Caruso, Bjorling, Pavarotti, Carreras, Domingo, Alagna, Kaufmann, Florez and (Eric) Cartman. One of these things is not like the other, ‘tis true, but there is one way in which they are kind of the ...

(WJHL) – It’s a country Christmas. Jennifer Nettles recently performed the holiday classics, O Holy Night and Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah during a live session with SiriusXM. This session and many ...

Jennifer Hudson put on a performance of “O Holy Night” that fans won’t soon forget. Hudson performed the classic holiday song during the Dec. 22 episode of “The Jennifer Hudson Show,” accompanied by ...

The Tabernacle Choir & Orchestra at Temple Square perform "O Holy Night." The American music critic John Sullivan Dwight translated the lyrics of this carol, one of the most dramatically beautiful ...