New Bloomfield Elementary fourth-grade student Daria Panfilova serenaded the body with her violin by performing “Silent Night.” Panfilova is an immigrant from Ukraine who has been a district student ...

There, he asked his friend Franz Xaver Gruber, a local schoolteacher and organist, to write the music for the six verses. On Christmas Eve, 1818, the two friends sang “Silent Night” together ...

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4. It was originally composed for guitar Although Franz Gruber was an organist, he composed the music for Silent Night on guitar. A commonly held myth is that this was because the church organ was ...

The Temptations push their version of “Silent Night” to new peaks on multiple Billboard charts this ... [+] week, more than 50 years after it was first released. NEW YORK - 1965: L-R ...

Themes: Christmas; festivals; special days; music; friendship. Summary: The much-loved carol 'Silent Night' was first performed on Christmas Eve, 1818. Originally it was sung to a simple guitar ...

Mack Wilberg was chosen for the commission, and his crystalline arrangement of “Silent Night” was premiered at the 2006 “Christmas at Luther” concert. The shimmering orchestration and ...