♪ HARK! THE HERALD
ANGELS SING ♪ ♪ GLORY TO THE
NEWBORN KING! ♪ ♪♪ >> LLOYD NEWELL: THE TABERNACLE CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA AT TEMPLE SQUARE, WITH THE BELLS AT TEMPLE SQUARE PRESENT A MUSIC & THE SPOKEN WORD CHRISTMAS SPECIAL. CONDUCTING TODAY'S PROGRAM IS MACK WILBERG, WITH ORGANIST BRIAN MATHIAS, AND THE SPOKEN WORD BY LLOYD NEWELL. ♪♪ ♪ O COME,
ALL YE FAITHFUL, ♪ ♪ JOYFUL
AND TRIUMPHANT, ♪ ♪ O COME YE, O COME YE
TO BETHLEHEM; ♪ ♪ COME
AND BEHOLD HIM, ♪ ♪ BORN THE KING
OF ANGELS; ♪ ♪ O COME LET US
ADORE HIM, ♪ ♪ O COME LET US
ADORE HIM, ♪ ♪ O COME LET US
ADORE HIM, ♪ ♪ CHRIST THE LORD. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ SING,
CHOIRS OF ANGELS, ♪ ♪ SING
IN EXULTATION, ♪ ♪ SING, ALL YE CITIZENS
OF HEAV'N ABOVE: ♪ ♪ GLORY TO GOD ETERNAL
IN THE HIGHEST; ♪ ♪ O COME LET US
ADORE HIM, ♪ ♪ O COME LET US
ADORE HIM, ♪ ♪ O COME LET US
ADORE HIM, ♪ ♪ CHRIST THE LORD. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ YEA, LORD
WE GREET THEE, ♪ ♪ BORN THIS
HAPPY MORNING; ♪ ♪ JESUS, TO THEE
BE ALL GLORY GIV'N; ♪ ♪ WORD
OF THE FATHER, ♪ ♪ NOW IN FLESH
APPEARING, ♪ ♪ O COME LET US
ADORE HIM, ♪ ♪ O COME LET US
ADORE HIM, ♪ ♪ O COME LET US
ADORE HIM, ♪ ♪ CHRIST THE LORD. ♪ ♪ O COME LET US
ADORE HIM, ♪ ♪ CHRIST ♪ ♪ THE LORD. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ O COME LITTLE CHILDREN
O COME ONE AND ALL ♪ ♪ O COME TO THE CRADLE IN
BETHLEHEM'S STALL ♪ ♪ COME LOOK IN THE MANGER
THERE SLEEPS ON THE HAY ♪ ♪ AN INFANT SO LOVELY
IN LIGHT BRIGHT AS DAY ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ THE HAY IS HIS PILLOW
THE MANGER HIS BED ♪ ♪ THE BEASTS STAND IN
WONDER TO GAZE ON HIS HEAD ♪ ♪ YET THERE IN THE STABLE
SO HUMBLE AND POOR ♪ ♪ COME SHEPHERDS AND WISEMEN
TO KNEEL AT HIS DOOR ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ O BOW WITH THE SHEPHERDS
ON LOW BENDED KNEE ♪ ♪ WITH HEARTS FULL OF THANKS
FOR THE GIFT WHICH WE SEE ♪ ♪ O SING LITTLE CHILDREN
TO HIM YOU ADORE ♪ ♪ SING JOY TO THE WORLD
LOVE AND PEACE EVER MORE ♪ ♪ O SING LITTLE CHILDREN
TO HIM YOU ADORE ♪ ♪ SING JOY TO THE WORLD
LOVE AND PEACE EVER MORE ♪ ♪♪ ♪ LOVE AND PEACE
EVER MORE ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ LO, HOW A ROSE
E'ER BLOOMING ♪ ♪ FROM TENDER STEM
HATH SPRUNG! ♪ ♪ OF JESSE'S LINEAGE
COMING, ♪ ♪ AS MEN OF OLD
HAVE SUNG. ♪ ♪ IT CAME,
A FLOW'RET BRIGHT, ♪ ♪ AMID THE COLD
OF WINTER, ♪ ♪ WHEN HALFSPENT
WAS THE NIGHT. ♪ ♪ ISAIAH 'TWAS
FORETOLD IT, ♪ ♪ THE ROSE I HAVE
IN MIND, ♪ ♪ WITH MARY
WE BEHOLD IT, ♪ ♪ THE VIRGIN MOTHER
KIND. ♪ ♪ TO SHOW GOD'S LOVE
ARIGHT, ♪ ♪ SHE BORE TO MEN
A SAVIOR ♪ ♪ WHEN HALFSPENT
WAS THE NIGHT. ♪♪ ♪ DING, DONG!
MERRILY ON HIGH, ♪ ♪ IN HEAV'N THE BELLS
ARE RINGING! ♪ ♪ DING, DONG!
VERILY THE SKY ♪ ♪ IS RIV'N
WITH ANGELS SINGING! ♪ ♪ GLO-RI-A! ♪ ♪ HOSANNA IN EXCELSIS! ♪ ♪ GLO-RI-A! ♪ ♪ HOSANNA IN EXCELSIS! ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ E'EN SO HERE BELOW,
BELOW ♪ ♪ LET STEEPLE BELLS
BE SWUNG-EN, ♪ ♪ AND "I-O, -I-O, I-O!" ♪ ♪ BY PRIEST AND PEOPLE
SUNG-EN! ♪ ♪ GLO-RI-A! ♪ ♪ HOSANNA IN EXCELSIS! ♪ ♪ GLO-RI-A! ♪ ♪ HOSANNA IN EXCELSIS! ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ PRAY YOU DUTIFULLY
PRIME ♪ ♪ YOUR MATIN CHIME,
YE RINGERS! ♪ ♪ MAY YOU
BEAUTIFULLY RIME ♪ ♪ YOUR EVE-TIME SONG,
YE SINGERS! ♪ ♪ GLO-RI-A! ♪ ♪ HOSANNA IN EXCELSIS! ♪ ♪ GLO-RI-A! ♪ ♪ HOSANNA IN EXCELSIS, ♪ ♪ IN EXCELSIS, ♪ ♪ IN EXCELSIS! ♪ ♪ HOSANNA IN EXCELSIS! ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >> HERE INSIDE THE CHARLES DICKENS HOUSE IN LONDON, ENGLAND, SITS A DESK THAT ONCE BELONGED TO THE GREAT NOVELIST. IT WAS HERE THAT CHARLES DICKENS WROTE MANY OF THE WORKS THAT ARE NOW CONSIDERED CLASSICS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. AND YET DESPITE GREAT SUCCESS EARLY IN HIS CAREER, DICKENS'S HEART WAS HEAVY IN OCTOBER 1843. HE HAD JUST RETURNED TO LONDON FROM A TRIP TO MANCHESTER, WHERE HE HAD SPOKEN AT A CHARITY AND VISITED HIS SISTER'S FAMILY. DICKENS FELT COMPASSION AND CONCERN FOR HIS SISTER'S SON HENRY, WHO WAS STRUGGLING WITH A DISABILITY. DICKENS HAD ALSO WITNESSED HORRIFIC POVERTY ON THE STREETS, REMEMBERED THE POVERTY OF HIS OWN CHILDHOOD, AND FEARED THE FINANCIAL BURDENS THAT WAITED FOR HIM AT HOME. WITH ALL OF THIS IN MIND AS HE RETURNED TO LONDON, DICKENS PUT PEN TO PAPER AND, IN HIS OWN ARTISTIC WAY, CALLED FOR REFORM. IN JUST SIX SHORT WEEKS, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, ONE OF THE MOST BELOVED AND INFLUENTIAL STORIES OF ALL TIME, WAS BORN. IN EFFECT, DICKENS'S CHRISTMAS STORY HELPED REVIVE PUBLIC SENTIMENT FOR A HOLIDAY THAT WAS ALSO SUFFERING UNDER THE FINANCIAL PRESSURES OF THE TIME. PEOPLE RECEIVED THE BOOK WITH ENTHUSIASM AND FELT A RENEWED EAGERNESS TO CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS AFTER BECOMING ACQUAINTED WITH ITS UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTERS. MARLEY PERSONIFIED REGRET. SCROOGE BECAME AN EMBLEM OF REDEMPTION. TINY TIM, SO REMINISCENT OF DICKENS'S OWN NEPHEW, BECAME A SYMBOL OF HOPE. MOST IMPORTANT, DICKENS'S GHOSTLY TALE REMINDED PEOPLE TO BE MORE CHARITABLE, MORE COMPASSIONATE, MORE CHRISTLIKE AT CHRISTMAS--AND THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. DICKENS'S WORDS CAPTURE SO WELL THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT: "I HAVE ALWAYS THOUGHT OF CHRISTMAS TIME--" HE WROTE, "--AS A GOOD TIME, A KIND, FORGIVING, CHARITABLE, PLEASANT TIME, THE ONLY TIME I KNOW OF, IN THE LONG CALENDAR OF THE YEAR, WHEN MEN AND WOMEN SEEM BY ONE CONSENT TO OPEN THEIR SHUT-UP HEARTS FREELY, AND TO THINK OF PEOPLE . AS IF THEY REALLY WERE FELLOW PASSENGERS." IT SEEMS SO APPROPRIATE THAT A TALE OF REDEMPTION AND COMPASSION WOULD BECOME A CHRISTMAS CLASSIC. AFTER ALL, THE BABY BORN IN BETHLEHEM, THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD, THE "AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH, . ENDURED THE CROSS" TO GIVE US NEW LIFE-- "TO LIFT UP THE HANDS WHICH HANG DOWN." BECAUSE OF HIM, ALL "FELLOW PASSENGERS" IN THIS WORLD CAN FIND-- AND OFFER TO OTHERS-- HOPE AND HEALING. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ STILL, STILL, STILL, ♪ ♪ THE CHILD'S EYES
SOFTLY CLOSE. ♪ ♪ AND MARY, BREATHLESS,
DRAWS HIM, WEEPING, ♪ ♪ TO HER HEART
MADE PURE FOR KEEPING. ♪ ♪ STILL, STILL, STILL, ♪ ♪ HIS BRIGHT EYES
SOFTLY CLOSE. ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ SING, SING, SING, ♪ ♪ HE HEARS
AND SWEETLY SMILES. ♪ ♪ AND KNEELING,
JOSEPH JOINS IN CHORUS ♪ ♪ WITH THE ANGELS
BENDING O'ER US. ♪ ♪ SING, SING, SING, ♪ ♪ HE HEARS
AND SWEETLY SMILES. ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ SLEEP, SLEEP,
O SLEEP. ♪ ♪ HE BREATHES
A TENDER SIGH, ♪ ♪ FOR SOON HE'LL WAKE
THE WORLD FROM SLUMBER, ♪ ♪ BRINGING LIFE
AND ENDLESS WONDER, ♪ ♪ SLEEP, SLEEP,
O SLEEP. ♪ ♪ HE BREATHES
A TENDER SIGH. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ SLEEP, HOLY JESUS,
SLEEP, ♪ ♪ SLEEP, ♪ ♪ SLEEP. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ HERE WE COME A-CAROLING
AMONG THE LEAVES SO GREEN ♪ ♪♪ ♪ HERE WE COME A-CAROLING
AMONG THE LEAVES SO GREEN ♪ ♪ HERE WE COME A-WAND'RING
SO FAIR TO BE SEEN. ♪ ♪ LOVE AND JOY COME TO YOU,
AND TO YOU, GLAD CHRISTMAS TOO ♪ ♪ AND GOD BLESS YOU AND SEND
YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR. ♪ ♪ AND GOD SEND YOU A
HAPPY NEW YEAR ♪ ♪♪ ♪ WE COME HERE NOT AS STRANGERS
TO KNOCK UPON YOUR DOOR ♪ ♪ BUT WE ARE NEIGHBORS' CHILDREN
WHOM YOU HAVE SEEN BEFORE. ♪ ♪ LOVE AND JOY COME TO YOU,
AND TO YOU, GLAD CHRISTMAS TOO ♪ ♪ AND GOD BLESS YOU AND SEND
YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR. ♪ ♪ AND GOD SEND YOU A
HAPPY NEW YEAR ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ GOD BLESS THE MASTER
OF THIS HOUSE, ♪ ♪ LIKEWISE THE
MISTRESS TOO, ♪ ♪ AND ALL THE LITTLE CHILDREN
WHO COUNT THEM KIND AND TRUE ♪ ♪ LOVE AND JOY COME TO YOU,
AND TO YOU, GLAD CHRISTMAS TOO ♪ ♪ AND GOD BLESS YOU AND SEND
YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR. ♪ ♪ AND GOD SEND YOU A
HAPPY NEW YEAR ♪ ♪ NEW YEAR, NEW YEAR
NEW YEAR ♪ ♪♪ ♪ NEW YEAR! ♪♪ ♪♪ >> THANK YOU FOR JOINING THE TABERNACLE CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA AT TEMPLE SQUARE FOR THIS CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, ORIGINATING FROM HISTORIC TEMPLE SQUARE IN SALT LAKE CITY. PLEASE JOIN US AGAIN FOR MUSIC & THE SPOKEN WORD AND UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN, MAY PEACE BE WITH YOU THIS DAY AND ALWAYS. ♪ TILL WE MEET
TILL WE MEET ♪ ♪ GOD BE WITH YOU
TILL WE MEET AGAIN. ♪♪ CLOSED CAPTIONING BY
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