the Burt Carols...
Dec. 12th, 2004 10:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
damontBack in the days of my undergraduacy long ago (as Tom Lehrer once said), I sang in the college choir. For the December concerts each year, one of the subchoirs would sing one of the Burt carols -- carols written between 1922 and 1954, first by the Rev. B.G. Burt and later by his son Alfred. (Alfred's tunes became the more famous of the set; his father continued to write the lyrics until the mid-1940s.)
If you like religious Christmas songs but you've never heard these before, they're a treat. I've included here a link to the official Alfred Burt Carols website. Warning: it sucks down a fair bit of bandwidth. Too bad it doesn't give much attention to the earlier carols, but one takes what one can get at times.
If you like religious Christmas songs but you've never heard these before, they're a treat. I've included here a link to the official Alfred Burt Carols website. Warning: it sucks down a fair bit of bandwidth. Too bad it doesn't give much attention to the earlier carols, but one takes what one can get at times.
