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Jingle Bells--the Director's Cut

Posted at 5:27 PM on December 7, 2007 by Rex Levang

Kerri Miller's show with Philip Brunelle and singers from VocalEssence has a listing below -- but it's worth an extra plug, if only because here you'll hear the original version of "Jingle Bells," and Victorian words to the tune that we know as "Hark! the Herald Angels," which originally have very little to do with angels, and a lot to do with typography.