Placide Cappeau took the new song back to his home town of Roquemaure, where it was first performed at a midnight Mass on Christmas Eve ... “O Holy Night” is one of the most dramatically ...

With words written by a French wine commissioner who was not particularly religious and later declared himself to be a socialist, and music composed by a gifted Jewish musician who did not consider ...

Christmas Eve occupies a special place on the Hasidic calendar as a kind of “silent night,” when Torah study ceases — and then resumes full force at midnight. NEW YORK (JTA) – Christmas is ...

Today is Christmas Eve. I look forward to lighting a candle and singing that powerful, familiar old carol, “Silent Night ... What a sacred and holy act it is, to come away from it all ...

Cappeau took the new song back to his hometown of Roquemaure, where it was first performed at a midnight mass on Christmas Eve, 1847. The American music critic John Sullivan Dwight translated the ...