Mt. Gilead High School Class of '73

For this week's TBT photo, in her memory, we'll post Mrs. Cronenwett's class photo when we were in the first grade.

We’ve just learned of the passing of classmate Gloria Cronenwett Johnson's mother, Anna Mary Ward Cronenwett. We extend our condolences to Gloria and her family.

Obituary information for Anna Mary Ward Cronenwett View Anna Mary Ward Cronenwett's obituary, contribute to their memorial, see their funeral service details, and more.

We'll start out the new year with a TBT photo from our sophomore year. And since it's basketball season, how about one of the reserve basketball team?

Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) is an American rock band founded in 1996 by producer, composer, and lyricist Paul O'Neill, who brought together Jon Oliva and Al Pitrelli (both members of Savatage) and keyboardist and co-producer Robert Kinkel to form the core of the creative team. The band gained popularity when they began touring in 1999 after completing their second album, The Christmas Attic, the year previous. In 2007, the Washington Post referred to them as "an arena-rock juggernaut" and described their music as "Pink Floyd meets Yes and the Who at Radio City Music Hall."[6] TSO has sold more than 10 million concert tickets and over 10 million albums.[5][7] The band has released a series of rock operas: Christmas Eve and Other Stories, The Christmas Attic, Beethoven's Last Night, The Lost Christmas Eve, their two-disc Night Castle and Letters From the Labyrinth.[5] Trans-Siberian Orchestra is also known for their extensive charity work and elaborate concerts, which include a string section, a light show, lasers, moving trusses, video screens, and effects synchronized to music.[3] (Source: Wikipedia)

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Though the Messiah is now a yuletide staple, Handel conceived the work as an Easter offering, and it was first performed during Lent. The work's first third deals with the birth of Jesus. The second act covers the death of Jesus and the third on his resurrection.
The Victorians moved it to Christmas, to revive interest in that then-neglected holiday.

By the late 19th century, the Messiah had become regularly programmed during December, especially in the United States. British conductor Laurence Cummings, in an interview with Smithsonian Magazine, speculates that the yuletide performance custom may have been born from necessity: "There is so much fine Easter music — Bach's St. Matthew Passion, for instance — and so little great sacral music written for Christmas."

No less than Ludwig van Beethoven, citing the Messiah, called Handel the "greatest composer who ever lived. ... I would uncover my head and kneel before his tomb.” And Mozart declared himself "to be humble in the face of Handel's genius. ... Handel knows better than any of us what will make an effect. When he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt." (From an online article: ‘Hallelujah’! A few facts about Handel’s ‘Messiah’)

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Merry Christmas Eve!

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"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is an English Christmas carol that first appeared in 1739 in the collection Hymns and Sacred Poems. The carol, based on Luke 2:14, tells of an angelic chorus singing praises to God. As it is known in the modern era, it features lyrical contributions from Charles Wesley and George Whitefield, two of the founding ministers of Methodism, with music adapted from "Vaterland, in deinen Gauen" from Felix Mendelssohn's cantata Festgesang (Gutenberg Cantata).

Wesley had written the original version as "Hymn for Christmas-Day" with the opening couplet "Hark! how all the Welkin (heaven) rings / Glory to the King of Kings". Whitefield changed that to today's familiar lyric: "Hark! The Herald Angels sing, / 'Glory to the new-born King' ". In 1840—a hundred years after the publication of Hymns and Sacred Poems—Mendelssohn composed a cantata to commemorate Johannes Gutenberg's invention of movable type, and it is music from this cantata, adapted by the English musician William H. Cummings to fit the lyrics of "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", that is used for the carol today.

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Happy Monday, everybody.

From one of the classic Christmas movies.

For this week's Christmas TBT, let's go back to 1963 and listen to Andy Williams.

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We're going to carry on with the tradition of Christmas songs from the past for our TBT postings for the month of December. Sit back and enjoy.

Our first TBT post is one that we all remember from our very young days. Alvin and the Chipmunks, with David Seville.

This song was written and produced by Ross Bagdasarian (a.k.a. David Seville). The inspiration came to him from his youngest son, Adam, who had a habit of asking in September if it was Christmas yet. He figured if his son was already asking about the holiday so early, other kids probably were too.

The song went through three versions before Bagdasarian's family gave it the OK. The first version was an instrumental, the third was titled "In A Village Park," and the third and winner was "The Chipmunk Song." Bagdasarian came up with the idea for a trio of singing chipmunks after seeing one of those creatures on the road, refusing to move for his car.

Within three weeks of being released the song had sold over 2.5 million copies, making it the fastest-selling record of 1958. It hit #1 on December 22, 1958, and stayed there for four weeks. This is the last Christmas song to hit #1 in the US.

The Chipmunks were called Alvin, Simon and Theodore. They were named after Liberty Records president Al Bennett, owner Si Warnoker and the engineer on duty when it was recorded, Ted Keep.

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This week's TBT photo is of a car ad from the January 25, 1968 Morrow County Sentinel. There's some good prices. We were in the 7th grade.

This week's TBT photo is the front page of The Marion Star on November 23, 1963, 60 years ago today. We were in the third grade.

For this week's TBT post, we'll continue with the junior class play theme with another news article.