Ann Crosby Gaudet First Snow 2:08 All Is Calm 4:18 Carol of the Bells 6:36 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Sing We Now of Christmas 8:19 Sunita Staneslow - Christmas Day Christ Child Lullabye 11:15 Virgin Lullabye 13:39 That Night in Bethlehem 15:41 Sunita Staneslow - Christmas Eve In the Bleak Mid Winter 17:42 Silent Night 19:39 O Christmas Tree 22:09 Joseph, Dearest Joseph, Mine 23:40 Oh How Joyfully 24:42 Ray Pool O Come O Come Emmanuel 26:36 Ding Dong Merrily on High 28:21 Deck the Halls 29:49 We Three Kings 32:01 De Ank van Campen Variations on a Welsh Carol 35:18
You are wonderful, and I appreciate you today! I'm crying with my harp as my heart is broken. My 12 year old constant companion was torn to shreds yesterday by a big dog, and my grieving is a very sad necessary part of existing in this cruel world I do not understand.
Had to respond. What a horrific and traumatizing way to lose a friend. I don't understand why the world seems predicated on pain and suffering either. All I know is that beauty and goodness also exist. I had an animal friend die badly and asked someone "where is God in a world like this?" She said "I see God in your love for that animal."
@@sthom4bad thank you so much! I see her name everywhere and it is a grieving process, but, I really appreciate the thought that you see God in my love for her, but mostly, her love for me, she came back to life for me, but could not endure the surgery. Christylynn playing helped soothe me as tears flow...
I've just acquired First Snow, hopefully I can have something to show Christy-Lyn before our next lesson! Thank you for creating such beautiful pieces that even us relative newbies have a hope to sound good at!!
@@LearningtheHarp Yes, this is most helpful to me not only for the enjoyment but provided more insight to incorporate the style and beauty into entrainment for people who are having emotional struggles that stem from damaging stress. Blessings...
ALOHA, Dear Christy-Lyn!!!! Really lovely, like ALL of your videos!!!! However, the holidays are a difficult time for me, due to my being widowed. This year will be my 8th Thanksgiving and my 8th Christmas without her. I sure miss her!!!! O Come, O Come Emmanuel is my favorite Christmas song!!!! I first became acquainted with it in December of 1962!!!!
I have the book of 50 Christmas Favorites by Sylvia Woods. I have been playing these for Christmas and sharing then in "Sing-a-Longs" at Nursing homes, and Assisted Living Situations to help build my confidence in a less stressful situation; especially since I have only been playing 13 months. I really love the idea of longer arrangements that I could do for a performance, like the ones you showed us here. I will download some and definitely keep them for when my confidence soars to a level where I can face the public and know that I will not embarrass myself! I can't wait to do this! I love performing on other instruments, but I really can't wait to share the harp with everyone. It has such a soothing sound!
@Annette Ieda That is such a blessing to people! The harp is my all-time favorite instrument. I'd love to get my own harp and learn to play music as calming and soothing as this type of music. People who are harpists are so blessed and bless and heal others with their music. 🎶 ❤
WOW! I LOVE FIRST SNOW SO MUCH!! Thank you because your awesome! I thought I would struggle but you helped us out. Thank you for your kindness and help! Way to go!
I've been playing pipe organ and piano professionally for decades and I love all the big repertoire and making lots of noise on a huge church organ. Harp is not an instrument I ever really 'heard' until Google autoplay put "Christ Child Lullaby" in my stream a couple of Christmases ago and I haven't been the same. I don't want to spoil it by playing it on anything other than a harp, so this year I decided I would get one and learn how to play it. And so I've been watching harp tutorials and Christy's are excellent and I just decided to see what this one was about. There is lots of other Celtic music that is charming and interesting. I want to play it all. Wish me luck. I'm going to rent a Dusty Strings Crescendo 34 and see how I get on.
You are so beautiful. Your smile, your voice, your spirit. Thank you for such a mesmerizing but soothing and sweet video. I was not supposed to cry but oh well...
ENJOYED YOUR CHRISTMAS PIECES ON THE HARP , NOW TO MY ACCORDION AT 0408 AM IN PENNSYLVANIA , USA HAD AN IDEA FOR MY ACTIVITIES , MAYBE IT WILL COME IN FRUITION
Anne's arrangements are fabulous. My teacher and I love them. I am intermediate level I suppose and I can sight read these easily. A little practice and they sound beautiful. Glad you are giving her some exposure. Also, some of her arrangements are very easy to blend with a traditional arrangement of the same tune to give you a little bit longer piece. I am loving her arrangements and already have a Christmas gig. Yikes!!!!
I love kim robertsons newish piece Jolly old Pachabel, the holly and the ivy girl (a stunningly beautiful and rarely played song), and my all time favorite book is Whitney Dobyns Christmas Presents which has the most stunningly beautiful and different arrangements.
Pretty darn good for sight reading . I bet many of us wanabe's had more fun watching you make a GAF occasionally and work things out as in practice. Good lesson I say.
Very nice video, Christy-Lyn! I also love Anne Crosby Gaudet's and Sunita's arrangements! I'm not familiar with Ray Pool's. You played everything so beautifully!
I love Anne’s arrangements! Perfect for me as a new harp player and so relaxing to hear too. I happened to have purchased some Christmas repertoire from her site today. :-)
Thanks! I needed a quick song for our program this Saturday night! Carol of the Bells is perfect! So glad it's digital download, too. Thanks for the suggestions and playing through a few to help us hear the arrangements.
Thanks Christy this was really helpful. I've bought the Christmas Eve book as a result. Better get practicing now I'm supposed to be playing in the local garden centre at christmas
Promise I'm going to watch your video but just in about 2 months. At the moment it is much too warm to feel like Christmas. In fact, it feels even much too warm for October. Weather ist becoming quite irregular and unreliable up here. Nevertheless, I love the two Christmas performances you once posted on this channel some years ago: Marys Lament and Mary did you know.
I'm afraid I am unreliable as well. Of course I was so curious that I had to watch your whole performance right now. Just like a child who cannot wait for christmas to come to get its presents. ;) But actually, it was worth while! Especially I got hooked by those titles: "We three Kings" "Deck the Halls" (I first understood "Dig the holes" (?!?!?)) "In the bleak Midwinter" (Which also becomes more and more incomprehensible in the Northern Hemisphere.) and "God rest ye merry Gentlemen" ( Do you know the comedy version conducted by "Mr. Bean"? ruclips.net/video/t7yw7stV6EY/видео.html ) I also liked the last piece you played. Unfortunally, I did not understand the name.
😂😂😂 That’s so funny!! I agree, it’s much too early for Christmas music, but I wanted to give the harpists time to buy the sheet music and get practicing 😁 The last piece is called Variations on a Welsh Carol. You can find some recordings on RUclips of the whole thing. Very beautiful!
Listing to this again :) Would you mind posting time stamps? Also, could you list where one could purchase the sheet music to “Variations on a Welsh Carol”? Thanks again for sharing your gifts 🎵 ~Lisa
I want to learn Carol of the bells, Christ child lullaby, that night in Bethlehem, silent night, and oh come Emanuel. This is only my third day playing so I think I will be trying these next year. Thank you for these songs! They all sounded great. Have you tried playing Mary did you know or breath of Heaven before?
I love both those songs!! I have a video on my channel of me singing Mary Did You Know as a duet with a friend, and I used to have a video of Breath of Heaven when I sang it years ago with piano. You have good taste in Christmas songs! 👌🏻 How’s it going with learning the harp so far? 😃
I've been playing for a year and a couple months, I started last September. The Christmas music I did this year included Greensleves (by far the easiest, I learnt it last year), Huron Carol, Carol of the bells, and silent night. Suzuki Harp School Volume 1 has some beautiful beginner pieces including a great version of silent night!!
Great!! Congrats for getting started with the harp, that’s super exciting. There’s an arrangement of What’s Child Is this on learningtheharp.com that is specifically for your first Christmas with the harp. If you learn it with my video course it will teach you solid harp technique while you learn the piece! ❤️
Probability if i' ll not write a Christmas song nobody will do yet... I' m a great songwriter, and already, beween mine, i have also written best fancy ballade for chindren ! (Sergio Paliotti.. 'Rome)
"Who stolen the Moon by the swell - Sergio Paliotti". For entertainment i have arranged quite by ear the three more traditional Christmas songs, here uploaded for a unique video on YT, in my channel... Bye !
Ann Crosby Gaudet
First Snow 2:08
All Is Calm 4:18
Carol of the Bells 6:36
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Sing We Now of Christmas 8:19
Sunita Staneslow - Christmas Day
Christ Child Lullabye 11:15
Virgin Lullabye 13:39
That Night in Bethlehem 15:41
Sunita Staneslow - Christmas Eve
In the Bleak Mid Winter 17:42
Silent Night 19:39
O Christmas Tree 22:09
Joseph, Dearest Joseph, Mine 23:40
Oh How Joyfully 24:42
Ray Pool
O Come O Come Emmanuel 26:36
Ding Dong Merrily on High 28:21
Deck the Halls 29:49
We Three Kings 32:01
De Ank van Campen
Variations on a Welsh Carol 35:18
You are wonderful, and I appreciate you today! I'm crying with my harp as my heart is broken. My 12 year old constant companion was torn to shreds yesterday by a big dog, and my grieving is a very sad necessary part of existing in this cruel world I do not understand.
Had to respond. What a horrific and traumatizing way to lose a friend. I don't understand why the world seems predicated on pain and suffering either. All I know is that beauty and goodness also exist. I had an animal friend die badly and asked someone "where is God in a world like this?" She said "I see God in your love for that animal."
@@sthom4bad thank you so much! I see her name everywhere and it is a grieving process, but, I really appreciate the thought that you see God in my love for her, but mostly, her love for me, she came back to life for me, but could not endure the surgery. Christylynn playing helped soothe me as tears flow...
So sorry about your loss! Sending you love and wishes for healing. I hope harp music keeps helping with that.
Hi Christy-Lyn! Thanks for doing such a beautiful job with my Christmas pieces! What a thrill to be in your list of favorites!
I've just acquired First Snow, hopefully I can have something to show Christy-Lyn before our next lesson! Thank you for creating such beautiful pieces that even us relative newbies have a hope to sound good at!!
Michaela Merris Thanks for purchasing First Snow, I hope you find it expressive and relaxing to play 🙂
Anne, you’re on a lot of people’s list of favorites, year-round! :-)
ChoirFly Aw, that’s nice 🙂
Beautiful presentation.. I'm speechless.
Hope it was inspiring for you Cliff! Will you be able to try any of these yourself? 😃
@@LearningtheHarp Yes, this is most helpful to me not only for the enjoyment but provided more insight to incorporate the style and beauty into entrainment for people who are having emotional struggles that stem from damaging stress. Blessings...
I wish I could tell you how inspiring you are!
It is february. When musicians start dusting off the music.
Watched this already but why not watch it again!
Ever so Lovely the Lady, the Harp and both the Musick~
ALOHA, Dear Christy-Lyn!!!! Really lovely, like ALL of your videos!!!! However, the holidays are a difficult time for me, due to my being widowed. This year will be my 8th Thanksgiving and my 8th Christmas without her. I sure miss her!!!! O Come, O Come Emmanuel is my favorite Christmas song!!!! I first became acquainted with it in December of 1962!!!!
I have the book of 50 Christmas Favorites by Sylvia Woods. I have been playing these for Christmas and sharing then in "Sing-a-Longs" at Nursing homes, and Assisted Living Situations to help build my confidence in a less stressful situation; especially since I have only been playing 13 months. I really love the idea of longer arrangements that I could do for a performance, like the ones you showed us here. I will download some and definitely keep them for when my confidence soars to a level where I can face the public and know that I will not embarrass myself! I can't wait to do this! I love performing on other instruments, but I really can't wait to share the harp with everyone. It has such a soothing sound!
@Annette Ieda That is such a blessing to people! The harp is my all-time favorite instrument. I'd love to get my own harp and learn to play music as calming and soothing as this type of music.
People who are harpists are so blessed and bless and heal others with their music.
🎶 ❤
Wonderful video 😍
WOW! I LOVE FIRST SNOW SO MUCH!! Thank you because your awesome! I thought I would struggle but you helped us out. Thank you for your kindness and help! Way to go!
Beautiful playing. I love that harp. I hope to get one in the future.
beautiful
I've been playing pipe organ and piano professionally for decades and I love all the big repertoire and making lots of noise on a huge church organ. Harp is not an instrument I ever really 'heard' until Google autoplay put "Christ Child Lullaby" in my stream a couple of Christmases ago and I haven't been the same. I don't want to spoil it by playing it on anything other than a harp, so this year I decided I would get one and learn how to play it. And so I've been watching harp tutorials and Christy's are excellent and I just decided to see what this one was about. There is lots of other Celtic music that is charming and interesting. I want to play it all. Wish me luck. I'm going to rent a Dusty Strings Crescendo 34 and see how I get on.
Let us know how you get on! Enjoy it!! 💕
You are so beautiful. Your smile, your voice, your spirit. Thank you for such a mesmerizing but soothing and sweet video. I was not supposed to cry but oh well...
Thank you for this. I am from Philippines and only few people are harpists here. I watch your videos and it helped me as a self taught harpist :)
That’s very good to hear! Will you be able to try First Snow on your own harp? 😃
I love how you make every piece so doable, beautiful. Especially for beginners. You are so natural and God Bless So Human Big Hugs.
ENJOYED YOUR CHRISTMAS PIECES ON THE HARP , NOW TO MY ACCORDION AT 0408 AM IN PENNSYLVANIA , USA HAD AN IDEA FOR MY ACTIVITIES , MAYBE IT WILL COME IN FRUITION
Amazed the harp doesn't buzz with the light strand - I LOVE that! :) BTW: off topic - Great lipstick color for you :)
Anne's arrangements are fabulous. My teacher and I love them. I am intermediate level I suppose and I can sight read these easily. A little practice and they sound beautiful. Glad you are giving her some exposure. Also, some of her arrangements are very easy to blend with a traditional arrangement of the same tune to give you a little bit longer piece. I am loving her arrangements and already have a Christmas gig. Yikes!!!!
So sweet, thank-you :)
I bought several songs because of your video. I will be working on First Snow first. Thank you for this video.
Oh wow, that’s great! All the best with First Snow, it’s a fun one!
I love kim robertsons newish piece Jolly old Pachabel, the holly and the ivy girl (a stunningly beautiful and rarely played song), and my all time favorite book is Whitney Dobyns Christmas Presents which has the most stunningly beautiful and different arrangements.
Thank you for this lovely collection of Christmas songs! I love Anne Crosby Gaudet’s arrangements too! Learned to play First Snow last Christmas.
I want all of these pieces!! Thanks for making this video. :)
Thank you so much, it was sooo beautiful! When you played First snow I almost could see white-grey winter clouds and feel cool air
Ah, that’s such a lovely comment. Thanks Aiva! Are you planning on giving it a try yourself?
Oh I should, If start learning to play harp someday...
Such a beautiful melody!
Pretty darn good for sight reading . I bet many of us wanabe's had more fun watching you make a GAF occasionally and work things out as in practice. Good lesson I say.
Your honesty is so refreshing! 😂 And your playing is ABSOLUTELY lovely.
Hehe thanks! 😄
Beautiful! Thank you! "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!"
You too, Deborah! 🤩💕
Very nice video, Christy-Lyn! I also love Anne Crosby Gaudet's and Sunita's arrangements! I'm not familiar with Ray Pool's. You played everything so beautifully!
Love this. I can't wait to try these.
I love Anne’s arrangements! Perfect for me as a new harp player and so relaxing to hear too. I happened to have purchased some Christmas repertoire from her site today. :-)
I'm getting several of these songs.
Thanks! I needed a quick song for our program this Saturday night! Carol of the Bells is perfect! So glad it's digital download, too. Thanks for the suggestions and playing through a few to help us hear the arrangements.
Thank you very much Christy-Lyn! I've been in love with Christ Child Lullaby since your live RUclips concert last year :)
Thanks Christy this was really helpful. I've bought the Christmas Eve book as a result. Better get practicing now I'm supposed to be playing in the local garden centre at christmas
Thank you for a genuinely beautiful video... the music, your playing and your lovely spirit flowing through it.
Thanks Christy-Lyn! Beautiful playing and great recommendations just in time for the holidays.
Thank you.
every performance is filled with such emotion , very heart felt and so relaxing, thank you for sharing your talent, liefies. merrell
Wow, this has been really helpful. There are some beautiful pieces and I have purchased them and intend to play them for Christmas. Thanks :-)
Wonderful! 😃👌🏻
you r so beautiful ❤ u play harp so calmly and smoothly
Promise I'm going to watch your video but just in about 2 months.
At the moment it is much too warm to feel like Christmas.
In fact, it feels even much too warm for October.
Weather ist becoming quite irregular and unreliable up here.
Nevertheless, I love the two Christmas performances you once posted on this channel some years ago: Marys Lament and Mary did you know.
I'm afraid I am unreliable as well.
Of course I was so curious that I had to watch your whole performance right now.
Just like a child who cannot wait for christmas to come to get its presents. ;)
But actually, it was worth while!
Especially I got hooked by those titles:
"We three Kings"
"Deck the Halls"
(I first understood "Dig the holes" (?!?!?))
"In the bleak Midwinter"
(Which also becomes more and more incomprehensible in the Northern Hemisphere.)
and
"God rest ye merry Gentlemen"
( Do you know the comedy version conducted by "Mr. Bean"?
ruclips.net/video/t7yw7stV6EY/видео.html )
I also liked the last piece you played.
Unfortunally, I did not understand the name.
😂😂😂 That’s so funny!! I agree, it’s much too early for Christmas music, but I wanted to give the harpists time to buy the sheet music and get practicing 😁 The last piece is called Variations on a Welsh Carol. You can find some recordings on RUclips of the whole thing. Very beautiful!
You've done great, so I love it
Thanks Nick! 😃
Thank you for this video! I can’t wait to order some of these pieces! Aren’t downloads wonderful?
Listing to this again :) Would you mind posting time stamps? Also, could you list where one could purchase the sheet music to “Variations on a Welsh Carol”? Thanks again for sharing your gifts 🎵 ~Lisa
I want to learn Carol of the bells, Christ child lullaby, that night in Bethlehem, silent night, and oh come Emanuel. This is only my third day playing so I think I will be trying these next year. Thank you for these songs! They all sounded great.
Have you tried playing Mary did you know or breath of Heaven before?
I love both those songs!! I have a video on my channel of me singing Mary Did You Know as a duet with a friend, and I used to have a video of Breath of Heaven when I sang it years ago with piano. You have good taste in Christmas songs! 👌🏻 How’s it going with learning the harp so far? 😃
I've been playing for a year and a couple months, I started last September. The Christmas music I did this year included Greensleves (by far the easiest, I learnt it last year), Huron Carol, Carol of the bells, and silent night. Suzuki Harp School Volume 1 has some beautiful beginner pieces including a great version of silent night!!
Beautiful songs, thx! I like that you didn't practice all the songs
I love Silent Night. Is there a beginner piece for it?
Not yet! But I’m strongly considering making one this year 😃
I am a beginner harp player. Which one would be the best for me?
Great!! Congrats for getting started with the harp, that’s super exciting. There’s an arrangement of What’s Child Is this on learningtheharp.com that is specifically for your first Christmas with the harp. If you learn it with my video course it will teach you solid harp technique while you learn the piece! ❤️
( I could be wrong, but I believe Sunita's last name is pronounced 'Stan-eh-slow.' )??
You’re probably right!
Probability if i' ll not write a Christmas song nobody will do yet... I' m a great songwriter, and already, beween mine, i have also written best fancy ballade for chindren ! (Sergio Paliotti.. 'Rome)
"Who stolen the Moon by the swell - Sergio Paliotti".
For entertainment i have arranged quite by ear the three more traditional Christmas songs, here uploaded for a unique video on YT, in my channel... Bye !
Can these be played on a fullsicle?
You'll have to check on each piece. They are all arranged by different people ☺️