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Some music for Christmas… The Oxen

November 27, 2013September 24, 2018 Admin

One of our popular Christmas pieces is The Oxen, a poem by Thomas Hardy and set to music by Paul Guppy, our Musical Director. The poem recounts the Christmas legend that descendants of the beasts who knelt in reverence at the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, continue to do so on Christmas Eve to this day. Hardy… Continue reading Some music for Christmas… The Oxen

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