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Genre: Music
Date of upload: Nov 25, 2020 ^^
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I'm 54 & I learned this song in German in a school choir in Ireland when I was about 9.
At that time no one had ever heard Silent Night sung in it's native language.
I swear I'm not joking when I say there were adults with tears streaming down their faces when we finished singing it.
I will never forget looking at the people faces & I realised how music can really effect people
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My Dad sung this in flawless German as he learned that before English and still spoke it to his Grandmother. Every Christmas Eve with a hot Tom and Jerry’s he’d break out the record and sing this with just the lights of the tree and candles burning. I really miss those days. Wish I could hear his voice singing it miss him terribly even a decade and a half after he was called home. Still sing it in German when played at Midnight Mass do it for him, usually someone hears me and smiles.
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On Dec.11 2023, my grandfather passed away. He immigrated to Canada from Germany in the 50s when he was a teenager. He was fluent in both English and German. I remember one year we all sang Silent Night, in both languages and he was so happy.
I remember him saying, "Frohe Weihnachten" as he raised his glass. To which we replied, "Merry Christmas," raising our glasses too. I think that will be one of many cherished memories of him.
Rest peacefully, Granddad. We'll keep you in our memories forever. And Frohe Weihnachten to all.
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last year was the craziest year of choir i've ever had, but we had a wonderful substitute to get us through while our teacher rested from her surgery and our first substitute quit. he knew so much about music and taught me so much, but i'll never forget the greatest lesson he taught us. he was our teacher around christmas time, so he had a lot of control over what we'd sing for christmas. we sing silent night every year, it's been a school tradition for longer than i was alive likely, but he had a different idea than what we had normally done. he taught us the entire song in german so that we could sing part of it in german, honoring the christmas truce of 1914. he left soon after since his wife was giving birth to their first child, and without a director we never got to sing the way he intended. he taught me something better than music: there is humanity in everything. there is humanity in war, there is humanity in disease, no matter how bad it gets we are still human, and because of that we are never truly seperate. we're now learning about ww1 in my social studdies class, and today we learned about the christmas truce of 1914. i thought of my wonderful substitute, i wonder how his baby is doing. i wish i could tell him that i stil have the entirety of Stille Nacht memorized.
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@peggywhyte3725
5 months ago
59 years ago my Gramma Kittler would sing silent night in German, every year. Hearing this brings back many good memories. she passed in 1963 and now, all the family's gone, they can all get together in heaven, and I will join them when my time comes
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