Birthed as it was on the eve of another revolution, Cappeau and Adam’s song was praised by French poet Alphonse de Lamartine ...

Adolphe Adam (1803-1856) was a French composer best known for the ballet Giselle and the Christmas carol O Holy Night. He also wrote many works for the Paris Opera and taught at the Paris Conservatory ...

Already controversial in in France, “Cantique de Noël” made some people uneasy; but in America, the English translation into ...

The result of their delayed creativity was “O Little Town of Bethlehem,” composed and heard in a Philadelphia church. It was a song that spread across the world, and put the 19th-century church on the ...

William Dunn Longstaff was born in 1822 in England. He was a Christian hymnist and a businessman. His life was built on faith, and he worked hard to support the church while also running his business.

This is John Sullivan Dwight’s translation from 1855. He was a Unitarian minister and a schoolmaster at the Brook Farm commune who went on to become America’s first influential music critic. That ...

One of my favorite Christmas songs is “O Holy Night.” There are some beautiful lyrics found within the entire song, but one sentence really speaks to me: “Long lay the world in sin and error ...

Back in 2001, when Alicia Keys first burst onto the scene, few would have likely been able to predict she'd be the one to drop the most woke political track of 2016. But here we are, in the midst of ...