Song of the Day - 31st December
Happy New Year's Eve everyone! So we come to the final day of the inaugural year of the project - it's been a brilliant start! I have 38 songs all ready to go out to my participating Beta choirs, two Christmas songs already gone out and one video returned already! I am most encouraged by the enthusiasm shown and the complimentary feedback I have already received. Today's Song of the Day is a setting of the famous poem "Ring Out, Wild Bells" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. On the theme of ringing out the bad and ringing in the good, it entreats the reader to forget any unpleasantness of the year gone and focus on the good that can be done in the year to come. Historically, the New Year has not always begun on 1st January. The early Roman calendar began the year on 1st March. The calendar then had just 10 months, beginning with March. September through to December, the ninth through to the twelfth months of the Gregorian calendar, were originally positioned as the seventh...