It turns out that this 2 hour long special aired on the CW on 12-10-2020. I wasn’t able to see it until later in the month, but now have this reviewed for you. I hope that you enjoy this special post. And since I am doing a normal, random update in December, I’ll have to do more of these now in the future.
We begin with the words of Pope Francis: “Christmas celebrations are often full of sound. It would be good for us to make room for silence, to hear the voice of Love.” It was Christmas Eve, 1818, in the Alps. Two men are in the mountains talking about the song Silent Night. It has a man named Frans Gruber in it. I hope that he isn’t related to the Hans Gruber from Die Hard. Two men seek to find a tune to the poem called Silent Night. It was performed for the first time at Christmas Eve mass.
Switching ahead for a while, Bing Crosby helped make the song popular and it has been translated into all sorts of different languages. Josh Groban and Burt McMurtrie talk some about this. Josh even once thought that it was a Bing Crosby song. Bing and his brother Larry talk some to their father when he comes into this place. His father convinces him to sing Silent Night with nothing special to it. This aired back in 1948. Josh is glad that he learned about the history of the song.
On April 30, 1818, we learn some about a royal visit, but cannon fire brings problems. A fire happens there and causes a fire that lasts for four days and takes 30 years to rebuild this place. Kelly Clarkson talks some about this place she went to outside of the US about how the song moved her and others that she was with. The winter of 1822 had this song performed. People gathered with King George the fourth to hear the song again.
Joss Stone, a woman, sings the song for us. She talks about how she first heard the song, but can’t remember when it was. She says that Christmas isn’t just about Jesus anymore. She feels bad that there are less fortunate people out there who can’t afford gifts for people. The song is in 300 languages around the world. John Debney talks some about this song as well. We also hear from Hannah Friedman about how it was written in German instead of Latin, making it for the people. Siedah Garrett talks about how the song is universal. She says that the song brings up family memories for people around the world relating to Christmas and perhaps other things as well.
Christmastime and the celebration of the birth of Christ can be different around the world. Rolando Villazón mentions how he talks about how Mexico has a lot of music and joy. Christmas can be a great and wonderful time for people. The song moves us and lets our soul dance.
Hugh talks about how Christmas can be different in smaller places than it can be in bigger ones. Gavin Rossdale talks about how the secular world even adopted the Christmastime season to give gifts to one another. This segment doesn’t reveal much more.
David Foster then talks about how everyone loves the song. Katharine McPhee is then shown singing the song in question. Randy Jackson talks about how the song remains relevant today. He thinks that all of the versions of this song works. I can’t think of any that don’t offhand, but I wouldn’t be so sure that there aren’t any. Sheléa, yet another singer, is shown doing the song. She talks some about it.
Ailee talks about how the song is popular in Korea and how pretty much everyone knows the song there. She thinks that it can inspire other songs like hers about wearing Christmas sweaters. I’m a bit confused by this, but I guess that it makes sense. Another singer named Anggun talks about what Christmas is like in Paris. She was sent to Catholic school.
Switching to Israel, Lina Makhoul talks about how the song has to do with the spirit. People come to celebrate one common thing. She heard the song for the first time when she was three. She thought that she got another view to the song by hearing a different version of it.
At one point, a community wasn’t doing that well due to the war. Joseph (or however you spell his name in question) became a priest while trying to find an answer from God. He thinks about what remains in the silence of the night. His pen forms a poem. The silence is sacred. It is the older German Christmas song. The song spread across Europe and America.
Another song, later known in English as O Come All Ye Faithful, was also spreading at the same time. Victor Micalleff talks about how this song is about coming together in this type of year. He and other members of The Tenors talk about this other song. I always remember it as the entrance song of my church’s children’s program. Fraser Walters talks about how he sang that song a lot. Clifton Murray talks about the song Silent Night that he heard in a poem for the first time.
In 1914, every British soldier got a gift from the king. There were other Christmas miracles then. A man named Douglas is shown coming down the stairs at this time, talking to a person. Not much seems to happen during this scene. But they do talk about the time in Belgium. He talks about how people faced what seemed like certain death. He thought that only Satan could have foreseen the danger that was to come on that day.
The night was bitter cold. They talk about whether this is a trick of sorts. He thinks that there should be an easy time on Christmas day. Two people meet out in the middle of the field with white flags and they say that they are not fighting today. It would seem that the moment of peace in the war was the biding moment. Douglas says that he would not allow another reprise in the war. He didn’t want to see his enemies as human.
Silent night endures as long as the world is conflicted and at war. One has to silence the voices of hate. We can rejoice in the legacy of Christmas. We need to savor a moment what the songwriters of this song found in it to better understand the world. This is more or less when the special ends.
This was a pretty simple special. Maybe there could have been more to it, or maybe this is as good as it gets. It seemed to jump around a lot from place to place, which would cause issues with it. But it was nice to know about the song. It was also nice to have this on a different laptop that I had to write this on. I knew that this would be better for the future once I started reviewing Charmed episodes like this instead of another way. So I think that was pretty good in terms of a special, even though you would not be missing anything if you didn’t see it.
And that’s it for this blog post. Since I now have a random, regular post in December, I might as well get to reviewing a lot of other Christmas related things that can relate to The Good Wife in future years around this time. There are two movies that could work that I’d get at least two posts each out of. I might only get one of those four posts done this year, but that’s more of a worry for the future than for now. I hope that you enjoyed this post. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.
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