Mario Lanza - It Came Upon The Midnight Clear

Lanza's beautiful voice and photos of him are combined with master paintings for this video of the carol "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear".

The photographs of Mario Lanza are from the film "The Great Caruso". It is an excellent film and is available for sale from Turner Classic Movies.

"'It Came Upon the Midnight Clear' (sometimes rendered as 'It Came Upon a Midnight Clear') is a poem and Christmas carol written by Edmund Sears, pastor of the Unitarian Church in Wayland, Massachusetts. Sears' lyrics are most commonly set to one of two melodies: 'Carol', composed by Richard Storrs Willis, or 'Noel', adapted from an English melody. Edmund Sears composed the five-stanza poem in 1849. It first appeared on December 29, 1849 in the Christian Register in Boston. Sears is said to have written these words at the request of his friend, William Parsons Lunt, pastor of United First Parish Church, Quincy, Massachusetts. In 1850, Richard Storrs Willis, a composer who trained under Felix Mendelssohn, wrote the melody called 'Carol'."
(Quote is from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Came_Upon_the_Midnight_Clear).

The artists' names of the master paintings with their titles along with information about a video clip are listed below by the in the order of their appearance in the video:
1) Abraham Hondius (1625 - 1691) - Annunciation to the Shepherds, 1663
2) Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1620-83) - (detail) Angels Appear to the Shepherds in the Fields, 1656, copyright Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, UK/ The Bridgeman Art Library
3) Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich (1712 - 1774) - The Holy Family (detail of angels)
4) Jacopo d'Antonio Negretti (1480 - 1528) - Musical Angels with a Cymbal and a Harp
5) Peter Paul Rubens (1577 -1640) - The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1618- 1620
6) Peter Paul Rubens (1577 -1640) - Music-Making Angels, c. 1628
7) Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (1483 - 1520) - Resurrection of Christ, circa 1499-1502
8) Melozzo da Forlì Melozzo da Forlì (c. 1438 - 1494) - Angel with Lute, c. 1480
9) Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1620 - 1683) - Annunciation to the Shepherds, last quarter of the 17th century
10) Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem (1620 - 1683) - The Annunciation to the Shepherds copyright Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery, UK/ The Bridgeman Art Library
11) Govert Flinck (1615 - 1660) - Annunciation to the Herders, 1639
12) Joseph von Führich (1800 - 1876) - The dream of St. Isidore, 1830
13) Fray Juan Bautista Maíno de Castro (1578-1649) - Adoration of the Shepherds, 1612
14) Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) (1510 - 1592) -- Winter
15) Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) (1510 - 1592) - The Journey Of Jacob
16) The Flemish School - The Four Seasons Winter, Collection English Heritage, Brodsworth Hall
17) Jacopo Bassano (Jacopo da Ponte) (1510 - 1592) - Annunciation to the Shepherds, 1533
18) Pieter Pieterszoon Lastman (1583 - 1633) - Abraham's Journey to Canaan, 1614
19) artist unknown -- title unknown

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