" The opera is in French, and hints of Massenet are splashed around, including the Christmas carol from "Werther.
Dickens dealt successfully with Christmas twice in a well-known chapter of The Pickwick Papers and in The Christmas Carol.
But of course, the best of the best when it comes to puppets at Christmas will always be The Muppet Christmas Carol.
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She said she "appeared perfectly normal apart from one occasion at the 2011 Christmas carol service when she seemed sad and avoided my gaze".
And when the author of "A Christmas Carol" was writing, the great clanking machinery of a Ramadan-length Christmas had not got into gear, and English people reserved Dec. 26 ("Boxing Day") for the exchange of tokens.
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The truth is, Rutter loves almost every Christmas carol whether it's his own or one of the classics because they all have an extraordinary ability to awaken happy memories.
The nursery had to cancel its Christmas carol concert, and parents were called to pick up their children from Stone fire station.
Christmas in Easterhouse starts on the Sunday before with a carol service.
One carol service was held on Christmas Eve at the British army base of Lashkar Gar.
There are no nativity plays in France's strictly secular state schools, no carol-singers in the streets and almost no Christmas cards two per person on average, compared with 28 in Britain, and then usually as greetings for the new year.
But even without a celebrity participant, A Christmas Carol has proved to be a major draw for the Goodman.
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Late in the afternoon, a child said she didn't know what her favorite Christmas carol was.
For Lancashire Sings Christmas to work this had to be an hour devoted solely to the carol service.
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The school has said it will still be able to hold its Christmas party and carol concert, which has been moved to St Martin's Church on Thursday 20 December.
They are likely to tweet from carol, crib and midnight services, before carrying on into Christmas morning when the highlights of the sermons at Canterbury Cathedral, York Minster and Durham Cathedral will be tweeted.
In Anchorage, Alaska, a group was planning to converge on city hall to hold a carol-singing protest in defence of Christmas customs they believe to be under threat, such as the habit of wishing someone "Merry Christmas" instead of "Happy Holidays".
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