{"id":18349,"date":"2014-12-08T09:23:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T16:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=18349"},"modified":"2014-12-08T09:23:46","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T16:23:46","slug":"military-voices-carol-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/military-voices-carol-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Voices Carol of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being the 100 year anniversary of The <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> Truce we&#8217;ve heard and seen a lot in emotional ways of that great <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> event. The video for the song was filmed at the Grave of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey and contains original footage from WW1. In addition to the soloists and choir, the video features the Royal Marines Corps of Drums and representatives from the Sea Cadets, the Army Cadet Force and the Air Training Corps. It is a beautiful and moving tribute:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1JzYnmYQFtA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The song, simply titled \u20181914 \u2013 The Carol of Christmas\u2019 celebrates the power of <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> to bring <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/sneaking-christmas\/\">peace<\/a> in the midst of war and commemorates those who fought in World War One.<\/p>\n<p>\u20181914 \u2013 The Carol of Christmas\u2019 is sung by an ensemble of military voices and soloists including Flight Lieutenant Matt Little, Abby Scott and twelve-year-old Canterbury Cathedral chorister and BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/a-glimpse-of-christmas-100-years-ago\/\">Radio<\/a> 2\u2019s Young Chorister of the Year Finalist William Inscoe who are accompanied by the RAF Spitfire Choir, one of the RAF\u2019s top vocal groups.<\/p>\n<p>Composed by Chris Eaton, (who wrote the 1990\u2019s Number One <a href=\"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/celebrating-20-years-of-the-merry-forums\/\">Christmas<\/a> hit \u2018Saviour\u2019s Day\u2019) and Judd Field, \u20181914- The Carol of Christmas\u2019 is raising money for the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity, and ABF The Soldier\u2019s Charity. These charities assisted the veterans throughout the last century and continue to support both serving and former Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and their families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being the 100 year anniversary of The Christmas Truce we&#8217;ve heard and seen a lot in emotional ways of that great Christmas event. The video for the song was filmed at the Grave of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey and contains original footage from WW1. In addition to the soloists and choir, the video [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","iawp_total_views":49,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,28,36,6],"tags":[151],"class_list":["post-18349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christmas-at-war","category-christmas-features","category-christmas-history","category-christmas-music","tag-new-christmas-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}