Chris and Sridhar say goodbye to 2020 with an epic Christmas Special. They discuss classic--and Classical--Christmas music, what makes music sound Christmassy, their favorite things to listen to around this time of year, and yes...The Nutcracker.

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Useful Links:

Home Alone soundtrack

Bach - Christmas Oratorio

Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas is You

Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War is Over)

Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime

E.T.A. Hoffmann - The Nutcracker and the Mouse King

1889 World's Fair in Paris

The Nutcracker - Coffee (Arabian Dance) played on theremin

White Christmas (weather) - wikipedia

Charles Dickens - "the man who invented Christmas"

Felix Mendelssohn - wikipedia

Mendelssohn - A Midsummer Night's Dream

Santa's Midsummer Night's Dream

Vince Guaraldi

A Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack

Brian Setzer jazzy Nutcracker arrangement

Ding Dong Merrily on High - Philharmonia Brass Quintet

German Brass - "Now you are well avenged" from Bach's Christmas Oratorio

German Brass - "Let honor be sung to You, O God" from Bach's Christmas Oratorio

German Brass goes Bach

Matthias Höfs - A Spanish Christmas

Béla Fleck - banjo player

Béla Fleck & the Flecktones - Jingle All the Way

Jingle All the Way starring Arnold Schwarzenegger

Handel's Messiah - Christopher Hogwood/Academy of Ancient Music

Tom Lehrer - wikipedia

Tom Lehrer - A Christmas Carol

Tom Lehrer - concert in Copenhagen

Eric Idle - Monty Python comedian/musician

Eric Idle - F*ck Christmas

Eric Idle - Boozy Philosopher's Song

Nat King Cole - wikipedia

Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)

Hoagy Carmichael - wikipedia

Stardust - Nat King Cole

Nat King Cole L-O-V-E

Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite

Boston Pops Christmas album

Boston Pops Sleigh Ride - conducted by John Williams

Boston Pops Sleigh Ride - conducted by Shaq

John Sergeant - Home Alone/Nutcracker medley

Verily, He is Worthy - Russian Orthodox chant

Irving Berlin/Bing Crosby - White Christmas

Some of our favorite Nutcrackers:

San Francisco Ballet (audio only)

New York City Ballet (movie w/Home Alone kid)

Berlin Philharmonic (audio only - abridged)

Bolshoi Theatre (complete performance)