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Month: December 2023

The pure, true beauty of “O Holy Night”

December 23, 2023December 21, 2023 by The Classical Girl

  Confession: I stopped writing this essay on “O Holy Night,” soured by something I couldn’t name, bogged down by the online research. I set it aside, but the urge returned and I started it up again several days later. Then it happened again, an edgy, almost negative feeling as I read article after article … Read more

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