From “Silent Night” to “Jingle Bells,” Christmas carols are some of the most familiar songs of the season, and some of the oldest. Stephanie Sy explores why most popular music changes with time, but ...

Almost every holiday season for the past 50 years, San Diego theaters have staged Charles Dickens’ holiday novella “A Christmas Carol” in a myriad of ways, including as a traditional Victorian play, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If I may defer, however briefly, to the wisdom of the late Tom Petty, “Well, it’s Christmas all over again.”And for a lot of ...

Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra sing during the taping of "The Dean Martin Variety Show" circa 1967 in Hollywood, California. The list spans decades, beginning with 19th-century carols and leading into ...

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Christian music industry is booming in the country, but at Christmastime, congregations are singing the oldies. At any given hour on a December day in Brazil, a radio station is playing Simone’s 1995 ...

It may not draw crowds like “The Nutcracker,” but as an annual Chicago holiday tradition it has no less devoted an audience. “Songs of Good Cheer,” on stage next week in a short series of concerts at ...

Tired of Yuletide carols? This week on Connecticut stages you can hear musical stylings as diverse as The Mountain Goats, John Tesh, the jazz show tunes of the Kander/Ebb classic “Chicago” plus Scott ...