Kwanzaa❤️🖤💚AMNH

❤️Kwanzaa 🖤AMNH💚

American Museum of Natural History

Performances 🌟 Noon - 5 pm

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Wednesday , December 26 
to
Tuesday , January 1, 2020

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Opening
Discover the core values of Kwanzaa with Artistic Director of Yaffa Cultural Arts Dr. Linda H. Humes and master drummers Sanga of the Valley and LeeAnet Noble.

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 Afro-Cuban Kwanzaa
Take in the tradition and spectacle that is the Afro-Cuban experimental dance ensemble Oyu Oro, with over a dozen musicians, singers, and dancers celebrating the rich heritage of the African Diaspora in Cuba.

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 Kwanzaa Con
Seven graphic novel artists from Black Comics Collective live-draw illustrations and strips representing the seven principles of Kwanzaa in this lively collaboration.

 

Festival Program❤️🖤💚Kwanzaa 2019 Program

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https://www.amnh.org/calendar/kwanzaa-2019

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Christmas🎄Languages

Christmas 🎄 Music ♪ Yule Logs

🎅Christmas 🎄 Music 🎵 Fireplace 🔥

🔥 Yule Logs 🔥
🎵 ♪  🎼 ♪♫ 🎸♫  🎷  ♪🎺 ♪♫ ♫ ♪

 🎄❤Merry❤Christmas⛄Everyone💒🎄

Christmas Music Fireplace	Play		Christmas Music Fireplace	Play
Martina McBride - Winter Wonderland	3:31	.	Bette Midler - Merry Christmas	3:19
Andy Williams - Happy Holiday	2:42	.	Martina McBride - Silver Bells	2:49
Martina McBride - Do You Hear What I Hear	4:04	.	Mahalia Jackson - Silent Night	5:10
José Feliciano - Feliz Navidad	3:08	.	Relaxing Guitar Music, Stress Relief,  Meditation☯	6:00:00
Martina McBride - O Holy Night	3:55	.	Fireplace ☆Instrumental ♫ Upbeat Guitar Carols ☆8 Hrs	8:00:18
Johnny Cash - Silent Night	2:08	.	Fireplace & Instrumental Music & Crackling Fire Sounds	2:16:35
Rosemary Clooney - Snow	2:46	.	Fireplace - Smooth Jazz Cozy Winter Mood Stress Relief	72:22:26
Johnny Mathis - Sleigh Ride	3:04	.	Christmas Smooth Jazz Music & Relaxing Fireplace	2:05:01
Johnny Cash - The Gifts They Gave	3:35	.	Virtual Fireplace with Crackling Fire Sounds (Full HD)	1:58:17
Johnny Mathis - Toyland	3:54	.	Fireplace Sounds Burning & Crackling (NO Music)12 Hrs	12:00:50
Aretha Franklin - Winter Wonderland	2:17	.	José Feliciano - The Cherry Tree Carol	3:52
Perry Como - Silver Bells	2:37	.	Instrumental Christmas Music with Fireplace 24/7	Playing
Martina McBride - O Come All Ye Faithful	4:08	.	Fireplace Instrumental Music 24/7 Songs for Sleep	Playing
The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride	3:07	.	Christmas Mood Songs Cover Medley Jazz Music	Playing
Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby	3:29	.	Kenny Chesney - Christmas In Dixie	3:44
The Ray Conniff Singers - Frosty The Snowman	2:25	.	Mitch Miller & The Gang - The 12 Days Of Christmas	4:17
Johnny Mathis - Silver Bells	3:37	.	Fireplace - Relaxing Fire Burning Video - 3 Hours	3:00:14
Kenny G - We Wish You a Merry Christmas	2:41	.	Happy Holidays !!!

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🎄❄⛄ 🎄❄️⛄️❤🎀
 
🎄 Christmas Songs ♫
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Silent Night ☮️ Around the World

Silent Night

Around the World
30 Languages

Languages:

Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Bataknese, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Swahili, Ukrainian.

Silent Night

Sung in 11 Languages

🎄 🎼 🌲 ☮️ 🌲✝️❄️🕎 🎻☯️🎄 ☪️ 🕉 ✡️ 🎅🏼 🎄🌲 🎬🎤🎼 🎄🎸🎻
English: Silent Night   🎄 French: douce nuit sainte nuit
Spanish: noche de paz  ❄️ Italian: astro del ciel
German: stille nacht heilige nacht 🎼 Latin: sancta nox

Silent night, holy night!	Douce nuit, sainte nuit !
All is calm, all is bright.	Dans les cieux ! L'astre luit.
Round yon Virgin, Mother and Child.	Le mystère annoncé s'accomplit
Holy infant so tender and mild,	Cet enfant sur la paille endormi,
Sleep in heavenly peace,	C'est l'amour infini !
Sleep in heavenly peace	C'est l'amour infini !
Noche de paz, noche de amor,	Astro del ciel, Pargol divin,
Todo duerme en derredor.	mite Agnello Redentor!
Entre los astros que esparcen su luz	Tu che i Vati da lungi sognar,
Bella anunciando al niñito Jesús	Tu che angeliche voci nunziar,
Brilla la estrella de paz	luce dona alle genti
Brilla la estrella de paz	pace infondi nei cuor!
Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht,	Sancta nox, placida nox!
Alles schläft; einsam wacht	Nusquam est ulla vox;
Nur das traute hochheilige Paar.	Par sanctissimum vigilat,
Holder Knabe im lockigen Haar,	Crispo crine quieti se dat
Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh!	Puer dulcissimus,
Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh!	Puer dulcissimus.

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Merry Christmas

 
Silent Night in Different Languages
With Lyrics

In this video I sing silent night in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Latin. Hope you will like it. Merry Christmas!

In diesem Video singe ich stille Nacht in Englisch, Deutsch , Französisch, Italienisch , Spanisch und Latein . Hoffe, Sie werden es mögen. Fröhliche Weihnachten!
Dans cette vidéo, je chante Douce nuit Sainte nuit en anglais , allemand, français , italien, espagnol et latin. Nous espérons que vous l'aimerez. Joyeux Noël!
In questo video canto Astro del ciel in inglese, tedesco , francese, italiano, spagnolo e latino . Spero che vi piacerà. Buon Natale!
En este vídeo te canto Noche de paz en Inglés, alemán , francés, italiano , español y latín. Espero que te guste. ¡Feliz Navidad!

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🎻 🕉 ✡️ 🎅🏼 🎄 🎬 🌲 🎼 🎄🎸🎼🎻

Les Marrons Chauds - Chestnuts roasting

Dalida
Les Marrons Chauds

http://mamusiq.tumblr.com/post/135710717596/dalida-les-marrons-chaud-1961-lyrics-to

Nat King Cole
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire

http://mamusiq.tumblr.com/post/135715108361/nat-king-cole-chestnuts-roasting-on-an-open

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Hanukkah 🕎Celebrating Festival 🌟 Of Lights

🕎 Hanukkah 🌟

 Dates, Rituals, History And How-Tos .

For Celebrating The Festival Of Lights

 (VIDEOS)
 By HuffPost Religion Editors

Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, is celebrated for eight days beginning at sundown on Dec. 16, 2014. On the Hebrew calendar, the dates are 25 Kislev to 2 Tevet in the year 5775.

An eight-day celebration, Hanukkah commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the second century B.C.E. during the Maccabean revolt against oppressive Greek rulers. Jews celebrate the holiday by lighting a nine-branch candelabrum, commonly called a menorah. (Technically, the candelabrum for Hanukkah is called a hanukkiah to distinguish itself from the seven-branch menorah used in the Temple and described in Exodus 25.)

The story of Hanukkah is one of revolution and miracles: Greek influence over the Jews in the Land of Israel had become an affront to Jewish culture and ritual. Antiochus, the Greek ruler, forbade Jewish religious practice, so a small group of Jews, the Maccabees, revolted. These Jews eventually prevailed and, as a first order of business, restored the Holy Temple, which had been desecrated. The menorah in the Temple needed to be re-lit because, according to tradition, it should burn continuously. The Temple liberators found one vial of olive oil, enough for one day of light. 

Miraculously, the oil lasted for eight days.

Today, Jews everywhere light menorahs on each night of Hanukkah. Traditionally, one candle or flame is lit for each night until the eighth night, when all eight lights shine together. The menorah has a ninth "helper" flame -- known as the shamash -- used to light the other candles. This is necessary because in Jewish law the Hanukkah lights' only purpose is to visually proclaim the miracle of the holiday. Jews place the lit menorah in a prominent window in order to fulfill this commandment.

Gift giving is now a common practice on Hanukkah, and it is therefore a beloved time for many Jewish children. Fried potato pancakes (latkes) and doughnuts (sufganiyot) are traditional fare, and a spinning top (dreidel) with four Hebrew letters has become synonymous with the holiday. The letters -- nun, gimel, hei, shin -- form an acronym for the message of Hanukkah: A great miracle happened there.

How One Jewish Environmental Activist

Found Inspiration In The Hanukkah Miracle

By Antonia Blumberg

Posted: 12/15/2014

The Hanukkah story is an account of a religious miracle, but in it lies another important message -- one that is inspiring some Jewish activists in their work for the environment.

Liya Rechtman, an Eisendrath Legislative Assistant at the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, is using the Jewish month of Kislev, which runs Nov. 23 - Dec. 22, to do a "Hanukkah Conservation Challenge," during which she will replace all of her incandescent light bulbs with energy efficient compact fluorescent bulbs.

The challenge is light-specific to highlight the miracle at the core of the Hanukkah story. After years of battle between the Jewish Maccabees and the Syrian-Greek army, the Maccabees finally defeated the last fortress and returned to the Second Temple in Jerusalem. They had only enough oil to light the temple for one day -- but it miraculously lasted for eight.

Rechtman writes in an article about her conservation challenge:

Hanukkah, which begins on 25 Kislev, puts light at the core of our celebration, reminding us on cold and dark winter days how integral light is in our Jewish tradition. By replacing our light bulbs, we can minimize the damage done to our earth when we use unnecessary energy to light our homes and uphold our Jewish obligation not to destroy our earth and not to waste its resources, bal taslich (Deuteronomy 20:19).

 

HuffPost Religion spoke with Rechtman to hear more about the Hanukkah Conservation Challenge and how others can get involved:

What inspired you to take on this challenge?
We were inspired to create the Monthly Green Challenge this year because it’s important to realize the ways that by slightly altering your lifestyle and daily routines one person can make a real impact on energy conservation. Our hope for the series is that others will join the challenge! So far I’ve gotten positive feedback from several readers.

How can the Hanukkah miracle translate into conservation work for Jews today?
The celebration of Hanukah connects well to themes of conservation. In the Hanukah story, the Maccabees have oil only enough for one day and are miraculously able to make it last for eight days. As helpful as a miraculous solution to the challenges of climate change would be, we can create our own miracle by reducing our use of non-renewable energy sources, specifically oil. We need to increase our usage of wind, solar and other cleaner energies if we are to save ourselves from the devastation of the climate change crisis.

Have you seen any synagogues or Jewish group taking on this challenge or doing other environmental work?
Many Reform Jewish synagogues and affiliated organizations, like our summer camps and youth groups, are doing environmental work. The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism is partnering with an organization called GreenFaith to support our congregations in doing energy audits, making congregational spaces more energy efficient, and educating our community on environmental issues through worship services and programming. Some, like Temple Jeremiah in Chicago, are working on GreenFaith certification right now. In Boise Idaho, Congregation Ahavat Beth Israel runs a community garden for the local refugee congregations. Community gardens have become very popular among our congregations and summer camps, many of them donate the food they grow, working to protect the vulnerable within their communities at the same time that they are working to protect the earth.

 

What stories, lessons or rhetoric do they use to inspire their congregations?
Congregations talk about environmental issues and Jewish values through a couple of different lenses. One of our central values is to pass on our tradition from one generation to another, from parents to children. In our text this is call l’dor v’dor, from one generation to the next. In the same way that we are taught to pass on our tradition, we also believe that we must pass on a heritable, viable earth to the next generation. We also often talk about the command to be environmental stewards, citing genesis 2:15, in which God tells Adam to “till and tend” the Garden of Eden. In the same way that Adam is commanded to till and tend the earth, we believe in protecting our earth.
 
Will you continue the challenge beyond this month?
The Monthly Green Challenge is actually something I have been writing every month, with challenges specifically related to that month. I wrote one for the month of Tishrei about recycling grocery bags (here) and one in Cheshvan about turning down your thermostat (here). So yes, the challenges will definitely continue past Kislev throughout the Jewish year! I’ll present – and try to live by – a new challenge each month.

Read Rechtman's blog about her Hanukkah Conservation Challenge here.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/14/hanukkah-2014_n_6295586.html?cps=gravity

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/15/hanukkah-environmental-activism_n_6317830.html?cps=gravity

Ludwig van Beethoven 17 Dezember

 🎂 Ludwig van Beethoven 🎶

 🎂  📆 17 Dezember    🎂

It’s unclear when Beethoven was actually born, but December 17th marks the 245th anniversary of his baptism.

Celebrating Ludwig van Beethoven's 245th year with this firework display shot from a drone flying through the fireworks, set to the most upbeat parts from his Symphony No. 9 - Ode to joy (also known as the Choral).

The fireworks shown are recorded in the Bulgarian city of Karlovo and are made by Assiko Fireworks company.

Ludwig’s father, a middling singer in the Elector’s court and a man too often in his cups, pulled the precocious child out of school at the age of ten in hopes of earning some money on the shoulders of his talent (as a result, his handwriting was so bad that musicologists still struggle to authenticate his signature). 
He lost two siblings prematurely, had to assume full responsibility for his family as a teenager, fell madly for unrequiting lovers twice, and, most famously, began losing his hearing at the peak of his career.

Despite all of this, Beethoven’s music prevailed. 
As Mozart reputedly said, “one day, [that boy] will give the world something to talk about.” That he certainly did. Sure, he may have raised his voice a few times, but he could overwhelm his friends with excessive kindness and generosity just the same. 
And while his romances brought him more anguish than happiness, would we have Für Elise or Moonlight Sonata if they hadn’t?

Today provided us a rare opportunity to construct a game in step with beautiful music, whose evocative moods, drama, lightness, and depth made conjuring visuals to match it rollickingly fun. Here’s to one of history’s greatest artists, and to hoping that, wherever you happen to be traveling this holiday, your life’s work isn’t eaten by a horse.
https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-ludwig-van-beethovens-245th-year

Celebrating

Ludwig van Beethoven 245th year

Fireworks from a DRONE

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🎂   Ludwig van Beethoven 🎶

🎶 17 Dezember 🎂