[Magdalen] Advent is coming!

[Jay Weigel]

​In the last choir I sang in, we had a soprano who was a first generation
American with Swedish parents. She could often be heard singing the Swedish
words whenever we sang this hymn.​

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com>
wrote:

> Au Contraire  It is my FAVORITE Advent Hymn I hum it my mind all the time.
> My first question when I asked if I could play for an ELCA church in Advent
> was, "When do we sing, 'Prepare the Royal Highway.'"
>
> Joe
>
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It's my favorite liturgical season, and here's a little
> > foretaste....."Prepare the Royal Highway" (one of my favorites) as you've
> > probably never heard it before, sung in Swedish by a wonderful singer.
> This
> > is posted as an antidote to all the Christmas stuff you'll be hearing in
> > every store you walk into.
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdvybXhf7JM
> >
>