Something Like A Star: Harp Music for Christmas

by April Stace

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1.	The Holly and the Ivy 02:46	info	buy track
2.	Carol of the Bells 02:26	info	buy track
3.	The Angel Gabriel 02:33	info	buy track
4.	Jesus Christ the Apple Tree 02:59	info	buy track
5.	Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence 02:57	info	buy track
6.	Of The Father's Love Begotten 02:41	info	buy track
7.	Personent Hodie 01:20	info	buy track
8.	Wassail / In Dulci Jubilo 02:49	info	buy track
9.	The Moon of Wintertime (The Huron Carol) 02:33	info	buy track
10.	What is This Lovely Fragrance 03:39	info	buy track
11.	God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen 02:04	info	buy track
12.	O Come, O Come, Emmanuel 04:21	info	buy track

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This Christmas album is an act of hope during a year that often felt hopeless. Here is the poem that inspired the name. May you find your "star" to guide you as we enter a new year.

Choose Something Like A Star (Robert Frost)

O Star (the fairest one in sight),
We grant your loftiness the right
To some obscurity of cloud—
It will not do to say of night,
Since dark is what brings out your light.
Some mystery becomes the proud.
But to be wholly taciturn
In your reserve is not allowed.
Say something to us we can learn
By heart and when alone repeat.
Say something! And it says, ‘I burn.’
But say with what degree of heat.
Talk Fahrenheit, talk Centigrade.
Use language we can comprehend.
Tell us what elements you blend.
It gives us strangely little aid,
But does tell something in the end.
And steadfast as Keats’ Eremite,
Not even stooping from its sphere,
It asks a little of us here.
It asks of us a certain height,
So when at times the mob is swayed
To carry praise or blame too far,
We may choose something like a star
To stay our minds on and be staid.

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released November 13, 2020

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April Stace New York, New York

Native to Philadelphia but residing in the Finger Lakes region of NY, April has been performing on the harp for over thirty years. In her spare time, she works as a seminary professor in Manhattan, and as a coach for artists and clergy trying to make their ways in a harsh and exciting world. ... more

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