"Believe-a holiday music collection"
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(type Laura Greenwald in Artist Search).
All proceeds benefit local charities.
The CD "Believe - a holiday music collection" is a collection of holiday songs and narrative excerpts performed by children aged 9 to 14, and is arranged in sets on Christmas memories with extracts from "A Child's Christmas in Wales" by Dylan Thomas; a tribute to "A Charlie Brown Christmas" including 9-year-old Neil He performing the complete Fur Elise that Schroeder never got to finish and 9-year old William Greenwald reciting the passage from Luke on what Christmas is all about; and "The Little Match Girl" interspersed with carols and songs representing the visions the Little Match Girl sees when she strikes the matches, including 12-year old Laura Greenwald's haunting rendition of "Walking in the Air." The CD concludes with an excerpt from "A Christmas Carol" in which Scrooge realizes that "nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; . . . His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him." The total length is 54:12.
The other performers on the CD are Justin Knowlton, Alex Allen, Allison Russo, Delaney Hulbert, and Julianna Matthews.
Designated selections recorded, mixed and edited by Roger Ebacher at: REBACH MUSIC, 1 1/2 Park Street, Newburyport, MA.
All proceeds from the CD benefit The Pettengill House in Salisbury, MA and the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center in Newburyport and Amesbury, MA. The Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center educates about domestic violence and helps victims. The Pettengill House assists less fortunate families and individuals with food, shelter and clothing.