Christmas in Toronto and Around the World
Well, just before I get to the event I want to talk about, I’d just like to apologize to all TTT readers for the videos that I posted over the last two days not working. I figured I could just set and forget while I worked on my assignments and so I didn’t notice until just now when I logged in to look at them that none of them had posted properly. I’m not really sure what’s up with that since I copied and pasted the embed code from YouTube, so if one of the other bloggers who have posted YouTube videos on their blogs before could help me out on that, I would very much appreciate it.
Now that we’ve dispensed with that little bit of housekeeping, it is time for me to move on and talk about the event I’m plugging today; Christmas Around the World. As most people realize nowadays, Christmas has become much more than simply a religious celebration as while there are about 2 billion Christians worldwide, the holiday of Christmas is celebrated by significantly more than 2 billion people. It is this blending of old time religious significance and new age social significance that at least in Toronto brings so many people together in order to celebrate this day and that is seen nowhere in more detail than with this event that is taking place in Scarborough on December 1st.
Two of the most multi-cultural musical groups in the country (and therefore probably in the world), the Scaborough Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bach Children’s Chorus of Scarborough, are going to be joining forces in order to sing a number of songs with a Christmas theme. These are going to be songs from all around the world, hence the name of the actual performances.
Here is a list of songs that are being performed:
- Humperdink’s Hansel and Gretel Prelude
- Liadov’s Russian Folk Songs
- Waldteufel’s Skater’s Waltz
- Adam’s O Holy Night
- Vince Gassi’s Ding Dong Merrily
The concert will be taking place at Birchmount Park Collegiate Institute, which is located at 3663 Danforth Road (actually not that far from my house, incidentally enough). The best way to get there by TTC would be to take the #113 bus east from Victoria Park Station.
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Hey Justin, did someone help you with that YouTube problem you had? Sorry I didn’t notice this sooner, I’ve been meaning to tell you that TTT had been loading slowly when I came on here. The first page loaded quicker this time but the previous one is still slow.
Anyways, in case you still need help with the YouTube thing, did you remember to turn the rich text editor off in your profile before you went and embeded the code? If you turned if off and it still didn’t work perhaps you missed a bit of the code when you copied it.
Hope that helps!
I switched from the rich text to the HTML when I posted the code, just like I do for the maps…is that what you mean?
Yeah, I think you may have missed part of the embeded code when you copied it. I always preview it and hit play before posting to make sure it works right. I’ve made the same mistake before-no biggie.