including well-known Christmas hymns and carols beautifully arranged for the performers. A Classic Christmas with the Bach Festival Society is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App ...

The 13th century saw St. Francis of Assisi introducing joyful hymns during his nativity plays, making carols a central feature of Christmas worship. Classics like "Silent Night", composed in 1818 ...

Isaac Watts’s 1719 paraphrase of Psalm 98 became a Christmas classic when it was set to music ... it is now one of the most popular Christmas hymns in North America. Mason routinely gave credit ...