Just sang this today.  Gorgeous piece!  Our choir director just LOVES Craig Courtney's music.  We sing a LOT of his stuff.  :o)

very beautiful, Craig! God bless You! :-)

Thats What Christmas Means to Me

Felice Navidad

From the album LIVE, Mannheim Steamroller's first live album in nearly two decades - available October 16th on iTunes https://goo.gl/aNZcc8 and Amazon http://goo.gl/tl6pRf.  - www.mannheimsteamroller.com

Live Faeries

The London Symphony Orchestra Vienna Boys Choir - Carol Of The Bells

Little Saint Nick

Christmas Carols With The Stars

O Little Town Of Bethlehem

Twelve Days Of Christmas

This was written in memory of Burke Rice, a vibrant young man who was preparing to join the police force. He was building a "Jacob's Ladder", a piece of machinery (often in the background of a Frandenstein movie with two upraised antennae and a spark zapping back and forth, moving up to the top and then starting over at the bottom) for Halloween. When he was planning to demonstrate it, he touched an ungrounded piece which de-fibrillated his heart. His family asked me to quote the spiritual, Jacob's Ladder, include a solo cello (his best friend was a cellist) and base the lyrics on Genesis 28:15-18. Susan Boersma wrote an amazing poem that brings all of that together. Here are her lyrics:
Lord of the cloud and fire, my heart is in Your hand. 
From the darkness, lift me to the Light.
Your will my soul command.
Lord of the cloud and fire, lead me to worlds unknown.
...Light Eternal, You alone can change the darkness into dawn.
From the darkness to the Light, led by the Lord of cloud and fire, by faith I stand at Heaven's Gate, the house of God.
Rise, shine, give God glory.
Lord of the cloud and fire, I bow before Your throne. 
By faith at Heaven's gate I stand and find it home.

14 The Gate of Heaven (Craig Courtney)

My piano cover of Michael Buble's "I'll Be Home For Christmas", as featured on his "Let It Snow" EP.

14 The Gate of Heaven (Craig Courtney)

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