Giving Tuesday: Little Drummer Boy's Gift to a Baby (Music Video)

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By TAHLIB



"I have no gift to bring" said the Little Drummer Boy, as shared by the a cappella group Pentatonix. Vocal sensations and winners of season 3 of NBC's The Sing-Off, Pentatonix are combining eclectic genres to take instrument-free music far beyond anyone's wildest expectations. The holidays and the giving season are here, so get ready for a musical gift that is sure to bring on the cheer and smiles.

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The Art Institute of Chicago's 18th-Century Neapolitan Crèche

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By TAHLIB

ILLINOIS---The Art Institute of Chicago will unveil a new aquisition this holyday season, " Neapolitan Crèche: The Nativity and Three Wise Men and Their Courts and Treasures." It is a mid-18th-century Neapolitan crèche, and considered one of the very few and finest examples of such a work outside of Naples, the crèche is an intricate Nativity scene that reflects the vitality and artisanship that the city is still known for. The Art Institute’s crèche features over 200 figures—including no less than 50 animals and 41 items of food and drink—all staged in a spectacular Baroque cabinet with a painted backdrop. Sacred imagery reenacting the Nativity has its roots in fourth-century Rome but by the 13th and 14th centuries, in part due to its association with St. Francis of Assisi, such scenes had become a permanent feature of Neapolitan churches.

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Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche on Display for Holiday Season at Metropolitan Museum

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NEW YORK---The Christmas tree and Neapolitan Baroque crèche at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a long-standing yuletide tradition in New York, will be on view for the holiday season, from November 26, 2013, through January 6, 2014. The brightly lit, 20-foot blue spruce—with a collection of 18th-century Neapolitan angels and cherubs hovering among its boughs and groups of realistic crèche figures flanking the Nativity scene at its base—will once again delight holiday visitors in the Museum’s Medieval Sculpture Hall. This exhibit of the crèche is made possible by gifts to The Christmas Tree Fund and the Loretta Hines Howard Fund. [2012 Highlights]

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