A winter’s tale

We owe much to the Victorian figures determined to resurrect the joy of Christmas through music. Andrew Green charts how carol collectors have shaped the way the world celebrates

From gleaming presents to inebriating parties, discover five artists’ interpretations of the festive season

On the morning of 15 November 2007, Morten Lauridsen stepped onto a podium in the East Room of the White House to receive the National Medal of Arts from president George W Bush. He was 64 at the time

I“’m dreaming of a white Christmas”: it’s a refrain that we’ve been hearing and singing for 83 years now. The probability of that dream coming to fruition varies by abode, of course, but is always pre

It was 1963 and things were changing – but had Judith been left behind?

IT was two days until Christmas and the afternoon sky was blue and crisp as Lydia’s car pulled up in front of the magnificent Bristol Hotel. Why was it called the Bristol? she wondered. It was nowhere