Live from the Cathedral of St John the Evangelist, Salford - A Midnight Mass for Christmas Eve ... The Choir sings the Gloria based on a French traditional melody arranged by Thomas Niel (1872 ...

“There won't be a midnight mass at Notre-Dame. The last time this happened was during the French Revolution. Since 1803, there have always been Christmas masses at Notre-Dame,” a Paris diocese ...

In the fall of 1847, a French merchant ... where it was first performed at a midnight mass on Christmas Eve, 1847. The American music critic John Sullivan Dwight translated the lyrics of this ...