Christmas music the holiday in some way. Many tunes adopted into the Christmas canon fall into the generic Winter classification, as they carry no Christmas connotation at all. Others were written to celebrate other holidays and gradually came to cover the Christmas season. Borrowing from the title of the Robert Burns standard "Auld Lang Syne," Dan Fogelberg's "Same Old Lang Syne" (1980) tells a Christmas Eve story and is now frequently played during the holiday season. Perry Como famously sang Franz Schubert's setting of "Ave Maria" in his televised Christmas special each year, including the song on "The Perry Como Christmas Album"
Syne Mitchell Syne Mitchell Syne Mitchell (born 1970 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American novelist in the science fiction genre. She has a bachelor's degree in business administration and master's degree in physics. She lives in Seattle, Washington and is married to author Eric S. Nylund. Her first science fiction novel was "Murphy’s Gambit" which won the Compton Crook Award in 2001. Followed by science fiction novels "Technogenesis" in 2001, "The Changeling Plague" in 2003, "End in Fire" in 2005 and the first installment of the "Deathless" series, called "The Last Mortal Man" in 2006. Mitchell has also published numerous articles, short