Thank God It's Christmas Thank God It's Christmas "Thank God It's Christmas" is a Christmas single by the British rock band Queen. It was written by lead guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor. Released on 26 November 1984, the single spent six weeks in the UK charts over Christmas 1984 and new year of 1985, and peaked at number 21. The song was not originally released on any Queen studio album, appearing only on Queen's "Greatest Hits III", released in 1999, and as the B-side of the single "A Winter's Tale" from the 1995 album "Made in Heaven". However, the track was finally
Harriet, the Woman Called Moses singers for a production of "Porgy and Bess". She said that she chose Tubman as her subject because "Harriet is every woman who dared to defy injustice and tyranny—she is Joan of Arc, she is Susan B. Anthony, she is Anne Frank, she is Mother Teresa." As with her previous operas "Mary, Queen of Scots" (1977), "A Christmas Carol" (1979), and "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1981), Musgrave also wrote the libretto. The opera was a joint commission from Virginia Opera and The Royal Opera in London and was written and composed in 1984 while Musgrave was on a