Fall On Your Knees
For our eighth Christmas, and into our ninth year, we invite you to share our favorite Agitator tradition … enjoy this unforgettable rendition of O Holy Night.
As we’ve noted before, this performance makes Tom weep, as it takes him back to Midnight Mass and his Catholic grammar school choir days.
We guarantee this experience will make you fall on your knees too. But you must listen to the entire performance to feel its full power. No irreverence intended.
Happy Holidays … we hope this magnificent effort inspires you to hit the high notes in 2015.
Roger and Tom
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Behavioral Science Q & A
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From Hangover IV: The Christmas Edition?
Must have been quite a mass and an even more fascinating Catholic school.
Keep at it you Agitators!
Was this meant to be an auditory metaphorical lesson on how NOT to cultivate donors? That “trying” isn’t good enough? š
If so, I think I learned the lesson.
Merry Christmas!
Thanks. That cleared out my sinuses.
I was just listening to Schubert’s Winterreise – a wonderful depiction in song of a tortured soul. This, however, is musical torture on a wholly different level than Schubert could ever have dreamt of realising.
It also puts this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UUPEo849_s , my previous favourite, in the shade.
Roger and Tom for X Factor !!