Broadway star Michael Maliakel joins The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra to sing "Joy To The World." Broadway star ... Christmas classic when it was set to music by Lowell Mason, the “father ...
The 26-song set, delivered in two halves, mixed new arrangements of traditional ... as they hit the opening chords of second song, Joy To The World, a hymn originally written by the 18 th century ...
Mason routinely gave credit to other composers for his own hymn tunes, and described the music of “Joy to the World” as being “after G. F. Handel.” While there are fleeting similarities to ...