We here at Casa Silverfiddle love "A Charlie Brown Christmas." It is a beautiful and timeless classic.
Michael Cavna has written a most excellent story in the Washington Post about how this little cartoon came to be. And how it came to be an iconic American Christmas tradition.
Charles Schultz keeps Christ in Christmas with Linus' famous speech quoting the birth narrative from The Bible, ending with "That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown."
Far from offending non-Christians, many love that scene for it's unabashed sincerity:
In writing about the "Peanuts" special in "Manhood for Amateurs," Chabon -- a self-described Jewish "liberal agnostic empiricist" -- waxed: "I still know that chapter and verse of the Gospel of Luke by heart, and no amount of subsequent disillusionment with the behavior of self-described Christians, or with the ongoing progressive commercialization that in 1965 had already broken Charlie Brown's heart, has robbed the central miracle of Christianity of its power to move me the way any truly great story can." (WaPo - Michael Cavna)
How about that music?
You can get that song and many more jazzy tunes by buying Vince Guaraldi's "A Charlie Brown Christmas." It's full of beautiful Christmas music, some with singing, some just instrumental. It makes great background music your your Christmas festivities.
