Harry For The Holidays
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Harry for the Holidays is both a traditional and musically adventurous Christmas tv special, shot in high definition and at the beginning broadcast on NBC in 2003. The atypical yet beautiful setting is the historic interior of the Bowery Savings B
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Harry for the Holidays is both a traditional and musically adventurous Christmas tv special, shot in high definition and at the beginning broadcast on NBC in 2003. The atypical yet beautiful setting is the historic interior of the Bowery Savings Building/Cipriani 42nd Street; you may see an occasional car flash by through windows in the back of Harry Connick Jr. and his Big Band. Connick’s program includes holiday standards but his arrangements are novel, cutting against the melodiousness of the likes of “Silver Bells” or “Frosty the Snowman” with edgy strings, sizzling brass, and complex rhythms. “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” and “The Happy Elf” swing like no person’s business, at the same time as “Silent Night” shifts from blues to ballad to gospel in a collaboration between Connick, Marc Anthony, and Kim Burrell. Whoopi Goldberg and Nathan Lane turn up for some cute sketches, and there is a bonus: Connick and Burrell doing the lovely “I Pray on Christmas,” not seen within the NBC broadcast. An accompanying audio CD features a lot of extra tracks (“The Christmas Waltz,” “Nature Boy”). –Tom Keogh
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