It was my family! They had borrowed a sled and made the journey! 'Snow storm? What snow storm?' they joked.
As I was settling in to eat dinner alone, I heard a knock on the door. My family wasn't going to make it for Christmas dinner because of a snow storm. But as it turns out those shoes had a teddy bear stuffed inside!" As I was opening presents, I held up a package that was clearly a pair of shoes.
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The 59-year-old singer has assembled a group of songs that look back on Christmases past from a mature perspective that very much takes loss into consideration, beginning with one of those war songs, "I'll Be Home for Christmas." On two occasions, she has prompted lyricists to rewrite their songs, having Dean Pitchford alter the words to "Closer," a new song submitted to her, to reflect the death of her friend Stephan Weiss (husband of fashion designer Donna Karan) and even getting the amazingly pliable Stephen Sondheim to revise "I Remember" from his 1966 TV musical Evening Primrose. But Streisand's Christmas Memories accentuates that tone well into melancholy. Christmas music always mixes the celebratory with the nostalgic, some of its classic songs dating from the World War II era when families were separated and feared they might not be reunited.
If great artists sometimes demonstrate an uncanny ability to take the temperature of the times with their work, this one can be said to have anticipated the dramatic change in mood that the terrorist attacks occasioned. And listening to the disc, you can see why. Barbra Streisand makes a point of noting that she completed this, her second Christmas album, before the tragic events of September 11, 2001, even going so far as to list the recording dates (July 19-September 7, 2001).