Bing's "Silent Night" Magic in Moscow

in the center of Moscow...
inside the new Galleria Shopping Center (http://moscow-gallery.com/)...
Bing Crosby's hymnal version of "Silent Night" sounds...
with prices 10x higher than in the USA, from whence much of Moscow's Christmas music comes...

the deep, mysterious consoling goodness inside both the 1818 Austrian-composed song and Bing's 1947 voice and version...

what do Russians make of it?...
besides atmosphere for Christmas and New Year's shopping season?...
 

the simple, sleepy Christology of Bing Crosby

to dislike or disdain Christmas music would be an attitude that few children could normally be born with or grow into, though an adult, aggressive or passive, atheist or agnostic or not, might come to take such a position. but it seems a bit like disliking sweets.
still, though it seems certain that dear Bing Crosby was never troubled by any of history's higher criticism of the Bible, nor of any esotericisms of a cosmic Christ, his simple man of Nazareth -- well and sympathetically told in the first two minutes of the recording linked here -- is a sleeping Christology, for he merely accepts as truth the images and story he tells.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz1UdOW6QRgb