He then picked up his violin and began to play “O Holy Night.” Thus, this beautiful Christmas carol became the first song ever broadcast by radio waves. “O holy night, the stars are brightly ...

Cappeau took the new song back to his hometown of Roquemaure, where it was first performed at a midnight mass on Christmas Eve, 1847. The American music critic John Sullivan Dwight translated the ...

Placide Cappeau took the new song ... Christmas Eve, 1847. The standard English translation, by the American Unitarian minister and music critic John Sullivan Dwight, dates from 1855. “O Holy ...