Jake Doyle has come home for Christmas. He tells his daughter the story of how he got a Nintendo Entertainment System on Christmas Day in 1988 and his sister got a "real" Cabbage Patch doll.

Composed for orchestra, A Christmas Festival was completed June 1950. It is 9 minutes exactly in its original version. It is 5 minutes and 45 seconds long in its shortened printed version.

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