# Christmas Music by Manheim Steamroller

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 30, 2002, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music-by-manheim-steamroller/139696 "2002-11-30T23:56:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 30, 2002, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/christmas-music-by-manheim-steamroller/139696/1 "2002-11-30T23:56:49Z")

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It was mumble mumble years ago, and I was in elementary school. We went to the planetarium around Christmas time and watched a star show set to the most incredible Christmas music I’d ever heard.

I learned later it was Manheim Steamroller. I have two of their Christmas albums (are there more?) and I know they also have other non Christmas albums. Are they as good as the Christmas ones? I think I heard somewhere Chip Davis composed the theme to NYPD Blue. Has he does anything else? Who else believes Christmas isn’t Christmas without the Manheim Steamroller renditon of _Deck the Halls_ playing at full blast?