A carol at the heart of Christmas celebrations that has inspired over forty tunes since its first appearance in print in 1885, Away in a Manger has a surprisingly complex history of misattribution to Martin Luther and others, explained in fascinating detail in The New Oxford Book of Carols. Brushing aside the cobwebs of its past, Ian de Massini’s new musical setting transports the familiar words to an unfamiliar location: a crib scene evoked not in the midst of a homely parish church, but in a p...