Putting your stamp on a Christmas carol

When you're arranging an extremely familiar Christmas carol, you can dive right into the immediately recognizable aspects of it or attempt a prelude.  Alan Danson's arrangement of "Joy To The World," as played by Mainstreet Brass, succeeds with the second, riskier approach.  If you hear it blind, you might not realize it's "Joy To The World" for the first 19 seconds.  Nevertheless, the joy is apparent immediately, and it's a fitting lead-in to the carol's familiar melody.