SPECIAL HOLIDAY PROGRAMS
MONDAY, DECEMBER 10
8:00 pm — Hanukkah Lights 2012
A perennial NPR favorite, Hanukkah Lights features Hanukkah stories and memoirs written by acclaimed authors expressly for the show, as read by NPR's Susan Stamberg and Murray Horwitz.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 17
8:00 pm — Harmonia: Early Music for the Holidays
Musicology professor and early music authority Angela Mariani presents holiday music from the middle ages, Renaissance, and Baroque Era. Selections include works by Bach, Schutz and Biber; chant from Norway's Nidaros Cathedral; and medieval English carols.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18
8:00 pm — Remembering Currier and Ives
Beloved classical Christmas music is played by various wind and brass ensembles.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19
8:00 pm — The Christmas Connection
Stephen Peithman finds yet more connections to the holiday in classical music by such composers as Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Rimsky-Korsakov, Ireland and Vaughan Williams.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20
8:00 pm — The Carol Connection
Hear Christmas carols and the classical works that inspired them - and, to invert the relationship, classical works derived from Christmas carols.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21
8:00 pm — A Christmas Celtic Sojourn
Live in concert - host Brian O'Donovan joins music director Seamus Egan and Solas in welcoming harpist Catriona McKay, fiddlers Chris Stout and Winifred Horan, and cellist Natalie Haas. Also on board: Chieftains vocalist Alyth McCormack, Navan, Mick McAuley and Eamonn McElholm.
10:00 pm — Austin Music Home for the Holidays
A holiday celebration with a roster of Roots artists that includes Willie Nelson, Kelly Willis, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Asleep at the Wheel, Ruthie Foster, and the Rev. Horton Heat.
11:00 pm — Eddie's Attic Holiday Radio Show
Eddie Owen, founder of the renowned Atlanta folk venue, welcomes such noted singer-songwriters as Chuck Brodsky, Kate Campbell, John McCutcheon, Eliza Gilkyson, and Pierce Pettis.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22
6:00 pm — A Prairie Home Companion for the Holidays
Garrison Keillor and company celebrate the holidays with music and stories.
8:00 pm — Seasonal Folk Music with Jim Blum
Jim surveys this year's new crop of holiday CDs, and plays some old favorites, too.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23
10:00 am — A Prairie Home Companion for the Holidays
Garrison Keillor and company celebrate the holidays with music and stories.
12:00 pm — A Baroque Era Christmas
David Roden presents the sounds of Christmastide in 17th and 18th century France, Germany, Italy, and England.
2:00 pm — Harmonia: Early Music for the Holidays
Musicology professor and early music authority Angela Mariani presents holiday music from the middle ages, Renaissance, and Baroque Era. Selections include works by Bach, Schutz and Biber; chant from Norway's Nidaros Cathedral; and medieval English carols.
3:00 pm — The Winter Connection
Vivaldi, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Delius, Prokofiev and others react musically to the coldest season of the year.
4:00 pm — The Christmas Story Through Carols
Kimberlea Daggy presents an hour of carols, both familiar and less well known, which tell the story of the nativity.
7:00 pm — The Thistle & the Shamrock: Nollaig
Hear traditional carols, along with seasonal favorites, dance tunes and verses that have all become part of the traditional Irish and Scottish Christmastide. Fiona is joined by broadcaster and musician Mary Ann Kennedy, a member of the Isle of Skye Gaelic music dynasty The Campbells. Mary Ann reveals the essence of rural community life that is reflected in her family's songs of work, worship, land, sea and love. She also reminisces about big family reunions at Christmas and New Year, and the spiritual music that they shared.
8:00 pm — Seasonal Folk Music with Jim Blum
Jim surveys this year's new crop of holiday CDs, and plays some old favorites, too.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 24
10:00 am — Classical Christmas Music
The WKSU classical music hosts offer a selection of music to make the holiday merrier.
10:00 am — Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
Aired live from King's College Chapel in Cambridge, this program blends scripture, song and readings in a unique celebration of the birth of Jesus.
1:00 pm — Classical Christmas Music
The WKSU classical music hosts offer a selection of music to make the holiday merrier.
6:00 pm — Remembering Currier and Ives
Beloved classical Christmas music is played by various wind and brass ensembles.
7:00 pm — The Winter Connection
Vivaldi, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Delius, Prokofiev and others react musically to the coldest season of the year.
8:00 pm — The Story of Christmas
Benjamin Britten's atmospheric
A Ceremony of Carols is presented with interpolated readings for the season.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25
5:00 am — Classical Christmas Music
The WKSU classical music hosts offer a selection of music to make the holiday merrier.
3:00 pm — The Carol Connection
Hear Christmas carols and the classical works that inspired them - and, to invert the relationship, classical works derived from Christmas carols.
4:00 pm — The Christmas Connection
Stephen Peithman finds connections to the holiday in classical music by such composers as Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn, Rimsky-Korsakov, Ireland and Vaughan Williams.
5:00 pm — The Christmas Story Through Carols
Kimberlea Daggy presents an hour of carols, both familiar and less well known, which tell the story of the nativity.
6:00 pm — Handel's Messiah
Noted choral conductor Harry Christophers leads Boston's Handel and Haydn Society in a historically informed performance of the world's best-known classical Christmas work. Soloists are Karina Gauvin, Daniel Taylor James Gilchrist, and Sumner Thompson.
9:00 pm — Classical Christmas Music
The WKSU classical music hosts offer a selection of music to make the holiday merrier.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26
8:00 pm — A Season's Griot
Madafo Lloyd Wilson takes us through an hour-long Kwanzaa celebration in story and song. This year's program features youth as the special guest griots, reading their own original and traditional stories. Familiar and favorite elements of Griot will also be in place with plenty of music, and an original composition by the show's poet laureate, Beverly Fields Burnette.
TUESDAY, JANUARY 1
1:00 pm — New Year's Day from Vienna
The Cleveland Orchestra's Franz Welser-Most conducts from the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna as the Vienna Philharmonic presents its traditional festive program of waltzes and polkas.
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