[Swprograms] Holiday Specials Dec 24-26

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

VERY SELECTED HOLIDAY SPECIALS ON WEBCASTING PUBLIC RADIO STATIONS

Derived from http://www.worldofradio.com/calendar.html#holiday where 
audio links may also be reached.

This time I have avoided most of the syndicated music specials which 
have already appeared numerous times in the past week on various 
stations, and will still be appearing for the next few days, but tried 
to pick out some other worthwhile programming, some of it locally 
produced and only on one station. Enjoy! Times are strictly UT.

UT SATURDAY DECEMBER 24:

0230-0400 WPRm: Pipedreams "An American Organist?s Christmas" --- 
Performers and instruments in the United States transform a global 
collection of holiday melodies.

0400-0500 WNYCf: New Sounds #2359: A program of seasonal music, New 
Sounds style. Highlights include the women's vocal ensemble Kitka, 
with repertoire ranging from Bulgaria to Belarus, from Georgia to 
Greece. Also, music by pianist Iver Kleive, something from the 
legendary guitarist John Fahey, and a Modern Mandolin Quartet 
arrangement of the Nutcracker Suite.

0500-0600 KUNI: Women in Music - Laney Goodman is your host for a 
holiday program filled with seasonal music from today's female 
singer/songwriters.

1500-1630 Numerous stations from BBC: FESTIVAL OF 9 LESSONS & CAROLS

1730-1830 WBNI: Best Seat in the House Christmas Special --- Music of 
the holiday season is performed by many of opera?s greatest names in 
this special Christmas program, hosted by WBNI's Janice Furtner and 
Dick Ver Wiebe.

1900-2200 NWPR: THE INLAND FOLK CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION WITH DAN MAHER 
Once again Dan Maher brings you the best in holiday folk music from 
his library. He brings out old favorites and new surprises this year 
to add to a Northwest Public Radio Christmas tradition. 

2300-2400  KWTU: Lessons and Carols from Washington National Cathedral 
(Live) Join Robert Aubry Davis for Lessons and Carols from Washington 
National Cathedral, a distinctly American service that embraces the 
nation?s evolving musical traditions. Each Christmas Eve, the 
Cathedral hosts a quietly spectacular Lesson and Carols, one of its 
most attended and cherished events of the year. The service combines 
biblical readings that chronicle the story Jesus? birth with age-old 
and all-new carols, from folk to ethereal polyphony. Attendees and 
listeners thrill to the swell of many voices and organ together, as 
well as to the contemplative hush of "Silent Night" as the service 
ends.

2300-2400 WEKU: Lessons and Carols from the Washington National 
Cathedral The service combines biblical readings that chronicle the 
story of Jesus' birth with age-old and all-new carols. (Live)

2300-     WYSO: Banks of the Ohio. Wishing you a happy holiday season 
with an all-Christmas show.
  You'll hear familiar favorites, plus some rarities and special 
finds.
  Highlights include Bill Monroe, Roland White, and Kenny Baker doing 
"Christmas Time's a-Coming" for their dinner hosts; Ben, Rebecca, and 
Sonya Isaacs harmonizing "Children Go Where I Send Thee" as pre-teens, 
and Benny Martin's quirky "True Christmas." 
  The second half hour is devoted to "Blue Ridge Mountain Holiday: The 
Breaking Up Christmas Story," a fascinating documentary from Virginia 
and North Carolina.

UT SUNDAY DECEMBER 25:

0100-0200 KDAQ: Bluegrass Breakdown Holiday Special

0100-0500 KUNI: Christmas With Bob Dorr - 4 hours --- Bob continues 
his annual Christmas eve celebration with his own favorites and live 
requests from KUNI listeners.

0100-     KUT:  A Twine Time Christmas Special --- Paul Ray will serve 
up a sleigh full of holiday R&B goodies that will provide a perfect 
soundtrack for your Christmas Eve party. 

0200-0300 WPLN: Nashville Unlimited Christmas Special, hosted by Dave 
Pomeroy and Don Henry From Christ Church Cathedral, it's the Sixth 
Annual "Nashville Unlimited" Christmas Concert, benefiting Nashville's 
Campus for Human Development's "Room In The Inn" homeless program. 
This year's guests include the Nashville Mandolin Ensemble, Andrea 
Zonn, Three Ring Circle (Rob Ickes, Andy Leftwich, and D.P.) Annie 
Selleck, Lorianna Matera, Kevin Whalum, Steve Conn, Don Henry and, as 
always, some exciting "Mystery Guests". 

0200-     KPBX: Christmas Music from Around the World with Michael 
Patoray

0300-0600 KIPO: "Sabor Tropical" Holiday Special

0400-0500 WNYCf: New Sounds #2357 --- The Messiah, remixed. The 
compositions range from tuneful electronica to craggy modernism, from 
moody ambience to unbounded joy - all united by the theme of Messiah, 
George Frederic Handel's 1742 masterpiece of spiritual rebirth. Works 
by Tod Machover, Scanner, R. Luke Dubois, Nobukazu Takemura, and 
others.

0500-     KSUI: Millennium of Music --- A Bohemian Christmas -- 
Another Millennium regular, Frederick Renz with his Early Music New 
York, is back with a Christmas celebration from late medieval Eastern 
Europe -- some of the rarely-recorded and beautiful works from Poland, 
Hungary, and the Czech lands.

1500-1600 WBEZ: Lessons and Carols From Washington National Cathedral

Each Christmas, the National Cathedral hosts a quietly spectacular 
Lesson and one of its most attended and cherished events of the eyear. 
The service combines biblical readings that chronicle the story Jesus' 
birth with age-old and all-new carols, from folk to ethereal 
polyphony. Attendees and listeners thrill to the swell of many voices 
and organ together, as well as to the contemplative hush of "Silent 
Night" as the service ends. Among the service's many distinctions is 
the sound of its Girl Choristers, the finest in North America. Though 
their sound is in some ways similar to that of boys, the girls, ages 8 
to 18, create their own unique aural beauty. Hosted by Robert Aubrey 
Davis. 

1600-     WBEZ: The Kabbalah of Chanukah: An Inspirational Program for 
the Festival of Lights --- A jazz-virtuoso cantor and a kabbalistic 
psychotherapist bring their respective talents together, to provide 
new inspiration for Chanukah! Weaving a tapestry of tales and 
teachings from the Kabbalah together with sacred music from around the 
world, this dynamic duo reveals some of the hidden treasures of this 
ancient spiritual tradition.

1700-1900 KGOU: A CHRISTMAS CAROL by Charles Dickens --- Enjoy A 
Christmas Carol as never before. English master storyteller and actor 
Ashley Ramsden takes center stage, portraying all 23 characters in the 
Dickens classic, each with vivid and distinctive clarity. The program 
embraces the original masterpiece, transporting listeners back to 
Victorian England and conjuring up the sinister back alleys, 
cobblestone streets, and ghostly apparitions that are the story's 
hallmarks. 

A Christmas Carol is profoundly relevant today. The gulf between 
wealthy and poor, the powerful and powerless, is as significant now as 
it was in Dickensian England. A Christmas Carol is a banner of 
compassion carried by its main character, Scrooge, as he is 
transformed by his sense of common decency and obligation to humanity. 

Sounds from around the world, including recordings made in remote 
European villages, recreate in convincing detail Dickens' pre-
automotive/electric world. Music written by composers of Dickens' era 
and original music commissioned for this broadcast inspired by 
traditional folk lyrics and ancient Christmas poems enhance the depth, 
authenticity, and richness of the production. 

1800-1900 KSJN: Saint Paul Sunday: Christmas with the Empire Brass 

1900-2030 WUOL: WUOL?s Christmas Choral Extravaganza: Recorded by WUOL 
in the beautiful St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church in Louisville, 
host Barry Bernson (WDRB?s Fox in the Morning) welcomes the choirs of 
St Martin of Tours, St. Francis in the Fields and the U of L Cardinal 
Singers performing seasonal selections. If you missed the live 
performance, you won?t want to miss it now!

2100-     KBYU: Classical Toys: Outside the Box [2 hrs?]

2200-2300 KVPR: Fresno Philharmonic Holiday Concert Spectacular

2300-2400 WOSU: Saint Paul Sunday --- The Empire Brass: Sleigh Ride
Along with traditional tunes and carols, the celebrated quintet will 
play antiphonal and classical works that evoke the spirit of the time.

2300-     WIAA: Island Cabin Discs -- A special Christmas with Jeff 
and Julie Kimpton

2300-2400 WHRV: The Itinerant Band --- Holiday music from the 17th and 
18th centuries performed by the Itinerant Band made up of seven 
musicians from the Tidewater region of southeastern Virginia.

UT MONDAY DECEMBER 26:

0000-0100 WKYU: Old Scratchy Records Christmas Special (6pm C.T./7pm 
E.T.) Join host and producer Nolan Porterfield for an hour of unique 
holiday records, from Christmas tunes to one-of-a-kind tracks you 
won't find anywhere else. This is one Christmas special you won't want 
to miss!

0000-0130 WHRV: A Pickin? Christmas --- Our Holiday rendition of the 
Pickin? on WHRV! 

0100-     WUAL: A Crooners Christmas with Dale Owen

0100-     KRCU: Sunday Night at the Opera - On Christmas night KRCU?s 
Barb Herbert will be presenting "Vespers for the Nativity of the 
Virgin" by Antonio Vivaldi. This is music composed for a service of 
vespers that would have been performed in the Church of San Marco in 
Venice in the 1700's. The other work will be a solemn mass by Rossini; 
he wrote a number of sacred works after he stopped composing operas.

0100-0200 KIPO: "Music Of Hawaii" Holiday Special - Beginning in the 
1860s, Hawaiian singers, songwriters, and musicians adopted Christmas 
as one of their favorite holidays. Tune in on Christmas Day for an 
hour of Hawaiian Christmas favorites.

0130-     WHRV: A Folk Christmas --- Live holiday concert from the 
WHRV studio with performances by local musicians. 

0200-0300 KUNC: St. Paul Sunday with The Empire Brass

0200-     KRCB: Twisted Christmas --- Another edition of our new 
series, Page On Stage, this is an evening of holiday stories with a 
slightly twisted point of view. Readers include Will Durst, Diane 
Amos, Geoff Bolt, and John Moran with stories from Gregory Maguire, 
Marie Panttaja, and host David Templeton, from the North Bay Bohemian. 
You can also see Twisted Christmas performed live at The UUCSR Glaser 
Center in Santa Rosa on Dec. 10. 

0300-0330 WBEZ: Ken Nordine's Word Jazz Christmas Special --- More 
Christmas celebration from the legendary Ken Nordine. Santa is one 
cool cat when he gets the Word Jazz treament?a uniques tapestry of 
spoken word and jazz. Pour yourself one more glass of egg nog and tune 
in at 9 pm. 
 
0400-0500 WNYCf: NEW SOUNDS #2230 --- new Music for Hanukkah, 
featuring the Klezmatics, the Abayudada project of Jewish music from 
Uganda, and more. Hear selections from a unique collection of African-
Jewish music, rooted in local Ugandan music and infused with rich 
choral singing, Afro-pop, and traditional drumming with song texts in 
Hebrew, English, and several Ugandan languages. Also on the show are 
the unpredictable, yet groovy sounds of accordionist Ted Reichman's 
latest project, "Émigré", where zithers meet laptops and banjos meet 
the TR-808. Plus, Hanukkah music by the Klezmatics. 

0500-     WHRV: A Cowboy Christmas --- A Cowboy Christmas celebrates 
the holiday with memories, music, and poetry of people who live and 
work in the isolation of America's outback. Some of the stories and 
songs are family traditions passed down through the generations while 
others are new works inspired by Christmas on the lonely range. This 
program features poets Baxter Black, Waddie Mitchell, and Native 
American singer and comedian Vincent Craig. 




		
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