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Join Northwest Public Radio this season for these special holiday programs
11/25/2010
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Giving Thanks
A music-and-stories celebration of Thanksgiving. Host John Birge creates a thoughtful, contemporary reflection on the meaning of the holiday while your family gathers at the table to share common blessings.
11/27/2010
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM American Routes
2020 National Heritage Fellowship Concert featuring this year's National Endowment of the Arts honorees. Recorded live from Washington, D.C. with bluegrass bandleader Del McCoury, Ghanian drum master Yacub Addy and fiddler Jim "Texas" Shorty Chancellor as well as past National Heritage Fellows such as Doc Watson and John Lee Hooker.
12/1/2010
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Hanukkah Lights 2010
A perennial favorite for nearly two decades, acclaimed authors explore Hanukkah stories written expressly for Hanukkah Lights. Hosted by NPR's Susan Stamberg and Murray Horwitz.
12/5/2010
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Sunday Baroque
During Hannukah, the Festival of Lights, join Suzanne Bona for highlights from Handel's stirring oratorio Judas Maccabaeus. The hero of the title led the Maccabean revolt against the Seleucid Empire (167-160 BCE) and is acclaimed as one of the greatest warriors in Jewish history alongside Joshua, Gideon and King David. This became one of Handel's most popular works.
12/8/2010
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Chanukah in Story and Song
Narrated by Leonard Nimoy and sung by the acclaimed vocal sextet The Western Wind Vocal Ensemble, "Chanukah in Story and Song" presents 25 eclectic selections, from the Ladino songs of the Spanish Jews and Yiddish melodies of Eastern Europe to modern Israeli tunes and the ensemble's original version of "I Have a Little Dreydle."
12/12/2010
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Sunday Baroque
Every year Suzanne Bona creates a list of appealing, recent recordings. Listen throughout December for her recommended CDs for the music lover on your gift list. The Sunday Baroque Holiday Gift list is online at www.SundayBaroque.org
12/18/2010
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM Inland Folk
Join Dan as he dips his toe into the holiday waters with a sprinkling of festive folk favorites.
12/19/2010
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Classical Guitar Alive!
Join Tony Morris for seasonal music plus an interview with Canadian guitarist Liona Boyd, who talks about receiving her first guitar as a Christmas present.
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Sunday Baroque
Don’t let the holidays stress you out! Suzanne Bona offers cheery seasonal music to soothe your jangled nerves and get you in the festive spirit, whether you’re relaxing, puttering around the house getting ready for guests, or heading out for last-minute shopping.
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM Thistle Christmas
Hear traditional carols along with seasonal favorites, dance tunes and verses that have all become a part of the traditional Irish and Scottish Christmastide.
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Echoes Sonic Seasonings
This year's Sonic Seasonings features solo piano and electric guitar orchestrations. Italian pianist Ludovico Einaudi drops crystal shards of frozen piano melodies as he evokes a winter landscape in the surreal setting of the Angel Orensanz Center in New York City. Then, Norwegian guitarist Erik Wollo sculpts a shimmering snow covered soundscape for guitar synthesizer and keyboards, evoking his home in the mountains of Norway, where the Winter Solstice is really dark and the myths of Christmas are all around.
9:00 PM - 11:00 PM A Paul Winter Solstice
This solstice holiday tradition continues with Paul Winter's Winter Solstice Celebration. A dynamic musical celebration in the extraordinary acoustics of the world’s largest Gothic cathedral - New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The Paul Winter Consort is joined by musicians from all over the world, including Russia's Dimitri Pokrovsky Ensemble and gospel singer Theresa Thomasson.
12/20/2010
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Tinsel Tales
Stories that touch on the meaning of Christmas Bailey White, John Henry Faulk and that staple of the holiday season, David Sedaris’ “Santaland Diaries.”
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM A Chanticleer Christmas
The 12 member male vocal ensemble from San Francisco spans the globe and the centuries from England in the 1300s to new arrangements of classic contemporary carols. And no Chanticleer program would be complete without Joseph Jenning's patented arrangements of Christmas spirituals.
9:00 PM - 10:00 PM Mother of God (hosted by Bill McLaughlin)
This Marian Christmas-themed music is an ideal holiday complement to the bustling festivities of the season. The Carmel Bach Festival Orchestra and Chorale perform music from the 12th to the 20th century, ranging from 12th century mystic and abbess Hildegard of Bingen to the 20th century romanticism of Sergei Rachmaninoff.
12/21/2010
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM All Songs Considered for the Holidays
A wacky holiday tradition has begun! The not so plump but jolly Santa Bob and his cantankerous elves are in their workshop, trading holiday cheer and barbs. They’re checking the list for the best fresh holiday songs from emerging and breakout bands. Don’t miss all time favorite holiday classics like *Santa Lost a Ho,* *Santa Fixed My Toys For Christmas,* and *How Do You Spell Hanukkah*.
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Christmas with Madrigalia 2010
As the winter days grow shorter and darker, we find ourselves yearning for light to brighten our lives. Many find hope in the promise of the Christmas star, while others find comfort in the glow of the Menorah candles. And some mark the winter solstice as a turning point, the day that heralds the impending return of the sun. Join Madrigalia for a holiday concert celebrating The Light of the World. A varied program reveals many sources of light our lives, in our world, and in this joyous season!
9:00 PM - 10:00 PM 365 Holidays with the Canadian Brass
Enjoy new arrangements and classic versions of Christmas and Hannukah songs. You’ll also meet the players and hear how they celebrate the holiday spirit 365 days a year!
12/22/2010
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM A Christmas Carol with Jonathan Winters
Master comedian Jonathan Winters presents a distinctive reading of Dickens' holiday classic, with a special performing edition prepared by Dickens for his own presentations.
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM St. Olaf Christmas Festival
A service in song and word that has become one of the nation’s most cherished holiday celebrations. The festival includes hymns, carols, choral works, and orchestral selections celebrating the Nativity and features more than 500 student musicians and the St. Olaf Orchestra.
12/23/2010
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Happy Holidays from Selected Shorts
A mix of cozy Christmas cheer and cheerful Christmas irony make up this holiday special with a tale of family closeness and shenaniganery, James Thurber's wacky revisionist take on the classic Christmas poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas in the Ernest Hemingway Manner," and Christmas from the point of view of a happy-go-lucky elevator operator in a big-city apartment building.
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM Noel – A Christmas from Paris w/ Bill McLaughlin
Bill McGlaughlin takes you on a musical Christmas tour, from medieval Paris to the present day, featuring the celebrated Westminster Choir from Princeton.
9:00 PM - 10:00 PM Echoes of Christmas
Acclaimed as America's permier choir and one of the best choral groups in the world, the Dale Warland Singers are back for their signature holiday concert.
12/24/2010
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
A Christmas Eve tradition from the chapel of King's College in Cambridge, England. The 30-voice King's College Choir performs the legendary Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols service of Biblical readings and music.
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau
Join us for this documentary and play about the final two days Henry David Thoreau spent in his cabin before leaving Walden Pond. There are Walden Ponds all over the world, little cabins in our heart that all of us can live in. Whether you’re in a third floor condo or a farmhouse, in Idaho or Canada, Europe or Washington. Wherever you are, caring about your hometown, that’s the essence of what Henry David Thoreau wrote.
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Messiah with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Mendelssohn Choir
The holiday season is always a festive time of year at Heinz Hall. A tree is decorated in the grand hall, snow is falling outside, and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performs one of the season's musical delights.
12/25/2010
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM Inland Folk Christmas
Join Dan Maher for his annual holiday show featuring the best in folk, bluegrass and Celtic holiday music.
12/26/2010
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM A Season’s Griot
A Seasons’ Griot captures the flavor of Kwanzaa with tales and traditions of African-American and African peoples. This year's stories are told to, for and about children. With folktale, song and poetry, the spotlight is on youth: love for them, responsibility to them, and ways adults can sometimes not see them. 11/29/10 >> go there
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