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Sunday, December 8 Noon Monday, December 23 6pm Handel’s Harry Christophers Tallis Scholars: Love is Better Than Wine* leads the period-instrument Handel & Haydn Society, direct from Symphony Hall Tuesday, December 24 9am in . Friday, December 20 8pm Glad Tidings of Great Joy * A Christmas Celtic Sojourn A Celtic Sunday, December 15 11am celebration of the season, with top-flight Tuesday, December 24 10am Glad Tidings of Great Joy Bill McGlaughlin traditional musicians and a story or two A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols The features medieval and . from host Brian O’Donovan. King's College Choir performs live from Cambridge, England. Sunday, December 15 2pm Saturday, December 21 8am Welcome Christmas! Joyful holiday music Interlochen Holiday Concert The IAA Band Wednesday, December 25 9am featuring the Minneapolis-based chorus, and Choir present music of the holidays in Welcome Christmas! * VocalEssence. a program hosted by Kate Botello. Wednesday, December 25 10am Monday, December 16 1pm Saturday, December 21 1pm St. Olaf Christmas Festival * Tallis Scholars: Love is Better Than Wine Met Opera: A Midsummer Night’s Dream , with director Peter Benjamin Britten’s adaptation of the Wednesday, December 25 6pm Phillips, perform a stunning holiday Shakespeare play, at the Metropolitan A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols * Opera. concert exploring themes of love, redemption, and of course, the Nativity. Thursday, December 26 9am

Saturday, December 21 8pm Tallis Scholars:Love is Better Than Wine * A Paul Winter Solstice Concert The Paul Tuesday, December 17 1pm Choral Christmas with Stile Antico The Winter Consort is joined by Malian singer Thursday, December 26 1pm choir from London presents a concert of Abdoulaye Diabate, the Drummers of The Handel’s Messiah The GLCO* radiant sacred renaissance music for the Fores of Nature, Gospel vocalist Theresa Christmas season. Thomason. Friday, December 27 9am Tuesday, December 17 6pm Saturday, December 21 10pm Choral Christmas with Stile Antico * A Centennial Ceremony of Carols A Repose Christmas Frank Slaughter celebration of the 100th anniversary of presents a quiet hour of music of the Tuesday, December 31 8pm the birth of the renowned British season. A Paul Winter Solstice Concert * composer Benjamin Britten through his beloved choral music for the holidays. Sunday, December 22 11am Tuesday, December 31 8pm-4am A Centennial Ceremony of Carols * Toast of the Nation (News Radio) New Wednesday, December 18 6pm Year's Eve stops in Boston, Washington 2013 Traverse Symphony Orchestra Sunday, December 22 1pm DC, New York, , Denver and the Holiday Concert presented by singers and St. Olaf Christmas Festival A service in Monterey Jazz Festival! instrumentalists in Traverse City. song and word that has become one of the nation’s most cherished holiday Wednesday, January 1 11am Thursday, December 19 1pm celebrations -- at St. Olaf College in New Year’s Day from Vienna The Vienna Chanticleer Christmas The 12-voice men’s Northfield, MN. Philharmonic with Daniel Barenboim choir spans the globe and the centuries – welcomes the New Year! from England in the 1300s to new Sunday, December 22 5pm arrangements of carols. Handel’s Messiah The December 2013 Wednesday, January 1 3pm performance of the great work by Handel, Boston Baroque First Day Concert Martin Thursday, December 19 6pm featuring the Great Lakes Chamber Pearlman leads Boston Baroque, Christmas with Morehouse and Spelman Orchestra, Choir and soloists. America’s oldest “period-instrument” Glee Clubs Two of the most prestigious orchestra, in a festive All-Bach New Year’s historically black institutions in the nation Saturday, December 22 7pm Day concert live from Harvard Square. -- get together to present a spine-tingling Interlochen Holiday Concert * concert program. Saturday, January 4 11am Monday, December 23 9am New Year’s Day from Vienna * A Saturday Friday, December 20 1pm Christmas with Morehouse and Spelman rebroadcast of the annual New Year’s 2013 Traverse Symphony Orchestra Glee Clubs Two of the most prestigious concert with the Vienna Philharmonic led Holiday Concert * historically black institutions in the nation by Daniel Barenboim. -- get together to present a spine-tingling concert program. * rebroadcast of a listed program