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December 2020

ALSO INSIDE We’ll celebrate the holidays on WFMT with a new special, Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain, as the ensemble Apollo’s Fire explores the medieval Irish and Scottish roots of traditional holiday music in the Appalachians, and eminent violinist Itzhak Perlman celebrates Hanukkah. From the President & CEO The Guide The Member Magazine Dear Member, for WTTW and WFMT Renée Crown Public Media Center 2020 has been a year like none other, with a global pandemic, a recession, nationwide 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue racial reckoning, the 2020 census, and a contentious presidential election. As COVID-19 Chicago, Illinois 60625 impacted Chicago area schools and businesses, WTTW News hit the streets of the city and suburbs to report on local stories that mattered to Main Switchboard (773) 583-5000 residents – the struggle to cope, civil unrest and activism, Member and Viewer Services and the drive to rebuild. In Making Sense of 2020, a WTTW (773) 509-1111 x 6 News special premiering on December 1, we offer a revealing look at how 2020 unfolded in Chicago. Websites wttw.com Also in December on WTTW, our popular series Call wfmt.com the Midwife returns with an all-new holiday special set in

1965. We also brighten the season with exceptional choral Publisher music, including Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir with Anne Gleason Art Director Kelli O’Hara and Richard Thomas, The Wheaton College Tom Peth Christmas Festival, and Christmas at Belmont, and mark WTTW Contributors Hanukkah with Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas and Julia Maish Lisa Tipton Hanukkah: A Festival of Delights. On wttw.com, in this month of holiday treats, enter WFMT Contributors the Wonka-esque world of Chicago candymakers in Shelf Life: The Story of Lanzi Candy, Andrea Lamoreaux and share some fun and safe ways to enjoy this special time in Chicagoland. We’ll celebrate on WFMT as well with a new special, Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain, Advertising and Underwriting as the ensemble Apollo’s Fire explores the medieval Irish and Scottish roots of traditional WTTW Nathan Armstrong holiday music in the Appalachians. Our Sunday morning series With Heart and Voice (773) 509-5415 focuses on the Advent and Christmas seasons, Chicago a cappella and famed violinist WFMT Itzhak Perlman highlight Hanukkah, and the Chicago Symphony brings you Handel’s Alexander Stonor Saunders (773) 509-5357 Messiah. On wfmt.com, get a rundown of safe holiday music celebrations in the area, rank Beethoven’s 10 most influential compositions in honor of his 250th birthday, and The Guide: The Member Magazine discover a playlist of underrated and obscure classical holiday music. for WTTW and WFMT On behalf of all of us WTTW and WFMT, I wish you and your family a joyous and (ISSN 2329-1338) December 2020 healthy holiday season. Volume 35, Number 270 Sincerely, The Guide: The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT is published monthly Sandra Cordova Micek (for contributors of $40 or more annually) by President & CEO Window To The World Communications, Inc., 5400 North Saint Louis Ave., Chicago, IL 60625-4698. Periodical postage paid at Chicago, IL and additional mailing offices.

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I Am Ireland Shelf Life: The Story Wild Travels: America’s Featuring songs and stories with the of Lanzi Candy Most Unusual Festivals traditional Irish tenor Paddy Homan & Lanzi Candy Company was one of dozens Wild Travels goes off the beaten track to Orchestra and originally developed for the of family-run confectionaries that, alongside celebrate America’s most unusual festivals. stage, this concert was filmed at Chicago’s candy giants Brach’s, Mars, and Wrigley, made Host Will Clinger spotlights some of the renowned Old St. Pat’s Church and in Chicago “the Candy Capital of the World.” oddest and quirkiest – from the Rattlesnake the private residences of musicians. Enjoy this sweet piece of Chicago history. Roundup in Texas to Indiana’s Pierogi Fest. Tuesday, December 15, 9:00 pm Thursday, December 17, 8:00 pm Friday, December 18, 9:00 pm

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1:30 The Brain Revolution Via In the Spotlight the latest scientific research Wednesday 2 Thursday 3 and illuminating stories EARLY MORNING EARLY MORNING about neuroplasticity, this 12:00 Riverdance 25th Anniversary 12:00 BBC World News program shows how your Special Catapulting 12:30 Eric Clapton’s Crossroads brain works and how you Riverdance into the 21st Guitar Festival 2019 Eric can make it work for you. century, this new cinematic Clapton presents the 2019 3:30 The Brain Revolution [R] experience reveals the extraor- Crossroads Guitar Festival 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R] dinary energy and passion from Dallas, Texas. The of Irish music and dance. Festival hosts performances MORNING-AFTERNOON 2:00 Change Your Brain, Heal and impromptu collabora- 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids Your Mind with Daniel Amen, tions for the world’s most MD Dr. Amen shares six legendary guitarists. EVENING practical steps to help you feel 2:30 Deepak Chopra: Becoming 6:00 PBS NewsHour happier, sharper, and more in Metahuman Become happier, 7:00 Chicago Tonight control of your own destiny. more joyful, and energetic 7:30 Making Sense of 2020 2020 3:30 Suze Orman’s Ultimate with a simple three-step has been a year like none Retirement Guide Join other, with a global pandemic, the acclaimed personal a recession, nationwide racial finance expert for essential reckoning, and a presidential advice on planning for and In the Spotlight election. As COVID-19 closed thriving in retirement. down Chicago area schools 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R] and businesses and citizens adjusted to a new normal, MORNING-AFTERNOON Making Sense of 2020 Chicago Tonight and WTTW 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids News hit the streets of the city 2020 has been a year like none other, and suburbs to report on local EVENING with a global pandemic, a recession, stories that mattered – the 6:00 PBS NewsHour nationwide racial reckoning, and a struggle to cope, racial unrest 7:00 Chicago Tonight presidential election. As COVID-19 and activism, and the drive 7:30 Chicago from the Air Host closed down Chicago area schools to rebuild. Journey back to Geoffrey Baer narrates a and businesses and citizens adjusted the beginning with WTTW sweeping bird’s-eye tour of to a new normal, Chicago Tonight and News for this revealing the city and beyond via a WTTW News hit the streets of the city look at 2020 in Chicago. drone camera, sharing his and suburbs to report on local stories 8:30 Ken Burns: Here & There signature “I never knew that” that mattered – the struggle to cope, This film captures Ken Burns’ facts on the journey. From racial unrest and activism, and the love of storytelling, his love this thrilling new perspective, drive to rebuild. Journey back to the of small town life, and his trace the remnants of long-lost beginning with WTTW News for this love for a bridge in Brooklyn. trails and roads, see the ways revealing look at 2020 in Chicago. The documentary also industry literally re-shaped reveals a strong reciprocal our region, and discover how Tuesday, December 1 love from his neighbors and Chicago truly lives up to its 7:30 pm colleagues – those who motto, “City in a Garden.” admire his passion as an 9:00 WTTW Great Treasure Hunt artist and those who share Sweepstakes 2020 Drawing WTTW Great Treasure that passion as colleagues Join us to learn if you are the Hunt Sweepstakes and storytellers themselves. winner of an all-new 2021 2020 Drawing Tuesday 1 10:00 Dolly Parton: I Will Always Suburu Forester, a $10,000 EARLY MORNING Love You This music home makeover from Walter Join us to learn if you are the winner 12:00 John Denver: Country special includes complete E. Smithe, a City Scooter, of an all-new 2021 Suburu Forester, a Roads - Live in England performances from America’s a hand-woven rug, spa $10,000 home makeover from Walter John Denver was one of perennially popular country packages, cooking classes, E. Smithe, a City Scooter, a hand- the most popular recording singer, songwriter, multi- or other sensational prizes! woven rug, spa packages, cooking artists of the 20th century. instrumentalist, record 9:10 Making Sense of 2020 See classes, or other sensational prizes! This concert was filmed at producer, and actress. Tues. Dec. 1 at 7:30 pm. [R] the Birmingham NEC in 1986 11:30 BBC World News 10:15 Chicago from the Air [R] Wednesday, December 2 and showcases his singular 9:00 pm voice, easygoing manner, and superb songwriting skills.

2020 DECEMBER 3 A Q & A with the Production Team

2020 has been a year unlike any other in memory, with a worldwide pandemic, Balta: Our role now is the same as it has a recession, racial reckoning, and a presidential election. As COVID-19 turned ev- always been – to produce fair and accu- eryday life upside down, Chicago area residents were left with more questions than rate coverage reflective and inclusive of answers, and WTTW News had to innovate as they served the public with news and the public it serves. In a situation where information. WTTW News Director Hugo Balta, Senior Supervising Producer Jay Chicagoans are overwhelmed with seem- Smith, and Senior Line Producer Crystin Immel look back on the year and its chal- ingly overlapping emergencies, WTTW lenges, while documentary producer Daniel Andries takes us behind the scenes of News helps them make sense of it all with Making Sense of 2020. trustworthy reporting.

What did you learn about Chicago and Chicagoans in 2020? You made the decision to send WTTW News out to different neighborhoods Hugo Balta: I discovered how resilient people in our community are. No matter what throughout the spring. What challeng- 2020 threw at the community, courageous Chicagoans picked themselves up, rolled es and opportunities did that present? up their sleeves, and persevered. Balta: In telling the COVID-19 story, clear- What role do you think WTTW News plays during turbulent times such as these? ly it was imperative to go into Chicago’s

4 DECEMBER 2020 diverse neighborhoods to hear directly regularly brought on public health officials and other medical professionals to provide from residents, especially when it came to updates on COVID-19, as well as business owners and employees to address the eco- disparities in access to vital resources. We nomic impact of the virus. then had to figure out how to do it while keeping everyone safe. The opportunities Smith: In addition to covering the pandemic, of course 2020 was an election year. Our this approach gave us to help build bridg- WTTW News Voter Guide was a great resource, which included – among other things – a es between communities outweighed any platform where voters could hear from candidates in their own words. challenges we faced. Looking back, was there a story covered by WTTW News that best captures 2020 Jay Smith: I think being live from a differ- in Chicago? ent local community each night allowed us to give our audience an invaluable look Immel: A story that I think represented the best of 2020: a mother and son who used their at how their neighbors were dealing with 3D printer to make face shields, sharing the instructions online for others to do the same. everything they were facing. An Oak Park resident who saw the story created a group called the “Noble Army,” and they’ve distributed thousands of free face shields to healthcare workers. What changes did you make to the WTTW News operation to ensure that How did you decide which stories to highlight in Making Sense of 2020? everyone, guests included, would be safe? Daniel Andries: The WTTW News team’s on-the-ground reporting was vital in help- ing us make sense of what was happening. Some of what they uncovered: the CEO of Crystin Immel: Toward the end of March Roseland Community Hospital revealing the record number of African-American pa- we made the decision to not have guests tients dying, having received none of the drugs they needed. A Little Village Alderman in the studio, which meant doing all of our tearfully apologizing for approving the destruction of a smokestack that sent toxic debris interviews via Zoom. We had used similar into his neighborhood. An audio recording (shared thanks to reporter Heather Cherone) technology a few times before, but never of a profanity-laden showdown between Mayor Lightfoot and Aldermen grappling with on a nightly basis! At the same time, we citywide violence and destruction. set up the majority of our broadcast and digital staff to work remotely. And there Aside from the people viewers are used to seeing on Chicago Tonight, who will they was the added benefit of keeping Chicago get to know in this special? Tonight hosts Brandis Friedman and Paris Schutz separated so that if one were to get Andries: They will meet the behind-the-scenes team that brings them the news, from sick, the other would still be able to serve Chicago Tonight to Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review to Latino Voices and Black Voices, our viewers. as well as the WTTW News digital reporters and producers. Like producer Quinn Myers who covered the neighborhoods with Paris. And Chicago Tonight’s line producer Nicole Smith: Brandis reported from the studio Cardos who reported from North Lawndale during the protests. And Rebecca Palmore, each night and Paris co-anchored the WTTW News digital editor. And ground reporters who did incredible work 24/7, as pro- show from the field. Our crew was very tests led to National Guard troops mobilized in the streets. careful to wear masks and social-distance while reporting, and to constantly clean What do you hope viewers take away from this look back at the year? and sanitize all of the equipment we were using. Andries: 2020 is a year that defies understanding. COVID-19 dominated our behavior, the long overdue racial reckoning continues, and the presidential election has been mind What were the most important ways bending. Communities around the city did their very best to help each other stay healthy. that WTTW News met the public’s need Activists and community organizers walked a fine line between outrage and leadership, for trusted and timely information pointing the way to greater equity for everyone. And the record number of early and during 2020? mail-in voters and the crowds who turned out peacefully on election day showed that in Chicago, democracy is still very much alive and well. Immel: We expanded our coverage online and added two weekend programs, and This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

2020 DECEMBER 5 WTTW Digital Channel Highlights These digital channels are available with digital cable or over-the-air with a digital receiver. For more information about digital television and for complete schedules, visit wttw.com/schedule.

Freedom Riders: American Experience Saturday, December 5 at 8:00 pm In 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives – and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment – for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed WTTW Prime through the Deep South. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws WTTW Prime is our “prime time all the in order to challenge a segregated travel system, the Freedom Photo: Courtesy of Associated Press time” channel. Free TV, over-the-air antenna Riders met with bitter racism and mob violence along the way. viewers can tune to channel 11-2 to find WTTW Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Prime. WTTW Prime is on Comcast digital Pictured: CORE members (Freedom Riders) looking at map cable channel 370 and on RCN channel 37.

Call the Midwife Marathon Friday, December 25 at 12:00 pm Revisit the most recent season of Call the Midwife in anticipation of the 2020 Call the Midwife Holiday Special, premiering on WTTW Prime WTTW 11-1 at 8:00 pm that evening. This series, based on the WTTW Prime is our “prime time all the memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth, follows the nurses, midwives, time” channel. Free TV, over-the-air antenna and nuns from Nonnatus House in London’s East End. viewers can tune to channel 11-2 to find WTTW Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Prime. WTTW Prime is on Comcast digital Photo: Courtesy of Neal Street Productions cable channel 370 and on RCN channel 37. Pictured: The midwives of Nonnatus House and Santa

Masterful Bakers Sunday, December 6 at 11:00 am On your marks, get set... BAKE! Watch Mary Berry and WTTW Create Paul Hollywood put on a British baking masterclass while WTTW Create is our how-to and lifestyle programming tackling the signature, technical, and showstopper chal- channel. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers tune lenges from the past five seasons of this favorite series.

to channel 11-3. WTTW Create is on Comcast digital perpetuity in media all worldwide, cable channel 369 and on RCN channel 38. WTTW Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules

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The Ornament of the World Friday, December 11 at 7:00 pm The story of a remarkable time in history when Muslims, Christians, and Jews forged a common cultural identity that WTTW World transcended their religious differences, this film retraces an 800-year period in medieval Spain, from the 8th through WTTW World features public media’s signature Image: Courtesy of Kikim Media documentary, science, and news programming 15th centuries, during which the three cultures, though they complemented by original content from emerging competed and sometimes fought, managed to sustain relation- producers. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers ships that enabled them to coexist, collaborate, and flourish. tune to channel 11-3. WTTW World is on Comcast Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules digital cable channel 369 and on RCN channel Pictured: Abd Al-Rahman I, heir to the Umayyad dynasty 38. WTTW World airs from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am.

Let’s Go Luna: Christmas Around the World Friday, December 18 at 6:00 pm When the Circo gets stuck at the South Pole on Christmas eve, Leo, Andy, and Carmen are convinced that Santa will never find them. With the help of their friend Luna, the WTTW PBS Kids 24/7 kids endeavor to save Christmas, learning about holiday traditions from around the world along the way. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers can tune Image: Courtesy of © LATW Productions Inc. to channel 11-4. The WTTW PBS Kids 24/7 is on Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Comcast digital channels 368 and on RCN channel 39. Pictured: Let’s Go Luna

6 DECEMBER 2020 In the Spotlight

process that unlocks the conquered distances and built 7:00 Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous secrets of moving beyond our empires. Together, humans Years! From Upstairs, limitations to access a field and horses flourished side Downstairs and I, Claudius to of infinite possibilities. The by side. What makes us so The Jewel in the Crown and program includes interviews perfect for each other? Downton Abbey – Masterpiece with Neil deGrasse Tyson, 11:30 BBC World News has stood the test of time Martha Beck, and more. and introduced generations 4:00 Deepak Chopra: Becoming of public television audi- Metahuman [R] Friday 4 ences to the delights of British 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R] EARLY MORNING period drama. Join Alan 12:00 Red, White, and Rock Join Cumming to celebrate the MORNING-AFTERNOON

Frankie Valli, The Righteous iconic series that introduced Photo: Courtesy of © Matthieu Camille Cohen 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids Brothers, Connie Francis, generations of viewers to the and more for a 2002 patriotic delights of British drama. EVENING celebration of America and 8:30 To be announced 6:00 PBS NewsHour pop oldies music. Featuring 7:00 Chicago Tonight a dream lineup of artists 7:30 Independent Lens: Won’t from the rock, pop, and Sunday 6 You Be My Neighbor? doo-wop days of the late EARLY MORNING Celebrate the legacy of icon ’50s and early to mid-’60s. 12:00-5:00 To be announced Host Alan Cumming Fred Rogers in a film from 2:30 The Brain Revolution [R] 5:00 Suze Orman’s Ultimate Academy Award winner 4:00 The Brain Revolution [R] Retirement Guide [R] Morgan Neville. Beamed daily 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R] into American homes, Rogers MORNING Masterpiece: 50 and his cast of puppets and MORNING-AFTERNOON 7:00 Chicago from the Air [R] Fabulous Years! friends spoke simply and 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids 8:30 Chicago By ‘L’ with Geoffrey From Upstairs, Downstairs and I, directly to children about some Baer Geoffrey Baer hops Claudius to The Jewel in the Crown EVENING of life’s weightiest issues. on the CTA’s famous Red, and Downton Abbey – Masterpiece 10:00 Nature: Equus - Story of the 6:00 PBS NewsHour Blue, Green, Brown, Orange, has stood the test of time and Horse: Origins (Part 1 of 2) 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Yellow, Pink, and Purple Lines introduced generations of public The relationship between man Week in Review to bring you a fascinating television audiences to the delights and his noble steed is almost 7:30 Washington Week exploration of the colorful and of British period drama. Join host as old as civilization itself. Ever 8:00 Josh Groban: An Evening diverse neighborhoods that Alan Cumming to celebrate the iconic since the mysterious beginning of Harmony In celebration of Chicagoans access via the series that introduced generations of our extraordinary partner- Josh’s new album Harmony, city’s storied elevated train of viewers to the delights of British ship, horses helped shape the enjoy this compilation from system. Climb aboard with drama. human world. At the speed his virtual concert tours, Geoffrey as he shares untold of a horse, our ancestors including highlights from select stories about the history of Saturday, December 5 shows and never-before-seen the ‘ L’ and introduces you performances. Hear some to many of the attractions 7:00 pm of Josh’s greatest hits and you can reach by riding it, In the Spotlight fan favorites, and a few the businesses that grew up songs from the new album. around it, and the people who 9:30 Ledisi Live: A Tribute to Nina live and work in its shadow. EVENING Simone From the historic 11:30 Chicago from the Air [R] 6:00 PBS NewsHour Apollo Theatre, award-winning 7:00 Chicago Tonight jazz and R&B recording AFTERNOON 8:00 Rick Steves’ European artist Ledisi pays tribute to 1:00 Chicago River Tour with Christmas See Sat. legendary African American Geoffrey Baer Geoffrey takes Dec. 5 at 4:00 pm. [R] singer, songwriter, and civil us on an in-depth explora- 10:00 Making Sense of 2020 [R] rights activist, Nina Simone. tion of all three branches 11:00 BBC World News Photo: Courtesy of Andrew Eccles 11:00 BBC World News of the river, including the 11:30 To be announced 11:30 Chicago from the Air [R] less well-known stretches extending south to the Sanitary and Ship Canal and Tuesday 8 Saturday 5 winding north through the EARLY MORNING EARLY MORNING Botanic Garden and Skokie 12:00 To be announced 1:00 Suze Orman’s Ultimate Lagoons. Along the way, he 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] Retirement Guide [R] shares dramatic stories of the 3:00 Change Your Brain, river’s history, including how MORNING-AFTERNOON Heal Your Mind with Chicago reversed the river’s 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids Daniel Amen, MD [R] flow in one of America’s most Josh Groban 4:00 Rick Steves’ European ambitious and controversial EVENING Christmas From manger engineering projects ever. 6:00 PBS NewsHour scenes and mistletoe to wintry 3:30 Chicago from the Air [R] 7:00 Chicago Tonight Josh Groban: An wonderlands, this program 5:00 To be announced 8:00 Chicago from the Air [R] celebrates the Christmas 9:30 John Denver: Country Evening of Harmony season throughout the EVENING Roads - Live in England See In celebration of Josh’s new album European continent, offering a 6:00 To be announced Tues. Dec. 1 at 12:00 am. [R] Harmony, enjoy this compilation from colorful, musical celebration of 11:00 BBC World News his virtual concert tours, including Christmas revealing customs 11:30 To be announced highlights from select shows and from “the old countries” and Monday 7 never-before-seen performances. Hear holiday family traditions. EARLY MORNING some of Josh’s greatest hits and fan 12:00 To be announced Wednesday 9 favorites, and a few songs from the MORNING-AFTERNOON EARLY MORNING new album. 5:00-6:00 To be announced MORNING-AFTERNOON 12:00 To be announced Image: Courtesy of © LATW Productions Inc. 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] Friday, December 4 EVENING 8:00 pm 6:00 Making Sense of 2020 [R]

2020 DECEMBER 7 MORNING-AFTERNOON politics and university drinking 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids societies to find the killer. 8:10 Endeavour Season 7 on EVENING Masterpiece: Oracle As 6:00 PBS NewsHour Morse sees in 1970 at an Monday-Friday Mornings 5:00 Odd Squad 7:00 Chicago Tonight opera house in Venice, a mur- 5:30 Arthur 8:00 Dolly Parton: I Will Always der in Oxford puts Thursday 6:00 Pinkalicious & Peterrific Love You See Tues. on a quest to find the man 6:30 Nature Cat Saturday Mornings Dec. 1 at 10:00 pm. [R] responsible. Returning 7:00 Molly of Denali 9:30 Ken Burns: Here & There See home, Morse makes a new Tues. Dec. 1 at 8:30 pm. [R] acquaintance, and old friend- 7:30 Wild Kratts 6:00 Sesame Street 11:00 BBC World News ships show signs of strain. 8:00 Hero Elementary 6:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific 11:30 To be announced 10:00 To be announced 8:30 Xavier Riddle and the 7:00 Elinor Wonders Why Secret Museum 7:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 9:00 Curious George 8:00 Curious George Thursday 10 Sunday 13 9:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 8:30 Clifford the Big Red Dog EARLY MORNING EARLY MORNING 10:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 9:00 One-Hour Specials 12:00 To be announced 12:00 To be announced 10:30 Elinor Wonders Why 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 11:00 Sesame Street Sunday Mornings MORNING-AFTERNOON 11:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:00-6:00 To be announced Cat in the Hat 5:00 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids Afternoons 5:30 Arthur EVENING 6:00 Let’s Go Luna EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Black 12:00 Dinosaur Train 6:30 Wild Kratts 6:00 PBS NewsHour Voices Brandis Friedman 12:30 Clifford the Big Red Dog 7:00 Nature Cat 7:00 Chicago Tonight hosts this weekly series 1:00 Sesame Street 7:30 Nature Cat 8:00 To be announced focusing on stories relevant to 1:30 Elinor Wonders Why 8:00 Molly of Denali 11:00 BBC World News Chicago’s Black communities. 2:00 Hero Elementary 8:30 Molly of Denali 11:30 To be announced 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece 2:30 Let’s Go Luna 9:00 Hero Elementary (Part 1 of 8) A coach 3:00 Nature Cat 9:30 Xavier Riddle and the Friday 11 Secret Museum accident brings Charlotte to 3:30 Wild Kratts EARLY MORNING 10:00 Odd Squad Sanditon, where she meets 4:00 Molly of Denali 12:00 To be announced Tom and Sidney Parker. 4:30 Xavier Riddle and 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] Charlotte and Sidney have the Secret Museum an awkward encounter. MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids

EVENING Xavier Riddle and Yadina 6:00 PBS NewsHour In the Spotlight 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review 7:30 Washington Week 8:00 To be announced 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 To be announced Saturday 12

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MORNING-AFTERNOON 12:00 To be announced 4:30 Hanukkah: A Festival of Delights Explore the evolution of Hanukkah from a small holi- day within Judaism to promi- nence in American culture. William Shatner, Lainie Kazan, authors, rabbis, and others share historical background and personal memories. EVENING Hanukkah: A Festival 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino of Delights Voices Hugo Balta hosts this weekly series focusing on Explore the evolution of Hanukkah stories relevant to Chicago’s from a small holiday within Judaism Latino communities. to prominence in American culture. Elinor Wonders Why 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend William Shatner, Lainie Kazan, authors, 7:00 Grantchester Season 5 on rabbis, and others share historical Mondays-Fridays at 10:30 and 1:30 pm Masterpiece (Part 1 of 6) background and personal memories. When a student from an all- Saturdays at 7:00 am female college is found dead, Saturday, December 12 Will and Geordie must infiltrate 4:30 pm the murky world of campus

8 DECEMBER 2020 8:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: New (Part 2 of 8) Lady Denham Orleans (Part 3 of 3) Fabulous hosts a pineapple party for finds include an Andy Warhol West Indian heiress Miss portrait by Jamie Wyeth Lambe. Edward’s relatives from around 1975, a Chinese complicate matters. Charlotte gold-splashed bronze wine and Sidney have an vessel dating to about 1795, awkward encounter. and a 1904 English Smith & 9:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece Son tourbillon pocket watch. (Part 3 of 8) Young Stringer Which is valued at $75,000? presses Tom for back pay 9:00 Christmas with the owed his builders, cur- Tabernacle Choir featuring rently toiling under dangerous Kelli O’Hara and Richard conditions. Aided by the Thomas the Tabernacle new doctor, Charlotte Choir and Orchestra at 1800 South Prairie Avenue, Chicago and Sidney respond to an Temple Square are joined emergency. Miss Lambe by Broadway headliner Kelli Voted one of the top 10 holiday pines for her absent lover. O’Hara and actor Richard 10:00 To be announced Thomas (The Waltons), for the historic home tours in 2019 beloved Christmas tradition featuring favorite holiday mu- by USA Today and 10Best! Monday 14 sic, dancing, and storytelling. EARLY MORNING 10:00 Independent Lens: The 12:00 To be announced Force Go deep inside the long-troubled Oakland Police MORNING-AFTERNOON Department as it struggles 5:00 Chicago Tonight: Black to confront federal demands Voices See Sun. Dec. 13 for reform, a popular at 6:00 pm. [R] uprising following events 5:30 Chicago Tonight: Latino in Ferguson, Missouri, and Voices See Sat. Dec. 12 an explosive scandal. at 6:00 pm. [R] 11:30 BBC World News 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids

EVENING Tuesday 15 6:00 PBS NewsHour EARLY MORNING 7:00 Chicago Tonight 12:00 Amanpour and Company Christmas Candlelight Tours 1:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 8) See Sun. Saturday and Sunday Dec. 13 at 7:00 pm. [R] December 12-13 & 19-20 In the Spotlight 2:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 8) See Sun. Tours begin every 15 minutes Dec. 13 at 8:00 pm. [R] First tour 4:30pm, last tour 6:30pm 3:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 8) See Sun. Explore Christmas customs and decorations of Dec. 13 at 9:00 pm. [R] the late 19th century including two trees, toys, 4:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices [R] the eight-course Christmas feast, and more! 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] House Decorated MORNING-AFTERNOON for Christmas 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids November 25 - December 30 EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour Experience the house, decked out in its 7:00 Chicago Tonight Christmas finery, during a docent-led tour. 8:00 Ella Wishes You a Swingin’ Christmas, with Vanessa Tours offered Wednesday, Friday, and Williams Enjoy an evening Saturday at 11:30am, 1:00pm, and 2:30pm. Photo: Courtesy of Simon Ridgway/© Red Planet Pictures / ITV 2019 celebrating Ella Fitzgerald’s entire iconic album of holiday Theo James as Sidney Parker classics presented by the PLEASE NOTE

American Pops Orchestra. Featuring appearances by All tours by advance ticket only

Sanditon on Dee Dee Bridgewater, Norm Tours limited to four people to ensure Masterpiece Lewis, Carmen Ruby Floyd, Nova Payton, Dave Detwiler, safe social-distancing; face mask required Experience Jane Austen’s and Morgan James. last, fragmented work, where 9:00 I Am Ireland This program Tours subject to change based on current state entrepreneurs, love interests, legacy features songs and stories hunters, hypochondriacs, and medical with the traditional Irish tenor and city COVID-19 guidelines mountebanks come together at a Paddy Homan & Orchestra. struggling resort aimed to be the next Originally developed for the For tickets and more information fashionable playground in early 1800s stage, this concert was filmed England. at Chicago’s renowned Old St. visit GlessnerHouse.org Pat’s Church and in the private Sundays, December 13, residences of musicians, or call 312.326.1480 20, and 27, 7:00 pm featuring the 40 members of

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The City Lights Orchestra, 2:30 Frontline: I Am Not Lawn, who picked El Solazo conducted by Rich Daniels. a Monster See Tues. in the West Elsdon neighbor- 10:00 Frontline: I Am Not a Dec. 15 at 10:00 pm. [R] hood; and performing arts Monster The story of an 3:30 Antiques Roadshow: New center director Tommy Hensel American boy taken by his Orleans (Part 3 of 3) [R] from Berwyn, who loves mother to the ISIS-controlled 4:30 BBC World News Fulton Market Kitchen. city of Raqqa. This special 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 8:30 Chicago Stories: The Photo: Courtesy of the artist report, three years in the mak- Marshall Field’s Christmas ing, investigates how the fam- MORNING-AFTERNOON Windows For over a century, ily ended up in Syria, and what 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids Marshall Field’s delighted happened when they came children at Christmas time – home to the United States. EVENING the biggest attraction being 11:00 BBC World News 6:00 PBS NewsHour the Christmas windows. These 11:30 Amanpour and Company 7:00 Chicago Tonight fantasies behind glass were a 8:00 Shelf Life: The Story of huge marketing success for Lanzi Candy For 60 years, the company, but they have Wednesday 16 Lanzi Candy Company was come to mean much more EARLY MORNING one of dozens of family-run to the people of Chicago. 12:30 Antiques Roadshow: New confectioneries that alongside 9:00 Wild Travels: America’s Most Orleans (Part 3 of 3) See candy giants Brach’s, Mars, Unusual Festivals This pro- Irish tenor Paddy Homan Mon. Dec. 14 at 8:00 pm. [R] and Wrigley, earned Chicago gram, hosted by Will Clinger, 1:30 Christmas with the the title of “Candy Capital of is your VIP pass to the craziest Tabernacle Choir featur- the World.” Filmmaker Michael annual celebrations that the I Am Ireland ing Kelli O’Hara and Lahey explores his Italian USA has to offer. From the This program features songs and Richard Thomas See Mon. immigrant grandfather Elmo Rattlesnake Roundup in Texas stories with the traditional Irish tenor Dec. 14 at 9:00 pm. [R] Lanzi’s sweet piece of Chicago to Pierogi Fest in Indiana, Paddy Homan & Orchestra. Originally 2:30 Independent Lens: The history in a story of economic enjoy these truly odd and developed for the stage, this concert Force See Mon. Dec. 14 shifts, family division, and one delightfully quirky festivals. film was filmed at Chicago’s renowned at 10:00 pm. [R] entrepreneur’s seven-year 10:00 A Few Good Pie Places Old St. Pat’s Church and in the private 4:00 Chicago Tonight: quest to remake Elmo’s most Come along on a tour of residences of musicians, featuring Black Voices [R] popular confection, Lanzi’s fruity and creamy pie shops the 40 members of The City Lights 4:30 BBC World News Cashew Nut Crunch. from Maine to Minnesota. Orchestra, conducted by Rich Daniels. 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 9:30 Foods of Chicago: A 11:00 BBC World News Delicious History You are 11:30 Amanpour and Company Tuesday, December 15 MORNING-AFTERNOON what you eat, goes the old 9:00 pm 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids saying. So what can we learn about Chicagoans from the EVENING food on our plates? Geoffrey 6:00 PBS NewsHour Baer plays both taste tester 7:00 Chicago Tonight and tour guide, exploring the In the Spotlight 8:00 Nature: Animal Odd Couples little-known stories behind Uncover the variety of activity, Chicago’s favorite foods. both human and natural, that 11:30 BBC World News occurs on the slopes of active volcanoes. See the surprising number of animals that survive Friday 18 and thrive alongside these EARLY MORNING fiery natural phenomena. 12:00 Amanpour and Company Image: Courtesy of the filmmaker the of Courtesy Image: 9:00 NOVA: Einstein’s Quantum 1:00 Nature: Animal Odd Riddle Quantum entanglement Couples See Wed. is poised to revolutionize Dec. 16 at 8:00 pm. [R] technology from networks to 2:00 NOVA: Einstein’s Quantum Photo: Courtesy of The Haring Foundation Haring The of Courtesy Photo: code breaking, but first we Riddle See Wed. Dec. 16 need to know that it’s real. at 9:00 pm. [R] Join physicists as they capture 3:00 NOVA: Apollo’s Daring light from across the universe Mission See Wed. Dec. 16 in a bid to prove Einstein’s at 10:00 pm. [R] “spooky action at a distance.” 4:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Egypt’s 10:00 NOVA: Apollo’s Daring Nile, Alexandria, and Luxor Mission Hear Apollo 4:30 BBC World News astronauts and engineers tell 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] Keith Haring as a young boy the inside story of how the first Shelf Life: The Story mission to the moon, Apollo MORNING-AFTERNOON 8, pioneered groundbreaking 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids of Lanzi Candy technologies that would pave American Masters: For 60 years, Lanzi Candy Company the way to land a man on the EVENING Keith Haring – was one of dozens of family-run moon and win the space race. 6:00 PBS NewsHour Street Art Boy confectioneries that alongside candy 11:00 BBC World News 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The giants Brach’s, Mars, and Wrigley, 11:30 Amanpour and Company Week in Review Explore the definitive story of earned Chicago the title of “Candy 7:30 Washington Week international art sensation Keith Capital of the World.” Michael 8:00 Check, Please! Heritage, Haring who blazed a trail through Lahey explores his Italian immigrant Thursday 17 El Solazo, Fulton Market the art scene of ‘80s New York and grandfather Elmo Lanzi’s sweet EARLY MORNING Kitchen Alpana welcomes revolutionized the worlds of pop piece of Chicago history in a story of 12:30 Ella Wishes You A Swingin’ West Town resident and culture and fine art. The film features economic shifts, and family division. Christmas, with Vanessa esthetician Nanda Wait, previously unheard interviews Williams See Tues. who recommended Heritage with Haring. Thursday, December 17 Dec. 15 at 8:00 pm. [R] Restaurant and Caviar Bar 8:00 pm 1:30 I Am Ireland See Tues. in Humboldt Park; teacher Monday, December 21 Dec. 15 at 9:00 pm. [R] Michael Konkoleski of West 10:00 pm

10 DECEMBER 2020 In the Spotlight him he has just 24 hours to unexpectedly at Nonnatus Saturday 19 live, he goes into a tailspin. House, causing both joy EARLY MORNING 9:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: and chaos for the midwives. 12:30 Shelf Life: The Story of Private Investigators – This Meanwhile, Mother Superior Lanzi Candy See Thurs. Rough Magic Magician falls ill, and it’s time for a new Dec. 17 at 8:00 pm. [R] Lawrence Pross is in the spiritual leader to be elected. 2:00 Foods of Chicago: A midst of his grand finale 3:30 Call the Midwife Holiday Delicious History See Thurs. when tragedy strikes and his Special 2019 Mother Mildred Dec. 17 at 9:30 pm. [R] unlucky volunteer is fatally and the Nonnatus House

4:00 Nature: Animal Odd trapped in his medieval iron team go to the Outer Hebrides Photo: Courtesy of © Rebecca Larson Couples [R] maiden. Lawrence’s daughter in response to a nursing 5:00 Chicago Tonight: The Maggie doesn’t believe the shortage. Navigating the Week in Review [R] trick was faulty and convinces terrain, they strive to keep up 5:30 The McLaughlin Group him to enlist Frank and Lu. with the needs of the locals. 10:00 Dreaming of a Jewish 5:00 Charley Pride: American MORNING Christmas This irreverent Masters Explore the 6:00-10:00 WTTW Kids documentary tells the story of complicated history of the 10:00 This Old House: the unlikely Jewish immigrants American South and its music Project Interrupted who, enamored with Broadway through the life of country 10:30 Ask This Old House: and Hollywood, wrote some star Charley Pride. Raised in All About Windows of the most popular songs in segregated Mississippi, his 11:00 Flavor of Poland: Krakow America: Christmas music. journey shows the ways that 11:30 Lidia’s Kitchen The doc features rarely seen artistic expression can triumph archival footage, musical over prejudice and injustice. Wheaton College AFTERNOON performances, and interviews. Christmas Festival 12:00 Cook’s Country 11:00 Wild Travels: America’s EVENING 2020: Through His 12:30 Pati’s Mexican Table Most Unusual Festivals See 6:00 Chicago Tonight: 1:00 Simply Ming: On the Road Fri. Dec. 18 at 9:00 pm. [R] Black Voices Own Redeeming Love in California – Monterey 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend The Wheaton College Conservatory of 1:30 Stephen Raichlen’s Project Sunday 20 7:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece Music in Wheaton, Illinois, performs Fire: Steak and Beyond (Part 4 of 8) Lord Babington its annual Christmas Festival Concert, 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen EARLY MORNING courts Esther, who prefers Through His Own Redeeming Love. from Cook’s Illustrated: 12:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece Edward. Charlotte and Sidney Watch as the Wheaton College The Perfect Cookie (Part 1 of 8) [R] clash over Miss Lambe’s Concert Choir, Harp Ensemble, Men’s 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from 1:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece illicit meeting with Otis. Glee Club, Women’s Chorale, and Cook’s Illustrated: Childhood (Part 2 of 8) [R] Young Stringer and Charlotte Symphonic Band perform various Favorites, Grown Up 2:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece strike up a friendship. choral and instrumental pieces, 3:00 My Greek Table with (Part 3 of 8) [R] 8:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece including holiday favorites including Diane Kochilas: The 3:00 Ella Wishes You A (Part 5 of 8) Young Stringer “Greensleeves,” “Hark! the Herald Dodecanese for Dinner Swingin’ Christmas, with threatens a worker boycott of Angels Sing,” and “Once in Royal 3:30 A Chef’s Life Vanessa Williams [R] the annual cricket match with David’s City.” 4:00 Christopher Kimball’s 4:00 Christmas with the Sanditon’s gentlemen. Even Milk Street Television: Tabernacle Choir featur- Charlotte joins the game as Thursday, December 24 Middle East Favorites ing Kelli O’Hara and simmering tensions boil over. 4:30 Check, Please! Heritage, Richard Thomas [R] 9:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece 8:00 pm El Solazo, Fulton Market (Part 6 of 8) At loggerheads Kitchen See Fri. Dec. 18 MORNING over the disappearance of at 8:00 pm. [R] 5:00-11:00 WTTW Kids Miss Lambe, Charlotte and 1:30 Shakespeare & Hathaway: 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: 11:00 Firing Line with Sidney comb the London Private Investigators – Ethiopia – A Development Margaret Hoover underworld to find her. The Promised End See Sat. Story Rick uses Ethiopia as 11:30 The Chavis Chronicles Meanwhile, Tom tries to save Dec. 19 at 8:00 pm. [R] a classroom for understand- Sanditon and his marriage, 2:30 Shakespeare & Hathaway: ing global hunger and AFTERNOON and Edward and Clara hatch Private Investigators – extreme poverty – exploring 12:00 Fly Brother with Ernest a cunning plot to seize This Rough Magic See Sat. and how to beat it. White II: Cape Town – Lady Denham’s legacy. Dec. 19 at 9:00 pm. [R] 5:30 MEXICO – One Plate at a The City Beautiful Amid 10:00 Check, Please! Heritage, 3:30 Dreaming of a Jewish Time with Rick Bayless: good food and belly El Solazo, Fulton Christmas See Sat. Picture-Perfect Pozole Party laughs, Ernest explores the Market Kitchen [R] Dec. 19 at 10:00 pm. [R] spectacular natural and 10:30 The Great British Baking 4:30 BBC World News EVENING urban beauty of Cape Town, Show: Pies (Part 5 of 10) 5:00 Chicago Tonight: Black 6:00 Chicago Tonight: South Africa, by car with his In the Signature, the bakers Voices See Sun. Dec. 20 Latino Voices road dog, Charlie Walters. must master a perfect at 6:00 pm. [R] 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 12:30 Kitchen Queens: Wellington. The fiendishly 5:30 Chicago Tonight: 7:00 Doc Martin: Listen with New Orleans difficult Technical challenge, Latino Voices [R] Mother Martin reluctantly 1:00 Field Trip with Curtis Stone hand-raised pies, proves the agrees to help Louisa hand 1:30 European Christmas downfall of many. American MORNING-AFTERNOON out awards at her school’s Markets Discover Europe’s pies are the Showstopper 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids sports day. Ruth and Margaret Christmas markets, where the feature. Who will be this have a showdown. Mike has a town center, market square, or week’s star-spangled baker? EVENING shady revelation from his past. just the narrow, cobblestone 11:30 Austin City Limits: 6:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: streets of the cities and towns Khalid/Mac Demarco 7:00 Chicago Tonight Private Investigators – The of Europe come alive in winter. 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Orlando Promised End Undertaker The Kingston Trio provides (Part 1 of 3) Finds include Peter Quintus leads a quiet special folk arrangements of Monday 21 Joe Strummer’s boots, circa and unassuming life with his traditional Christmas carols. EARLY MORNING 1979; Ned Hanlon champion- loving wife Anne. So when he’s 2:00 Call the Midwife Holiday 12:30 Doc Martin: Listen ship pins and cufflinks, circa visited one morning by two Special 2018 See what with Mother See Sat. 1895; and a 1941 Grant Wood mysterious hitmen who inform happens when a new nun and Dec. 19 at 7:00 pm. [R] “March” lithograph. Learn four Chinese orphans arrive which is valued at $200,000!

2020 DECEMBER 11 12 DECEMBER 2020 9:00 Antiques Roadshow: 1:30 Sanditon on Masterpiece Orlando (Part 2 of 3) Finds (Part 5 of 8) See Sun. include a 1965 NASA “Corned Dec. 20 at 8:00 pm. [R] Beef” archive, a Korean The 2:30 Sanditon on Masterpiece Water Moon Viewing Guanyin (Part 6 of 8) See Sun. painting, and a 1918 World Dec. 20 at 9:00 pm. [R] War I peach can label letter. 3:30 The Great British Baking Which is the big find? Show: Pies (Part 5 of 10) See 10:00 American Masters: Keith Sun. Dec. 20 at 10:30 pm. [R] Haring – Street Art Boy 4:30 BBC World News Explore the definitive story 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] of international art sensation Keith Haring who blazed a MORNING-AFTERNOON trail through the art scene of 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids ‘80s New York and revolu- tionized the worlds of pop EVENING culture and fine art. The film 6:00 PBS NewsHour features previously unheard 7:00 Chicago Tonight interviews with Haring. 8:00 Finding Your Roots: 11:00 BBC World News Reporting on the Reporters 11:30 Amanpour and Company Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. shows journalists Christiane Amanpour, Ann Curry, and Tuesday 22 Lisa Ling that the stories EARLY MORNING within their own family trees 12:30 Sanditon on Masterpiece are every bit as compelling (Part 4 of 8) See Sun. as the news stories they have Dec. 20 at 7:00 pm. [R] been covering for the world. 9:00 Lincoln is Crying: The Grifters, Grafters & Governors of Illinois This new documentary is a scathing indictment of politics in the In the Spotlight “Land of Lincoln,” a funny/ sad look at the pervasive, deep-rooted culture of political corruption in Illinois and Chicago. Voiced by comedic actor David Pasquesi (Veep, Lodge 49, At Home with Amy Sedaris). 10:30 Chicago Stories: The the Arctic fox and the bison 3:00 Call the Midwife Holiday Marshall Field’s Christmas of Yellowstone. Snow looks Special 2019 See Sun. Windows See Fri. Dec. 18 magical, but it’s a harsh Dec. 20 at 3:30 pm. [R] at 8:30 pm. [R] reality to these animals. 4:30 BBC World News 11:00 BBC World News 9:00 NOVA: Pluto and Beyond 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] Photo: Courtesy of Neal Street Productions 11:30 Amanpour and Company Join the mission as the New Horizons spacecraft MORNING-AFTERNOON attempts to fly by NASA’s 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids Wednesday 23 most distant target yet. Since EARLY MORNING it explored Pluto in 2015, New EVENING 12:30 Antiques Roadshow: Horizons is zooming toward 6:00 PBS NewsHour Orlando (Part 1 of 3) See Ultima Thule, an object four 7:00 Chicago Tonight Mon. Dec. 21 at 8:00 pm. [R] billion miles from Earth. 7:30 Chicago Stories: 1:30 Antiques Roadshow: 10:00 Nature: Wild Way of the The Marshall Field’s Orlando (Part 2 of 3) See Vikings Experience the natural Christmas Windows [R] Mon. Dec. 21 at 9:00 pm. [R] world through the eyes of 8:00 Wheaton College Christmas Call the Midwife 2:30 American Masters: Keith the Vikings. From the killer Festival 2020: Through His Haring – Street Art Boy See whales of the North Sea to the Own Redeeming Love The Holiday Special 2020 Mon. Dec. 21 at 10:00 pm. [R] volcanic mounts of Iceland, Wheaton College Conservatory In December 1965, everyone at 3:30 Charley Pride: American explore the deep history and of Music in Wheaton, Illinois, Nonnatus House is looking forward Masters See Sun. cultural respect the Vikings performs its annual Christmas to a traditional Christmas, but things Dec. 20 at 5:00 pm. [R] had with the land and sea. Festival Concert, Through don’t go to plan. Poor Sister Monica 4:30 BBC World News Ewan McGregor narrates. His Own Redeeming Love. Joan is rushed to the hospital, while 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 11:00 BBC World News Watch as the Wheaton College Trixie is angry to receive a subscription 11:30 Amanpour and Company Concert Choir, Harp Ensemble, to a Marriage Bureau as a Christmas MORNING-AFTERNOON Men’s Glee Club, Women’s gift! Meanwhile, the Circus arrives 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids Thursday 24 Chorale, and Symphonic Band in Poplar bringing new friendships perform various choral and and experiences, there’s an exciting EVENING Christmas Eve instrumental pieces, including adventure for Nurse Crane, and 6:00 PBS NewsHour holiday favorites including Shelagh is involved in a deeply moving 7:00 Chicago Tonight EARLY MORNING “Greensleeves,” “Hark! the birth. Peter Davison (Doctor Who) 8:00 Nature: Snowbound - 12:30 Finding Your Roots: Herald Angels Sing,” and guest stars. Animals of Winter Travel Reporting on the “Once in Royal David’s City.” across the snow globe with Reporters See Tues. 9:00 The St. Olaf Christmas Friday, December 25 wildlife cameraman Gordon Dec. 22 at 8:00 pm. [R] Festival: A New Song of Buchanan to meet animal 1:30 Call the Midwife Holiday Grace and Truth This year’s 8:00 pm survivors of winter, from the Special 2018 See Sun. Festival features the St. Olaf penguins of Antarctica to Dec. 20 at 2:00 pm. [R] Choir, the St. Olaf Orchestra,

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2020 DECEMBER See page 6 for highlights and to learn more about how to watch WTTW (11-1), WTTW Prime (11-2 ), and WTTW Create/WTTW World (11-3 ). 6:00 pm 6:30 pm 7:00 pm 7:30 pm 8:00 pm 8:30 pm 9:00 pm 9:30 pm 10:00 pm 10:30 pm 11-1 PBS NewsHour Chicago Tonight Making Sense of 2020 Ken Burns: Here & There Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You 1 11-2 Milk Street Television America’s Test Kitchen Call the Midwife Howards End on Masterpiece Jamestown Chicago Tonight Jay’s Chicago TUE 11-3 Relieving Stress with Yoga with Peggy Cappy America ReFramed Reminders of … PBS NewsHour DW The Day BBC World News 11-1 PBS NewsHour Chicago Tonight Chicago from the Air; Great Treasure Hunt Sweepstakes Drawing (9:00) Making Sense of 2020 (9:10) Chicago from the Air (10:15) 2 11-2 Wisconsin Foodie Around the Corner The Miniaturist on Masterpiece The Miniaturist on Masterpiece The Miniaturist on Masterpiece Chicago Tonight Jay’s Chicago WED 11-3 Reconstruction: America After the Civil War Looking Over Jordan PBS NewsHour DW The Day BBC World News 11-1 PBS NewsHour Chicago Tonight Won’t You Be My Neighbor? 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Chicago Stories Wild Travels: America’s Most Unusual Festivals A Few Good Pie Places 18 11-2 Start Up Rick Steves’ Europe Durrells in Corfu on Masterpiece Sanditon on Masterpiece World on Fire The Week in Review Washington Week FRI 11-3 Inside the Vatican Holy Silence PBS NewsHour DW The Day BBC World News 11-1 Latino Voices PBS NewsHour Wknd. Doc Martin Shakespeare & Hathaway Shakespeare & Hathaway Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas 19 11-2 Poldark on Masterpiece Antiques Roadshow Maya Angelou: American Masters Austin City Limits SAT 11-3 Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman … Maya Angelou: American Masters America ReFramed Reel South 11-1 Black Voices PBS NewsHour Wknd. Sanditon on Masterpiece Sanditon on Masterpiece Sanditon on Masterpiece Check, Please! Great British Baking … 20 11-2 History Detectives Influenza 1918: American Experience Poison Squad: American Experience Across The Pacific SUN 11-3 Three Faiths, One God … Nature Same God Cities of Light: The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain 11-1 PBS NewsHour Chicago Tonight Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow Keith Haring - Street Art Boy: American Masters 21 11-2 Motorweek Ask This Old House NOVA Nature Prehistoric Road Trip Chicago Tonight MON 11-3 The Many Storeys and Last Days of Thomas … Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer Tending Nature Stories from the Stage PBS NewsHour DW The Day BBC World News 11-1 PBS NewsHour Chicago Tonight Finding Your Roots Lincoln is Crying Chicago Stories 22 11-2 Milk Street Television America’s Test Kitchen Call the Midwife Hillary Jamestown Chicago Tonight TUE 11-3 Standing on Sacred Ground America ReFramed Education of … PBS NewsHour DW The Day BBC World News 11-1 PBS NewsHour Chicago Tonight Nature NOVA Nature 23 11-2 Wisconsin Foodie Around the Corner Doc Martin Shakespeare & Hathaway Shakespeare & Hathaway Chicago Tonight WED 11-3 Independent Lens Guru Nanak: The Founder of Sikhism PBS NewsHour DW The Day BBC World News 11-1 PBS NewsHour Chicago Tonight Wheaton College Christmas Festival Concert 2020 The St. Olaf Christmas Festival: A New Song … Christmas at Belmont 24 11-2 The Great British Baking Show Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2020 Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2020 Chicago Tonight Chicago Stories THU 11-3 NOVA NOVA Earth’s Sacred Wonders PBS NewsHour DW Focus on Europe BBC World News 11-1 PBS NewsHour BBC World News … Washington Week Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2020 Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas European Christmas … 25 11-2 Call the Midwife Call the Midwife Inside the Vatican Chihuly Fire & Light FRI 11-3 Faith in the Big House Your Health: A Sacred Matter PBS NewsHour DW Global 3000 Education of … 11-1 Latino Voices PBS NewsHour Wknd. Doc Martin Shakespeare & Hathaway Shakespeare & Hathaway City Hall (9:55) 26 11-2 Poldark on Masterpiece Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow Austin City Limits SAT 11-3 American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story Great Performances: Twilight - Los Angeles POV Shorts America ReFramed 11-1 Black Voices PBS NewsHour Wknd. Sanditon on Masterpiece Sanditon on Masterpiece Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2020 Great British Baking … 27 11-2 History Detectives Future of America’s … Roads to Memphis: American Experience Lady You Shot Me: The Life and Death of Sam Cooke Across The Pacific SUN 11-3 City Hall Our American Family 11-1 PBS NewsHour Chicago Tonight Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow Vernon Jordan: Make It Plain 28 11-2 Motorweek Ask This Old House NOVA Nature Prehistoric Road Trip Chicago Tonight MON 11-3 Gandhi’s Awakening & Gandhi’s Gift Gandhi’s Awakening & Gandhi’s Gift Tending Nature Stories from the Stage PBS NewsHour DW Global 3000 BBC World News

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11-1 is WTTW 11-2 is WTTW Prime 11-3 is WTTW Create and World 16 DECEMBER 2020 the St. Olaf Cantorei, the in contemporary Christmas Europe as the springboard epic look at Boston’s city St. Olaf Chapel Choir, the - from carols to turkey, for world exploration - Rick government, covering racial Manitou Singers, and the gift-giving to mistletoe and Steves shares his reasons justice, housing, climate Viking Chorus, performing mulled wine - has surpris- why. This special episode action, and more, focusing on as individual groups and ing Tudor origins, rooted is a sonnet to travel - an Boston mayor Marty Walsh. as a massed ensemble. in devotion and charity. introspective love story, set in 10:00 Christmas at Belmont This 10:30 European Christmas Europe, that vividly celebrates special features Belmont Markets See Sun. the rewards of exploring Sunday 27 University students along Dec. 20 at 1:30 pm. [R] our world and the joy that EARLY MORNING with Michael W. Smith, CeCe 11:00 BBC World News awaits those who travel. 2:30 Lincoln is Crying: The Winans, and the Nashville 11:30 Amanpour and Company 5:30 MEXICO – One Plate at a Grifters, Grafters & Children’s Choir. Taped in Time with Rick Bayless: Governors of Illinois See Nashville’s Schermerhorn Beautifully Balanced Ceviche Tues. Dec. 22 at 9:00 pm. [R] Symphony Center, the show Saturday 26 4:00 Nature: Wild Way of includes classic holiday EARLY MORNING EVENING the Vikings [R] songs and festive tunes. 12:30 Nature: Snowbound - 6:00 Chicago Tonight: 11:00 Christmas with the Animals of Winter See Wed. Latino Voices MORNING Tabernacle Choir featur- Dec. 23 at 8:00 pm. [R] 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 5:00-11:00 WTTW Kids ing Kelli O’Hara and 1:30 NOVA: Pluto and Beyond See 7:00 Doc Martin: Departure Louisa 11:00 Firing Line with Richard Thomas [R] Wed. Dec. 23 at 9:00 pm. [R] has shocking news for Martin, Margaret Hoover 2:30 Nature: Wild Way of Bert and Jennifer’s party goes 11:30 The Chavis Chronicles the Vikings See Wed. off with a bang, and Al has a Friday 25 Dec. 23 at 10:00 pm. [R] business proposition for Ruth. AFTERNOON Christmas Day 3:30 Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of 8:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway, 12:00 Fly Brother with Ernest Tudor Christmas See Fri. Private Investigators: Toil White II: Double Feature – EARLY MORNING Dec. 25 at 9:30 pm. [R] and Trouble When the Mayor Bogota and Casablanca 12:00 BBC World News 4:30 European Christmas of Arden is discovered mur- Ernest hangs out in 12:30 Wheaton College Christmas Markets [R] dered in his isolated cottage, Colombia’s capital city with Festival 2020: Through His 5:00 Washington Week [R] suspicion falls on a local man, his bud, telenovela heartthrob Own Redeeming Love See 5:30 The McLaughlin Group but he’s nowhere to be found. Roberto Manrique. Then, Thurs. Dec. 24 at 8:00 pm. [R] 9:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway, it’s on to Morocco’s most 1:30 The St. Olaf Christmas MORNING Private Investigators: Exit, underrated city, replete with a Festival: A New Song of 6:00-10:00 WTTW Kids Pursued by a Bear It’s a slow range of delicious delights, as Joy and Hope See Thurs. 10:00 This Old House: New day in the office for Frank guided by his friends, Omar Dec. 24 at 9:00 pm. [R] Light in Old Windows and Lu until a hysterical Sally Wydadi and Thierry Kabeya. 2:30 Christmas at Belmont 10:30 Ask This Old House: Balthasar flies into the office. 12:30 Kitchen Queens: See Thurs. Dec. 24 Installing Water Features 9:55 City Hall Master long-form New Orleans at 10:00 pm. [R] 11:00 Flavor of Poland: Warsaw documentarian Frederick 1:00 Field Trip with Curtis Stone 3:30 Christmas with the 11:30 Lidia’s Kitchen Wiseman delivers this 1:30 To be announced Tabernacle Choir featur- ing Kelli O’Hara and AFTERNOON Richard Thomas [R] 12:00 Cook’s Country 4:30 BBC World News 12:30 Pati’s Mexican Table 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 1:00 Simply Ming: On the Road Do it Yourself Saturdays 5:30 Check, Please! Heritage, in California – San Jose El Solazo, Fulton 1:30 Stephen Raichlen’s Project 10:00 This Old House Market Kitchen [R] Fire: Fish Hits the Fire 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen 10:30 Ask This Old House MORNING-AFTERNOON from Cook’s Illustrated: 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids How to Braise Everything 11:00 Flavor of Poland 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from EVENING Cook’s Illustrated: Tasty Thai 11:30 Lidia’s Kitchen 6:00 PBS NewsHour 3:00 My Greek Table with Diane 7:00 BBC World News America Kochilas: Aegean Cuisine 12:00 Cook’s Country 7:30 Washington Week 3:30 A Chef’s Life 8:00 Call the Midwife Holiday 4:00 Christopher Kimball’s 12:30 Pati’s Mexican Table Special 2020 In December Milk Street Television: 1965, everyone at Nonnatus Vietnamese Every Day 1:00 Simply Ming House is looking forward to 4:30 Check, Please! Ema, a traditional Christmas, but Passero, Whisk Alpana things don’t go to plan. Poor welcomes Villa Park resident 1:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire Sister Monica Joan is rushed and medical science liaison to the hospital, while Trixie is Monica Timmerman, who 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen angry to receive a subscription recommended the River North to a Marriage Bureau as a eatery EMA; writer Helen 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen Christmas gift! Meanwhile, Weiner, who loves Passero in the Circus arrives in Poplar Arlington Heights; and South 3:00 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas bringing new friendships Loop business development and experiences, there’s executive Carlos Vasquez, who 3:30 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television an exciting adventure for chose Whisk in West Town. Nurse Crane, and Shelagh 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: 4:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television is involved in a deeply Why We Travel In times moving birth. Peter Davison of crisis and challenge, we 4:30 Check, Please! (Doctor Who) guest stars. ask ourselves: What is the 9:30 Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days true value of travel? Is it just 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe of Tudor Christmas Join hedonism…or something Lucy Worsley on a 12-day more powerful? After a lifetime 5:30 Mexico: One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless extravaganza as she discovers of exploring Europe - and that much of what we enjoy inspiring Americans to see

2020 DECEMBER 17 2:00 Pritzker Military Presents Pursued by a Bear See Sat. in Charlottetown. She misses 7:30 United in Song: Celebrating Bestselling author Antony Dec. 26 at 9:00 pm. [R] Matthew and Marilla, and is the Resilience of America Beevor discusses his book, 3:30 A Few Good Pie Places See overwhelmed by loneliness, Join us for an evening of pow- Ardennes, 1944: Hitler’s Last Fri. Dec. 18 at 10:00 pm. [R] city life, and the intense erful performances to unite Gamble, a history of the 4:30 BBC World News competition. Will Anne find and celebrate our country, Battle of the Bulge that brings 5:00 Chicago Tonight: Black that the dark cloud over her affirming our commitment to realism to the battlefield and Voices See Sat. Dec. 26 life does have a silver lining? come together as Americans coherence to the larger story at 6:00 pm. [R] 11:00 BBC World News through the arts. The slave of the Second World War. 5:30 Chicago Tonight: Latino 11:30 Amanpour and Company cemetery at Mt. Vernon will 3:00 Craft in America: Storytellers Voices See Sun. Dec. 27 be highlighted, with a moving Meet artists who use narrative at 6:00 pm. [R] narrative by Anna Deavere to communicate personal and Wednesday 30 Smith and a special perfor- universal truths. Featuring MORNING-AFTERNOON EARLY MORNING mance by Denyce Graves. artist Nicholas Galanin, 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids 12:30 Antiques Roadshow: 9:00 Sherlock Season 4 on Julie Schafler Dale, Linda J. Orlando (Part 3 of 3) See Masterpiece: The Six Mendelson, George Rodriguez, EVENING Mon. Dec. 28 at 8:00 pm. [R] Thatchers Sherlock Holmes is and Christina Bothwell. 6:00 PBS NewsHour 1:30 Antiques Roadshow: back once more on British soil, 4:00 Craft in America: Democracy 7:00 Chicago Tonight Harrisburg (Part 1 of 3) See as Doctor Watson and his wife Explore how craft is 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Mon. Dec. 28 at 9:00 pm. [R] prepare for their biggest chal- intertwined with our nation’s Orlando (Part 3 of 3) Finds 2:30 Vernon Jordan: Make it lenge yet: becoming parents. defining principles. Featuring include a 1946 Einstein-signed Plain See Mon. Dec. 28 10:35 Sherlock Season 4 on Robert L. Lynch, Sammy photo and prints; an Agassiz at 10:00 pm. [R] Masterpiece: The Lying Little, Smithsonian Institution pendant watch, circa 1905; 3:30 Chicago Tonight: Detective In this episode, museums, Harvey Pratt, the and a Chinese gold-splashed Black Voices [R] Sherlock faces perhaps the Veterans History Project, bronze vase, circa 1850. 4:00 Check, Please! Ema, most chilling enemy of his Eudorah Moore, and Berea 9:00 Antiques Roadshow: Passero, Whisk [R] long career: the powerful College Student Craft. Harrisburg (Part 1 of 3) 4:30 BBC World News and seemingly unassail- 5:00 Making Sense of 2020 [R] Finds include a Pennsylvania 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] able Culverton Smith, a Dutch coffeepot, an 1892 man with a dark secret. EVENING H. F. Farny painting, and a MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Rene Lalique necklace. 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids Black Voices 10:00 Vernon Jordan: Make it 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend Plain This film explores EVENING In the Spotlight 7:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece Vernon Jordan’s rise from the 6:00 PBS NewsHour (Part 7 of 8) With the segregated South, his tenure 7:00 Chicago Tonight approach of Sanditon’s as the head of several civil 8:00 Nature: Cold Warriors – regatta, the success of rights organizations, and his Wolves and Buffalo For the resort hangs in the current position as a partner thousands of years, wolves balance - as do assorted at a corporate law firm and hunted buffalo across the romances. How will Charlotte, financial behemoth Lazard. vast North American plains Sidney, and other lovers fare 11:00 BBC World News until the westward settlement in the marriage game? 11:30 Amanpour and Company of the continent saw the 8:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece virtual extinction of both. (Part 8 of 8) On the night of 9:00 NOVA: The Impossible Flight the Midsummer Ball, romance, Tuesday 29 Follow two intrepid pilots jealousy, and betrayal fill the EARLY MORNING as they take on the greatest air. Events conspire to leave 12:30 Sanditon on Masterpiece aviation adventure of our Charlotte and the Parker (Part 7 of 8) See Sun. time, overcoming countless family facing difficult choices. Dec. 27 at 7:00 pm. [R] challenges as they construct 9:00 Call the Middwife Holiday 1:30 Sanditon on Masterpiece and fly the first solar-powered Special 2020 [R] (Part 8 of 8) See Sun. airplane around the world. 10:30 The Great British Baking Dec. 27 at 8:00 pm. [R] 11:00 BBC World News Show: Puddings (Part 6 2:30 Call the Midwife Holiday 11:30 Amanpour and Company of 10) For their Signature Special 2020 [R] challenge, the bakers go 4:00 Chicago Tonight: all out with two types of Latino Voices [R] Thursday 31 sponge puddings. In the 4:30 BBC World News New Year’s Eve Technical, they face Queen 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] Nature: Cold Warriors – of Pudding, a recipe direct EARLY MORNING Wolves and Buffalo from the archives of Mary MORNING-AFTERNOON 12:30 American Masters: Laura For thousands of years, wolves hunted Berry. A Showstopper strudel 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids Ingalls Wilder – Prairie buffalo across the vast North American stretches them to their limits. to Page See Tues. plains until the westward settlement of 11:30 Austin City Limits: Gary EVENING Dec. 29 at 8:00 pm. [R] the continent saw the virtual extinction Clark, Jr. The Austin 6:00 PBS NewsHour 2:00 Anne of Green Gables: of both. However, this ancient singer-songwriter and guitarist 7:00 Chicago Tonight Fire & Dew See Tues. relationship was not lost altogether, performs songs from his highly 8:00 American Masters: Laura Dec. 29 at 9:30 pm. [R] and continues uninterrupted in just acclaimed album This Land. Ingalls Wilder – Prairie to 3:30 The Great British Baking one location - Wood Buffalo National Page Follow the journey of Show: Puddings (Part 6 Park. Today, the descendants of those the award-winning author of of 10) See Sun. Dec. 27 ancient buffalo and wolves still engage Monday 28 the best-selling Little House at 10:30 pm. [R] in epic life and death dramas, and by EARLY MORNING series in this exploration of 4:30 BBC World News getting to know the individual wolves 12:30 Doc Martin: Departure See her life and legacy and her 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] in a specific pack and following them Sat. Dec. 26 at 7:00 pm. [R] little-known, secret col- as they hunt, we get a sense of how 1:30 Shakespeare & Hathaway, laboration with her daughter MORNING-AFTERNOON these two animal species coexist. Private Investigators: on the books that shaped 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids Toil and Trouble See Sat. American ideas of the frontier. Dec. 26 at 8:00 pm. [R] 9:30 Anne of Green Gables: Fire EVENING Wednesday, 2:30 Shakespeare & Hathaway, & Dew Follow Anne Shirley’s 6:00 PBS NewsHour December 30 Private Investigators: Exit, journey to Queen’s College 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 pm

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Arts • Performance Sanditon on Masterpiece Rick Steves’ Europe Sunday, 7:00 am, 11:30 am, 3:30 pm Sunday, 7:00 pm, 8:00 pm, 9:00 pm Friday, 4:00 am (12/18) (12/6) Austin City Limits (12/13) Saturdays, 5:00 pm (12/19, 12/26) Tuesday, 8:00 pm (12/8) Sundays, 11:30 pm (12/20, 12/27) Tuesday, 1:00 am, 2:00 am, 3:00 am Rick Steves’ European Christmas Chicago River Tour with Christmas at Belmont (12/15) Saturday, 4:00 pm (12/5) Geoffrey Baer Thursday, 10:00 pm (12/24) Sunday, 12:00 am, 1:00 am, 2:00 am, Monday, 8:00 pm (12/7) Sunday, 1:00 pm (12/6) Friday, 2:30 am (12/25) 7:00 pm, 8:00 pm, 9:00 pm (12/20) Simply Ming Chicago Stories Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir Tuesday, 12:30 am, 1:30 am, 2:30 am Saturdays, 1:00 pm (12/19, 12/26) Friday, 8:30 pm (12/18) featuring Kelli O’Hara and (12/22) Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire Tuesday, 10:30 pm (12/22) Richard Thomas Sunday, 7:00 pm, 8:00 pm (12/27) Saturdays, 1:30 pm (12/19, 12/26) Thursday, 7:30 pm (12/24) Monday, 9:00 pm (12/14) Tuesday, 12:30 am, 1:30 am (12/29) This Old House Chicago Tonight Wednesday, 1:30 am (12/16) Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Saturdays, 10:00 am (12/19, 12/26) Mondays-Thursdays, 7:00 pm, 5:00 am Sunday, 4:00 am (12/20) Investigators Wild Travels: America’s Most Unusual Chicago Tonight: Black Voices Thursday, 11:00 pm (12/24) Saturdays, 8:00 pm, 9:00 pm Festivals Sundays, 6:00 pm (12/13, 12/20, 12/27) Friday, 3:30 am (12/25) (12/19, 12/26) Friday, 9:00 pm (12/18) Mondays, 5:00 am (12/14, 12/21, 12/28) Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You Mondays, 1:30 am, 2:30 am Saturday, 11:00 pm (12/19) Wednesday, 4:00 am (12/16) Tuesday, 10:00 pm (12/1) (12/21, 12/28) Wednesday, 3:30 am (12/30) Wednesday, 8:00 pm (12/9) Sherlock Season 4 on Masterpiece Nature • Science • Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices Ella Wishes You a Swingin’ Christmas, Thursday, 9:00 pm, 10:35pm (12/31) Saturdays, 6:00 pm (12/12, 12/19, 12/26) with Vanessa Williams Friday, 12:10 am (1/1/21) Technology Mondays, 5:30 am (12/14, 12/21, 12/28) Tuesday, 8:00 pm (12/15) Brain Revolution Tuesdays, 4:00 am (12/15, 12/29) Thursday, 12:30 am (12/17) Cooking & Dining • Friday, 2:30 am, 4:00 am (12/4) Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review Sunday, 3:00 am (12/20) Change Your Brain, Heal Your Mind Fridays, 7:00 pm (12/12/4, 12/11, 12/18) Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Home Improvement • Wednesday, 2:00 am (12/02) Saturday, 5:00 am (12/19) Guitar Festival Travel Saturday, 3:00 am (12/5) City Hall Thursday, 12:30 am (12/3) Deepak Chopra: Becoming America’s Test Kitchen from Saturday, 9:55 pm (12/26) I Am Ireland Metahuman Cook’s Illustrated Craft in America Tuesday, 9:00pm (12/15) Thursday, 2:30 am, 4:00 am (12/3) Saturdays, 2:00 pm, 2:30 pm (12/19, Sunday, 3:00 pm, 4:00 pm (12/27) Thursday, 1:30 am (12/17) Nature 12/26) Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas John Denver: Country Roads: Thursday, 10:00 pm (12/3) Antiques Roadshow Saturday, 10:00 pm (12/19) Live in England Wednesdays, 8:00 pm (12/16, Monday, 8:00 pm (12/14) Monday, 3:30 am (12/21) Tuesday, 9:30 pm (12/8) 12/23, 12/30) Wednesday, 12:30 am (12/16) Finding Your Roots Josh Groban: An Evening of Harmony Wednesday, 10:00 pm (12/23) Thursday, 3:30 am (12/17) Tuesday, 8:00 pm (12/22) Friday, 8:00 pm (12/4) Wednesday, 4:00 am (12/27) Mondays, 8:00 pm, 9:00 pm Thursday, 12:30 pm (12/24) Ledisi Live: A Tribute to Nina Simone Sunday, 10:00 pm (12/3) (12/21, 12/28) Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Friday, 9:30 pm (12/4) Friday, 1:00 am (12/18) Wednesdays, 12:30 am, 1:30 am Sunday, 11:00 am (12/20, 12/27) Red, White, and Rock Saturday, 4:00 am (12/19) (12/23, 12/30) Hanukkah: A Festival of Delights Friday, 12:00 am (12/4) Saturday, 12:30 am (12/26) Ask This Old House Saturday, 4:30 pm (12/12) Riverdance 25th Anniversary Show Sunday, 4:00 am (12/27) Saturdays, 10:30 am (12/19, 12/26) Independent Lens Wednesday 12:00 am (12/2) Friday, 3:30 am (1/1/21) Check, Please! Thursday, 7:30 pm (12/3) St. Olaf Christmas Festival: NOVA Friday, 8:00 pm (12/18) Monday, 10:00 pm (12/14) A New Song of Grace and Truth Wednesdays, 9:00 pm (12/16, Saturdays, 4:30 pm (12/19, 12/26) Wednesday, 2:30 am (12/16) Thursday, 9:00 pm (12/24) 12/23, 12/30) Sunday, 10:00 pm (12/20) Ken Burns: Here & There Friday, 1:30 am (12/25) Wednesday, 10:00 pm (12/16) Friday, 5:30 am (12/25) Tuesday, 8:30 pm (12/1) United in Song: Celebrating the Friday, 2:00 am, 3:00 am (12/18) Wednesday, 4:00 am (12/30) Wednesday, 9:30 pm (12/9) Resilience of America Saturday, 1:30 am, 2:30 am (12/26) Christopher Kimball’s Lincoln Is Crying Thursday, 7:30 pm (12/31) Tuesday, 9:00 pm (12/22) Wheaton College Christmas Festival: Milk Street Television Saturdays, 4:00 pm (12/19, 12/26) Public Affairs • Sunday, 2:00 am (12/27) Through His Own Redeeming Love Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Thursday, 8:00 pm (12/24) Cook’s Country History • Documentary Saturdays, 12:00 pm (12/19, 12/26) Tudor Christmas Friday, 12:30 am (12/25) Amanpour and Company Friday, 9:30 pm (12/25) European Christmas Markets Tuesday, 12:00 am (12/15) Sunday, 1:30 pm (12/20) Saturday, 3:30 am (12/26) Drama • Comedy • Tuesdays, 11:30 pm (12/15, Making Sense of 2020 Friday, 10:30 pm (12/25) 12/22, 12/29) Movies Saturday, 4:30 am (12/26) Tuesday, 7:30 pm (12/1) Wednesdays, 11:30 pm (12/16, Wednesday, 9:20 pm (12/2) Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew Few Good Pie Places 12/23, 12/30) Saturday, 6:00 pm (12/5) Tuesday, 9:30 pm (12/29) Friday, 10:00 pm (12/18) Friday, 12:00 am (12/18) Monday, 10:00 pm (12/7) Thursday, 2:00 am (12/31) Monday, 3:30 am (12/28) Fridays, 11:30 pm (12/18, 12/25) Sunday, 5:00 pm (12/27) Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2018 Field Trip with Curtis Stone Mondays, 11:30 pm (12/21, 12/28) McLaughlin Group Sunday, 2:00 pm, Thursday, 1:30 am Sundays, 1:00 pm (12/20, 12/27) Friday, 2:30 am (1/1/21) Saturdays, 5:30 pm (12/19, 12/26) (12/24) Flavor of Poland American Masters: Laura PBS NewsHour Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2019 Saturdays, 11:00 am (12/19, 12/26) Ingalls Wilder – Prairie to Page Mondays-Fridays, 6:00 pm Sunday, 3:30pm (12/20), 3:00 am (12/24) Fly Brother with Ernest White II Tuesday, 8:00 pm (12/29) PBS NewsHour Weekend Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2020 Sundays, 12:00 pm (12/20, 12/27) Thursday, 12:30 am (12/31) Saturdays, 6:30 pm (12/12, 12/19, 12/26) Friday, 8:00 pm (12/25) Foods of Chicago: A Delicious History American Masters: Keith Haring – Sundays, 6:30 pm (12/20, 12/27) Sunday, 3:30 am, 9:00 pm (12/27) Thursday, 9:30 am (12/17) Street Art Boy Shelf Life: The Story of Lanzi Candy Tuesday, 2:30 am (12/29) Saturday, 2:00 am (12/19) Monday, 10:00 pm (12/21) Thursday, 8:00 pm (12/17) Doc Martin Great British Baking Show Wednesday, 2:30 am (12/23) Saturday, 12:30 am (12/19) Saturdays, 7:00 pm (12/19, 12/26) Sundays, 10:30 pm (12/20, 12/27) BBC World News Suze Orman’s Ultimate Mondays, 12:30 am (12/21, 12/28) Tuesday, 3:30 am (12/22) Mondays-Fridays, 4:30 am, 11:00 pm Retirement Guide Endeavour Season 7 on Masterpiece Thursday, 3:30 am (12/31) BBC World News America Wednesday, 3:30 am (12/2) Saturday, 8:10 pm (12/12) Kitchen Queens: New Orleans Friday, 7:00 pm (12/25) Saturday, 1:00 am (12/5) Grantchester Season 5 on Sundays, 12:30 pm (12/20, 12/27) Charley Pride: American Masters Sunday, 5:00 am (12/6) Masterpiece Lidia’s Kitchen Sunday, 5:00 pm (12/20) Vernon Jordan: Make it Plain Saturday, 7:00 pm (12/12) Saturdays, 11:30 am (12/19, 12/26) Wednesday, 3:30 am (12/23) Monday, 10:00 pm (12/28) Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years! Mexico: One Plate at a Time Chavis Chronicles Wednesday, 2:30 am (12/30) Saturday, 7:00 pm (12/5) Saturdays, 5:30 pm (12/19, 12/26) Sundays, 11:30 pm (12/20, 12/27) Washington Week My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas Chicago by ‘L’ with Geoffrey Baer Saturdays, 3:00 pm (12/19, 12/26) Fridays, 7:30 pm (12/4, 12/11, 12/18, Sunday, 8:30 am (12/6) 12/25) Pati’s Mexican Table Chicago from the Air Saturdays, 12:30 am (12/19, 12/26) Saturday, 5:00 am (12/26) Wednesday, 7:30 pm, 10:15 pm (12/2) WTTW 2020 Great Treasure Hunt Friday, 11:30 pm (12/4) Sweepstakes Drawing Wednesday, 9:00 pm (12/2)

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Live from WFMT Encore Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari Exploring Music We’ll hear pianist Matthew Hagle in sonatas Elbio Barilari goes back in time for little-known As a musical response to the scourge of violence to honor the Beethoven anniversary, and an inter- Spanish and Latin-American Christmas music, in the world, Host Bill McGlaughlin plays peaceful, national holiday-themed concert by the Wicker Park including portions of the Missa Pastoril para Noite inspiring music from Bach and Mozart to Choral Singers. And Chicago Baroque specialists de Natal by Brazil’s José Maurício Nunes Garcia. Vaughan Williams to Bill Evans for a thought- perform a 17th-century Christmas cantata. And listen for Jose Feliciano’s Feliz Navidad. provoking Christmas week series. Mondays, December 7, 14, 21, 8:00 pm Saturday, December 19, 7:00 pm Weekdays, December 21-25, 7:00 pm

Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat, 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore Tuesday 1 Op. 83 – Leon Fleisher, p; 9:00 Giovanni Gabrieli Jubilate In the Spotlight 12:00 Through the Night with Cleveland Orch/George Szell. Deo – Music of the Baroque Peter Van De Graaff Sony MH2K-63225 (2). [47:26] Choir & Brass/Edward 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 3:00 William Walton Orb and Zelnis. MOB 2006. [6:24] 9:00 Alberto Ginastera Danzas Sceptre, Coronation March Johann Sebastian Bach Argentinas, Op. 2 – Pola 1953 – Royal Liverpool Phil/ Clavier Concerto No. 6 in Baytelman, p. Elan 82288 Sir Charles Groves. EMI F, BWV 1057 – St. Martin’s (2). [8:11] Ottorino Respighi CDZ7-62528-2. [7:13] Academy/Murray Perahia, p. Ancient Airs and Dances for Benjamin Britten Gloriana: Sony SK-89690. [15:39] the Lute, set 1 – La Pietà/ Courtly Dances – Julian 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, includ- Angèle Dubeau, v. Analekta Bream Consort. RCA 61589-2. ing today’s new release, plus:

FL2-3125. [14:09] [10:05] Sergei Prokofiev Franz Liszt Mephisto Waltz Photo: Courtesy of WFMT / Bill Richert 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, includ- Romeo and Juliet Suite: No. 1 – Chicago Sym/Sir Georg ing today’s new release, plus: Morning Dance, Montagues Solti. London 443444-2. [10:40] Arcangelo Corelli Concerto and Capulets, The Young 11:00 Daily Excursion: Felix grosso in C, Op. 6/10 – Europa Juliet – Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Mendelssohn The Galante/Fabio Biondi. Opus Falletta. Beau Fleuve Records Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) 111 OPS-30-155. [10:49] 605996-998524. [11:23] Overture, Op. 26 – Vienna 11:00 Daily Excursion: Darius 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Phil/Christian Thielemann. Milhaud Saudades do Brasil, Candice Agree, including DG 4745022. [10:20] Op. 67: set 2 – William Bolcom, a newscast at 4:00 pm and 12:00 Music in Chicago p. Nonesuch 71316-2. [11:10] The Unrush Hour between 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Jessye Norman 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Henry 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm Concerts: The Lincoln Trio Cowell Hymn and Fuguing 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill live from the Cultural Center Tune No. 10 – Celia Nicklin, ob; McGlaughlin: Violin concertos 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • From the St. Martin’s Academy/Sir Neville 8:00 From the CSO’s Archives: Heitor Villa-Lobos Bachianas Marriner. Argo 417818-2. [6:50] The First 130 Years – Works Brasileiras No. 9 – French CSO’s Archives: 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • given their US premieres by National Radio Orch strings/ The First 130 Years Johann Sebastian Bach Flute the Chicago Symphony and Villa-Lobos. EMI CDU5-66964- The first December program focuses Sonata in E-Flat, BWV 1031: Theodore Thomas – Glazunov: 2. [10:56] Various Lament on works by European composers, II. Siciliano; Chorale-prelude, Concert Waltz No. 2 (/Frederick in Tremolo Form; Eleanor including Elgar’s Enigma Variations Nun komm, der Heiden Stock). Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Alberga If the Silver Bird Could and Strauss’s Don Quixote with cellist Heiland (Now Come, Saviour Apprentice (/Jean Martinon). Speak – William Chapman Antonio Janigro and violist Milton of the Heathens), BWV 659a; Elgar: Enigma Variations (/ Nyaho, p. MSR Classics Preves. The following week, hear an Chorale- prelude, Wachet auf, Sir Georg Solti). Sibelius: MS-1708. [7:48] Bach Flute all-Bartok performance under the ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers The Swan of Tuonela (Grover Sonata in E, BWV 1035 – Gary baton of composer and frequent wake), BWV 645 – Wilhelm Schiltz, eh/Herbert Blomstedt). Schocker, f; Jason Vieaux, g. guest conductor Pierre Boulez Kempff, p. DG 439672-2 Strauss: Don Quixote Azica ACD-71230. [13:08] featuring soprano Jessye Norman. (2). [13:03] Richard Wagner (Janigro, Preves/Reiner). 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: The series also marks this month’s Lohengrin: Preludes to Acts 10:00 Chamber Music Society of Ludwig van Beethoven Beethoven anniversary with the Piano 1 & 3 – Chicago Sym/Daniel Lincoln Center – Beethoven: Fantasy for Piano, Chorus, Concerto No. 4 interpreted by Van Barenboim. Teldec 99595-2. String Quartet in E-Flat, and Orchestra, Op. 80 Choral Cliburn and the Eroica Symphony [13:20] Giuseppe Verdi I Op. 74, Harp. Plus: Haydn. Fantasy – Rudolf Serkin, p; conducted by Sir Georg Solti. For Vespri Siciliani: Four Seasons 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT Marlboro Festival Cho & Christmas week, guest conductor Ballet: Autumn – Munich Orch/Peter Serkin. Sony Claudio Abbado leads works by Radio Orch/Roberto Abbado. SM2K-89200 (2). [20:01] Tchaikovsky, including the Nutcracker RCA 62651-2. [9:23] Wednesday 2 3:00 Antonin Dvorák American Suite. And the final program of 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: 12:00 Through the Night with Suite in A, Op. 98b – Royal the month spotlights several Johannes Brahms Piano Peter Van De Graaff Liverpool Phil/Libor Pesek. other guest conductors: Neeme Virgin Classics 90723-2. [22:39] Jaervi, Pierre Monteux, Leopold Mark O’Connor Strings Stokowski, and John Williams. and Threads Suite – Mark O’Connor, v; Metamorphosen Tuesdays, 8:00 pm Chamber Orch/Scott Yoo. All prerecorded music on 98.7WFMT is provided by Sony SK-89660. [15:29] the Richard and Mary L. Gray Music Library. 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a newscast at 4:00 pm and 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin The Unrush Hour between 10:00 Baroque&Before with Most live performances on 98.7WFMT are broadcast 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm Candice Agree from the Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio. 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT McGlaughlin: Violin concertos

20 DECEMBER 2020 In the Spotlight McGlaughlin: Violin concertos This Week: Guest conduc- Thursday 3 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin tors; Garrick Ohlsson, 12:00 Through the Night with 9:00 Milwaukee Symphony piano – Haydn: Symphony Peter Van De Graaff Orchestra Onstage: No. 95 in c. Martinu: Piano 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore Ken-David Masur, Concerto No. 4, Incantation. 9:00 Frédéric Chopin Boléro, conductor; Sergei Babayan, Sibelius: Symphony No. 1. Op. 19 – Lara Downes, p. piano – Shostakovich: Festive 11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Postcards 772001-2. [7:37] Overture. Prokofiev: Piano Members of Empire Brass Emmanuel Chabrier Concerto No. 3. Schnittke: recorded in 1979. Habanera – BBC Phil/Yan Kein Sommernachtstraum. Pascal Tortelier. Chandos Mussorgsky: Pictures CHAN-9765. [4:16] Maurice at an Exhibition. Saturday 5 Ravel Pièce en forme de 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT 12:00 Through the Night with habanera – Emmanuel Peter Van De Graaff Pahud, f; Mariko Anraku, 7:00 Weekend Mornings with h. EMI CDC5-57740-2. Friday 4 Maggie Clennon Reberg, [3:09] Paquito D’Rivera 12:00 Through the Night with including Saturday Morning Habanera – TransAtlantic Peter Van De Graaff Listeners’ Choice at 8:00 am Photo: Courtesy of Simon Ridgway/© Red Planet Pictures / ITV 2019 Ensemble. Steinway & Sons 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore and Soundtrack at 9:00 am. 30052. [2:47] Arturo Márquez 9:00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 11:00 Introductions: Mark Zhu, 16, Susanna Phillips Danzón No. 2 – Simón Bolívar Fantasia in c, K. 475 – Alfred piano – Bach: WTC Bk 1: Youth Orch/Gustavo Dudamel. Brendel, p. Philips 446921-2 Prelude & Fugue in D; DG B0013458-02. [9:39] (5). [12:27] Franz Waxman Debussy: Arabesque No. 1; 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, Carmen Fantasy – Maxim Ginastera: Danza de la moza From the including today’s new release, Vengerov, v; Israel Phil/Zubin donosa; Brahms: Hungarian Metropolitan Opera plus: Johann Sebastian Bach Mehta. Teldec 17045-2. [9:57] Dance No. 1 in g minor; The Metropolitan Opera is delving Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 Friedrich von Flotow Martha Rachmaninoff: Etude-Tableau, into its vast archives to bring us in F, BWV 1047 – Wynton Overture – Royal Scottish Op. 33/8; Liszt: Mazeppa. presentations from the past. The Marsalis, tr; English Chamber National Orch/Lance Friedel. 12:00 From the Metropolitan Opera: month begins with War and Peace, Orch/Anthony Newman. Naxos 8.573418. [8:24] Prokofiev’s “War and Peace” – Sergei Prokofiev’s four-hour distillation Sony SK-66244. [12:30] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, Anna Netrebko (Natasha); of Tolstoy’s novel, marking the 11:00 Daily Excursion: Robert including today’s new release, Gegam Grigorian (Bezukhov); 2002 Met debut of soprano Anna Beaser Mountain Songs: plus: Jan Koetsier Brass Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Andrei); Netrebko. The Met’s tribute to the Fair and Tender Ladies, Symphony, Op. 80 – TenThing. Samuel Ramey (Kutuzov); Beethoven anniversary will be the Quicksilver – Matthew Slotkin, EMI 88326-2. [13:58] Elena Obraztsova (Mme 2017 staging of the composer’s only g; Craig Butterfield, db. 11:00 Daily Excursion: José Bragato Akhrosimova); Metropolitan opera, Fidelio, starring Canadian Summit DCD-571. [7:36] Graciela y Buenos Aires – Viktor Opera Cho & Orch/Valery soprano Adrienne Pieczonka. Then 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Aepli, vc, Camerata Bariloche. Gergiev. From 2002. enjoy a December favorite: an George Frideric Handel Dorian DOR-90201. [8:04] 4:30 Arias and Songs Encore: English-language version of Hansel Coronation Anthem, Zadok 12:00 Impromptu Encore: Happy Endings and Gretel from 2018. Finally, join us the Priest – Monteverdi Choir, Pianist Benjamin Hochman 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • for another Met holiday tradition: an English Baroque Soloists/ visited Levin Studio in 2009. Max Bruch Violin Concerto abridged English-language version of Sir John Eliot Gardiner. George Preston hosts. No. 2 in d minor, Op. 44 – Jack Mozart’s The Magic Flute from 2010 Philips 432110-2 (2). [5:44] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Liebeck, v; BBC Scottish Sym/ featuring Russell Thomas as Tamino 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Zoltán Kodály Háry János Martyn Brabbins. Hyperion and Susanna Phillips as Pamina. Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Suite, Op. 35a – London CDA-68055. [25:30] Ludwig Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Phil/Klaus Tennstedt. EMI van Beethoven Piano Sonata Saturdays, 12:00 pm Op. 35 – Lise de la Salle, p; CDD7-63900-2. [25:05] John No. 21 in C, Op. 53, Waldstein – Gulbenkian Orch/Lawrence Williams Star Wars: The Force Paul Lewis, p. Harmonia Mundi Foster. Naive V-5053. [23:25] Awakens: Rey’s Theme; Harry HMX-2901902. 11 (10). [26:54] Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov The Potter and the Sorcerer’s 6:00 Florence Price Mississippi Snow Maiden Suite – Seattle Stone: Hedwig’s theme – Anne- River Suite – Women’s Phil/ 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Sym/Gerard Schwarz. Sophie Mutter, v; Recording Apo Hsu. Koch 7518-2. [27:46] Maggie Clennon Reberg Naxos 8.572787. [12:29] Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles/ Virgil Thomson Louisiana 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Felix Williams. DG B0030629. [9:21] Story: Acadian Songs and Robbie Ellis • Johann Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Franz Dances – New London Orch/ Sebastian Bach Goldberg in d, Op. 107, Reformation – Schubert Moments musicaux, Ronald Corp. Hyperion Variations, BWV 988: Variations Chamber Orch of Europe/ D. 780 – András Schiff, p. CDA-66576. [15:00] Various 26-30 and Aria da Capo – Peter Yannick Nézet-Séguin. DG London 430425-2. [30:32] Old American Songs, set 2: Serkin, p. RCA 68188-2. [7:45] 4797337 (3). [31:13] 3:00 Johann Sebastian Bach At the River; Pineapple Rag; Various Magic Flute Fantasy; 3:00 Francisco Tárrega Capricho Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in The Entertainer – Chicago The Love for Three Oranges: árabe (Serenata); Recuerdos G, BWV 1049 – Brass Quintet. Centaur March – Gil Shaham, v; Akira de la Alhambra – Jason Vieaux, Age of Enlightenment Orch/ CRC-3159. [5:55] Eguchi, p. DG 447640-2. g. Azica ACD-71287. [10:22] Monica Huggett. Virgin 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: [13:13] Sergei Rachmaninoff Ralph Vaughan Williams Classics 90747-2 (2). [15:30] The life, music, and legacy Rhapsody on a Theme by Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 – New Conni Ellisor Blackberry of the Spanish pianist Alicia Paganini, Op. 43 – Lang Philharmonia/Sir Adrian Winter – Stephen Seifert, de Larrocha (1923-2009). Lang, p; Maryinsky Theatre Boult. EMI CDC7-47218-2. dulcimer; Nashville Chamber 8:00 Folkstage hosted Orch/Valery Gergiev. DG [10:14] George Enescu Orch/Paul Gambill. Warner by Rich Warren B0003902-02. [24:02] Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in Classics 46739-2. [16:51] 9:00 The Midnight Special with 1:00 Jennifer Higdon Harp A, Op. 11 – Civitas Ensemble, 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Marilyn Rea Beyer Concerto: First Light – Yolanda Gipsy Way Ensemble. Cedille Candice Agree, including Kondonassis, h; Rochester Phil/ CDR-90000179. [7:24] a newscast at 4:00 pm and Ward Stare. Azica AXA-71327. 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with The Unrush Hour between Sunday 6 [6:52] Franz Joseph Haydn Candice Agree, including 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 12:00 Through the Night with Symphony No. 6 in D, Le a newscast at 4:00 pm and 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill Peter Van De Graaff Matin – Lausanne Chamber The Unrush Hour between McGlaughlin: Violin concertos 6:00 With Heart and Voice: Advent, Orch/Jesús López-Cobos. 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin week 2, sampling the words Denon 81757-9612-2. 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill 9:00 The New York Philharmonic of prophets set to music.

2020 DECEMBER 21 [18:04] Richard Wagner Razumovsky – Emerson String BWV 816 – Vladimir Ashkenazy, 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Götterdämmerung: Dawn and Quartet. DG B0009666-72 p. Decca 4832150. [15:51] Candice Agree, including Siegfried’s Rhine Journey – (23). [37:40] Frédéric Chopin 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with a newscast at 4:00 pm and Chicago Sym/Fritz Reiner. Nocturnes, Op. 9 – Yundi Li, Candice Agree, including The Unrush Hour between RCA 63301-2. [13:12] William p. EMI 08391-2 (2). [16:18] a newscast at 4:00 pm and 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm Lloyd Webber Aurora – City 7:00 Ryan Opera Center The Unrush Hour between 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill of London Sinfonia/Richard Recital Series 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm McGlaughlin: Vienna and the Hickox. Chandos CHAN-9595. 8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill great composers who lived [9:27] Eric Whitacre The River Radio Broadcasts: Handel’s McGlaughlin: Vienna and the and worked there, including Cam – Julian Lloyd Webber, “Messiah” – Amanda great composers who lived Beethoven. First of two weeks. vc; London Sym/Eric Whitacre. Forsythe, s; Sasha Cooke, and worked there, including 8:00 From the CSO’s Archives: The London B0016636-02. [11:49] ms; Nicholas Phan, t; Joshua Beethoven. First of two weeks. First 130 Years – Pierre Boulez Whitacre Lux Aurumque – Hopkins, br; Chicago Sym 8:00 Live from WFMT Encore: and Bela Bartok – Concerto Polyphony/Stephen Layton. & Chorus/Matthew Halls. Pianist Matthew Hagle in for Orchestra (recorded Hyperion CDA-67543. [4:08] 10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry an all-Beethoven sonata 1992); Dance Suite (recorded Various Preludio Cubano; Fogel: Wilhelm Furtwängler recital, recorded live in Levin 1998); Bluebeard’s Castle Pomme Cannelle; In the and the Berlin Philharmonic. Studio June 26, 2017. (recorded 1993; Jessye Norman, Bottoms: Humoresque, Honey – Henry will continue playing 10:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin s, and Laszlo Polgar, b). William Chapman Nyaho, p. these historic BPO broadcasts 10:00 Chamber Music Society of MSR Classics MS-1708. [6:10] through the end of December. Lincoln Center – Nielsen: Leonard Bernstein Candide Tuesday 8 Wind Quintet; Copland: Suite – U of South Carolina 12:00 Through the Night with Appalachian Spring, original Wind Ensemble/Scott Weiss. Monday 7 Peter Van De Graaff chamber version. Naxos 8.573056. [12:37] 12:00 Through the Night with 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT Elmer Bernstein To Kill A Peter Van De Graaff 9:00 Ludwig van Beethoven Mockingbird: Selections – Royal 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore Andante favori in F, WoO Scottish National Orchestra. 9:00 Peter Tchaikovsky The 57 – Dmitry Paperno, p. Wednesday 9 Varese-Saraband 5754. [19:20] Nutcracker, Op. 71: Waltz of the Cedille CDR-90000074. [9:03] 12:00 Through the Night with 3:00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Flowers – Stewart Goodyear, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Peter Van De Graaff Fantasia in D minor, K. 397 – p. Steinway & Sons 30040. Piano Sonata No. 11 in A, K. 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore Inna Faliks, p. Delos DE-3540. [6:26] Tchaikovsky Sleeping 331: Rondo alla Turca – Jeanne 9:00 Johann Sebastian Bach [5:51] Franz Joseph Haydn Beauty Waltz – Vienna Phil/ Galway, f; Sinfonia Varsovia/ Chorale-prelude, Nun komm, Symphony No. 7 in C, Le Midi – Christoph Eschenbach. Sony James Galway, f. DG der Heiden Heiland (Now Come, English Concert/Trevor Pinnock. Classical 88985425932. [5:23] B0007148-02. [3:17] David Saviour of the Heathens), BWV Archive 423098-2. [21:55] Richard Rodgers Carousel Diamond Rounds – Seattle 659; Cantata No. 147: Chorale, John Playford The English Waltz – Hollywood Bowl Sym/ Sym Strings/Gerard Schwarz. Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring – Dancing Master: Drive the Cold John Mauceri. Philips 432109-2. Delos DE-3189. [14:19] Angela Hewitt, p. Hyperion Winter Away/The Beggar Boy; [4:50] Rodgers Victory at 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, CDA-67309. [9:17] Gustav A Division on A Ground – Les Sea: The Song of the High including today’s new Holst Ave Maria, Op. 9b – Witches. Alpha 502. [11:47] Seas – Cincinnati Pops/Erich release, plus: Gustav Mahler Trinity College Women’s Choir, Antonin Dvorák The Noon Kunzel. Telarc CD-80175. [5:06] Blumine – San Francisco Sym/ Cambridge/Richard Marlow. Witch, Op. 108 – Scottish 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, includ- Michael Tilson Thomas. SFS Conifer 51261-2. [4:42] Tomaso National Orch/Neeme Järvi. ing today’s new release, plus: Media SFS-0060. [8:28] Albinoni Oboe Concerto a Chandos CHAN-8530. [12:35] Johann Nepomuk Hummel 11:00 Daily Excursion: George cinque in B-Flat, Op. 9/11 – 4:00 Tomaso Albinoni Adagio in Trumpet Concerto in E – Ludwig Frideric Handel Water Music Han de Vries, ob; Alma Musica g – Sharon Isbin, g; Zürich Güttler, tr; New Bach Collegium Suite No. 1 in F – English Amsterdam/Bob van Asperen. Chamber Orch/Howard Griffiths. Musicum/Max Pommer. Concert/Trevor Pinnock. DG Virgin Classics 61152-2. [11:09] Warner Classics 45312-2. [7:51] Capriccio 10009. [16:11] B0005828-02 (2). [14:48] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, Domenico Cimarosa Two- 11:00 Daily Excursion: Javier 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: including today’s new Flute Concerto in G – Mathieu Alvarez Metro Chabacano – Johannes Brahms Academic release, plus: Gabriel Fauré Dufour, f; Alex Klein, ob; Czech Simón Bolívar Sym/ Festival Overture, Op. 80 – Dolly Suite, Op. 56 – Katia, National Sym/Paul Freeman. Keri-Lynn Wilson. Dorian Royal Concertgebouw Orch/ Marielle Labèque, p. Philips Cedille CDR-90000080. XCD-90254. [6:47] Bernard Haitink. Philips 420159-2. [16:41] [19:11] Richard Strauss 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: 442068-2 (4). [10:24] 11:00 Daily Excursion: Edward Duet-Concertino – Larry Maurice Ravel Ma Mère 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Elgar Cockaigne Overture Combs, cl; David McGill, bn; l’Oye (Mother Goose) Edvard Grieg Old Norwegian (In London Town), Op. 40 – Chicago Sym/Daniel Barenboim. Suite – Chicago Sym/Jean Romance With Variations, London Phil/Sir Georg Solti. Teldec 23913-2. [19:49] Martinon. RCA 63683. [15:52] Op. 51 – Iceland Sym/Petri London 443856-2 (2). [14:12] 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Sakari. Chandos CHAN-9028. 12:00 Music in Chicago George Gershwin Piano Franz Joseph Haydn [24:23] Thomas Canning 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerto in F – Kirill Gerstein, Symphony No. 8 in G, Le Fantasy on a Hymn Tune by Concerts: Violinist Joshua p; St. Louis Sym/David Soir – Austro-Hungarian Justin Morgan – Cincinnati Brown and pianist Milana Robertson. Myrios Classics Haydn Orch/Adam Fischer. Sym/Jesús López-Cobos. Pavchinskaya live from MYR-022. [33:32] There’s Nimbus NI-5240. [21:51] Leó Telarc CD-80462. [8:56] the Cultural Center more Gershwin, and several Weiner Serenade for small 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • other American composers, orchestra, Op. 3 – Budapest Ludwig van Beethoven Germaine Tailleferre Flute on our Chicago Symphony Festival Orch/Sir Georg Solti. String Quartet No. 11 in and Piano Concerto – Leta broadcast tonight at 8:00. London 458929-2. [19:58] f minor, Op. 95, Serioso – Miller, f; Josephine Gandolfi, Amilcare Ponchielli La 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Vermeer Quartet. Teldec p; UC Santa Cruz Orch/Nicole Gioconda: Dance of the Ludwig van Beethoven Violin 76457-2 (9). [20:43] Paiement. Helicon HE-1048. Hours – La Scala Phil/Riccardo Concerto in D, Op. 61 – Anne- 3:00 Johann Sebastian Bach [17:13] Wolfgang Amadeus Chailly. Decca 4831148. [9:44] Sophie Mutter, v; Berlin Phil/ Orchestra Suite No. 3 in Mozart Idomeneo ballet Various La Gioconda: Cielo Herbert von Karajan. DG D, BWV 1068 – Ensemble music, K. 367 – Apollo’s Fire/ e mar; Granada – Joseph 457861-2 (2). [48:27] Sonnerie/Monica Huggett. Jeannette Sorrell. Avie AV-2159. Calleja, t; BBC Concert Orch/ 3:00 Sergei Prokofiev Lieutenant Avie AV-2171. [17:20] [16:20] Maurice Ravel Menuet Steven Mercurio. London Kijé Suite, Op. 60 – Chicago Johann Kaspar Mertz antique – Sean Chen, p. B0017438-02. [8:34] Sym/Fritz Reiner. RCA 5605-2. Bardenklänge, Op. 13: Four Steinway & Sons 30029. [6:45] 6:00 Ludwig van Beethoven Quartet [20:08] Johann Sebastian Pieces – Eduardo Fernández, 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: No. 7 in F, Op. 59, No. 1, Bach French Suite No. 5 in G, g. Delmark DE-5033. [11:09] Robert Schumann

22 DECEMBER 2020 Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, Judas Maccabaeus: See Op. 443 – Vienna Phil/Andris the Tenebrae vocal ensemble Op. 97, Rhenish – San the conqu’ring hero comes; Nelsons. Sony. [10:17] and string players from the Francisco Sym/Michael Sing Unto God – St. Martin’s 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Max Richter Ensemble with Tilson Thomas. SFS Media Academy and Cho/Sir Neville Ludwig van Beethoven the composer on keyboards. 821936-0071-2 (2). [36:41] Marriner. Philips 412733-2. Quartet No. 12 in E-flat, Sheila Atim, narrator. 3:00 Arthur Foote Francesca da [5:04] Johann Sebastian Op. 127 – Danish String Quartet. 9:00 Milwaukee Symphony Rimini, Op. 24 – Seattle Sym/ Bach Three-Violin Concerto ECM New Series 2561. [38:38] Orchestra Onstage: Stefan Gerard Schwarz. Naxos in D, BWV 1064 – Linda 3:00 Samuel Barber Violin Concerto, Asbury, conductor; Joyce 8.559365. [14:41] Antonio Melsted & David Greenberg, Op. 14 – Anne Akiko Meyers, Yang, piano – Rimsky- Vivaldi Violin and Organ v’s; Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon, v; London Sym/Leonard Korsakov: Russian Easter Concerto in C, R. 774 – Modo v. Sony SK-66265. [16:51] Slatkin. EOne EOM-CD-7791. Overture. Tchaikovsky: Antiquo/Federico Maria 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, [23:21] Robert Beaser Piano Concerto No. 1. Sardelli. Glossa GCD-924601. including today’s new release, Mountain Songs – Waller & Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3. [10:09] Franz Liszt Années plus: Giuseppe Verdi La Maxwell Guitar Duo. Berto 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT de pèlerinage: 2nd Year, forza del destino Overture – La Records 1801. [11:19] Various Italy: Sonetto 123 del Scala Phil/Riccardo Muti. My Little Dreydl; Candles Petrarca – Daniel Barenboim, Sony SK-68468. [7:41] Burning; Chanukah; Sunrise, Friday 11 p. Philips 456721-2 (2). [7:11] 11:00 Daily Excursion: Harl Sunset fr Fiddler on the 12:00 Through the Night with 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with McDonald San Juan Roof – Rachel Van Voorhees, Peter Van De Graaff Candice Agree, including Capistrano: Fiesta – Boston h. Centaur CRC-2317. [6:21] 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore a newscast at 4:00 pm and Pops/Keith Lockhart. 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with 9:00 Carl Maria von Weber Clarinet The Unrush Hour between RCA 68786-2. [4:15] Candice Agree, including Concertino in c minor/E-flat ma- 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: a newscast at 4:00 pm and jor, Op. 26 – Richard Stoltzman, 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill Franz Joseph Haydn Cello The Unrush Hour between cl; Slovak Radio Sym/Kirk McGlaughlin: Vienna and the Concerto No. 2 in D, H 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm Trevor. Navona Records great composers who lived VIIb:2 (Op. 101) – Steven 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill NV-5801. [10:30] Carl Nielsen and worked there, including Isserlis, vc; Chamber Orch of McGlaughlin: Vienna and the Little Suite, Op. 1 – ASMIF Beethoven. First of two weeks. Europe/Sir Roger Norrington. great composers who lived Strings/Sir Neville Marriner. 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin RCA 68578-2. [23:24] and worked there, including Argo 417132-2. [13:48] 10:00 Baroque&Before with 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Beethoven. First of two weeks. 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, Candice Agree Zoltán Kodaly Marosszék 8:00 From the EBU and the BBC: including today’s new release, 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT Dances – Buffalo Phil/ Max Richter’s “Voices” – plus: Hector Berlioz Les JoAnn Falletta. Naxos Being broadcast worldwide in Troyens: Royal Hunt and Storm 8.573838. [13:37] Frédéric honor of UN Human Rights Day, Music – BBC Sym & Cho/ Thursday 10 Chopin Rondo a la Mazurka, the music includes excerpts Sir Andrew Davis. Chandos 12:00 Through the Night with Op. 5 – Daniil Trifonov, p. from the United Nations CHSA-5169 (2). [9:40] Peter Van De Graaff London B0018271-02. [8:17] Universal Declaration of Human 11:00 Daily Excursion: Jean- 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore Johann Strauss II Waltz, Rights in several languages. Baptiste Arban Variations on 9:00 George Frideric Handel Seid umschlungen, Millionen, Performers include members of The Carnival of Venice – John

2020 DECEMBER 23 In the Spotlight grosso in g, Op. 6/8, Poston Arrangement of My Juliet – Royal Concertgebouw Christmas – Europa Galante/ Dancing Day; Jesus Christ the Orch/Bernard Haitink. Philips Fabio Biondi. Opus 111 Apple Tree – King’s College 442061-2 (6). [20:16] Georges OPS-30155. [13:16] Ottorino Choir Cambridge/Sir David Bizet Carmen Suite – Los Respighi Trittico botticelliano: II. Willcocks. EMI CDM5-66244-2. Angeles Guitar Quartet. Telarc The Adoration of the Magi – St. [4:37] Antonin Dvorák Slavonic CD-80593. [15:26] Wolfgang Paul Chamber Orch/Hugh Dances, Op. 72: Nos. 1-4, Amadeus Mozart Don Giovanni, Wolff. Teldec 18970-2 (2). No. 6 – Katia, Marielle Labèque, K. 527: Giovinette; Deh vieni [8:37] Ennio Morricone The p’s. Philips 426264-2. [20:13] alla finestra; Già la mensa è

Photo: Courtesy of Roger Mastroianni Mission: Gabriel’s Oboe; The 4:30 Arias and Songs Encore: preparata – Netherlands Wind Falls – Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Roma Music from the operas Ensemble. Philips 4788977. Sinfonietta/Ennio Morricone. and sacred choral music [6:12] Charles Gounod Faust Sony SK-93456. [5:38] of Antonio Vivaldi. ballet music – Royal Opera 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • House Orch/Sir Georg Solti. Candice Agree, including Arnold Bax Three Pieces for London 421396-2. [15:54] a newscast at 4:00 pm and Small Orchestra – English Alberto Ginastera Overture The Unrush Hour between Chamber Orch/Jeffrey Tate. EMI to the Creole Faust – Simón 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm CDC7-47945-2. [21:22] Samuel Bolívar Sym/Maximiano Valdés. 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill Coleridge-Taylor Petite Dorian DOR-90227. [8:48] Vienna and the Suite de Concert – Chicago Violin Jeannette Sorrell McGlaughlin: 3:00 Ludwig van Beethoven great composers who lived Sinfonietta/Paul Freeman. Sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24, and worked there, including Cedille CDR-90000055. [13:36] Spring – Gidon Kremer, v; Beethoven. First of two weeks. Johann Sebastian Bach Martha Argerich, p. DG 419787- Christmas on 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin Clavier Partita No. 3 in a minor, 2. [23:36] Claude Debussy Sugarloaf Mountain 9:00 The New York Philharmonic BWV 827 – Vladimir Ashkenazy, Printemps – Cleveland Orch/ This Week: Jeffrey Kahane, p. London 4782163 (2). [16:24] Pierre Boulez. DG 435766-2. From Jeannette Sorrell and her conductor & piano; Liang 6:00 A Hanukkah Celebration [16:43] Gustav Holst In the award-winning early-music ensemble Wang, oboe; Sheryl Staples, with Chicago A Cappella: Bleak Midwinter – Trinity Apollo’s Fire, a new special that violin – Bach: Violin and Jonathan Miller, founder and College Choir, Cambridge/ traces music from Scotland and Oboe Concerto. Mozart: artistic director of Chicago A Stephen Layton. Hyperion Ireland as it has been absorbed into Symphony No. 33. Beethoven: Cappella, shares the group’s CDA-68087. [4:39] the traditional music of Appalachia. Piano Concerto No. 1. performances of music for 4:00 A WFMT listener favorite: Performed on fiddles, a medieval 11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: the Jewish Festival of Lights. Joaquín Rodrigo Concierto harp, a hammered dulcimer, and Celebrating Beethoven’s 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: de Aranjuez – Julian Bream, bagpipes to support children’s and Birthday in 1968. Fresh Ink looks at Latin- g; Melos Ensemble/Sir Colin adults’ voices, the music journeys American classical composi- Davis. RCA 61598-2. [19:53] from Christmas Eve in the Scotland of tions from the last decade. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart the Middle Ages to the folk carols and Saturday 12 8:00 Folkstage hosted Flute Concerto No. 1 in G, K. shape-note hymns of a Christmastime 12:00 Through the Night with by Rich Warren 313 – Emmanuel Pahud, f; gathering in Virginia. Co-hosted by Peter Van De Graaff 9:00 The Midnight Special with Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado. Sorrell and Candice Agree. Repeats 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Marilyn Rea Beyer EMI CDC5-56365-2. [24:29] on Christmas night at 6:00 pm. Maggie Clennon Reberg, And two more listener Sunday, December 13 including Saturday Morning favorites: Leo Délibes Lakmé: Listeners’ Choice at 8:00 am Sunday 13 Flower duet, Dome épais, le 7:00 pm and Soundtrack at 9:00 am. WFMT first went on the air jasmin – Nicole Cabell & 11:00 Introductions: A look back at December 13, 1951. Alyson Cambridge, s’s; Lake some of the best Beethoven Forest Sym/Vladimir Kulenovic. performances from Chicago’s 12:00 Through the Night with Cedille CDR-90000181. young performers in 2020. Peter Van De Graaff [5:47] Georges Bizet The Includes Isabella Brown 6:00 With Heart and Voice: Pearlfishers: Duet, Au fond du playing the Violin Concerto Advent, week 3, on the temple saint – Jussi Bjoerling, t; Wilbraham, tr; London Festival and Beatrice & Noah Chen theme Song of Mary. Robert Merrill, br; Orch/Renato Orch/Salvador Camarata. DG with the Eyeglasses Duet. 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Cellini. RCA 7799-2. [4:34] B0005042-02 (2). [5:57] 12:00 From the Metropolitan Opera: Maggie Clennon Reberg 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • 12:00 Impromptu Encore: Inon Beethoven’s “Fidelio” – 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Igor Stravinsky Jeu de Barnatan, piano; Sergey Adrianne Pieczonka (Leonore); Robbie Ellis • A WFMT listener cartes – Chicago Sym/Sir Khachatryan, violin; and Alisa Klaus Florian Vogt (Florestan); favorite: Gerald Finzi Eclogue, Georg Solti. London 443775-2. Weilerstein, cello from 2019. Falk Struckmann (Rocco); Op. 10 – Joshua Pierce, p; [22:27] There’s more Stravinsky 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Hanna-Elisabeth Mueller Slovak Radio Sym/Kirk Trevor. tonight at 8:00 pm on our Various Aleih Neiri (Rise Up, My (Marzelline); David Portillo Kleos Classics KL-5137. [8:56] Chicago Symphony broadcast, Light); Lo Yisa Goy (Prayer for (Jaquino); Greer Grimsley And one more all-time English conducted by Riccardo Peace) – Chicago A Cappella. (Don Pizarro); Metropolitan favorite: Ralph Vaughan Muti. Claudio Monteverdi Cedille CDR-90000107. Opera Cho & Orch/Sebastian Williams The Lark Ascending – Cantate Domino – Choir of [9:00] Antonin Dvorák Violin Weigle. From 2017. Hilary Hahn, v; London Sym/ King’s College, Cambridge/ Sonatina in G, Op. 100 – Gil 3:00 Weekend Music with Oliver Sir Colin Davis. DG 4798295 Stephen Cleobury. King’s Shaham, v; Orli Shaham, p. Camacho Roy Harris An (2). [16:10] Plus a favorite College KGS-0034. [2:09] DG 449820-2. [17:31] Josef American Overture (When tone poem: Bedrich Smetana Igor Stravinsky Symphony Suk String Serenade in E-Flat, Johnny Comes Marching Má Vlast (My Fatherland): of Psalms: 1st mvt, Exaudi Op. 6 – London Chamber Orch/ Home) – Seattle Sym/Gerard Vltava (The Moldau) – Czech orationem meam – Atlanta Sym Christopher Warren-Green. Schwarz. Delos DE-3140. [6:59] Phil/Jirí Belohlávek. Decca & Cho/Robert Shaw. Telarc Virgin Classics 91165-2. [26:11] Sergei Prokofiev Overture 4833187. [12:08] CD-80254. [3:12] Another 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34 – 1:00 Ludwig van Beethoven WFMT listener favorite: Max Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Chamber Orch of Europe/ Piano Sonata No. 12 in A-Flat, Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat, Claudio Abbado; Stefan Vladar, Op. 26 – Angela Hewitt, p. in g minor, Op. 26 – Nicola Op. 19 – Stewart Goodyear, p; p. DG 429396-2. [7:53] Sergei Hyperion CDA-67797. [19:11] Benedetti, v; Czech Phil/Jakub BBC National Orch of Wales/ Rachmaninoff Symphonic Leonard Bernstein West Side Hrusa. DG 4764092. [24:36] Andrew Constantine. Orchid Dances, Op. 45 – Berlin Phil/Sir Story Suite – Eroica Trio. EMI 6:00 Richard Strauss Der Classics ORC-100127. [28:03] Simon Rattle. Warner Classics CDC5-07351-2. [11:43] Peter Rosenkavalier, Op. 59: 3:00 Arcangelo Corelli Concerto 84519-2. [35:51] Elizabeth Tchaikovsky Romeo and Suite – Buffalo Phil/JoAnn

24 DECEMBER 2020 Falletta. Naxos 8.572041. v; Matthew Hagle, p. Cedille [23:47] Ludwig van CDR-90000139. [6:19] Emile Beethoven String Quartet Waldteufel España Waltzes, No. 9 in C, Op. 59, No. 3, Op. 236 – Monte Carlo Phil/ Razumovsky – Ébène Quartet. Willi Boskovsky. EMI CDM7- Warner Classics. [31:46] 63136-2. [6:23] Zoltán Kodály 7:00 Christmas on Sugarloaf Summer Evening – Orpheus Mountain: An Irish- Chamber Orch. DG 447109-2. Appalachian Celebration – [16:28] Traditional Huron Performed by Apollo’s Carol (Twas in the moon of Fire under the direction winter); Noël nouvelet – La of Jeannette Sorrell. Pietà/Angèle Dubeau. 8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Analekta AN2-8730. [6:21] Radio Broadcasts – Bizet: 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Roma Symphony; Mascagni: Candice Agree, including Cavalleria Rusticana in concert a newscast at 4:00 pm and form – Anita Rachvelishvili, The Unrush Hour between s (Santuzza); Piero Pretti, t 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm (Turiddu); Luca Salsi, br (Alfio); 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill Sasha Cooke, ms (Lola); McGlaughlin: Vienna and the Ronnita Miller, ms (Lucia); great composers who lived CSO Chorus/Riccardo Muti. and worked there, including 10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Beethoven (b. 12/16/1770). Fogel: Wilhelm Furtwängler Second of two weeks. and the Berlin Philharmonic 8:00 Live from WFMT Encore: The Wicker Park Choral Singers Monday 14 10:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff Tuesday 15 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 12:00 Through the Night with 9:00 Georg Philipp Telemann Viola Peter Van De Graaff Concerto in G – Collegium 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore Musicum 90/Simon Standage, 9:00 Various Pièces de clavecin: vi. Chandos CHAN-0593. Les Sauvages; Images, set 1: II. [12:21] Carl Maria von Hommage à Rameau – Víkingur Weber Invitation to the Dance, Ólafsson, p. DG. [8:37] Op. 65 – Garrick Ohlsson, p. Marc-Antoine Charpentier Arabesque Z-6584 (2). [9:49] Noël sur les instruments – Arthur Sullivan The Merchant Masques/Olivier Fortin. of Venice Suite – City of Analekta AN2-9908. [15:06] CDR-90000046. [10:55] 12:00 Through the Night with Birmingham Sym/Vivian Dunn. 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, Hugo Wolf Italian Serenade Peter Van De Graaff EMI CMS7-64412-2 (2). [14:14] including today’s new in G – I Solisti Italiani. Denon 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, release, plus: Richard Wagner 81757-9150-2. [7:10] Franz 9:00 Various Joy to the World including today’s new release, Rienzi Overture – Berlin Joseph Haydn Symphony (after Sonata in D); What plus: Peter Tchaikovsky The Phil/Klaus Tennstedt. EMI No. 3 in G – Austro-Hungarian Child Is This? (after Sonata in Snow Maiden, Op. 12: Suite – CDC7-47030-2. [13:34] Haydn Orch/Adam Fischer. c-sharp, Op. 27/1) – Jeffrey St. Petersburg Philharmonia/ 11:00 Daily Excursion: Antonín Nimbus NI-5407. [17:32] Biegel, p. Koch KICCD-7737. Alexander Dmitriev. Sony Dvorák Prague Waltzes – 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with [6:59] Frederick Delius Sleigh SMK-46680. [10:46] Detroit Sym/Antal Dorati. Candice Agree, including Ride – English Northern 11:00 Daily Excursion: Francis London 414370-2. [8:54] a newscast at 4:00 pm and Sinfonia/Richard Hickox. Poulenc Suite française – 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: The Unrush Hour between EMI CDM5-65067-2. [6:29] London Wind Orch/Denis Wick. Peter Warlock Capriol 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm Ralph Vaughan Williams ASV CDWHL-2067. [12:20] Suite – Guildhall String 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill The Wasps: March; Entr’acte; 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Ensemble/Robert Salter. McGlaughlin: Vienna and Ballet & Final Tableau – London Morten Lauridsen O RCA 7761-2. [9:29] the great composers who Phil/Sir Adrian Boult. EMI Magnum Mysterium – Bay 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • lived and worked there, CDC7-47216-2. [12:59] Brass. Harmonia Mundi Manuel de Falla The Three- including Beethoven. 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, HMU-807556. [6:28] Cornered Hat Suite – Simón 8:00 From the CSO’s Archives: The including today’s new release, 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Bolívar Sym/Eduardo Mata. First 130 Years – Ludwig van plus: Ludwig van Beethoven Igor Stravinsky Pulcinella Dorian DOR-90210. [12:46] Beethoven at 250 – Leonore Leonore Overture No. 3 in Suite – Teatre Lliure Various O magnum mysterium; Overture No. 3 (/Sir Georg C, Op. 72b – Chicago Sym/ Chamber Orch Barcelona/ Ríu, ríu, chíu – Stile Antico. Solti). Piano Concerto No. 4 Sir Georg Solti. London Josep Pons. Harmonia Harmonia Mundi HMM-902312. (Van Cliburn, p/Fritz Reiner). 421773-2. [13:52] Mundi HMC-901609. [22:59] [7:23] Johann Sebastian Bach Elegy, Op. 118 (CSO Chorus/ 11:00 Daily Excursion: Chinese Pietro Locatelli Concerto Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 Daniel Barenboim). Symphony Traditional Spring Flowers grosso in f, Op. 1/8, Christmas in B-flat, BWV 1051 – Apollo’s No. 3 in E-Flat, Eroica (/Solti). in the Moonlit Night on the Concerto – I Solisti Italiani. Fire/Jeannette Sorrell. Avie 10:00 Chamber Music Society of River – Lang Lang, p; Fan Wei, Denon CO-78912. [14:53] AV-2207 (2). [15:27] Lincoln Center – Francaix: pipa. DG B0008233-00. [7:29] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: String Trio. Schoenfeld: 12:00 Music in Chicago Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Trio for clarinet, violin, and 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Sonata No. 9 in A, Op. 47, piaNo. Prokofiev: String Concerts: For today’s big Op. 37 – Alfred Brendel, p; Kreutzer – Itzhak Perlman, Quartet No. 2. birthday, the Avalon String Vienna Phil/Sir Simon Rattle. v; Martha Argerich, p. EMI 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT Quartet plays Beethoven’s Philips 462781-2 (3). [35:43] CDC5-56815-2. [34:11] Quartet No. 14 in c-sharp 3:00 Various Six Morceaux: No. 3, 3:00 Lita Grier Flute Concertino, minor, Op. 131. Berceuse; Three Pieces for Renascence – Mary Stolper, Wednesday 16 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Cello and Piano, Op. 40: No. 2, f; Czech National Sym/ Ludwig van Beethoven Camille Saint-Saëns Piano Berceuse – Rachel Barton Pine, Paul Freeman. Cedille 1770-1827 Concerto No. 2 in g minor,

2020 DECEMBER 25 Op. 22 – André Watts, p; 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, cello – Shostakovich: Cello conductor – Brahms: Atlanta Sym/Yoel Levi. Telarc including today’s new release, Concerto No. 1; Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3; CD-80386. [23:55] Vincent plus: Ralph Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 2. Symphony No. 4. Persichetti Pastoral – Prairie Fantasia on Greensleeves – 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT 11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: A Winds. Albany TROY-401. Royal Liverpool Phil/Vernon celebration of Hanukkah [5:57] Giovanni Gabrieli Handley. EMI CDM7-64613-2. first aired in 1988. Canzon Septimi Toni; Sonata [4:06] Traditional Carol, Friday 18 Pian’e Forte – Canadian Brass. What Child Is This? 12:00 Through the Night with Opening Day ODR-7380. [8:06] (Greensleeves) – Cambridge Peter Van De Graaff Saturday 19 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Singers, Orch/John Rutter. 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 12:00 Through the Night with Ludwig van Beethoven Collegium CSCD-503. [2:50] 9:00 Antonio Vivaldi Violin Concerto Peter Van De Graaff Symphony No. 7 in A, Franz Schubert Rosamunde in E, R. 270, Il Riposo, per 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Op. 92 – Vienna Phil/Carlos incidental music, D. 797: il Natale – Europa Galante/ Maggie Clennon Reberg, Kleiber. DG 447400-2. [38:39] Ballet music No. 1 – Chamber Fabio Biondi, v. Virgin Classics including Saturday Morning 3:00 Alexander Borodin Prince Igor: Orch of Europe/Claudio 45424-2. [7:15] Engelbert Listeners’ Choice at 8:00 am Polovtsian Dances – Cincinnati Abbado. DG 431655-2. [8:08] Humperdinck Hansel and and Soundtrack at 9:00 am. Pops/Erich Kunzel. Telarc 11:00 Daily Excursion: George Gretel: Overture, Dream 11:00 Introductions: Eytan Raviv, CD-80657. [11:20] Ludwig Gershwin An American in Pantomime – Royal Phil/Rudolf 17, cello – Bach: Cello Suite van Beethoven Variations in Paris – Seattle Sym/Ludovic Kempe. EMI CDZB5-68736-2 No. 2: Sarabande & Gigue; Van A on a Dance by Wranitzky, Morlot. Seattle Symphony (2). [13:25] The complete Goens: Scherzo; Kabalevsky: WoO 71 – Vladimir Ashkenazy, Media SSM-1003. [18:45] opera is coming to us from Concerto No. 1 in Gm: 1st mvt; p. London 4758401. [10:55] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: the Met tomorrow at noon. Fauré: Élégie; arr. Raviv: Eye Ludwig van Beethoven The Lars-Erik Larsson A Winter’s 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, of the Tiger; Sheng: Tibetan Ruins of Athens, Op. 113: Tale incidental music: Four including today’s new release, Dance. With Shirley Trissell, p. March and Chorus, Twine vignettes – Helsingborg plus: Claudio Monteverdi 12:00 From the Metropolitan Ye Garlands; Chorus of Sym/Andrew Manze. CPO Vespro della Beata Vergine: Opera: Humperdinck’s Dervishes – Beecham Choral 777671-2. [10:19] Hymn – Apollo’s Fire/Jeannette “Hansel and Gretel” – Tara Society, Royal Phil/Sir Thomas 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Sorrell. Avie AV-2206 (2). [7:43] Erraught (Hansel); Lisette Beecham. EMI CDM7-69871-2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 11:00 Daily Excursion: Bedrich Oropesa (Gretel); Gerhard [8:24] Emile Waldteufel The Piano Concerto No. 20 in d Smetana Má Vlast (My Siegel (Witch); Dolora Zajick Skaters Waltz, Op. 183 – Vienna minor, K. 466 – Martha Argerich, Fatherland): From Bohemia’s (Gertrude); Quinn Kelsey Phil/Gustavo Dudamel. Sony p; Orch Mozart/Claudio Abbado. Meadows and Forests – (Peter); Metropolitan Opera 88985376182. [7:55] DG 4791033. [30:58] Richard Czech Phil/Sir Charles Cho & Orch/Donald Runnicles. 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Strauss Till Eulenspiegel’s Mackerras. Supraphon From 2018; sung in English. Candice Agree, including Merry Pranks, Op. 28 – Chicago SU-3465-2031. [12:07] 2:30 Weekend Music with Oliver a newscast at 4:00 pm and Sym/Sir Georg Solti. London 12:00 Impromptu Encore: Members Camacho Johann Sebastian The Unrush Hour between 436623-2. [14:59] of the Chamber Music Bach Italian Concerto in F, 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Some Society of Lincoln Center BWV 971 – Peter Serkin, p. 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill Benjamin Britten Britten in Levin Studio in 2015. RCA 68188-2. [13:02] Bach McGlaughlin: Vienna and Peter Grimes: Four Sea 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Toccata and Fugue in d minor, the great composers who Interludes, Op. 33a: Sunday Claude Debussy String Quartet BWV 565 – Philadelphia Orch/ lived and worked there, Morning – Chicago Gargoyle in g minor, Op. 10 – Takács Wolfgang Sawallisch. EMI including Beethoven. Brass & Organ Ensemble/ Quartet. Hyperion CDA-68061. CDC5-55592-2. [9:39] 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin Stephen Squires. MSR [25:09] Robert Nathaniel Dett 3:00 Peter Tchaikovsky The Ludwig van Beethoven Classics MS-1704. [3:31] Magnolia: Part I: Magnolias; Nutcracker, Op. 71: Suite of Symphony No. 9 in d minor, Britten A Ceremony of Carols, The Deserted Cabin; My Lady excerpts – Chicago Sym/Fritz Op. 125, Choral – Soloists, Op. 28 – Westminster Abbey Love – Clipper Erickson, p. Reiner. RCA 68530-2. [40:12] Choruses and Orchestras/ Choir/Martin Neary. Sony Navona NV-6013. [10:48] Reiner, the legendary CSO Leonard Bernstein. DG 429861- SK-62615. [23:01] Britten Peter 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: music director of the 1950s and 2. [77:34] A performance Grimes: Four Sea Interludes, Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov early Sixties, lived December 19, from 1989 that celebrated the Op. 33a: Moonlight – New Scheherazade, Op. 35 – 1888, to November 15, 1963. demolition of the Berlin Wall. York Phil/Leonard Bernstein. Borusan Istanbul Phil/Sascha Manuel de Falla El Amor Brujo: 10:00 Baroque&Before with Sony SMK-47541. [5:07] Goetzel. Onyx 4124. [47:54] Excerpts – Chicago Sym/Fritz Candice Agree 3:00 Franz Joseph Haydn 3:00 Traditional A New Year’s Reiner. RCA 62586-2. [13:00] 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Symphony No. 104 in D, Gift (Greensleeves); Green 4:00 Alan Thomas Out of Africa: Ludwig van Beethoven Piano London – Philharmonia/Leonard Grow’th the Holly; The Cherry I. Call at Sunrise; Morning Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat, Slatkin. RCA 62549-2. [28:29] Tree Carol – Theatre of Dance – Denis Azabagic, g. Op. 73, Emperor – Alessio Aaron Copland Our Town: Voices/Paul Hillier. Harmonia Cedille CDR-7005. [6:45] Bax, p; Southbank Sinfonia/ No. 2, Conversation at the Mundi HMU-907079. [9:23] Adolphus Hailstork Three Simon Over. Signum Soda Fountain – James Tocco, Morton Gould Serenade of Spirituals – Virginia Sym/JoAnn SIGCD-525. [37:30] p. Pro Arte CDD-183. [9:29] Carols – New Philharmonia/ Falletta. Naxos 8.559722. 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Morton Gould. RCA 7931-2. [8:17] George Gershwin I Candice Agree, including [13:38] Traditional Bring a Got Rhythm Variations – Orion Thursday 17 a newscast at 4:00 pm and Torch, Jeanette, Isabella; Carol Weiss, p; Buffalo Phil/JoAnn 12:00 Through the Night with The Unrush Hour between of the Bells – Imani Winds. Falletta. Naxos 8.559705. [8:53] Peter Van De Graaff 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm Koch KICCD-7748. [10:24] 4:30 Arias and Songs Encore: 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Music for the holidays. 9:00 Various O Come, O Come McGlaughlin: Vienna and Candice Agree, including 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Emmanuel; Once in Royal the great composers who a newscast at 4:00 pm and Edward Elgar Cello Concerto David’s City – King’s College lived and worked there, The Unrush Hour between in e minor, Op. 85 – Jacqueline Choir Cambridge/Sir David including Beethoven. 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm Du Pré, vc; Philadelphia Orch/ Willcocks. EMI CDM5-66241-2. 8:00 Itzahk Perlman’s Hanukkah 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill Daniel Barenboim. Sony [8:42] Leroy Anderson A Radio Party: The famed violin- McGlaughlin: Vienna and SK-60394. [31:08] Ralph Christmas Festival – Boston ist shares his favorite music for the great composers who Vaughan Williams Fantasia Pops/Arthur Fiedler. RCA 6428- the Jewish Festival of Lights. lived and worked there, on Christmas Carols – Thomas 2. [8:37] Dmitri Shostakovich 9:00 Milwaukee Symphony including Beethoven. Allen, br; Corydon Singers, Festive Overture, Op. 96 – Orchestra Onstage: 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin English Chamber Orch/Matthew London Phil/Andrew Litton. Edo de Waart, conduc- 9:00 The New York Philharmonic Best. Hyperion CDA-66420. Virgin Classics 61134-2. [5:50] tor; Johannes Moser, This Week: Kurt Masur, [12:26] John Jacob Niles I

26 DECEMBER 2020 Wonder As I Wander – Pro Arte Paul Chamber Orch/Hugh Wolff. CDC7-47010-2. [42:30] Warner Classics 68081. [18:05] Singers/Paul Hillier. Harmonia Teldec 18970-2 (2). [16:59] Various O Come All Ye 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Mundi HMU-907233. [3:08] 2:00 Johannes Brahms Two Faithful (after Sonata in c, Antonio Vivaldi The Four Niles Black Is the Color of Rhapsodies, Op. 79 – Emanuel Op. 13); Silent Night, after Seasons, Concerto No. 1 My True Love’s Hair; Go ‘Way Ax, p. Sony SK-48046. [17:05] Clair de Lune – Jeffrey Biegel, in E, Spring – Franz Liszt from My Window – Susanne Maurice Ravel Rapsodie esp- p. Koch 7737. [10:47] Chamber Orch/Jean-Pierre Mentzer, ms; Sharon Isbin, g. agnole – Seattle Sym/Ludovic 8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Rampal, f. Sony SK-53105. Erato 23419-2. [6:59] Wolfgang Morlot. Seattle Symphony Radio Broadcasts: Riccardo [9:01] Concerto No. 2 in Amadeus Mozart Symphony Media SSM-1002. [15:28] Muti, conductor; Mitsuko g, Summer – Avi Avital, m; No. 39 in E-Flat, K. 543 – 3:00 Robert Russell Bennett Uchida, piano—Mozart: The Venice Baroque Orch. DG Camerata Salzburg/Leonidas Christmas Medley No. 1 – Marriage of Figaro Overture; 4794017. [10:12] Concerto Kavakos. Sony 82876842412. Robert Shaw Chorale, Orch/ Piano Concerto No. 20 in d. No. 3 in F, Autumn – Yolanda [28:47] Various The Months Mr. Shaw. RCA 6429-2. [11:24] Varese: Deserts (/Pierre Boulez). Kondonassis, h; Flanders (The Seasons): December Lawrence Ashmore Four Stravinsky: Divertimento fr The Orch/Rudolf Werthen. Telarc (Christmas); Weihnachtsbaum: Seasons (Suite on English Fairy’s Kiss; The Firebird Suite. CD-80523. [11:37] Concerto The Shepherds at the Manger folksongs) – Richard Stoltzman, 10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry No. 4 in f, Winter – Anne Akiko (In Dulci Jubilo); Jesu, Joy of cl; Guildhall String Ensemble. Fogel: Wilhelm Furtwängler Meyers, v; English Chamber Man’s Desiring/Ding, Dong, RCA 60437-2. [21:26] Aaron and the Berlin Philharmonic Orch/David Lockington. E Merrily on High – Jeffrey Copland Appalachian Spring: One EOM-CD-7790. [8:50] Biegel, p. Steinway 30005. Second half – Music@Menlo 3:00 Gustav Holst Personent [11:42] Traditional Ding Dong Ensemble. Music@Menlo Monday 21 Hodie; Lullay My Liking; In Merrily on High – Music of the Live 2012 (6). [11:08] 12:00 Through the Night with the Bleak Midwinter – Christ Baroque Chorus/William Jon 4:00 Leopold Mozart Trumpet Peter Van De Graaff Church Cathedral Choir/ Gray. Music of the Baroque Concerto in D – Wynton 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore Stephen Darlington. Nimbus CD. [1:12] Leroy Anderson The Marsalis, tr; National Phil/ 9:00 Edgar Meyer Winter’s NI-5098. [11:22] Gustav Holst Waltzing Cat; Bugler’s Holiday; Raymond Leppard. CBS Chill – Modern Mandolin The Planets, Op. 32: Mars, the The Syncopated Clock; Sleigh MK-37846. [7:54] L Mozart Quartet; Edgar Meyer, db. Bringer of War; Venus, the Ride – St. Louis Sym/Leonard Sinfonia Pastorale in G – New Windham Hill 11108-2. [5:29] Bringer of Peace – Atlanta Sym/ Slatkin. RCA 68048-2. [2:50] Zealand Chamber Orch/Donald Robert Nathaniel Dett Tropic Yoel Levi. Telarc CD-80466. 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Armstrong. Naxos 8.553347. Winter: Parade of the Jasmine [15:00] Traditional Cold Frosty Barilari: Latin-American [12:18] Wolfgang Amadeus Banners – Clipper Erickson, Morning; To Drive the Cold Christmas carols Mozart Piano Concerto No. 26 p. Navona NV-6013. [4:11] Winter Away – Rose Ensemble. 8:00 Folkstage hosted in D, K. 537, Coronation – Alicia Various Parade of the Wooden Rose Ensemble 00009. [7:06] by Rich Warren de Larrocha, p; English Soldiers; The Nutcracker: 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with 9:00 The Midnight Special with Chamber Orch/Sir Colin Dance of the Toy (Reed) Candice Agree, including Marilyn Rea Beyer Davis. RCA 61698-2. [31:25] Flutes; Sleigh Ride – Boston a newscast at 4:00 pm and 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Pops/Arthur Fiedler. RCA The Unrush Hour between George Frideric Handel 61685-2. [8:57] Various O 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm Sunday 20 Messiah: He Shall Feed His Little Town of Bethlehem; Hark 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill 12:00 Through the Night with Flock...Come Unto Him – the Herald Angels Sing – BBC McGlaughlin: Dona Nobis Peter Van De Graaff Arleen Auger, s; Mostly Mozart Welsh Chorus, Welsh Guards Pacem; the ancient prayer, 6:00 With Heart and Voice: A Orch/Gerard Schwarz. Delos Fanfare Trumpets/John interpreted by composers Christmas Celebration 3026. [6:20] Handel Messiah: Thomas; Huw Williams, o. of the past and present, 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Finale, Worthy Is the Lamb – Nimbus NI-5310. [7:22] leads Bill to other music Maggie Clennon Reberg Chicago Sym Cho & Orch/Sir 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, on the theme of peace. 12:00 Sunday Afternoons Georg Solti. London 425825-2. including today’s new 8:00 Live from WFMT Encore: with Robbie Ellis [6:35] We have a complete CSO release, plus: Leroy Anderson Joel Spears, lute, and 12:00 George Frideric Handel Messiah tonight at 8:00. Franz Suite of Carols for Brass friends in some rare Baroque Messiah: Chorus, Hallelujah – Schubert Symphony No. 6 in Choir – BBC Concert Orch music for Christmastide. Chicago Sym Cho & Orch/Sir C, D. 589 – Australian Chamber Brass/Leonard Slatkin. 10:00 The Film Score with Michael Georg Solti. London 466075-2 Orch/Sir Charles Mackerras. Naxos 8.559621. [11:41] Phillips: Movie music for (2). [3:46] Tonight at 8:00 Omega OCD-1005. [33:19] 11:00 Daily Excursion: Peter the winter holidays the Chicago Symphony and Yolanda Kondonassis Dream Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT its chorus perform this favorite Season – Yolanda Kondonassis, in g, Op. 13, Winter Dreams: oratorio. Francesco Manfredini h. Telarc CD-80446. [3:56] I. Allegro tranquillo – Chicago Concerto grosso in C, Op. 3/12, Respighi Lauda per la Natività Sym/Claudio Abbado. Tuesday 22 Christmas Concerto – I Musici. del Signore – Valente, Forrester, Sony SK-48056. [11:43] 12:00 Through the Night with Philips 412739-2. [8:23] Franz Philadelphia Singers, Orch/ 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Peter Van De Graaff Joseph Haydn Cello Concerto Michael Korn. RCA 7787-2. Giuseppe Torelli Concerto 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore No. 1 in C, H VIIb:1 – Yo-Yo [26:36] Alfredo Catalani grosso in g, Op. 8/6, Christmas 9:00 Various Christmas Medley Ma, vc; English Chamber Contemplazione – La Scala Concerto – Berlin Phil/Herbert No. 2 – Atlanta Sym & Cho/ Orch/Jose-Luis Garcia. CBS Phil/Riccardo Muti. Sony SK- von Karajan. DG 449924-2. Robert Shaw. Telarc CD-80087. MK-36674. [23:41] Franz 63025. [10:48] Jules Massenet [9:17] Traditional Star in [10:56] Various It Came Upon Lehár Violin Concertino in b La Vierge: The Last Sleep of the East; The Shepherds’ A Midnight Clear; Fantasia on minor – Robert McDuffie, v; the Virgin – Minnesota Orch/Eiji Star – Anonymous 4. Harmonia Greensleeves – Philharmonia/ Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel. Oue. Reference Recordings RR- Mundi HMU-807453. [5:37] Morton Gould. RCA 7931-2. Telarc CD-80402. [12:57] 99-CD. [4:30] Jules Massenet 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • [7:28] Traditional The Holly 1:00 Joaquín Turina Piano Trio Thaïs: Méditation – Joshua Franz Schubert Arpeggione and the Ivy; I Saw Three No. 1, Op. 35 – Eaken Piano Bell, v; Royal Phil/Andrew Sonata in a, D. 821 – Yo-Yo Ma, Ships – Imani Winds. Koch Trio. Excelsius 730172. [19:16] Litton. London 433519-2. vc; Emanuel Ax, p. Sony 61964. KICCD-7748. [6:46] Bach-Gounod Ave Maria – [5:12] French Traditional [24:28] Johann Sebastian 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, Eaken Piano Trio. Naxos Carol, Il est né le divin enfant – Bach Cantata No. 1: Opening including today’s new release, 8.554714. [7:51] Various Gesu Chanticleer/Joseph Jennings. chorus, Wie schön leuchtet plus: Leopold Mozart Toy Bambino; Mille Cherubini in Chanticleer CR-8803. [2:27] der Morgenstern; Christmas Symphony in G – Kremerata Coro – Luciano Pavarotti, t; 7:00 Ludwig van Beethoven Oratorio, part 1: Opening Baltica. Nonesuch 79633-2. National Phil/Kurt Adler. London Piano Trio in B-Flat, chorus, Jauchzet, frohlocket – [7:23] Wolfgang Amadeus 414044-2. [8:29] Ottorino Op. 97, Archduke – Itzhak Vienna Boys’ Choir, Cho Mozart Variations on Ah! vous Respighi Ancient Airs and Perlman, v; Lynn Harrell, vc; Viennensis, Vienna Concentus dirai-je, Maman, K. 265 – Fazil Dances for the Lute, set 3 – St. Vladimir Ashkenazy, p. EMI Musicus/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Say, p. Atlantic 21970-2. [11:39]

2020 DECEMBER 27 11:00 Daily Excursion: Frederick pastores ait; Jubilate Deo – holiday music from number 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Delius Sleigh Ride – English Music of the Baroque/Edward of different traditions. Candice Agree, including Northern Sinfonia/ Zelnis. MOB 2006. [10:41] 10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice a newscast at 4:00 pm and Richard Hickox. EMI Manuel de Falla Harpsichord Agree: A special two-hour The Unrush Hour between CDC7-47610-2. [6:29] Concerto – David Schrader, hc; edition for Christmas 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Rembrandt Chamber Players. 7:00 Exploring Music with Antony Holborne Renaissance Cedille CDR-90000011. [12:07] Bill McGlaughlin: Suite – Philadelphia 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, Thursday 24 Dona Nobis Pacem Brass Ensemble. Sony including today’s new Christmas Eve 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin SBK-63061. [11:45] release, plus: Various The Lewis Redner O Little Town of 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Shepherd’s Carol; What 12:00 Through the Night with Bethlehem – Trinity Choir/Brian Claude Debussy La Boîte à Sweeter Music – King’s College Peter Van De Graaff Jones. Dorian DOR-93240. Joujoux – Seattle Sym/Ludovic Choir Cambridge/Stephen 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore [2:50] Traditional Angels We Morlot. Seattle Symphony Cleobury. EMI CDC5-58070-2 9:00 Live from King’s College Have Heard on High – Joan Media SSM-1010. [32:29] (2). [8:12] Frank Bridge Cambridge University: Sutherland, s; Ambrosian Gabriel Fauré Dolly Suite, Christmas dance, Sir Roger de A Festival of Nine Singers, New Philharmonia/ Op. 56: IV. Kitty-Valse – Julian Coverley – English Northern Lessons and Carols Richard Bonynge. London Bream & John Williams, Philharmonia/David Lloyd- 10:30 Midday with Lisa Flynn 421095-2. [1:43] Adolphe- g’s. RCA 61450-2. [2:24] Jones. Naxos 8.555068. [4:15] 11:00 Daily Excursion: Russian Charles Adam Cantique de Zez Confrey Kitten on the 11:00 Daily Excursion: Bernard Traditional Folksong, The Noël (O Holy Night) – Luciano Keys – Eteri Andjaparidze, Herrmann Currier and Troika Speeds Along – Pavarotti, t; National Phil/ p. Naxos 8.559016. [2:27] Ives Suite – New Zealand Washington Balalaika Adler. London 414044-2. [4:13] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Sym/James Sedares. Koch Society, Paul Hill Chorale/ Joaquín Rodrigo Concierto Johann Sebastian Bach 3-7224-2. [13:16] Paul Hill. Centaur CRC-2230. pastoral – James Galway, f; Magnificat in D, BWV 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: [5:06] Sergei Prokofiev Philharmonia/Eduardo Mata. 243 – La Capella Reial de Robert Russell Bennett Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60: RCA 68428-2. [24:28] Catalunya, Le Concert des Christmas Medley No. 3 – IV. Troika – Chicago Sym/Fritz 9:00 Milwaukee Symphony Nations/Jordi Savall. Alia Robert Shaw Chorale & Reiner. RCA 5605-2. [2:36] Orchestra Onstage: Peter Vox AVSA-9909-D. [27:38] Orch. RCA 6429-2. [12:21] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Oundjian, conductor; Todd 3:00 Richard Strauss Oboe Adolphe-Charles Adam Levy, clarinet – Rachmaninoff: Concerto in D – Alex Klein, ob; Live Hess concerts resume on Cantique de Noël (O Holy The Isle of the Dead. Chicago Sym/Daniel Barenboim. Wednesdays in January. Night) – Cambridge Singers, Debussy: Clarinet Rhapsody. Teldec 23913-2. [26:32] Tomas City of London Sinfonia/ Bernstein: Clarinet Sonata Luis da Victoria O Magnum 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • John Rutter. Collegium 111. arr Ramin for clarinet & Mysterium – Music of the Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart [6:35] Various Hansel and chamber group. Beethoven: Baroque/Thomas Wikman. Flute and Harp Concerto in C, Gretel: Evening Prayer; Gesu Symphony No. 5. The final Music of the Baroque MB-108. K. 299 – Rune Most, f; Sivan Bambino – Eaken Piano Trio. broadcast in this series. [3:23] Michael Praetorius Magen, h; Odense Sym/Scott Naxos 8.554099. [7:44] 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen – Yoo. Bridge 9502. [29:18] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Gian-Carlo Menotti Amahl Music of the Baroque/ Traditional Joy to the World; Traditional Go Tell It on and the Night Visitors – Ike William Jon Gray. MOB 2012. Deck the Halls; O Come All the Mountain – Chicago Hawkersmith, Kirsten [2:51] Gian-Carlo Menotti Ye Faithful – Choral Guild of Children’s Choir/Josephine Gunlogson, Nashville Sym Amahl and the Night Visitors: Atlanta. Sony SFK-62698. [7:53] Lee, Chicago Children’s Cho & Cho/Alastair Willis. Naxos Orchestral suite – Atlanta 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: CD; Imani Winds, Koch 7748. 8.669019. [49:05] Anonymous Sym/Robert Shaw. Turnabout Maurice Ravel Quartet in [5:35] Giacomo Puccini La Christmas Day Mass, Notre QTV-S-34647/48. [6:21] F – Emerson String Quartet. Bohème Suite – National Dame School: Introit, Puer 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with DG 445509-2. [28:02] Opera Orch/Paul Freeman. Pro natus est – Ensemble Organum/ Candice Agree, including 3:00 Giuseppe Sammartini Arte CDS-3671. [14:12] The Marcel Peres. Harmonia Mundi a newscast at 4:00 pm and Concerto grosso in g, first two acts ofLa Boheme HMX-290649/54 (6). [5:59] The Unrush Hour between Op. 5/6, Christmas – English take place on Christmas Eve. Franz Gruber Stille Nacht – 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm Chamber Orch/Simon Preston. Leonard Bernstein West Side Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, s; 7:00 Exploring Music with Novalis 150133-2 (2). [15:03] Story: Symphonic Dances – Julian Bream, g; Philharmonia/ Bill McGlaughlin: Joaquín Rodrigo Zarabanda Utah Sym/Keith Lockhart. Sir CharlesMackerras. EMI Dona Nobis Pacem Lejana y Villancico – London Reference RR-105. [22:09] CDM7-63574-2. [3:35] 8:00 From the CSO’s Archives: Sym/Enrique Bátiz. EMI 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Ralph The First 130 Years – Claudio CZS7-67435-2 (4). [9:20] Vaughan Williams Christmas Abbado, former principal guest Traditional Entre le boeuf cantata, Hodie – E Gale, R Friday 25 conductor, in Tchaikovsky – et l’âne gris; Guillô, pran Tear, S Roberts, LSO Chorus, Christmas Day Symphony No. 1, Winter ton tamborin (Patapan); El St Paul’s Cathedral Choristers, Dreams; Romeo and Juliet; The Rorro – Monteverdi Choir/Sir London Sym/Richard Hickox. 12:00 Through the Night with Tempest; The Nutcracker Suite. John Eliot Gardiner. Philips EMI 54128-2. [57:42] Peter Van De Graaff 10:00 Chamber Music Society of 462050-2. [2:16] Francis 3:00 Frédéric Chopin Piano Sonata 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore Lincoln Center – Debussy: Poulenc Aubade – Gabriel No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 – 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, String Quartet in g; Tacchino, p; Paris Conservatory Daniil Trifonov, p. London including today’s new release, Bartok: Sonata for two Orch/Georges Prêtre. EMI B0018271-02. [27:03] Elinor plus: Johann Sebastian pianos and percussion. CDM7-64714-2. [20:05] Remick Warren Wexford Bach Christmas Oratorio: 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Bells: Suite on Old Irish Sinfonia – Academy of Candice Agree, including Tunes – Royal Ballet Sinfonia/ Ancient Music/Christopher a newscast at 4:00 pm and Gavin Sutherland. ASV 2126. Hogwood. Oiseau 410179-2. Wednesday 23 The Unrush Hour between [11:26] Traditional Jingle [5:12] Peter Tchaikovsky The 12:00 Through the Night with 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm Bells – Imani Winds. Koch Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a: Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Exploring Music with 7748. [2:54] Nicolai Leontovich Waltz of the Flowers – Martha 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore Bill McGlaughlin: Carol of the Bells – St. Paul’s Argerich & Nicolas Economou, 9:00 Antony Holborne The Fairy Dona Nobis Pacem Cathedral Choir/Andrew p’s. DG 449816-2. [6:22] Round; Alman, The Honie 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin Carwood. Decca 4789225. 11:00 Various There Is A Flower; Suckle or Hartes Ease; Heigh 9:00 Winter Holidays Around the [1:26] Traditional The Twelve Bethlehem Down – King’s Ho Holiday – Julian Bream, l. World with Bill McGlaughlin: Days of Christmas – Elmer Singers. Signum Two SIG-0502. RCA 61587-2. [5:34] Giovanni Bill highlights diverse Iseler Singers & Canadian [7:53] Leroy Anderson A Gabrieli Motet, Angelus ad cultures as he samples Brass. Philips 426835-2. [7:15] Christmas Festival – Dallas

28 DECEMBER 2020 Wind Sym/Jerry Junkin. Archive 423232-2 (2). [24:43] 4:30 Arias and Songs Encore: Claudio Abbado. Sony Reference RR-126. [6:54] 9:00 The New York Philharmonic Waltzes for the New Year SK-48385. [16:47] Claude 12:00 Impromptu Encore: The This Week: A potpourri of 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Debussy Danses sacrée et male-voice chamber classical and pops favorites Edouard Lalo Symphonie profane – Elizabeth Hainen, choir Chanticleer, which for the winter holidays. espagnole in d, Op. 21 – Isaac h; IRIS Orch/Michael Stern. performed in Levin Studio in 11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Stern, v; Philadelphia Orch/ Avie AV-2285. [9:53] Michael 2012 with Carl Grapentine Christmas Memories Eugene Ormandy. Sony Praetorius Terpsichore: hosting. [40:00] Otto Nicolai SM2K-64501 (2). [32:59] Five Dances – Collegium Weihnachtsouvertüre Various El la don don; Riu, Terpsichore/Fritz Neumeyer. (Christmas Overture 1833) – Saturday 26 riu, chiu; Salve Regina; Ave Boston Skyline BSD-118. Bavarian Radio Choir, Bamberg 12:00 Through the Night with Maria – Chanticleer/Joseph [12:15] Praetorius Es ist ein Sym/Karl Anton Rickenbacher. Peter Van De Graaff Jennings. Chanticleer CR-8803, Ros’ entsprungen – Vasari Virgin Classics 91079-2. [10:51] 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Warner 0190295617783. [17:05] Singers/Jeremy Backhouse. 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Maggie Clennon Reberg, 6:00 Ottorino Respighi Roman Naxos 8.573030. [3:56] Arcangelo Corelli Concerto including Saturday Morning Festivals (Feste Romane) – 3:00 William Schuman New grosso in g, Op. 6/8, Christmas Listeners’ Choice at 8:00 am Oregon Sym/James de Preist. England Triptych – St. Louis Concerto – Cantilena/ and Soundtrack at 9:00 am. Delos D/CD-3070. [25:42] Sym/Leonard Slatkin. RCA Adrian Shepherd. Chandos 11:00 Introductions: Sami Edward Elgar Cockaigne 61282-2. [15:20] Leroy CHAN-6630. [15:59] Victor Gershenhorn, 11, Overture (In London Town), Anderson Suite of Carols for Hely-Hutchinson A Carol piano. Chopin: Fantaisie- Op. 40 – Oregon Sym/Carlos Woodwinds – BBC Concert Symphony – City of Prague Impromptu, Op. 66; Bach: Kalmar. Pentatone PTC- Orch Winds/Slatkin. Naxos Phil/Gavin Sutherland. Naxos Italian Concerto 1st mvt; 5186471. [15:02] Elgar There 8.559621. [10:44] Johann 8.557099. [24:42] Various God Beethoven: Tempest Sonata Is Sweet Music – Cambridge Sebastian Bach Clavier Partita Rest You Merry, Gentlemen; 3rd mvt; Rachmaninoff: Singers/John Rutter. Collegium No. 5 in G, BWV 829 – Stewart We Three Kings of Orient Prelude Op. 3/2; Liszt: CSCD-505. [5:34] John Goodyear, p. Sono Luminus Are; L’Enfance du Christ: The Consolation No. 3 in Db; Rutter What Sweeter Music – DSL-92220. [17:17] George Shepherds’ Farewell – Choir Debussy: Jardins sous la pluie. Cambridge Singers/Rutter. Frideric Handel Messiah: of King’s College, Cambridge/ 12:00 From the Metropolitan Opera: Collegium COLCD-111. [4:18] And the Glory of the Lord; Stephen Cleobury. King’s Mozart’s “Magic Flute” 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: For Unto Us A Child Is College KGS-0033. [4:00] (abridged; sung in English) – Revisiting Mexico Born – Les Arts Florissants/ 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Franz Russell Thomas (Tamino); 8:00 Folkstage hosted William Christie. Harmonia Schubert Symphony No. 9 Susanna Phillips (Pamina); by Rich Warren Mundi HMU-901498/9 (2). in C, D. 944, Great – Vienna Nathan Gunn (Papageno); 9:00 The Midnight Special with [6:56] Franz Joseph Haydn Phil/Sir Georg Solti. London Morris Robinson (Sarastro); Marilyn Rea Beyer Quartet in D, Op. 64, No. 5, 400082-2. [55:11] Erika Miklosa (Queen of the Lark – Danish String Quartet. 3:00 Vernon M. Whaley Christmas Night); Metropolitan Opera Cho Avi Music 8553264. [17:31] Spiritual Medley – Oklahoma & Orch/Erik Nielsen. From 2010. Sunday 27 Hans Christian Lumbye Woodwind Quintet. Integra 2:00 Weekend Music with Oliver 12:00 Through the Night with Drommebilleder (Dream ICD-801. 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Night and the Music Candice Agree, including Monday 28 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 8:00 From the CSO’s Archives: a newscast at 4:00 pm and 12:00 Through the Night with Hector Berlioz L’Enfance du The First 130 Years – Guests The Unrush Hour between Peter Van De Graaff Christ, Op. 25 – Tenebrae Choir, in the House – Khachaturian: 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore London Sym/Sir Colin Davis. Symphony No. 3 (/Leopold 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill 9:00 Ottorino Respighi Ancient Airs LSO Live LSO-0606 (2). [96:34] Stokowski). Williams: McGlaughlin: You and the and Dances for the Lute arr 10:00 Encore Broadcast: Critical Suite from Memoirs of A Night and the Music piano: Campanae Parisienses; Thinking with Andrew Patner – Geisha (Yo-Yo Ma, vc/ 8:00 Law and Opera: In memory Villanella – Konstantin Andrew explores the rich world John Williams). Kodaly: of the late Supreme Court Scherbakov, p. 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Ravel Introduction and 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT 10:00 Baroque&Before with Allegro – Galway, f; Stoltzman, 9:00 Georges Bizet L’Arlésienne Candice Agree cl; Lehwalder, h; Tokyo String Suite No. 2 – Toronto Sym/ 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT Quartet. RCA 62552-2. [10:51] Sir Andrew Davis. CBS Wednesday 30 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, MDK-45649. [17:36] Bedrich 12:00 Through the Night with including today’s new release, Smetana The Bartered Bride: Peter Van De Graaff Thursday 31 plus: Aram Khachaturian Three Dances – Prague Sym/ 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore New Year’s Eve Masquerade Suite – Scottish Jiri Belohlàvek. Supraphon 9:00 Eduard Strauss Carmen National Orch/Neeme Järvi. 110377-2. [12:23] Quadrille, Op. 134; Telephon 12:00 Through the Night with Chandos CHAN-8542. [16:17] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, Polka – Vienna Phil/Mariss Peter Van De Graaff 11:00 Daily Excursion: Federico including today’s new Jansons. 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2020 DECEMBER 31 Host Elbio Barilari goes back in time to listen to Spanish and Latin-American Christmas music, including portions of the Missa Pastoril para Noite de Natal by Brazil’s José Maurício Nunes Garcia (1767-1830).

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