2017 HOLIDAY RADIO PROGRAMMING GUIDE
Wednesday, Dec. 13 | 10 a.m. be getting longer, holiday celebrations to bring in another year are beginning, and on Tuesday Hanukkah Lights 2017 a great big radio greeting card goes out across the entire vast expanse of Alaska. It’s the annual A perennial NPR favorite with all new Hanukkah two-hour holiday greetings edition of Talk of stories. Hosted by Susan Stamberg and Murray Alaska. Horwitz. Tuesday, Dec. 19 | 3 p.m.
Friday, Dec. 15 | 1:30 p.m. Chanukah in Story and Song
Chanukah in Story and Song Repeat. This hour-long Chanukah favorite returns: A celebration by The Western Wind This hour-long Chanukah favorite returns: A performing Ladino songs of Spanish Jews, celebration by The Western Wind performing Yiddish melodies of Eastern Europe and modern Ladino songs of Spanish Jews, Yiddish melodies Israeli tunes. of Eastern Europe and modern Israeli tunes.
Tuesday, Dec. 19 | 8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 15 | 8 p.m. Talk of Alaska: Holiday Greetings The Big, Tiny Desk Across the State Holiday Special Repeat. It’s that time of year again — the days Celebrate the season with amazing holiday will soon be getting longer, holiday celebrations performances from The Tiny Desk Concert series to bring in another year are beginning, and on including Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Steve Tuesday a great big radio greeting card goes Martin, Hanson, The Polyphonic Spree and more! out across the entire vast expanse of Alaska. It’s Hosted by NPR Music frenemies Bob Boilen and the annual two-hour holiday greetings edition of Stephen Thompson. Talk of Alaska.
Tuesday, Dec. 19 | 9 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 21 | 10 a.m. Hollywood Holiday A Paul Winter Solstice Concert
Join Lynne Warfel for an hour of holiday movie Celebrate the return of the sun — and the music that ranges from the sentimental to warming of the heart with Paul Winter’s 37th the completely cranky. From White Christmas Annual Winter Solstice Celebration. On the and cozy homes for the holidays to Grinches, darkest night of the year, we head back to Scrooges, and Muppets, ‘A Hollywood Holiday’ New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine to takes in your favorite holiday movies from a hear The Paul Winter Consort and the glorious musical point of view. Cathedral Pipe Organ. The performance brings traditional holiday favorites and new sounds from around the world. Tuesday, Dec. 19 | 10 a.m.
Talk of Alaska: Holiday Greetings Thursday, Dec. 21 | 9 p.m. Across the State Echoes Winter Solstice It’s that time of year again — the days will soon Get ready for the big chill on an Echoes Winter (page 1 of 5) ALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA’S 2017 HOLIDAY RADIO PROGRAMMING GUIDE
Solstice. John Diliberto creates a soundscape of Saturday, Dec. 23 | 1 p.m. snow shrouded trees, silent saguaro cactus and white out conditions. It’s a winter fantasy with Tinsel Tales: NPR Christmas no Christmas Carols, but lots of music taking you Stories (Original w/ David into the celestial side of the season to carry you through the longest night of the year. Bundle up Sedaris) for an Echoes Winter Solstice. Christmas is a time of traditions, and over the years, NPR has created a few traditions of its Friday, Dec. 22 | 1:30 p.m. own. In this hour-long special: Wistfulness, joy, doubt, hope, all the emotions we feel at this time Joy To The World: of year, all summoned up in memorable stories A Holiday in Pink from the NPR broadcast archives. David Sedaris, Bailey White, John Henry Faulk — The internationally acclaimed “little orchestra” these and other NPR voices, past and present, Pink Martini bedecks the airwaves with festive tell stories of the season. It may be you’ll holiday songs from across the globe. From remember these tales fondly, or it may be you’ll timeless classics to rarely heard gems, hear a fall in love with them for the first time. Hosted by multi-denominational, multi-cultural jubilee, Lynn Neary. overflowing with enough holiday spirit to warm your entire family. Hosted by All Things Considered’s Ari Shapiro. Saturday, Dec. 23 | 2 p.m. The Christmas Revels: Friday, Dec. 22 | 2:30 p.m. In Celebration of the Holiday music Winter Solstice
Stage Talk and AK Fisheries Report are off today. Is an all-new, two-hour compilation of musical excerpts, plus a few short poetry and prose readings, selected from the live Christmas/ Friday, Dec. 22 | 8 p.m. Winter Solstice Revels stage productions that took place in December, in nine cities across the Tinsel Tales 4: NPR Christmas United States. Stories Told Through Song
In keeping with a well-loved NPR holiday Saturday, Dec. 23 | 8 p.m. tradition, hear the fourth collection of extraordinary Christmas stories that will Midnight Sun Jazz holiday tunes transport you to unexpected places. NPR’s past and present tell stories of the season in this hour-long special. Some tales are funny; some Saturday, Dec. 23 | 10 p.m. are touching; some are insightful or irreverent or nostalgic or surprising. Christmas Jazz from NPR
Friday, Dec. 22 | 9 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 23 | 11 p.m. Jazz Piano Christmas 33 Christmas on Jazz
Join the Kennedy Center and NPR Music for Every holiday season, jazz musicians get in the a special Mardi Gras themed holiday concert. Christmas spirit with fresh new recordings of Hosted by Felix Contreras. traditional and original music. This year, Jazz Happening Now host Jeff Hanley will produce a new hour of 2017’s best new Christmas jazz. A perfect soundtrack for your holiday!
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Sunday, Dec. 24 | 8 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 24 | 2 p.m. A Festival of Nine Lessons and A Choral Christmas Stile Antico
Carols Celebrate Christmas with the sound of soaring voices. Stile Antico, the award winning choir Pipedreams host Michael Barone presents this from London, pays a visit to St. Paul’s church on live service of spoken-word and music (choral Harvard Square for a concert of radiant sacred and organ) broadcast from the chapel of King’s music for the Christmas season by the most College in Cambridge, England. The 30-voice acclaimed composers of the renaissance. King’s College Choir performs the legendary Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols service of Biblical readings and music. Sunday, Dec. 24 | 3 p.m. Welcome Christmas Sunday, Dec. 24 | 10 a.m. “Welcome Christmas!” is a perennial Christmas Chanticleer Christmas favorite from VocalEssence, one of the world’s premier choral ensembles. Join host John This unique, one-hour program of holiday music Birge for an hour of traditional carols and new is presented live in concert by Chanticleer. Hear discoveries, including the world premiere of two why this superb 12-man ensemble is known carols from the annual Christmas Carol Contest. as “an orchestra of voices,” as they perform holiday classics and new favorites, with choral commentary by host Brian Newhouse. Sunday, Dec. 24 | 5 p.m. Twas the Night Before/ Sunday, Dec. 24 | 11 a.m. Jonathan Winters: A Christmas Spelman and Morehouse Carol One of the great holiday traditions in America, An updated version of a public radio tradition the choirs of Morehouse and Spelman Colleges hosted by NPR’s Susan Stamberg. Master — two of the most prestigious historically black comedian Jonathan Winters presents a institutions in the nation — get together to distinctive reading of Dickens’ holiday classic, present a spine-tingling concert program. This with a special performing edition prepared by encore presentation features the best works of Dickens for his own presentations. the last several years. It’s a joyous celebration of the schools’ tradition of singing excellence, with their trademark mixture of spirituals and carols. Sunday, Dec. 24 | 6 p.m. Korva Coleman hosts. Afro Blue Christmas
Sunday, Dec. 24 | Noon Join us for a very special holiday concert with Howard University’s premiere vocal ensemble Brian O’Donovan’s Afro Blue and special guest pianist Cyrus A Celtic Sojourn Chestnut. Hear the a cappella group perform a variety of holiday songs including African- “A Celtic Sojourn” has thrilled radio audiences American spirituals, jazz and pop tunes, and for almost thirty years. For the last fifteen, the classical repertoire. Christmas-themed live version of the show has drawn on Celtic, Pagan, and Christian traditions to celebrate the music of this season. Sunday, Dec. 24 | 7 p.m. Festival Alt Latino: Gaby Moreno
Festival Alt Latino presents a 2015 encore featuring songwriter/performer Gaby Moreno (page 3 of 5) ALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA’S 2017 HOLIDAY RADIO PROGRAMMING GUIDE and her band performing tracks from her music (choral and organ) broadcast from the popular holiday album Posada - recorded live at chapel of King’s College in Cambridge, England. the KUT studios in Austin, Texas. She was joined The 30-voice King’s College Choir performs the by special guests Gina Chavez and Chicano Zen legendary Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols bandleader and record producer Michael Ramos. service of Biblical readings and music.
Monday, Dec. 25 | 8 a.m. Monday, Dec. 25 | 3 p.m. A Baroque Christmas Spelman and Morehouse
We’re celebrating the holidays with a unique Repeat. One of the great holiday traditions performance of music from 17th- and 18th- in America, the choirs of Morehouse and century Mexico, Peru and Bolivia, including Spelman Colleges -- two of the most prestigious a cantata and three free-standing works by historically black institutions in the nation -- get colonial Mexican composer Manuel de Sumaya together to present a spine-tingling concert – works that have not been performed since his program. This encore presentation features the lifetime. Join us as musicians of the Historical best works of the last several years. It’s a joyous Performance Institute at the Jacobs School of celebration of the schools’ tradition of singing Music of Indiana University bring these sparkling excellence, with their trademark mixture of works to life once again. spirituals and carols. Korva Coleman hosts.
Monday, Dec. 25 | 9 a.m. Monday, Dec. 25 | 6 p.m. Chanticleer Christmas Concierto Christmas
This unique, one-hour program of holiday music Frank Dominguez hosts a special holiday is presented live in concert by Chanticleer. Hear edition of the national bi-lingual program that why this superb 12-man ensemble is known features music by Spanish and Latin American as “an orchestra of voices,” as they perform composers and performers presented in English holiday classics and new favorites, with choral and in Spanish. This new edition of the program commentary by host Brian Newhouse. features a broad range of sacred and seasonal selections, spanning from Renaissance Spain to the 20th century in South America and the U.S. Monday, Dec. 25 | 10 - Noon Southwest. St. Olaf’s Christmas Monday, Dec. 25 | 8 p.m. This service in song and word has become one of the nation’s most cherished holiday Tinsel Tales 3 celebrations. The festival includes hymns, carols, choral works, as well as orchestral selections In keeping with a well-loved NPR holiday celebrating the Nativity and featuring more than tradition, hear the third collection of 500 student musicians in five choirs, and the extraordinary Christmas stories that will St. Olaf Orchestra. SymphonyCast host Alison transport you to unexpected places. Young shares the sights and sounds of this choral favorite. Audie Cornish, Ken Harbaugh, Nina Totenberg and other voices from NPR’s past and present tell stories of the season in this hour-long Monday, Dec. 25 | 1 p.m. special. Some tales are funny; some are touching; some are insightful or irreverent or A Festival of Nine Lessons and nostalgic or surprising. Carols
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Monday, Dec. 25 | 9 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 31 | 11 p.m. Joy To The World: A Holiday in New Year’s Toast of the Nation
Pink An NPR tradition every New Year’s Eve since the 1970s, Toast of the Nation is the perfect The internationally acclaimed “little orchestra” audio complement for the occasion. It’s festive Pink Martini bedecks the airwaves with festive jazz you can party to, all night long. Spirited, holiday songs from across the globe. From improvised, and swinging, each segment stops in timeless classics to rarely heard gems, hear a a special venue, throughout the country. multi-denominational, multi-cultural jubilee, overflowing with enough holiday spirit to warm your entire family. Hosted by All Things Monday, Jan. 1, 2018 | 1 p.m. Considered’s Ari Shapiro. Monday, Dec. 25 | 10 p.m. New Years with Pittsburgh Echoes Christmas Symphony Orchestra
In “Echoes Christmas,” your listeners will enjoy Ring in the New Year with the Pittsburgh the perfect mix of music for winding down after Symphony Orchestra and a concert of Strauss all the Christmas celebrations have ebbed. It’s waltzes and polkas in the style of the Vienna a soundscape of carols that depart from the New Year’s concert waltzes. shopping mall repetition to send you into that long winter’s night. Monday, Jan. 1, 2018 | 6 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 27 | 2 p.m. New Year’s Day from Vienna Season’s Griot The Vienna Philharmonic presents its ever popular annual New Year’s Day concert from the This one-hour celebration in story and song Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna. You’ll is public radio’s only nationally syndicated hear your favorite waltzes, polkas and more -- a Kwanzaa program. Hosted for nearly 20 years by festive way to start off the New Year. Presented acclaimed storyteller Madafo Lloyd Wilson, this by NPR Music. annual special captures the tales and traditions of African American and African peoples. FIND US ACROSS ALASKA Saturday, Dec. 30 | 2 p.m. Ways to Watch Linda Ronstadt • KAKM (Digital 7.1, GCI 7, GCI 657) • Create TV (Digital 7.2, GCI 94) The remarkable and varied performing career • 360 North (Digital 7.3, GCI 15) of Linda Ronstadt is explored by a panel of her • PBS Kids 24/7 (7.4, GCI 97) friends, music writers, musicians and fans. Plus • KTOO Juneau archival interviews with Linda. Hosted by Paul • KYUK Bethel Ingles. • Also available on major cable systems
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