Our Regularly Scheduled Evening Concert Programs are Pre-empted for 3 Holiday Programs

Tonight’s holiday programs start at 5:00 pm with the “St. Olaf Christmas Festival” followed at 7:00 by “Classical Christmas in Latin America” on “Fiesta” and from 8:00 to 10:00 “A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols” recorded earlier in the day in Cambridge, England.

Sunday, December 24: Classical Music (from Classical 24) PRE-EMPTED

5:00 pm: St. Olaf Christmas Festival (Hour 1) (The playlist for this program is available. Please send email to trauth@illinois.edu)

The St. Olaf Christmas Festival, one of the nation's most cherished holiday celebrations, started in 1912. You’ll hear hymns, carols, choral works and orchestral selections celebrating the Nativity featuring the St. Olaf Choir, the St. Olaf Orchestra, the St. Olaf Cantorei, the St. Olaf Chapel Choir, the Manitou Singers and the Viking Chorus

Sunday, December 24: Chamber Mus. Soc. of Lincoln Center (CMS 24-14) PRE-EMPTED

6:00 pm: St. Olaf Christmas Festival (Hour 2)

Sunday, December 24: Fiesta! With Elbio Barilari (FST 23-40)

7:00 pm: Classical Christmas in Latin America

As a priest and a professional composer working for the church, José Maurício Nunes Garcia wrote several pieces celebrating Christmas. And in this program, Fiesta celebrates the season with a brand-new recording of his monumental mass entitled Missa de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, a great example of the early Classical style developed on this side of the Atlantic in the transition between the 18th and the 19th century. (The playlist for this program is available. Please send email to trauth@illinois.edu)

Sunday, December 24: Gateways Radio (GWR 23-08) PRE-EMPTED

8:00 pm: A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols (Hour 1) (The playlist for this program is available. Please send email to trauth@illinois.edu)

Recorded earlier in the day, the program is a world-wide Christmas Eve broadcast of Biblical readings, carols, and related seasonal Classical music performed by one of the world’s foremost choirs of men and boys and performed in an acoustically and architecturally renowned venue, the 500-year-old Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, England. (The playlist for this program is available. Please send email to trauth@illinois.edu)

Sunday, December 24: Jazz Night in America PRE-EMPTED

9:00 pm: A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols (Hour 2)