Monday night December 23 at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on WILL 90.9 FMHD1 we pre-empt “The New York Philharmonic This Week” to bring you a two-hour holiday special “The St. Olaf Christmas Festival 2024”: 150 years of the St. Olaf Christmas Festival.

Sunday night December 24 our 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.

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 we’ll pre-empt “The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center” to bring you this year’s retrospective “St. Olaf’s Christmas Special”.  At 8:00 you’ll hear music by Sweelinck, Billings and others for the Christmas season on “Early Music Now with Sara Schneider”.

This week on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear Beethoven’s “1st Piano Concerto” from New York, Mascagni’s “Cavalleria rusticana” from Chicago, Shostakovich’s “5th Symphony” from Cleveland, Beethoven’s “6th Symphony” on “Collectors Corner” then Sunday a Holiday special and an episode of “Early Music Now”.

The festival was recorded earlier this month on the campus of St. Olaf College Northfield, Minnesota.