WSHU 2012 Holiday Programs
Sunday, 12/9
7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on WSHU-FM, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on WSUF
Sunday Baroque
This year Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, will be celebrated from Dec. 8 - 16. Sunday Baroque's variety of uplifting seasonal selections will include highlights from George Frideric Handel's stirring oratorio Judas Maccabeus.
Monday, 12/10
8 to 9 p.m. on WSHU-FM
Chanukah in Song and Story
Narrated by Leonard Nimoy and sung by the acclaimed vocal sextet The Western Wind Vocal Ensemble, "Chanukah in Story and Song" presents 25 eclectic selections, from the Ladino songs of the Spanish Jews and Yiddish melodies of Eastern Europe to modern Israeli tunes and the ensemble's original version of "I Have a Little Dreydle." The narration sheds new light on the holiday's customs and rituals.
Thursday, 12/13
8 to 9 p.m. on WSHU-FM
Candles Burning Brightly
Mindy Ratner and Bill Morelock offer a program which explores the customs and music of Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights.
Sunday, 12/16
7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on WSHU-FM, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on WSUF
Sunday Baroque
Sunday Baroque will offer cheery seasonal music to create a festive spirit – baroque Christmas Concertos, carols, and other special treats to help you get into the right frame of mind. Whether you're relaxing, preparing for guests to arrive or finishing (starting?) your shopping, it’s the perfect holiday soundtrack.
Wednesday, 12/19
8 to 10 p.m. on WSHU-FM
Music of the Baroque Brass & Choral Holiday Concert
Host Peter Van De Graaff hosts a program of music by composers of the 16th and 17th centuries including Michael Praetorius, Thomas Ravenscroft, Elizabeth Poston, Giovanni Gabrielli and others in this special performance by Chicago's Music of the Baroque.
Thursday, 12/20
9 to 10 p.m. on WSHU-FM
Handel's Messiah: The Christmas Portion
The Bach Society performs on period instruments in a live event recorded in Dallas under musical director James Richman. A quartet of superb young American, Handelian voices, including Lianne Coble, soprano, Scot Cameron, alto, Derek Chester, tenor and David Grogan, bass joins a fine choir of professional singers from north Texas and beyond.
Friday, 12/21
9 to 10 p.m. on WSHU-FM
A Choral Christmas with Stile Antico
Stile Antico, the award-winning choir from London, pays a visit to St. Paul's Church on Harvard Square for a concert of radiant sacred music for the Christmas season by the most acclaimed composers of the renaissance. Hosted by Cathy Fuller of WGBH.
Sunday, 12/23
7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on WSHU-FM, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on WSUF
Sunday Baroque
As you put the finishing touches on your holiday celebrations, Sunday Baroque will create the a warm and lovely environment featuring a variety of recent and classic recordings of baroque holiday music. Highlights will include selections from Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio.
1 to 6 p.m. on WSHU-FM, 1 10 5 p.m. on WSUF
A Victorian Christmas with David Bouchier on Sunday Matinee
Join David Bouchier on Sunday Matinee for the annual Victorian Christmas Show - an afternoon of seasonal music and stories about the traditions, myths and entertainments of Christmas a century and more ago. Charles Dickens will put in an appearance, the vital importance of Christmas crackers will be explained, and David will share his mother's recipe for Christmas pudding, which she got from her mother, who was born in the year 1884, the forty seventh year of Queen Victoria's reign.
6 to 8 p.m. on WSHU-FM, WSUF
Echoes Sonic Seasonings: Living Room Concerts for Christmas
This year's all new Sonic Seasonings of live performances feature guitarists Wall Matthews and Trevor Gordon Hall. Matthews created some of the first ambient albums in the 1970s with his Entourage Music and Theater Ensemble recording on Folkways. Now, he makes neo-classical chamber music. Gordon Hall is a young finger-style guitarist who plays the kalimbatar, a guitar with an African thumb piano attached to it which he plays simultaneously.
8 to 10 p.m. on WSHU-FM, WSUF
An Echoes Winter Solstice
A winter landscape in sound, with no carols or Christmas songs, just a glistening expanse of evocative music from the Loreena McKennitt, R. Carlos Nakai, Jeff Johnson & Brian Dunning, Klaus Schulze, the Mediaeval Baebes and John Luther Adams and more.
10 p.m. to midnight on WSHU-FM, WSUF
A Paul Winter Solstice Concert
NPR Music presents the 32nd annual Paul Winter Solstice Celebration from New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, featuring gospel singer Theresa Thomason, Mbira Master Chris Berry and The Paul Winter Consort with Paul McCandless, Eugene Friesen, Paul Sullivan, Eliot Wadopian, Jamey Haddad, Tim Brumfield and the glorious Cathedral Pipe Organ.
Monday, 12/24
10 to 11:30 a.m. on WSHU-FM
A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carolst
Hosted by Michael Barone, this is a live music and spoken-word broadcast from the chapel of King's College in Cambridge, England. The 30-voice King's College Choir performs the legendary Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols service of Biblical readings and music.
11:30 a.m. to noon on WSHU-FM
Holiday music from WSHU
Selections from WSHU's music staff.
8 to 10 p.m. on WSHU-FM
A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
Hosted by Michael Barone, this is a live music and spoken-word broadcast from the chapel of King's College in Cambridge, England. The 30-voice King's College Choir performs the legendary Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols service of Biblical readings and music.
Tuesday, 12/25
8 to 9 a.m. on WSHU-FM
A Chanticleer Christmas
A celebration of the season as told through the glorious voices of Chanticleer, the 12-voice San Francisco-based men's choir. The program spans the globe and the centuries — from England in the 1300s to new arrangements of classic and contemporary carols.
9 to 10 a.m. on WSHU-FM
Holiday music from WSHU
Selections from WSHU's music staff.
10 to noon on WSHU-FM
Music of the Baroque Brass & Choral Holiday Concert
Host Peter Van De Graaff guides us through music of the 16th and 17th centuries by composers such as Michael Praetorius, Thomas Ravenscroft, Elizabeth Poston, Giovanni Gabrielli and others in this special by Chicago's Music of the Baroque.
noon to 1 p.m. on WSHU-FM
Holiday music from WSHU
Selections from WSHU's music staff.
1 to 4 p.m. on WSHU-FM
Handel's Messiah From Boston
Music Director Harry Christophers leads the Handel & Haydn Society Period Instrument Orchestra, Chorus, and internationally-acclaimed soloists in Handel's dramatic masterwork, in the acoustic splendor of Boston's Symphony Hall. Canadian superstars soprano Karina Gauvin and countertenor Daniel Taylor, British tenor extraordinaire James Gilchrist, and Boston's own premier baritone Sumner Thompson offer this season's unique rendition of this Boston tradition.
8 to 10 p.m. on WSHU-FM
Bach's Christmas Oratorio
Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" sets the gospels of St. Luke and St. Matthew to make a cohesive story beginning with the birth of Jesus and concluding with the Adoration of the Magi. There are roles for the Evangelist, sung by a tenor, and Angel, a soprano, Herod, for bass solo. This performance features virtuoso soloists, along with the Bach Choir of Bethlehem and Bach Festival Orchestra, conducted by Greg Funfgeld.
Wednesday, 12/26
8 to 9 p.m. on all WSHU-FM
A Season's Griot 2012
Hosted for the last 19 years by acclaimed storyteller Madafo Lloyd Wilson, public radio's only nationally syndicated Kwanzaa program captures the tales and traditions of African-American and African peoples. This year's program features young people as the special guest griots, reading their own original and traditional stories. Familiar and favorite elements of Griot will also be in place with plenty of music, and an original composition by the show's poet laureate, Beverly Fields Burnette.
Saturday, 12/29
Noon to 1 p.m. on WSHU-FM, WSUF, WQQQ
The Capitol Steps New Year's Edition of "Politics Takes a Holiday!"
Help us roast 2012 to a crisp with The Capitol Steps and their annual year-in-review awards ceremony called "Politics Takes a Holiday!" This year will feature all new awards, such as: "Best Use of $3 billion Dollars to Run for President," "Worst Place in Public to Admit You Had a Binder Full of Women," and "Worst Hair Cut Ever to Demand to See Anyone's Birth Certificate, Much Less the President's." So laugh away at 2012, because unlike any Presidential election, laughter is free.
Sunday, 12/30
7 a.m. to 1 p.m. on WSHU-FM, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on WSUF
Sunday Baroque
On this final Sunday of the year, Sunday Baroque host Suzanne Bona will review some of the best recordings of 2012, including a last chance to audition selections from the Sunday Baroque Holiday gift list.
Tuesday, 1/1/13
11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on WSHU-FM
New Year's Day from Vienna 2013
The Vienna Philharmonic presents its ever popular annual New Year's Day concert from the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna. You'll hear your favorite waltzes, polkas and more - a festive way to start off the New Year. Presented by NPR Music and WGBH, Boston.
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