Join us this holiday season as WMRA & WEMC celebrates the season with a variety of Christmas specials.
WMRA HOLIDAY SPECIALS
Monday, December 19
8pm Selected Shorts: Holidays with Mom
Meg Wolitzer presents two stories about being home for the holidays and how you can count on your Mom to be there for you—and possibly to complicate things.
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Tuesday, December 20
8pm The One Recipe Holiday Special 2022
Join Jesse Sparks for a holiday edition of The Splendid Table’s newest “podbaby,” The One Recipe. Jesse talks to culinary superstars about their “One,” the recipe that signals the holiday has begun! They’ll get into traditions and food with influences from all over the world and leave you with recipes that could jumpstart your own festivities!
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Wednesday, December 21
8pm Tinsel Tales: NPR Christmas Favorites
This year a radio tradition continues - stories from the NPR archives that touch on the meaning of Christmas. David Sedaris, Bailey White, John Henry Faulk--these and other NPR voices, past and present, tell stories of the season.
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Thursday, December 22
8pm Tinsel Tales 4: Stories of the Season Told Through Music
For many of us, Christmas is about music. This year, Tinsel Tales includes stories of the season told thru music with interviews from the NPR Archives. Kenny Rogers, Katie Melua, Sting, Amy Grant and Jon Batiste talk about the power of music at Christmas.
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Friday, December 23
8pm Jonathan Winters' A Christmas Carol
Master comedian Jonathan Winters presents a distinctive reading of Dickens' holiday classic, with a special performing edition prepared by Dickens for his own presentations.
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Saturday, Dec. 24
12pm Acoustic Café Holiday Special
WMRA’s Tina Owens will spin holiday favorites from the acoustic folk music world. Join us to hear your favorite holiday music done acoustically.
6pm Blues Valley Holiday Special
Professah Blues will share holiday favorites from the blues music world. Join us to hear your favorite holiday music done with the blues.
WEMC HOLIDAY SPECIALS
Sunday, Dec. 18
8am Sing It! - A 20th Century English Christmas (Hosted by Kimberlea Daggy)
English choirs know how to do Christmas. From the world-renowned Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, to the smallest church choir, there’s nothing like the sound of soaring Christmas carols in reverberant spaces. This program explores some of the more recent additions to the Christmas carol pantheon, many of which have become as standard as We Wish You a Merry Christmas!
7pm Airplay: Local Holiday Favorites (Hosted by Kimberlea Daggy)
Join WEMC’s Kimberlea Daggy for a program of holiday favorites performed by local classical music ensembles.
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Monday, Dec. 19
7pm Bob’s Record Shelf - The Christmas Program hosted by WEMC’s Bob Satterwhite
Join WEMC’s Bob Satterwhite for 3 hours of Classical Christmas favorites.
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Tuesday, Dec 20
7pm Airplay: Local Holiday Favorites (Hosted by Kimberlea Daggy)
Join WEMC’s Kimberlea Daggy for a program of holiday favorites performed by local classical music ensembles.
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Wednesday, Dec 21
8pm Sing It! - A 20th Century English Christmas (Hosted by Kimberlea Daggy)
English choirs know how to do Christmas. From the world-renowned Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, to the smallest church choir, there’s nothing like the sound of soaring Christmas carols in reverberant spaces. This program explores some of the more recent additions to the Christmas carol pantheon, many of which have become as standard as We Wish You a Merry Christmas!
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Thursday, Dec 22
1pm Airplay: Local Holiday Favorites (Hosted by Kimberlea Daggy)
Join WEMC’s Kimberlea Daggy for a program of holiday favorites performed by local classical music ensembles.
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Saturday, Dec 24
11am-3pm A Sunday Baroque Christmas
Sunday Baroque’s Christmas Day special will create a warm and inviting environment, with uplifting seasonal music and engaging tidbits of holiday lore. "A Sunday Baroque Christmas" offers connections to long ago holiday cheer, including many beloved Christmas carols dating back to the Baroque era and earlier. The special also includes Christmas concertos. Composed by Baroque era musicians for their towns’ Christmas Eve celebrations, these cheerful instrumentals evoke the symbols of the holiday.
3pm Christmas with Madrigalia 2022
The Rochester, NY chamber choir Madrigalia, and their Artistic Director Cary Ratcliff return to public radio for Christmas with Madrigalia 2019, a holiday concert that celebrates the excitement and joy of the holiday season. Once again this year, the Rochester Bach Children’s Chorus joins Madrigalia for traditional carols arranged by Cary Ratcliff.
4pm A Chanticleer Christmas 2022
This one-hour program of holiday favorites, new and old, will be presented live in concert by Chanticleer, the superb 12-man ensemble known as "an orchestra of voices." Chanticleer is one of the premiere vocal ensembles in the nation. The ensemble has won two Grammys and is a member of the American Classical Music Hall of Fame.
5pm St. Olaf Christmas Festival
Melius Christiansen started the Christmas Festival in 1911 at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota as a simple service in word and song for students, faculty, friends and family. In the 108 years since, it has grown to include more than 500 student musicians.
6pm - Welcome Christmas
A perennial Christmas favorite from VocalEssence, one of the world's premier choral groups. Join host John Birge for an hour of traditional carols and new discoveries.
7pm 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.
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Sunday, December 25
8am Sing It! – The Christmas Story through Carols Old & New (Hosted by Kimberlea Daggy)
This choral music show tells the Christmas story through a variety of carols. They range from medieval music to carols written in the last few decades. Each set focuses on a different part of the story, from the angels to Mary and the baby Jesus to the shepherds and how they spread their joyous message.
9am - 7pm: Holiday Music from Classical 24
7pm Airplay: Selections from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker (Hosted by Kimberlea Daggy)
Join WEMC’s Kimberlea Daggy as we celebrate the holiday season with selections from The Nutcracker.
