WMRA Holiday Specials - 2024
Saturday, December 21
NOON - 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.
Monday, December 23
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.
Tuesday, December 24
8pm - More Tinsel Tales
Extraordinary Christmas stories that transport you to unexpected places. Baxter Black ponders the meaning of Christmas for Cows, Bailey White sneaks into her neighbor’s yard in search of an elusive hemlock tree; Julie Zickefoose serenades her neighbors on the coldest night of the year.
Wednesday, December 25
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.
WEMC Classical Music Holiday Specials 2024
Sunday, December 22
8am - The Christmas Story through Carols Old and New (Hosted by Kimberlea Daggy)
This choral music show tells the Christmas story through a variety of carols, ranging 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.
Monday, December 23
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.
Tuesday, December 24
NOON - Christmas with Madrigalia 2024
This holiday season, the Rochester, NY chamber choir Madrigalia and their Artistic Director Cary Ratcliff return to public radio for Christmas with Madrigalia. Christmas with Madrigalia celebrates the excitement and joy of the holiday season with traditional carols and anthems from the Medieval era through the 21st century celebrating Winter Solstice, Chanukah, Christmas, and the New Year.
1pm Welcome Christmas 2024
There’s no better way to welcome Christmas than Welcome Christmas!, the VocalEssence holiday concert. It’s an hour of joyful, classic holiday music from VocalEssence, one of the world’s premiere choral groups, singing traditional carols and new discoveries.
2pm All Is Bright 2023
All Is Bright, with host Lynne Warfel, offers an hour of gorgeous, contemplative choral music that tells the traditional Christmas story with songs about angels, the star and the manger scene.
3pm 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.
4pm A Chanticleer Christmas 2023
This unique, one-hour program of holiday music is presented live in concert by Chanticleer. Hear why this superb 12-man ensemble is known as "an orchestra of voices," as they perform holiday classics and new favorites, with choral commentary by host Steve Staruch.
5pm Your Classical Christmas Favorites
Join us this holiday season as we count down the top Christmas songs as voted by you in a two-hour special from Your Classical.
6pm Three Tales of Christmas with Cantus
In Christmas with Cantus, Cantus weaves together three holiday stories with time-honored carols and new classics. Blending narration and song, the program features Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Christine Lê’s The Hawai’i Snowman, alongside Mark Twain’s “A Letter from Santa Claus,” offering an opportunity to reflect on the meaning and joy of the holiday season.
7pm Airplay: Local Holiday Favorites (Hosted by Kimberlea Daggy)
Holiday music performed by ensembles throughout the listening area.
8pm A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols presents your audience with an opportunity to share in a live, world-wide Christmas Eve broadcast of a service of Biblical readings, carols, and related seasonal Classical music. This special will be presented 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.
Wednesday, December 25
ALL DAY - Holiday Music from Classical 24
8pm The Christmas Story through Carols Old and New (Hosted by Kimberlea Daggy)
This choral music show tells the Christmas sory through a variety of carols, ranging 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.
Thursday, December 26
1pm Airplay: Local Holiday Favorites (Hosted by Kimberlea Daggy)
Holiday music performed by ensembles throughout the listening area.
