2012 VPR Holiday PROGRAMMING
Saturday, December 22
8 p.m. – My Place With Joel Najman
Great American Christmas songs composed by Jewish song writers
Sunday, December 23
7 – 10 p.m. – All The Traditions – Light Show
Celebrate the winter solstice with Robert Resnik.
Monday, December 24
7:49 a.m. – Willem Lange’s Favor Johnson
The story of a Vermont Farmer, his dog Hercules and Fruitcake. A VPR tradition told by VPR Commentator Willem Lange
12 p.m. – A Christmas Carol
The Dickens classic read by Willem Lange
7 p.m. – Song Travels With Michael Feinstein
Feinstein interviews well known performers about their life and work.
You’ll hear Neal Sedaka, David Hyde Pierce, Riki Lee Jones and Cheyenne
Jackson
9 p.m. – 11 p.m. – Paul Winter’s Winter Solstice Celebration
Live from the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City
Tuesday, December 25
9-9:30 a.m. – Rona & Alice Christmas Story by Willem Lange & The
Loudest Voice by Grace Paley
12 p.m. – Holiday MashUp
A mix of holiday stories, found-sound, and sampled songs from around the country.
7 p.m. – Song Travels With Michael Feinstein
Feinstein interviews well known performers about their life and work.
You’ll hear Neal Sedaka, David Hyde Pierce, Riki Lee Jones and Cheyenne
Jackson.
Wednesday, December 26
7 p.m. – Song Travels With Michael Feinstein
Feinstein interviews well known performers about their life and work.
You’ll hear Neal Sedaka, David Hyde Pierce, Riki Lee Jones and Cheyenne
Jackson.
Thursday, December 27
7 p.m. – Song Travels With Michael Feinstein
Feinstein interviews well known performers about their life and work.
You’ll hear Neal Sedaka, David Hyde Pierce, Riki Lee Jones and Cheyenne
Jackson.
Monday, December 31
6 p.m. – The Capitol Steps’ Politics Takes a Holiday
9 p.m. – 5 a.m. – Toast of the Nation
Live music all night long
Tuesday, January 1
12 p.m. – The Capitol Steps’ Politics Takes a Holiday
7 p.m. – Song Travels With Michael Feinstein
Feinstein interviews well known performers about their life and work.
You’ll hear Neal Sedaka, David Hyde Pierce, Riki Lee Jones and Cheyenne
Jackson.
2012 VPR CLASSICAL HOLIDAY
PROGRAMMING
Monday, December 10
6 p.m. – 7 p.m. – Hanukkah
in Story and Song
The Western Wind, performing
Ladino songs of Spanish Jews, Yiddish melodies of Eastern Europe, and modern Israeli and American tunes.
Tuesday, December 18
6 p.m. – 7 p.m. – VPR
Holiday Concert with Counterpoint
Live from Elley Long Music Center at St. Michael’s College, Counterpoint performs at VPR’s
annual live holiday concert.
Wednesday, December 19
8 p.m. – 9 p.m. – Welcome
Christmas! with VocalEssence
An hour of joyful holiday
music.
9 p.m. – 10 p.m. – A Choral Christmas with Stile Antico
A concert of radiant sacred music for the Christmas season by William Byrd and Thomas Tallis.
Thursday, December 20
8 p.m. – 11 p.m. –
Handel’s Messiah from Boston
Harry Christophers leads
Handel & Haydn Society Orchestra and Chorus from Symphony Hall in Boston.
Friday, December 21
8 p.m. – 9 p.m. – Slavic
Wonders: Christmas with the Rose Ensemble
Gems from the libraries and
monasteries of Krakow, Prague,
and Moscow.
9 p.m. – 10 p.m. – A
Chanticleer Christmas
Featuring the 12-voice San
Fransisco-based men’s choir.
Sunday, December 23
1 p.m. – 3 p.m. – Holiday Pops with the Boston
Pops
Keith Lockhart, the Boston Pops, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Monday, December 24
10 a.m. – 12 p.m. – A
Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
The 30-voice King’s College
Choir, hosted by Michael Barone.
8 p.m. – 10 p.m. –
Christmas Vespers with Apollo’s Fire
Advent and Christmas Day
Vespers.
Tuesday, December 25
9 a.m. – 12 p.m. – Mozart’s Messiah
Handel’s beloved oratorio as ‘retouched’ by Mozart. The Handel & Haydn Society, directed by Andrew Parrott, recorded in concert at Symphony Hall, Boston, in 1999.
8 p.m. – 9 p.m. – A Leroy Anderson Christmas
"Sleigh Ride" and
other favorite music of the season by Leroy Anderson.
9 p.m. – 10 p.m. – Echoes
of Christmas with the Dale Warland Singers
Dale Warland and host Brian
Newhouse present choral classics
Tuesday, January 1
11 a.m. – 1 p.m. – New
Year’s Day From Vienna 2013
Franz Welser-Möst leads the
annual celebration concert by the Vienna Philharmonic