2024 Chanukah Programs
Thursday, December 26 from 5pm – 6pm and Tuesday, December 31 from 5pm – 6pm • Join Itzhak Perlman the superstar violinist as he tells the story of the Jewish festival of lights. This engaging one-hour special includes numbers from Itzhak Perlman’s radio addicted childhood in Israel; evocative songs in Yiddish and Ladino; classical music that revolves…
Forty-Eight Hours of Christmas Classics
Christmas Eve & Christmas Day • Bring all the warmth and joy of past Christmases to life once again with the Classic107.3 FM and 96.3 HD2 48 hours of commercial-free music. Enjoy masterpieces from Tchaikovsky, Bach, Handel, Britten and Menotti and welcome back old friends like Robert Shaw, Luciano Pavarotti, Harry Belafonte, the Boston Pops with Arthur…
TCHAIKOVSKY’S THE NUTCRACKER (Complete Ballet)
Saturday, December 21 from 9pm – 10:26pm • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker”, an evergreen holiday favorite ever since its premiere in 1892, is broadcast complete this year. We’ll feature the RCA/Sony Classical release featuring Leonard Slatkin conducting the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra to honor Slatkin’s 80th birthday. This was the first Nutcracker recording to have been recorded…
…AND YET ANOTHER PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE
Thursday, December 19 at 5:20pm • In this cautionary tale by Brian Sibley, find out what happens when the hapless Cynthia Bracegirdle really does receive ALL the presents of the twelve days of Christmas from a, shall we say, persistent admirer? It all goes just as the song says and that dry, British hilarity ensues in a…
HANDEL’S MESSIAH
Saturday, December 14 from 8pm – 10:26pm It’s much more than just the Hallelujah Chorus as Handel’s 1742 masterpiece has become the most famous musical celebration of Christmas in the English-speaking world. Our traditional holiday broadcast this year features Kathleen Battle, Florence Quivar, John Aler and Samuel Ramey along with the Mendelssohn Club of Toronto and…
L’ENFANCE DU CHRIST
Saturday, December 7 from 7pm – 8:30pm Best known for the chorus “The Shepherds’ Farewell”, this oratorio of 1854 recounts young Jesus’ early life and the flight of his family into Egypt to escape King Herod and his minions. Present day audiences can still be taken aback at Berlioz’s gentle lyricism and simplicity in recounting this…
2024 Holiday Programs
Saturday, December 7 from 7pm – 8:30pmBest known for the chorus “The Shepherds’ Farewell”, this oratorio of 1854 recounts young Jesus’ early life and the flight of his family into Egypt to escape King Herod and his minions. Present day audiences can still be taken aback at Berlioz’s gentle lyricism and simplicity in recounting this…