WDAV Holiday Specials


Jump to: | A Feast for the Ears | Anonymous 4 Thanksgiving Special | Giving Thanks: A Celebration of Fall, Food & Gratitude | Portrait of the Berkshire Choral Festival | Carolina Live | New Classics Holiday Edition | Chanukah in Story and Song | Main Street Sessions | St. Olaf Christmas Festival | Concordia College Christmas Concert | A Choral Christmas Card | Christmas Vespers from Davidson College | Winston-Salem Symphony Messiah | Christmas with the Morehouse and Spelman Glee Clubs | The Christmas Revels: A Celebration of the Winter Solstice 2007 | Christmas around the Country 2007 | The Rose Ensemble 2007: Christmas in Elizabethan England | Handel's Messiah from Philadelphia | Music of the Baroque Holiday Special | Listener Requests with Rachel Jeffreys | Saint Paul Sunday | Christmas Eve on WDAV | A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols | Echoes of Christmas 2007 | Welcome Christmas! | Chanticleer Christmas 2007 | Performance Today | Night Music for Christmas Eve | Christmas Morning with Mike McKay | Choral Arts Society Christmas Concert | Christmas with the Philadelphia Singers 2007 | Fear Not, for Behold! | A Baroque Christmas | Bach's Christmas Oratorio from Carnegie Hall | Viva Voce w/Luther Wade | Carols for Dancing | New Year's Day from Vienna 2008

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A Feast for the Ears

WDAV welcomes back this annual favorite for an encore presentation featuring gentle classical music with an emphasis on American composers such as Copland, Billings and Mark O’Connor. Former Charlotte public radio personality, Mark Perzel, hosts.

Thursday, 11/22, 2 p.m.
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Anonymous 4 Thanksgiving Special

A concert of Americana with vocal ensemble Anonymous 4, fiddler Darol Anger and guitarist Scott Nygaard.

Thursday, 11/22, 4 p.m.
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Giving Thanks: A Celebration of Fall, Food & Gratitude

Music and words brought together in a thoughtful reflection on the meaning of the holiday. Hosted by John Birge with guests Calvin Trillin, Anna Quindlen, Lynne Rossetto-Kasper, Bill Holm, Ellen Kushner

Thursday, 11/22, 5 p.m.
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Portrait of the Berkshire Choral Festival

In its 26th season of presenting the finest in choral music each summer in Sheffield, Massachusetts, this 2-hour special will feature choral/orchestral masterpieces such as Beethoven’s Elegiac Song and Choral Fantasy, plus Cherubini’s Requiem in C Minor.

Saturday, 11/24, 5 p.m.
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Carolina Live

Holiday Special
Mike McKay hosts a sampler of concert performances of seasonal music from regional ensembles.

Saturday, 12/1, 3 p.m. & Tuesday, 12/25, Christmas, 2 p.m.
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New Classics Holiday Edition

A two hour sampler of the best releases of 2007 to help you with your holiday gift list, including the latest seasonal CDs. Hosted by Joe Brant with selections chosen by WDAV’s Music Director, Ted Weiner.

Friday, 12/7, 2 p.m. & Saturday, 12/8, 3 p.m.
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Chanukah in Story and Song

The Western Wind Vocal Ensemble performs traditional Ladino music of Medieval Spanish Jews, Eastern European Yiddish melodies, contemporary Israeli songs and much more.

Saturday, 12/8, 6 p.m.
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Main Street Sessions

Jennifer Foster and guests present music of the season performed in WDAV’s own Clark Performance Studio.

Saturday, 12/15, 2 p.m. & Monday, 12/24, noon
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St. Olaf Christmas Festival

The yearly worship service of hymns, carols, choral works and orchestral selections returns, featuring more than 550 student musicians from the St. Olaf campus in Northfield, Minnesota.

Saturday, 12/15, 3 p.m.
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Concordia College Christmas Concert

With a choir and orchestra of over 400, the Concordia College Christmas concert attracts capacity crowds from all faiths to celebrate the season. The concert is a potpourri of familiar and traditional works intertwined with music that brings new sounds and meaning to the season.

Saturday, 12/15, 5 p.m.
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A Choral Christmas Card

Featuring the best choral ensembles from around the country, this program highlights America's singing celebration of the holiday.

Saturday, 12/15, 6 p.m. & Tuesday, 12/25, 4 p.m.
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Christmas Vespers from Davidson College

Each year WDAV presents a recording of the annual Advent service from Davidson College Presbyterian Church.

Sunday, 12/16, 7 p.m.
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Winston-Salem Symphony Messiah

Music Director Robert Moody leads the Winston-Salem Symphony and a chorus of 45 singers in Handel's great holiday masterpiece. 

Thursday, 12/20, 7 p.m.
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Christmas with the Morehouse and Spelman Glee Clubs

This is one of the great holiday traditions in America, with the choirs of two of the most prestigious historically black institutions in the nation getting together to present a mixture of spirituals and carols.

Saturday, 12/22, 2 p.m.
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The Christmas Revels: A Celebration of the Winter Solstice 2007

This is a new edition of the perennial favorite featuring a festive blend of traditional carols, seasonal folk tunes and pageantry.

Saturday, 12/22, 3 p.m. & Sunday 12/23, noon
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Christmas around the Country 2007

Tune in for the best holiday music-making from coast-to-coast. NPR takes you from churches to concert halls, auditoriums to town halls in search of performances that express the best of the holiday season. Lisa Simeone hosts.

Saturday, 12/22, 5 p.m. & Monday 12/24, 6 p.m.
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The Rose Ensemble 2007: Christmas in Elizabethan England

A fascinating program of motets and anthems by Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons and others, as well as a selection of medieval carols and Renaissance dances for instruments, performed by one of America's premiere early music groups.

Saturday, 12/22, 6 p.m.
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Handel's Messiah from Philadelphia

Recorded live at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, it's Handel's complete holiday masterpiece performed by one of the world's great orchestras, joined by the nationally-renowned Philadelphia Singers Chorale.

Saturday, 12/22, 7 p.m.
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Music of the Baroque Holiday Special

This is Chicago-based ensemble Music of the Baroque's annual presentation of their Brass and Choral Holiday Concert. The concert takes you through music of the 16th and 17th centuries by composers such as Praetorius, Gabrieli, and Buxtehude.

Saturday, 12/22, 10 p.m.
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Listener Requests with Rachel Jeffreys

Holiday Edition!

Rachel hosts two hours of seasonal requests sent in by you!

Sunday, 12/23, 2 p.m.
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Saint Paul Sunday

Holiday Special

Host Bill McGlaughlin and guests celebrate the season with an intimate in-studio performance.

Sunday, 12/23, 5 p.m.
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Christmas Eve on WDAV

Ted Weiner hosts holiday favorites drawn from the vast collection of seasonal recordings in the WDAV music library.

Monday, 12/24, Christmas Eve, 8 - 10 a.m. & 11:30 a.m. - noon
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A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

This trans-Atlantic live broadcast tradition continues with the world-famous Christmas Eve service from the chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, England as performed by the 30-voice King's College Choir.

Monday, 12/24, Christmas Eve, 10 a.m.
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Echoes of Christmas 2007

Famed music director Dale Warland hosts a celebration of Christmas choral music new and old drawing from over twenty years of superb annual Christmas concerts by the Dale Warland Singers.

Monday, 12/24, Christmas Eve, 1 p.m.
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Welcome Christmas!

This program features the Minneapolis-based ensemble, VocalEssence, with favorite carols both old and new.

Monday, 12/24, Christmas Eve, 2 p.m.
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Chanticleer Christmas 2007

Celebrate the mystery and wonder of Christmas with an elegant blend of traditional carols, medieval and Renaissance sacred works, and moving spirituals.

Monday, 12/24, Christmas Eve, 5 p.m.
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Performance Today

Fred Child presents performances of holiday music from concerts around the country.

Monday, 12/24 Christmas Eve, 7 p.m. & Tuesday, 12/25 Christmas, 7 p.m.
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Night Music for Christmas Eve

WDAV’s Frank Dominguez hosts three hours of gentle, contemplative holiday classics capturing the mystery and reverence of the season.
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Christmas Morning with Mike McKay

The warm presence of WDAV’s “morning man” is complemented by a wealth of holiday favorites drawn from the station’s extensive music library.

Tuesday, 12/25, Christmas, 8 a.m. - noon
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Choral Arts Society Christmas Concert

The acclaimed DC area choir presents a program of seasonal favorites hosted by Martin Goldsmith.

Tuesday, 12/25, Christmas, noon.
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Christmas with the Philadelphia Singers 2007

Traditional carols and contemporary music sung by the renowned ensemble.

Tuesday, 12/25, Christmas, 5 p.m.
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Fear Not, for Behold!

This is the yearly performance of the Christmas Festival by the National Lutheran Choir.

Tuesday, 12/25, Christmas, 6 p.m.
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A Baroque Christmas

The program features music and themes of the season festively performed by one of the leading period instrument ensembles, Chatham Baroque.

Saturday, 12/29, 2 p.m.
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Bach's Christmas Oratorio from Carnegie Hall

A Carnegie Hall concert performance of one of the most joyful and sumptuous works from Johann Sebastian Bach -- his collection of six sacred cantatas for the Christmas season.

Saturday, 12/29, 3 p.m.
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Viva Voce w/Luther Wade

New Year's Special

The theme for this special edition of the program is "The Old Year Passes." A Bach cantata will be featured leading into other festive music for the New Year. 

Saturday, 12/29, 6 p.m.
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Carols for Dancing

This special explores the connection between familiar holiday music and Medieval and Renaissance song and dance. Performed by Renaissonics who created the arrangements especially for this program.

Saturday, 12/29, 11 p.m.
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New Year's Day from Vienna 2008

Direct from the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna, it’s the most popular classical music concert in the world.

Tuesday, 1/1/08, New Years Day, 11 a.m.
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