Do You Hear What I Hear? Holiday Music on WDAV

The big Christmas holiday weekend approaches and WDAV has planned a spectacular line-up of seasonal specials. It's all designed to celebrate the season with great music, calm you during the final shopping frenzy and enrich your holiday experience.

A few highlights and traditional favorites are listed below but you can find a complete schedule of all our specials at the Holiday Specials page by clicking here.

THURSDAY, 12/20

7 p.m.– Handel’s Messiah with the Winston Salem Symphony.
A great chance to hear a fine local symphony in a recording made just last week (December 13 & 14) at the Stevens Center in Winston Salem. Robert Moody conducts.

SATURDAY, 12/22 The Winter Solstice

3 pm - The Christmas Revels: A Celebration of the Winter Solstice 2007.
An all-new, compilation of country dance tunes, carols, songs and motets excerpted from Revels celebrations performed in 2006. This multicultural Winter Solstice sampler features multi-national music from the Middle Ages through the 20th century.

7 pm - Handel's Messiah from Philadelphia
A special presentation of Handel's complete holiday masterpiece, recorded live at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia and performed by the "Fabulous Philadelphians" -- one of the world's great orchestras, joined by the nationally-renowned Philadelphia Singers Chorale.

MONDAY, 12/24 Christmas Eve

10 am A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols -- LIVE!
This trans-Atlantic live broadcast tradition continues with the world-famous Christmas Eve service from King’s College, Cambridge, England.

5 pm - A Chanticleer Christmas 2007
The twelve men of Chanticleer weave their magic offering inspiring sounds of the season. A Chanticleer Christmas celebrates the mystery and wonder of Christmas with an elegant blend of traditional carols, medieval and Renaissance sacred works, and moving spirituals.

TUESDAY, 12/25, Christmas Day

8 am – Noon - 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.

5 pm - Christmas with the Philadelphia Singers 2007
An annual favorite, "Christmas with the Philadelphia Singers" is a concert of traditional and contemporary holiday music performed by the renowned choral group.

SATURDAY, 12/29

3 pm - Bach's Christmas Oratorio
World famous Carnegie Hall is the setting for this encore concert performance of selections from one of the most joyful and sumptuous works from Johann Sebastian Bach, the Weihnachts-Oratorium, or Christmas Oratorio. The Collegiate Chorale performs three of six sacred cantatas, each depicting a different scene from Christ's birth, along with some traditional holiday favorites.

TUESDAY, 1/1/08, New Year’s Day

11 am – 1 pm -New Year's Day from Vienna - LIVE!
WDAV takes you directly to the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna for the most popular classical music concert in the world, the Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Day concert. Korva Coleman hosts this exciting, lively celebration that offers the next best thing to actually being there!