Ring in the Holidays on WDAV!!

Here are just a few of the special holiday programs we'll be airing over the next two weeks. Visit the Holiday Specials page at our Web site for a complete schedule. (All times listed are EST.)

A Taste of Chanukah
Thursday, December 21st at 9:00 pm
Actor Theodore Bikel hosts an evening of traditional, high-spirited storytelling and music featuring over 150 musicians from the New England Conservatory, the Boston Community Choir, and other ensembles, all recorded live at the Conservatory’s Jordan Hall in Boston. Enjoy the special contributions of cantor Morton Shames and humorist Chasia Segal, who demonstrates how to cook perfect potato latkes.

The New York Philharmonic This Week Holiday Special
Friday December 22 at 9:00 pm
The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra joins Loren Maazel and the Philharmonic for a festive concert featuring Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite, as well as Duke Ellington’s arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s famous music.

Handel’s Messiah from the Philadelphia Orchestra
Saturday, December 23 at 7:00 pm
A new edition of the holiday classic performed in the Kimmel Center. Handel's holiday masterpiece performed by the "Fabulous Philadelphians" -- one of the world's great orchestras, joined by the nationally-renowned Philadelphia Singers Chorale.

Lessons and Carols from Washington’s National Cathedral
Sunday, December 24 at 6:00 pm
Each Christmas Eve, the Cathedral hosts a quietly spectacular Lesson and Carols, one of its most attended and cherished events of the year. The service combines biblical readings that chronicle the story Jesus' birth with age-old and all-new carols, from folk to ethereal polyphony. Among the service's many distinctions is the sound of its Girl Choristers, the finest in North America.

Holiday Pops with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops
Monday, December 25 at 12 noon
All-time favorites played by “the world’s most famous orchestra” (and one of its most popular conductors!) on their home turf -- Symphony Hall in Boston -- performing music for the holidays under the leadership of charismatic conductor Keith Lockhart.

A Chanticleer Christmas
Monday, December 25 at 5:00 pm
The all-male vocal ensemble that’s been called “an orchestra of voices” sings everything from Renaissance hymns to Joseph Jennings’ close-harmony arrangements of holiday classics. One of our most popular holiday programs recorded in the beautiful acoustics of St. Vincent's Church in Petaluma, California.

NPR World of Opera Holiday Special: Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel
Saturday, December 30 at 7:00 pm
Since its premiere on December 23rd, 1893, this fairy tale opera has been a holiday classic. The Milwaukee Symphony's production showcases stellar performances.

Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
Sunday , December 31 at 3:00 pm
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.

New Year’s Day from Vienna 2007
Monday, January 1 at 11:00 am
Live broadcast from Vienna of the perhaps the most popular classical concert in the world, heard in every corner of the globe. The traditional program features music by the Strauss family and others.