Make merry this season with WWNO -- New Orleans Public Radio! Find our holiday broadcast schedule, airing on 89.9/90.5 FM and streaming right here at WWNO.org.
Plus, tune in to your favorite programs all week long for special holiday episodes.
Thursday 12/17/15:
8 p.m.: "Advent Voices"
Lynn Warfel presents a selection of vocal music inspired by the season of Advent, and sung by some of the world’s noted soloists and choirs.
Friday 12/18/15:
10 p.m.: "Joy to the World" with Pink Martini
A contemporary multi-cultural festival of new and classic arrangements by the internationally popular orchestra, Pink Martini. With the popular and creative Portland, Oregon-based Pink Martini orchestra. Hosted by All Things Considered’s Ari Shapiro, with bandleader Thomas Lauderdale and vocalists China Forbes and Storm Large.
11 p.m.: "Jazz Piano Christmas"
NPR Music presents another great concert from Kennedy Center. Kenny Barron, Fred Hersch and Carmen Staaf perform their favorite holiday songs in a program hosted by Felix Contreras.
Monday 12/21/15:
8 p.m.: "A Chanticleer Christmas"
New and old favorites presented in a live audience performance by the superb twelve-man ensemble known as “an orchestra of voices.”
Tuesday: 12/22/15:
8 p.m.: "Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir"
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir continues its Christmas tradition of great artistry with touching arrangements of familiar carols, and surprises with lesser-known melodies that are fast becoming new classics.
9 p.m.: "A Winter's Solstice Celebration" with the Paul Winter Consort
Celebrate the Return of the Sun an exuberant performance captured live in the majestic Cathedral of St. John the Divine. WNYC's John Schaefer hosts this all new performance, featuring the Paul Winter Consort with Paul McCandless, gospel singer Theresa Thomason, special guest Danny Rivera -- the "National Voice of Puerto Rico”-- and Abdel Salaam's Forces of Nature percussion and dance ensemble.
Wednesday 12/23/15:
8 p.m.: "Caroling with The Singers"
Join classical host Scott Blankenship as he welcomes one of the country's finest choirs, The Singers, and its conductor, Matthew Culloton, for a nationwide sing-along of carols from joyful to reflective, solemn to grand.
Thursday 12/24/15 (Christmas Eve):
9 a.m.: "A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols" live from King's College, Cambridge
Annual world-wide live broadcast from Cambridge England of the traditional Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, sung by the choir of King’s College, Cambridge, with Biblical readings by representatives of the College and the City of Cambridge. This performance marks the 500th anniversary of the Chapel’s completion in 1515.
6 p.m.: "Tinsel Tales 3"
The third collection of Christmas stories from NPR. Lynn Neary hosts Audie Cornish, Nina Totenberg and other NPR voices telling stories of the season compiled from NPR’s archives.
7 p.m.: "Christmas on "Jazz after Hours"
9 p.m.: "A Christmas Carol" with Jonathan Winters
An updated version of a public radio tradition hosted by NPR's Susan Stamberg. Comedian Jonathan Winters presents his distinctive reading of the Charles Dickens holiday classic, using a special performing edition prepared by Dickens himself.
10 p.m.: "Welcome Christmas"
11 p.m.: "Christmas with Madrigalia"
Midnight: Handel's "Messiah" with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Friday 12/25/15 (Christmas Day):
9 a.m.: "St. Olaf Christmas Festival"
The St. Olaf Christmas Festival is one of the oldest musical celebrations of Christmas in the United States. Started in 1912 by F. Melius Christiansen, founder of the St. Olaf College Music Department, the festival features more than 500 student musicians who are members of five choirs and the St. Olaf Orchestra.
11 a.m.: "Christmas with the Morehouse and Spelman Glee Clubs"
Back in 1927, Morehouse College Glee Club director Kemper Harreld and Spelman College president Florence Matilda Read thought it would be a great idea to give the Atlanta community a Christmas gift of music. Eighty-five years later, the concert has grown from a one-performance affair into a soaring trifecta, alternating over three days on both the Morehouse and Spelman campuses.
