Tonight’s Holiday Specials: Candles Burning Brightly (to celebrate Hanukkah) and Hollywood Holiday
Mindy Ratner hosts the Hanukkah program; Lynne Warfel hosts the Hollywood program
The Evening Concert
7-9 PM Monday-Thursday & Sunday
Great performances from the great concert venues, 7 to 9 pm Monday thru Thursday, and Sunday, on WILL-FM.
Merry Christmas! Tonight’s Holiday Special is the St. Olaf Christmas Festival
The festival was recorded earlier this month on the campus of St. Olaf College Northfield, Minnesota.
Tonight’s Holiday programs are “A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols” and “Jonathan Winters’ ‘A Christmas Carol’”
The Jonathan Winters' program is back by popular request; it starts at 9:00 pm tomight.
Tonight’s Holiday Special is “A Brass and Choral Holiday Concert” from Chicago’s Music of the Baroque
William John Gray conducts Music of the Baroque in "A Brass and Choral Holiday Concert".
More holiday specials this week, then a return to regularly scheduled “Evening Concert” programs
We'll have holiday specials Monday through Thursday night, then Sunday night a return to chamber music and 'early music'.
These Holiday Specials: “The Christmas Revels: In Celebration of The Winter Solstice” & “Welcome Christmas” pre-empt the “Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center” and “Early Music Now”
"The Christmas Revels: In Celebration of The Winter Solstice" & "Welcome Christmas" presents music of the season both old and new.
These Holiday specials “The Film Score: Music for the Winter Holidays” and “Dee Alexander: Jazz at Christmastime” pre-empt Prairie Performances
Michael Philips hosts "The Film Score: Music for the Winter Holidays" and Dave Schwan hosts "Dee Alexander: Jazz at Christmastime"
Two Holiday specials: Winter Holidays Around the World with Bill McGlaughlin and Hygge Holiday: Cozy Classics on the “Evening Concert”
The Cleveland Orchestra is pre-empted to bring you these two Holiday specials.
Javier Perianes plays Saint-Saens’ “5th Piano Concerto” on the “Evening Concert”
Also on the program, music by Debussy, Scriabin, and Pintscher.
Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique” Symphony and Prokofiev’s “2nd Violin Concerto” on the “Evening Concert”
Michael Tilson Thomas guest conducts the CSO; Nicola Benedetti is the violin soloist in the Prokofiev concerto.
These programs are partially sponsored by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.
