The Evening Concert

HAPPY NEW YEAR! It's an end-of-year "Jazz-Fest" by way of NPR's annual "Toast of the Nation".

We've set aside this evening for Hanukkah programs...not at the start of the season...you might miss these for your celebrations, and not too late in the season...

If there are Two piano concertos by Ravel on tonight's broadcast does that make it twice as good as if there was only one of those concertos on the program?

Bernard Labadie conducts the CSO, the Chicago Symphony Chorus and vocal soloists in Parts I, II & III of Handel's Messiah.

Two more Holiday Specials on one of the "Days of Christmas".

Start the week with "A Season's Griot 2016" and "Afro-Blue Christmas" and end it with a New Year and a new-to-us program "This is Cabaret: Anne Hampton Callaway and Friends"

Anton Armstrong conducts the many small and large ensembles in this annual program recorded on the College's premises in Northfield, Minnesota.

Tonight we pre-empt "The Midnight Special" to bring you "The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols" from American Public Media.

"The New York Philharmonic This Week" is pre-empted for two Holiday Specials....

The Cleveland Orchestra is pre-empted for the Holiday Special...Winter arrived at 4:44 a.m. CT today