Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 we pre-empt “Carnegie Hall Live” to bring you the 2021 “St. Olaf Christmas Festival”. The program includes sacred choral and instrumental music from many traditions: beloved hymns, classical masterworks, folk songs from around the world, and African-American spirituals.

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 we pre-empt “Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel” so that we can bring you this year’s socially-distanced “A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols” from King’s College, Cambridge. Our broadcast will have been recorded only hours earlier on this day.  

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 we’ll pre-empt “The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center” to bring you this year’s retrospective “St. Olaf’s Christmas Special”.  At 8:00 you’ll hear music by Sweelinck, Billings and others for the Christmas season on “Early Music Now with Sara Schneider”.

This week on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 you’ll hear Beethoven’s “1st Piano Concerto” from New York, Mascagni’s “Cavalleria rusticana” from Chicago, Shostakovich’s “5th Symphony” from Cleveland, Beethoven’s “6th Symphony” on “Collectors Corner” then Sunday a Holiday special and an episode of “Early Music Now”.

Tonight at 7:00 on the “Evening Concert” on FM 90.9 we pre-empt “Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel” to bring you a Thanksgiving Holiday special: “Giving Thanks: A Celebration of Fall, Food, and Gratitude”. You’ll hear classical music and poems related to the Holiday.