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”.

You'll hear a late string quartet by Beethoven, a work for 8 players by Balakirev and music by Dutch composer and organist Sweelinck.

Golijov is a contemporary composer whose music is not frighteningly contemporary.