The 360-member chorus invokes nostalgia for the 1960s & 1970s.

A nativity story that centers the darkest-skinned of the Three Kings.

Featuring students and alumni from DePaul’s School of Music and Theatre School with the DePaul Community Chorus.

It’s a gift from the youth of Chicago: throughout 2021, featured Introductions soloists recorded extra pieces of music in their sessions. We’ve saved these short vignettes until the last Saturday of the year, so enjoy this music for the season on a special Christmas Day episode of Introductions. Video: Isabel Chen playing Silent Night, with still images of her own …

“The Film Score: Music for the Winter Holidays,” hosted by Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips, features music from holiday favorites and other wintry classics.

Studs Terkel first presented his Christmas Memories program on WFMT in 1961. Since then, this holiday compendium of voices and memories of childhood Christmases has become a perennial favorite.

Sacred and secular music to honor the winter solstice and year-end holidays.

A Chicago tradition, conducted by William Jon Gray.

In this 2019 Impromptu, guest conductor Patrick Dupré Quigley, founder and artistic director of the vocal ensemble Seraphic Fire, led a Music of the Baroque chorus in music for the holiday season.

The annual service broadcast from King’s College Chapel of Cambridge University.

Critically acclaimed early music ensemble Apollo’s Fire shares a festive, Irish-Appalachian celebration.

The superb 12-man ensemble performs holiday classics.

A WFMT Network special, hosted by Sara Schneider.

Oliver and Brandon demonstrate essential ornaments like the appoggiatura and the trill.

The Met’s abridged, English-language version of Mozart’s magical fairy tale is a classic holiday treat for audiences of all ages.

Soprano Annette Dasch, countertenor Daniel Taylor, tenor James Taylor, and bass-baritone Shenyang take the stage to perform George Frideric Handel‘s rousing oratorio.

On this first of two special Christmas editions of Baroque&Before, we are afforded the rare opportunity outside of Spain to hear the Mallorcan version of El Cant de la Sibil.la; the Song of the Sybil, as it has been re-enacted in the churches of Mallorca every Christmas Eve since the 15th century, as well as throughout Spain as early as …

The composer and librettist offers a preview of his opera in advance of its Chicago premiere.

Host Rich Warren welcomes Chicago’s original Klezmer revival band to celebrate Hanukkah live from Hinsdale.

Chanticleer is known around the world for the seamless blend of its twelve male singers ranging from countertenor to bass. In December 2012, Carl Grapentine welcomed this “orchestra of voices” for an Impromptu filled with music of the season.

Andreas Delfs conducts this performance of Humperdinck’s timeless, family-friendly opera.

The virtuoso vocal ensemble’s celebration of the musical traditions of Hanukkah, hosted by Jonathan Miller.

The illustrious violinist samples a great variety of music for the Jewish Festival of Lights.

Rita Jacobs Willens’s reminiscence of Jewish immigrant life in early 20th-century America. A long-time listener favorite, the work was created in 1979.

Recounting a miraculous moment of peace during one of the bloodiest wars in human history, Scottish, French, and German officers defy their superiors and negotiate a Christmas Eve truce. The Pulitzer Prize-winning music underscores the yearning, despair, and hope of the soldiers living in the trenches. Silent Night masterfully juxtaposes the bombastic sounds of war with serene songs from home, …