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Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square
December 25, 2021, 6:00 pm
The 360-member chorus invokes nostalgia for the 1960s & 1970s.
Margaret Bonds’s The Ballad of the Brown King
December 25, 2021
A nativity story that centers the darkest-skinned of the Three Kings.
Christmas at DePaul University
December 25, 2021, 3:00 pm
Featuring students and alumni from DePaul’s School of Music and Theatre School with the DePaul Community Chorus.
An Introductions Christmas
December 25, 2021
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 ...
Music for the Winter Holidays
December 25, 2021, 9:00 am
"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.
Christmas Memories (12/22/1961)
December 24, 2021
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.
Winter Holiday Jukebox
December 24, 2021
Sacred and secular music to honor the winter solstice and year-end holidays.
Music of the Baroque’s Holiday Choral and Brass Concert
December 24, 2021, 3:00 pm
A Chicago tradition, conducted by William Jon Gray.
Patrick Dupré Quigley and singers from Music of the Baroque
December 24, 2021
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.
A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
December 24, 2021, 9:00 am
The annual service broadcast from King’s College Chapel of Cambridge University.
Apollo’s Fire: Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain
December 23, 2021, 8:00 pm
Critically acclaimed early music ensemble Apollo's Fire shares a festive, Irish-Appalachian celebration.
Chanticleer Christmas
December 21, 2021, 9:00 pm
The superb 12-man ensemble performs holiday classics.
Gaudete! Early Music for the Christmas Season
December 20, 2021, 10:00 pm
A WFMT Network special, hosted by Sara Schneider.
Ornaments! with lutenist Brandon Acker
December 18, 2021
Oliver and Brandon demonstrate essential ornaments like the appoggiatura and the trill.
Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’ [Abridged English-language version]
December 18, 2021
The Met’s abridged, English-language version of Mozart’s magical fairy tale is a classic holiday treat for audiences of all ages.
Rilling Conducts Handel’s ‘Messiah’
December 17, 2021
Soprano Annette Dasch, countertenor Daniel Taylor, tenor James Taylor, and bass-baritone Shenyang take the stage to perform George Frideric Handel‘s rousing oratorio.
A Romanesque Christmas
December 15, 2021
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 ...
Mark Adamo’s “Becoming Santa Claus”
December 11, 2021
The composer and librettist offers a preview of his opera in advance of its Chicago premiere.
The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band
December 4, 2021, 8:00 pm
Host Rich Warren welcomes Chicago’s original Klezmer revival band to celebrate Hanukkah live from Hinsdale.
Chanticleer
December 3, 2021
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.