Grace Paley is best known for her semi-autobiographical stories about her colorful Jewish family. But in “The Loudest Voice,” her young heroine Shirley Abramowitz is drawn into a different holiday tradition–she’s cast in her school Christmas play. The reader is Linda Lavin.
Our last work is a playful exercise in pastiche by the ever-playful New Yorker humorist and illustrator James Thurber. “A Visit from St. Nicholas” is his re-imagining of the Clement Clarke Moore classic verse–in the style of Ernest Hemingway! The reader is SELECTED SHORTS’ late host and founder, Isaiah Sheffer. And to all a good night.
Airs: Thursday, December 22, 3 p.m. during A Juneau Afternoon on KTOO (104.3 FM)
Repeated at 4 on KRNN at 4 p.m.
[/toggle][toggle color=”Default” title=”Crosscurrents – World Christmas Music with Sarah Everett (12/22)”]Airs: Thursday, December 22 on KRNN (102.7 FM)[/toggle][toggle color=”Default” title=”Paul Winter’s 36th Annual Winter Solstice Celebration (12/22)”]Celebrate the Return of the Sun — and the Warming of the heart with Paul Winter’s Annual Winter Solstice Celebration. On the darkest night of the year, we head back to New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine to hear The Paul Winter Consort and the glorious Cathedral Pipe Organ. The performance brings traditional holiday favorites and new sounds from around the world with special guests Ivan Lins and Renato Braz. Hosted by John Schaefer.
Airs: Thursday, December 22 on KRNN (102.7 FM), 9 – 11 p.m.
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Guest host Jane Kaczmarek presents four works about love, friendship, and passages through life. In William Goyen’s “The Texas Principessa,” the narrator is trying to tell us the story of the life and death of her best friend, if only she could keep to the point! The reader is the robust and sassy Doris Roberts. The second piece is by the late humorist, essayist, and actor David Rakoff. His final work was the epic novel in verse: Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish, which follows the intersecting lives of its main characters through an American century. In the excerpt we’ll hear now, a jilted boyfriend has to give a wedding toast—and it’s a doozy. The reader is Jackie Hoffman. A dreamy afternoon on the river is recalled by Rick Bass’s “The Canoeists,” The story shimmers with vivid details and sensual recollections, and is read by Neil Patrick Harris. We conclude this program with another perfect couple, “The Owl and the Pussycat,” from the 19th-century poet Edward Lear’s charming verse. It’s read here by Bill Irwin and John Lithgow. Air Friday, December 23, 3 p.m. during A Juneau Afternoon on KTOO (104.3 FM) Sunday, December 25 – CHRISTMAS DAY |
Classical music for your Christmas morning
Airs: Sunday, December 25, 6:00 – 8:00 am, on KRNN (102.7 FM)
[/toggle][toggle color=”Default” title=”Christmas Morning with Libby Stringer and her fabulous fiddle (12/25)”]Airs: Sunday, 8:00 – 9 am on KRNN (102.7 FM)[/toggle][toggle color=”Default” title=”Christmas morning with Trish & Buddy (12/25)”]Airs: Sunday, December 25, 9:00 – 11 a.m. on KRNN (102.7 FM)[/toggle][toggle color=”Default” title=”A Prairie Home Companion (12/25)”]Airs: Sunday, December 25th, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.[/toggle][toggle color=”Default” title=”The Messiah with the PSO 2016 (12/25)”]Handel’s much adored oratorio, Messiah, returns to Heinz Hall! Led by Robert Page and featuring a cast of guest vocalists and the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, this work is a religious story of hope, inspiration and timeless expression.
Handel’s much adored oratorio, Messiah, returns to Heinz Hall! Led by Robert Page and featuring a cast of guest vocalists and the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, this work is a religious story of hope, inspiration and timeless expression. Handel’s celebration of the human response to the divine will lift spirits and provide the perfect start to the holiday season.
Jim Cunningham is your host for this very special presentation of “Messiah.”
Airs: Sunday, December 25, 1:00 – 3:00 on KRNN
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THE CHRISTMAS REVELS: The Christmas Revels: In Celebration of the Winter Solstice 2016 is an all-new, two-hour compilation of musical excerpts, plus a few short poetry and prose readings, selected from the live Christmas/Winter Solstice Revels stage productions that took place in December, 2015, in nine cities across the United States. |
Brian O’Donovan’s A Celtic Sojourn has thrilled radio audiences for almost thirty years. For the last fourteen, the Christmas-themed live version of the show has drawn on Celtic, Pagan, and Christian traditions to celebrate the music of this season.
Airs: Sunday, December 25 at 5 p.m. on KRNN (102.7 FM)
[/toggle][toggle color=”Default” title=”New! Jazz Piano Christmas XXXII (12/25)”]Join the Kennedy Center and NPR Music for a special family affair at this year’s holiday concert that features Chicagoans Willie Pickens and daughter Bethany Pickens, plus husband and wife Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes. Hosted by Felix Contreras.
Airs: Sunday, Christmas Night, 6 p.m. on KRNN (102.7 FM) replacing Piano Jazz
[/toggle][toggle color=”Default” title=”Christmas Jazz After Hours – PRI (12/25)”]Jazz musicians love to bring a jazzy flair to Christmas and Christmas music. This year, “Jazz After Hours” is planning a new 4 hour holiday special, with music newly released for Christmas 2016 and some well-loved classic Christmas jazz. This new Christmas special for 2016 will cheer up your listeners and get everyone in the holiday spirit. Eggnog not included.
Airs: Sunday, December 25, 7 p.m. – 11 p.m. on KRNN (102.7 FM)
[/toggle][toggle color=”Default” title=”Chanukah in Story and Song 2016 (12/26)”]This hour-long Chanukah favorite returns: A celebration by The Western Wind performing Ladino songs of Spanish Jews, Yiddish melodies of Eastern Europe and modern Israeli tunes.
This year, Chanukah starts at sundown on Saturday, December 24 and ends in the evening of Sunday, January 1.
Airs: Monday, December 26, 3 p.m. during A Juneau Afternoon on KTOO (104.3 FM)
Repeated at 4 p.m. on KRNN (102.7 FM)
[/toggle][toggle color=”Default” title=”A Season’s Griot 2016 – PRI (12/26)”]This one-hour celebration in story and song is public radio’s only nationally syndicated Kwanzaa program. Hosted for nearly 20 years by acclaimed storyteller Madafo Lloyd Wilson, this annual special captures the tales and traditions of African American and African peoples.
This year’s program celebrates Family & Celebration. The show’s poet laureate, Beverly Burnette, and other members of the Season’s Griot family return and familiar and favorite elements of Griot will also be in place with plenty of music in this 2016 edition!
Airs: Monday, December 26, 7 p.m. during A Juneau Afternoon, 3 p.m. on KTOO (104.3 FM)
[/toggle][toggle color=”Default” title=”New! Hanukkah Lights 2016 (12/29)”]Stories include:
The Infidelity of Judah Maccabee by R.L. Maizes
Week At A Glance by Elisa Albert
Erev Christmas by Ellen Orleans
i by Lia Pripstein
A perennial NPR favorite with all new Hanukkah stories. Authors include R.L.Maizes, Elisa Albert, Ellen Orleans, and Lia Pripstein. Hosted by Susan Stamberg and Murray Horwitz.
Airs: Thursday, December 29, 7 p.m. on KTOO (104.3 FM)
[/toggle][toggle color=”Default” title=”Mudrooms – December’s program (12/29)”]The theme is What’s Cookin’ and we have a great lineup that includes some notable local foodies (not all the stories are set in the kitchen, however):
Features: Midgi Moore, Helen Eggers, Chris Knight, Ken Alper, Pat McLear, Mareta Weed, and Marc Wheeler
Music by Julie Coppens. Profits to the Zach Gordon Youth Center.
Airs: Thursday, December 29 on KTOO (104.3 FM)
[/toggle][toggle color=”Default” title=”Capital Steps: Politics Takes a Holiday (12/30, 12/31)”]If only the Capitol Steps had some funny material to work with in 2016…is something that will never cross your mind when listening to their Year In Review New Year’s special. All your election favorites will be there: President Elect Trump, Hillary, Bernie Sanders, Vladimir Putin…wait, what?!?
Let’s not let the election divide us any further. Tune in, and let’s unite in laughter! And for goodness sake, can someone give Merrick Garland a hug?
Airs: Friday, December 30, 3 p.m. during A Juneau Afternoon on KTOO (104.3 FM)
Repeated at 4 on KRNN (102.7 FM)
Saturday, December 31, 8 p.m. on KRNN (102.7 FM)
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