Christmas

This broadcast featuring Trinity's 2023 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, recorded last December at Princeton University Chapel airs Christmas morning at 8 am.

This annual tradition featuring all the choirs of Westminster Choir College of Rider University, this year with an emphasis on motherhood, airs Monday (12/23) at 8 pm and again Christmas Day at 3 pm.

Sounds Choral this Sunday (12/22 at 2 pm) features a variety of music for the holidays, from medieval to jazz.

The Princeton-based ensemble's retelling of the Christmas story airs Saturday (12/21) at 2 pm and Tuesday (12/24) at 6 pm.

We’ve got two contemporary operas for Christmas on this week’s Sunday Opera (12/22 3:00 p.m.) as we begin with Jake Heggie’s 2016 version of “It’s a Wonderful Life” and continue with Ricky Ian Gordon’s setting of Gail Rock’s beloved novel, “The House Without a Christmas Tree.”

It’s time again for the ghosts to visit, and this year, we’re being visited by some Programs of Christmas Past on this week’s Dress Circle (12/22 7:00 p.m.) as we look at some listener favorites from past programs featuring songs from stage and screen musicals.

The choir performs two works about the heavens and the cosmos composed about 300 years apart in this concert broadcast Monday (12/16 at 8 pm) and Christmas Day at 8 pm.

A look back at the astonishing range of over 40 years of carols commissioned by King's College Cambridge

Many of us miss the days of original musicals generally performed live on television, but on this week’s Dress Circle (12/15 7:00 p.m.), we’re going to give you the chance to relive five of them through selections for their scores.

Piffaro The Renaissance Band performs music from 16th-century German on this concert Broadcast Monday (12/9 at 8 pm)