Holiday Music

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.

Host Rob Kapilow pulls back the curtain on Tchaikovsky's lush ballet score for this holiday favorite Christmas Day at 6 pm with an encore broadcast Saturday (12/29) at 2 pm.

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.

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 Tempo Saturday (12/14 at 7 pm) concludes its survey of holiday programming this season with The Crossing’s upcoming performance of David Lang’s Poor Hymnal.

A Tempo this Saturday (12/7) spotlights a neurodiverse production of A Christmas Carol and a quirky, cross-genre version of The Nutcracker, more examples of various takes on traditional holiday favorites.

A Tempo Saturday (11/30 at 7 pm) continues its survey of seasonal programming with a look at Opera Orlando's new opera, "Four Lost Santas," which it is pairing with a production of "Amahl and the Night Visitors."

A Tempo kicks off a series of holiday-focused episodes with a conversation with McCarter Theatre Artistic Director Sarah Rasmussen.