WHRO FM will offer joyous and beautiful music for your celebrations throughout Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.   

Here are a few highlights:

Tuesday, December 24: Christmas Eve

10 AM – Noon – A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols (Live Broadcast)
An annual and beloved Christmas tradition, “A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols” is an extraordinary and memorable live service of word and music from the Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, England. Share in this live, world-wide Christmas Eve broadcast of a service of Biblical readings, carols, and related seasonal music (anthems a cappella and with organ accompaniment, and congregational hymns), presented by one of the world’s foremost choirs of men and boys and performed in an acoustically and architecturally renowned venue.

7-9 PM – St. Olaf Christmas Festival from American Public Media
This service in song and word has become one of the nation's most cherished holiday celebrations. The festival includes hymns, carols, and choral works, as well as orchestral selections celebrating the Nativity and featuring more than 500 student musicians in five choirs, and the St. Olaf Orchestra. Valerie Kahler shares the sights and sounds of this choral favorite.

9 PM – Midnight – Christmas Eve Classics with Raymond Jones
This special edition of Evening Classics is the perfect soundtrack as you light the fire and finish wrapping those gifts. Featured works include “On Christmas Night” by Ralph Vaughan Williams; Christmas Eve at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s “Midnight Mass for Christmas Eve”; the “Christmas Eve Suite” from Danish composer Niels Gade; the Latvian cantata “Christmas Eve” by Eriks Esenvalds, and more.

Wednesday, December 25: Christmas Day

8 AM – Welcome Christmas!
Tune in for this perennial Christmas favorite from VocalEssence, one of the world’s premiere choral groups. John Birge hosts an hour of traditional carols and new discoveries, including the world premiere of two carols from the annual Christmas Carol Contest. For 2019, hear the world premiere of Nico Muhly's "The Faire Starre," a nativity cantata that draws on 17th century metaphysical poets and is set in the unique, eclectic style that has earned Nico Muhly raves from the Metropolitan Opera.

10 AM – Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square
The world-renowned Tabernacle Choir continues its tradition of great artistry this holiday season, with touching arrangements of familiar carols, and lesser-known melodies that are fast becoming the new classics. Julie Amacher hosts this annual favorite. Enjoy a warm, nostalgic holiday celebration featuring a choir of 360 voices, a 150-piece orchestra at Temple Square, the 32-member Bells on Temple Square, along with other artists and special guests. A 600-person cast will share a stunningly beautiful mix of carols in various unique arrangements.

1 PM – St. Olaf Christmas Festival
This service in song and word has become one of the nation's most cherished holiday celebrations. The festival includes hymns, carols, and choral works, as well as orchestral selections celebrating the Nativity and featuring more than 500 student musicians in five choirs, and the St. Olaf Orchestra. Valerie Kahler shares the sights and sounds of this choral favorite.

7 PM – Hygge Holiday: Cozy Classics
Join host Elena See as she plays a mix of wintry and nostalgic classical pieces to accompany your cozy wintertime activities.

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