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NSPR is bringing you a little joy this holiday season

NSPR holiday programming will help you get in the holiday spirit and carry you through the New Year. We invite you to tune into all these specials on weeknights from 8 to 9.

Monday, 12/13, Hollywood Holiday 

  • Lynne Warfel takes listeners on a one-hour musical retrospective of some of Hollywood's most cherished Christmas-themed movies, including Scrooge, the Musical, A Muppet Christmas Carol, and It's A Wonderful Life. 

Tuesday, 12/14, All Is Bright 

  • This program uses sacred choral music grouped in a way to tell the traditional Christmas story by way of songs about angels, the star, and the manger scene.

Wednesday, 12/15, A Chanticleer Christmas

  • This program of holiday favorites, new and old, will be presented live in concert by Chanticleer, the superb 12-man ensemble known as "an orchestra of voices."

Thursday, 12/16, St. Olaf Christmas

  • Programming includes sacred choral and instrumental music from many traditions: beloved hymns, classical masterworks, folk songs worldwide, and Black spirituals.

Friday, 12/17, Morehouse-Spellman Christmas Concert  

  • The choirs of Morehouse and Spelman Colleges -- two of the most prestigious historically Black institutions in the nation -- get together to present a spine-tingling concert program.

Monday 12/20, A Soulful Christmas 

  • An uplifting display of Black music in the classical, gospel, spiritual, and jazz-inspired style. This special celebrates the non-idiomatic Black classical music while exploring non-idiomatic choral traditions.

Tuesday,12/21, Jazz Piano Christmas

  • From the Kennedy Center and NPR, pianists perform their favorite seasonal music, with George Cables, Latin all-star Rebeca Mauleón, and Mark G. Meadows.

Wednesday, 12/22, A Mexican Baroque Christmas 

  • This holiday program features more than two centuries of festive Christmas dances and songs from the great cathedrals of Puebla and Mexico City.

Thursday,12/23, Jazz Night in America Holiday Celebration 

  • You'll hear the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, plus guest vocalists Catherine Russell and Kenny Washington. Christian McBride hosts.

Friday, 12/24, Thistle and Shamrock Christmas

  • Cerys Matthews narrates excerpts from the Dylan Thomas holiday classic, "A Child's Christmas in Wales."

Friday, 12/31, Toast of the nation., 7 p.m. to midnight 

  • Featuring music from The Catherine Russell Trio recorded at Dizzy Club at Jazz At Lincoln Center in NYC; The Jazz Gallery All-Stars, recorded at the Kennedy Center in Washington; KOKOROKO, recorded at Royal Albert Hall in London; Pink Martini, recorded in Portland, Oregon.