Here are MTPR program highlights for December 19 – December 25, 2013
THURSDAY- December 19, 2013
9:05 a.m. Morning Classics – Johann Melchior Molter: Concerto Pastorale; Rick Sowash: Guitar suite for an Old Friend at Christmas; Rick Sowash: A Christmas Ceremony for flute and cello; Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso #8 in G minor, Op. 6; G.F. Handel: Highlights from “The Messiah”
1:05 p.m Freakonomics – The Cobra Effect - If you want to get rid of a nasty invasive pest, it might seem sensible to offer a bounty. But as we’ll hear in this episode of Freakonomics Radio, bounties can backfire.
2:06 p.m. Jazz Sessions - A variety of jazz tunes and styles with Terry Conrad
4:00 p.m. The Pea Green Boat with Annie Garde – a show for children of all ages
7:30 p.m. The Write Question – Brandon Schrand, author of the memoir, “Works Cited: An Alphabetical Odyssey of Mayhem and Misbehavior”
FRIDAY – December 20, 2013
9:05 a.m. Morning Classics – Vivaldi: “Winter” from “The Four Seasons”; Piazzola: Invierno Porteño “Winter in Buenos Aires”; Bax: Winter Legends; Andrew Skeet, Anthony Phillips: Winter Song
SATURDAY- December 21, 2013
11:00 a.m. Metropolitan Opera – Britten’s A Midsummer Nights’ Dream
4:00 p.m. Radiolab – THE GOOD SHOW – Is altruism an aberration? If natural selection boils down to survival of the fittest, how do you explain cooperation between creatures?
6:00 p.m. The Plant Detective with Beth Judy – “Frankincense”
6:02 p.m. A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor
SUNDAY- December 22, 2013
8:00 a.m. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center– All Brahms
11:10 a.m. Front Row Center – The MTPR weekly arts interview
11:20 a.m. The Food Guys - “Duck Breasts” (repeat 4/29/12)
11:30 a.m. Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me - The “oddly informative” NPR news quiz show – with Peter Sagal and Carl Kassell
12:25 p.m. Field Notes – " Clark’s Nutcrackers" - Information about the flora and fauna of western and central Montana by the Montana Natural History Center
4:00 p.m. TED Radio Hour - A journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, and new ways to think and create
7:00 p.m. The San Francisco Symphony—Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts music of Sibelius, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Wagner, Schoenberg
MONDAY- December 23, 2013
9:05 a.m. Morning Classics – Respighi: Three Botticelli Pictures; Selection from A Classical Christmas: Suite on 4 Polish Christmas Carols and “What Child is This” for accordion and harp; J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248; Locatelli: Concerto Grosso, Op. 1 #8 in F minor; Selections from “A Winter’s Light”
1:00 p.m. Alternative Radio –Barbara Ehrenreich – Kicking People When They’re Down
7:30 p.m. Winter Solstice Celebration – Paul Winter Consort – 2 hours
TUESDAY – December 24, 2013
9:05 a.m. Morning Classics – Manfredini: Christmas Concerto in C major, Op. 3 #12; Selections from Surrounded by Angels CD; Palestrina: Missa O Magnum Mysterium; Tournier: Noels for the harp, Op. 32; Britten: Interlude and Recession from “A Ceremony of Carols” for harp; Glazunov: Les Chanteurs de Noel; Ireland: The Holy Boy; Selections from A Year at King’s CD
11:00 am Christmas Eve Freeforms with Michael Marsolek
1:00 p.m. Home Ground Radio with Brian Kahn
1:30 p.m. Musician’s Spotlight – John Floridis hosts a special holiday edition featuring music by artists who have appeared as guests over the last 10-1/2 years
04:00 pm The Pea Green Boat with Annie Garde – Stubby Pringle’s Christmas will be read
7:30 p.m. Tinsel Tales: NPR Christmas Favorites
8:30 p.m. MTPR’s production featuring Walt Dunlop’s complete reading of “A Christmas Carol”
10:00 pm A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King’s College
WEDNESDAY- December 25, 2013
12:00 am A Choral Christmas with Stile Antico
01:00 am Welcome Christmas
07:00 am A Chanticleer Christmas
08:00 am Tallis Scholars – Love is better than wine
09:00 am Handel’s Messiah – From Washington National Cathedral
10:00 am A Centennial Ceremony of Carols: A Benjamin Britten holiday Celebration
11:00 am A Choral Christmas with Stile Antico
11:55 am Truman Capote’s classic story, “A Christmas Memory” read by MTPR’s Gus Chambers
01:00 pm Glad Tidings of Great Joy - this program offers some of the most splendid Christmas music ever to come from northern Europe
02:06 pm Tinsel Tales 2 - Continuing with the tradition of the first Tinsel Tales program NPR offers another collection of the best and most requested holiday stories
03:00 pm A Christmas Celtic Sojourn 2013
07:00 pm This American Life
08:00 pm Thistle & Shamrock Christmas Special
09:00 pm St. Olaf Christmas Festival
11:00 pm Welcome Christmas
12:00 am Jazz Piano Christmas XXIX