The Guide | December 2017

Holiday Music on WFMT See page 2 for highlights.

ALSO INSIDE This month on WTTW11, we celebrate the season with The Wheaton College Christmas Festival: Love Divine, a concert by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and two holiday specials Ăą Call the Midwife and Last Tango in Halifax.

MEMBER CONNECTIONS Andrea Bocelli in Concert Andrea Bocelli returns to the U.S. for seven concerts only of repWHAT ertoire from his Grammy-nominated album Cinema, special selecAndrea Bocelli in Concert tions from his groundbreaking release Romanza, and a selection of WHERE beloved arias, love United Center songs, and crossover 1901 W. Madison Street hits. in Chicago The concerts will be led by Maestro WHEN Eugene Kohn and will Wednesday, December 6, 7:30 pm also feature soprano Larisa Martinez and Broadway sensation and Chicago native Heather Headley. The Lyric Opera Orchestra and Chorus will join Bocelli for this special concert.

WTTW is excited to offer tickets to see one of the world’s most celebrated tenors at the United Center on Wednesday, December Andrea Bocelli 6, 2017 at 7:30 pm. Visit wttw.com/events to purchase tickets.

Ethan Bortnick LIVE in Concert

Ethan Bortnick

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Celtic Thunder in Concert

Celtic Thunder

International singing sensation Celtic Thunder have scheduled a downtown Chicago performance as part of their upcoming North American Symphony Tour.

This will be the second Symphony Tour for Celtic Thunder, who will depart from their traditional and critically acclaimed large set productions to perform their hits, songs from their Christmas albums, and songs from their new Celtic Thunder Inspirational album, in a dynamic live music experience accentuated by the instrumentals of full symphony orchestras. Celtic Thunder’s five male soloists Damian McGinty, Ryan Kelly, WHAT Emmet Cahill, Celtic Thunder in Concert Neil Byrne, and WHERE Michael O’Dwyer Chicago Theatre will perform solo 175 N. State Street and ensemble in Chicago numbers.

WHEN You are invited Thursday, December 7, to celebrate the strength and courage of Ireland through this concert 7:30 pm spectacular live from the Chicago Theatre. Visit wttw.com/events to purchase tickets.

Ethan Bortnick LIVE in Concert

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Park West 322 W. Armitage Avenue

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Sunday, May 6, 7:30 pm

Recognized by the Guinness World Records as “The World’s Youngest Solo Musician to Headline His Own Concert Tour,” 15-year-old Ethan Bortnick has been performing around the world, raising over $40,000,000 for charities across the globe. See him in his return to the Chicago stage at Park West Theatre for a night of musical fun for the entire family. Backed by a stage of world-class musicians, this concert is upbeat with an inspiring song list that will touch you on so many levels!

Every pair of tickets receives a Generations of Music 2-CD set. Visit wttw.com/events to purchase tickets.

WTTW Kids Big Idea Traveling Lab Join us for an exciting 45-minute FREE live show, perfect for children 2 to 7 years old, bringing to life the fun and learning from WTTW Kids’ most popular and beloved children’s shows.

Hosted by the WTTW Kids Lab Guys, children will be inspired to discover their own BIG IDEAS WHAT using our very own recipe of Wonder, Watch & WTTW Kids Big Idea Traveling Lab Learn More! The exciting show will engage kids to explore themes like emotions, life cycles, recyWHERE cling, the natural world, and more as we discover Ford City Mall everyday BIG IDEAS. We’ll also learn about great 7601 S. Cicero Avenue children’s books that support the show’s themes in Chicago and experience a few fun surprises along the way.

WHEN Some shows will include a character Meet & Greet Saturday, December 9, 11:00 am following the performance.

Visit wttw.com/events to learn more.

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50% Off Second Ticket to Hyde Park School of Dance Nutcracker Hyde Park School of Dance (HPSD) offers its annual presentation of Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker, featuring more than 175 dancers – from sevenyear-olds to grandparents. Staged by Gabrielle Roitman HPSD Founding Artistic Director August Tye, ballet mistress and choreographer at Lyric Opera of Chicago, the 90-minute production follows Clara, Fritz, and the mysterious Uncle Drosselmeyer from the family holiday party and the midnight battle with the Mouse King and his troops through the Land of Snow to the Kingdom of Sweets. The performances feature a hip hop dance battle to send a message of peace. Instead of battling with swords, the mouse-soldiers use hip hop as their “weapons.”

The Nutcracker takes place Friday, December 8 at 7:00 pm at Mandel Hall, 1131 E. 57th Street in Chicago. WTTW members who purchase one full-price general admission ticket to this performance may purchase a second general admission ticket at half price by calling (773) 493-8498 and mentioning WTTW.

Photo: Damien Thompson

Deeply Rooted Dance Theater

Photo: Ken Carl

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50% Off Second Ticket to Deeply Rooted Dance Theater As the culminating event of its 20th anniversary season, Deeply Rooted Dance Theater (DRDT) presents Deeply Free, featuring the premiere of South African choreographer Fana Tshabalala’s INDUMBA and works that span the company’s history. Originally intending to illuminate the spiritual impact of unresolved apartheid politics in his native South Africa, Tshabalala has created an American/Chicago-focused adaptation of INDUMBA, an evening-length work performed on Friday, December 8. “Indumba” means African healing hut, promising a work of stirring resilience and reconciliation.

For the December 9 performance, DRDT performs Femme, choreographed

by Nicole Clarke-Springer, which celebrates the allure, courage, strength, and beauty of women; Desire (1994), choreographed by Gary Abbott, which portrays three types of attraction: first sight, physical beauty, and young love; Church of Nations, created by Kevin Iega Jeff, which explores the religious, spiritual, and political implications of war and its devastating impact on humanity; and Jeff’s In a Child’s Eye, which tells the story of a little girl’s dream journey to a flower community, where she encounters a war between good and evil.

Deeply Free features the premiere of INDUMBA on December 8 at 7:30 pm and company repertoire on December 9 at 7:30 pm at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts on the University of Chicago campus, 915 E. 60th Street in Chicago. WTTW members who purchase one full-price ticket for either the Ella Fitzgerald December 8 or December 9 performance may purchase a second ticket at half price, subject to availability, by calling (312) 795-9777 and mentioning WTTW. For more information, visit deeplyrooteddancetheater.org.

15% off Fresh Fruit for the Holidays The Fruit Company is one of the leading fruit basket delivery companies and premier fresh fruit providers of gourmet Fruit Baskets, Gift Towers, and Monthly Fruit Clubs in the nation. Since 1942, they’ve been offering the world’s finest fresh fruit, sourced from their own local orchards in Hood River, Oregon.

Enjoy delicious orchard fresh fruit and gourmet delights delivered in an elegant basket or join a fruit of the month club and receive fruit shipped at the peak of harvest for the ripest, freshest fruit.

WTTW members receive 15% off The Fruit Company products. To redeem this special offer, please use code WTTW15 at The Fruit Company website: thefruitcompany.com. Excludes free shipping offers.

2-for-1 Tickets to Silk Road Rising’s Wild Boar A gripping investigation of journalistic integrity, city planning, and social conscience, Wild Boar is a new play from one of Hong Kong’s most acclaimed playwrights. When a controversial professor goes missing, an editor and his student band together to publicize the truth. Old flames spark and friendships are tested in the U.S. premiere of this turbulent thriller about media manipulation, fake news, and who gets to speak for the poor.

For 2-for-1 admission to Silk Road Rising’s Wild Boar, visit silkroadrising.org and use code WFMT when purchasing tickets. Performances are Thursday, November 9 through Sunday, December 17 at The Historic ChicagoTemple Building, 77 West Washington Street in Chicago.

FOR DOZENS OF OTHER DISCOUNTS, visit wfmt.com and, under the Support WFMT menu, click on “Member Benefits” or call (312) 987-WFMT for a recorded message.

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Daily Television Programming • Programmer’s Picks on WTTW11

Cat’s Attic: Yusef Cat Stevens Celebrate 50 years of the illustrious career of singersongwriter Cat Stevens with this retrospective documentary filmed in London and featuring performances of many of his beloved hits. Stevens, also known as Yusuf, speaks about his fame, his songwriting process, and his many life-changing experiences.

Wednesday, December 6, 9:00 pm

Last Tango in Halifax Holiday Special

Secrets of Spanish Florida: A Secrets of the Dead Special

This two-part special continues the story of childhood sweethearts, reunited after almost 60 years apart, as they negotiate the highs and lows of life and relationships.

Join a team of archaeologists, scientists, and historians as they reveal the little-known history of America’s Spanish colonists who settled in Florida in 1565, long before Jamestown.

Sundays, December 17 & 24, 7:00 pm

Tuesday, December 26, 9:00 pm

See page 6 for information about WTTW Prime listings.

Friday 1 EARLY MORNING 1:30 Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You Suze Orman focuses on helping individuals “find financial solutions for you.” This special’s central theme is that financial decision-making should be guided by an understanding of “the goal of money.”

3:30 ’60s Pop, Rock, & Soul Legends of the 1960s unite

In the Spotlight

This is Bob Hope: American Masters This program explores the entertainer’s life with unprecedented access to his personal archives and clips from his classic films, radio, and TV shows. Hear excerpts of Hope’s writings voiced by Billy Crystal plus interviews with Woody Allen, Dick Cavett, Margaret Cho, Linda Hope, Kermit the Frog, Leonard Maltin, Conan O’Brien, Tom Selleck, Brooke Shields, Connie Stevens, and writers including Sherwood Schwartz and biographer Richard Zoglin.

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in this performance special.

Co-hosts Peter Noone and the late Davy Jones sing their biggest hits, focusing on the years 1965-1969.

This program includes pop sounds from Frat Rock to Surf Pop, the British Beats to the Breakthrough Bands, Motown, Soul, and Pop classics.

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MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review with Joel Weisman 7:30 The Beatles: Eight Days a Week is based on the first part of The Beatles’ career (19621966) – the period in which they toured and captured the world’s acclaim. The film explores how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr came together and reveals their inner workings all the while, exploring The Beatles’ extraordinary and unique musical gifts and their remarkable, complementary personalities. The film focuses on the time period from the early Beatles’ journey in the days of The Cavern Club in Liverpool to their last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco in 1966.

10:00 ’60s Pop, Rock and Soul 12:00 BBC World News 12:30 The ’80s Take a joyful leap back into the 1980s, an era when music videos ruled the airwaves. Hosted by original MTV “VJ” Martha Quinn, this special revisits many of them, offering a nonstop celebration of pop hits by such superstars as Cyndi Lauper, Bruce Springsteen, Kim Carnes, Kenny Loggins, and more.

Saturday 2 EARLY MORNING 2:30 Motown 25 5:00 How Not to Die with Michael Greger, MD In this new special, Dr. Greger takes you

through the top ten causes of premature death, revealing which foods can address many of your health problems.

In the Spotlight

MORNING 6:30 New Rules of Food with Kristin Kirkpatrick Kristin’s fun, straightforward “new rules of food” will help you decipher ever-changing diet fads, the regulations on food packaging claims and nutrition labels, and how to answer the surprisingly difficult question: Is this food?

8:00 Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You See Fri. Dec. 1 at 1:30 am. [R] 10:00 Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You [R] AFTERNOON 12:00 This is Bob Hope: American Masters 2:00 The Chicago River Tour with Geoffrey Baer 4:30 The Chicago River Tour with Geoffrey Baer [R] EVENING 7:00 Great Performances: Hit Man - David Foster and Friends Legendary songwriter, producer, and maestro to the stars, David Foster has generated some of the world’s best known popular music, and collaborated with a veritable “Who’s Who” of superstars in a career that spans more than three decades. In celebration of his remarkable achievements, some of the biggest names in contemporary music gather at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas for a one-night-only concert that brings down the house.

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Chicago River Tour with Geoffrey Baer Geoffrey Baer’s inaugural televised River tour in 1995 came about as a result of his work as a docent for the Chicago Architecture Foundation.

Due to numerous changes to the landscape, he presented an updated and expanded tour of the River in 2005. Now, 12 years later, Geoffrey returns to his roots for an in-depth exploration of all three branches of the river, including the less well-known stretches extending south to the Sanitary and Ship Canal and winding north through the Botanic Garden and Skokie Lagoons. Along the way, Geoffrey shares dramatic stories of the river’s history, including how Chicago reversed the river’s flow in one of America’s most ambitious and controversial engineering projects ever.

Saturday, December 2, 2:00 pm

EARLY MORNING 12:00 To be announced MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-3:30 To be announced 3:30 He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley The intensity of Elvis Presley’s

love and devotion for gospel music is revealed in this film. Narrated by veteran newscaster Sander Vanocur, Presley’s story is told with vintage photos, interviews, 2017

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WTTW Digital Channel Highlights These digital channels are available with digital cable or over-the-air with a digital receiver. For more information about digital television and for complete schedules, visit wttw.com/schedule.

Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2017 Monday, December 25, 8:00 pm

WTTW11 in HD Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers can watch WTTW11 in high-definition by tuning to channel 11-1.

Cable or satellite viewers can locate WTTW11 in highdefinition on the on-screen menu.

Join the midwives as they battle snow, ice, power cuts, and frozen pipes to provide patient care during the coldest winter in 300 years.

Valerie helps a young couple who experience a traumatic birth and Sister Julienne tries to reunite a family.

Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: Barbara (Charlotte Ritchie) and Trixie (Helen George)

Downton Abbey New Year’s Marathon Begins Friday, December 29, 10:00 pm

WTTW Prime WTTW Prime is our “prime time all the time” channel.

Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers can tune to channel 11-2 to find WTTW Prime. WTTW Prime is on Comcast digital cable channel 370 and on RCN channel 37.

This beloved series spans 14 years of gripping drama centered on a great English estate on the cusp of a vanishing way of life. America fell in love with the Granthams and their family of servants, and has followed them through sweeping change, scandals, love, ambition, heartbreak, and hope ever since. Join us to return to Downton Abbey!

Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: Maggie Smith as the Dowager Countess of Grantham

New Year’s Celebration

Sunday, December 31, 11:00 am

WTTW Create WTTW Create is our how-to and lifestyle programming channel. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers tune to channel 11-3. WTTW Create is on Comcast digital cable channel 369 and on RCN channel 38. WTTW Create programming airs from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm.

Whether you are planning for an amazing gathering on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day, our WTTW Create hosts make sure it will be an unforgettable cocktail party! Indulge in the tasty appetizers prepared by chefs Steven Raichlen and Julie Tabouli. Interior Decorator Katie Brown will be on hand to add some glistening touches to make your party shine.

Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: Julie Tabouli cooks with her mother

Stories from the Stage: Holiday Horror

WTTW World WTTW WORLD features public television’s signature documentary, science, and news programming complemented by original content from emerging producers. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers tune to channel 11-3. WTTW WORLD is on Comcast digital cable channel 369 and on RCN channel 38. WTTW World airs from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am.

Monday, December 18, 8:30 pm

Join us for hilarious stories of holiday mishaps. Storytellers share their tales from epic blunders and celebrations gone wrong to unforgettable errors, unexpected consequences, and touching human connections!

Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: A storyteller shares a story

Wild Kratts: A Creature Christmas

Friday, December 22, 6:00 pm and 7:30 pm

NEW! WTTW PBS Kids 24/7 Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers can tune to channel 11-4. The WTTW PBS Kids 24/7 is on Comcast digital channels 368 and on RCN channel 39.

It’s Christmas time and the Wild Kratts are taking a break from creature adventuring to celebrate. But when they receive an alert that their favorite creatures are suddenly disappearing around the globe, their holiday party quickly turns into a rescue mission. Our heroes must race against time to thwart their greedy archrivals’ most miserly scheme yet!

Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: Wild Kratts: A Creature Christmas

December On-Demand Picks on demand

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• America’s Test Kitchen • Check, Please!

• Cook’s Country Pictured: Bridget and Julia, Cook’s Country

In the Spotlight

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former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama Valerie Jarrett share memories of the dance halls, housing projects, and theaters that dotted Bronzeville; the birth of gospel music, and the unique blends of blues, jazz, and R&B that originated in Chicago; the outpouring of creative expression during the Black Arts Movement; and the monumental successes of Chicago institutions such as Soul Train, Ebony and Jet magazines, Ultra Wave and Soft Sheen, and the Bud Biliken Parade, among many others.

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Monday 4 Celtic Woman – Homecoming: Ireland Celebrate the timeless emotion of Ireland’s centuries-old heritage in this live concert filmed in Dublin.

Celtic Woman combines the country’s finest musical talents with epic stage production to present a uniquely inspiring live experience.

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and video footage, including some never-before-available scenes of Elvis’s impromptu offstage gospel performances.

Many interviews reveal that Presley’s unshakable commitment to gospel music was tested many times by producers and record label executives, who were later to be surprised when the Grammys overlooked Presley’s No. 1 hits in favor of three of his best gospel performances.

Celtic Woman – Homecoming: Ireland

EVENING 7:00 Victoria Returns Enjoy this sneak peek at season 2 of the popular drama series tracing the life of Queen Victoria, via interviews with writer Daisy Goodwin and Rebecca Eaton, the Executive Producer of the Masterpiece series.

7:30 An Evening With The HistoryMakers: Chicago Stories In this special hosted

by Regina Taylor and Harry Lennix, influential African Americans celebrate the rich history and legacy of Chicago’s Black community.

Special guest presenters, including former Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, blues guitarist Wayne Baker Brooks, Ebony Media CEO Linda Johnson Rice, and

EARLY MORNING 12:00 To be announced 5:00 Forever Painless with Miranda Esmonde-White This program provides a groundbreaking and eye-opening education on pain and its causes, and offers a new approach to pain management, presenting an accessible and widely available solution to the current pain epidemic.

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 7:30 Hamilton’s America Follow the creation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s pop culture Broadway phenomenon, Hamilton, and the history behind it. The program includes interviews with Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, Nas, Questlove, Stephen Sondheim, and more.

9:30 To be announced 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 To be announced

Tuesday 5 EARLY MORNING 12:00 To be announced 5:00 Victoria Returns See Sun. Dec. 3 at 7:00 pm. [R] 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 7:30 Pavlo Live in Kastoria 9:00 Pavlo Live in Kastoria [R] 10:30 To be announced

Wednesday 6 EARLY MORNING 12:00 BBC World News 12:30 To be announced 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 7:30 Brit Floyd: The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show Live 9:00 Cat’s Attic: Yusuf Cat Stevens 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 To be announced

Thursday 7 EARLY MORNING 12:00 To be announced 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 7:30 The Chicago River Tour with Geoffrey Baer [R] 10:00 The Chicago River Tour with Geoffrey Baer [R]

Friday 8 EARLY MORNING 12:30 BBC World News 1:00 To be announced 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]

Victoria Returns Enjoy this sneak peek at season 2 of the popular drama series tracing the life of Queen Victoria, via interviews with writer Daisy Goodwin and Rebecca Eaton, the Executive Producer of the Masterpiece series.

Sunday, December 3, 7:00 pm

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review with Joel Weisman 7:30 To be announced 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 To be announced

Saturday 9 EARLY MORNING 12:00 To be announced MORNING 6:00 To be announced AFTERNOON 12:00 To be announced 2:30 Rick Steves Special: European Festivals Popular travel expert Rick Steves travels throughout the Continent celebrating festivals, each one rich with tradition, great food, and fun. In Spain, Rick runs with the bulls in Pamplona and dances with locals at the April Fair in Seville. He also dons a mask in Venice for Carnival, and cheers on the horses at The Palio di Siena in Italy.

Continuing the celebration across Europe, Rick hoists a frothy stein at Munich’s Oktoberfest, tosses a caber (a large tapered pole) at a Scottish Highland Games, and joins several European families

Pavlo: Live in Kastoria Known for its picturesque lakes, the mountains of Greece come alive with the sounds of Pavlo’s Mediterranean guitar music. Pavlo has thrilled audiences throughout the United States and Canada, has been nominated for several Juno Awards for unique world guitar music, performed for Prince Charles, and most recently was the headline artist at the World Music stage at the closing of the Pan American Games in Toronto. This special features Pavlo’s greatest hits as well as beloved classics “Never On Sunday,” “Zorba,” and “Acropolis Adieu.”

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Rick Steves Special: European Christmas From manger scenes and mistletoe to wintry wonderlands, this program celebrates the Christmas season throughout the European continent. In this special, Rick visits friends and families in England, France, Norway, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy to reveal their customs and practices of the holiday season. He begins his travels in England, where the Christmas pudding is the real centerpiece of a traditional English holiday meal. In Paris, the Eiffel Tower heralds the season with its red, twinkling lights. And in the countryside of Tuscany, villagers stack neat pyramids of wood for great bonfires.

The lighting of the fires is a signal to villagers – dressed as shepherds – to come and sing old carols. Rick offers a colorful, musical celebration of Christmas across Europe where you will learn about customs from “the old countries,” hear local choirs, and discover holiday family traditions.

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EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 The Jewish Journey: America A film that tells the three part story of I) Jewish life in the old country, II) the reasons behind leaving their respective homes and journeying to the U.S., and III) both the establishment of communities and the great accomplishments made in the U.S. 9:30 To be announced 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Chicago Tonight [R]

EARLY MORNING 12:00 To be announced MORNING 6:00 To be announced AFTERNOON 12:00 To be announced 3:30 Ethan Bortnick: Generations of Music Join the talented young virtuoso for a concert spanning generations and genres. Featuring guests Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul, and Mary), Bethany Yarrow, and cellist Rufus Cappadocia, this concert will appeal to audiences of all ages and musical tastes.

5:00 The Chicago River Tour with Geoffrey Baer [R] EVENING 7:30 The Chicago River Tour with Geoffrey Baer [R] 10:00 To be announced

Monday 11 EARLY MORNING 12:00 To be announced

Tuesday 12 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Charlie Rose 1:30 Tavis Smiley 2:00 To be announced 4:30 Nightly Business Report 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight

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Finding Your Roots with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Southern Roots Three guests of disparate Southern backgrounds, DJ and producer Questlove, talk show host Dr. Phil and journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault, find astonishing tales of bondage in their family histories.

9:00 Finding Your Roots with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: The Vanguard Author Ta-Nehisi Coates, filmmaker Ava DuVernay, and author and activist Janet Mock see their basic assumptions about their families challenged, placing their ancestors – of all colors - into the greater context of black history.

10:00 Frontline 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Chicago Tonight [R]

Wednesday 13 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Charlie Rose 1:30 Tavis Smiley 2:00 Finding Your Roots with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: The Vanguard See Tues.

Dec. 12 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Frontline See Tues.

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Check, Please! BYOB Check, Please! presents a compendium of its past segments on great BYOB places, including Gio’s, EL Ideas, Isla Pilipina, Angry Crab, Andi’s Thai Kitchen, and more.

Nightly Business Report Chicago Tonight [R]

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Nature: Soul of the Elephant Ironically, every dead elephant with its ivory intact is a reason to celebrate. It means an elephant died of natural causes, not bullets, snares or poison, and a soul was allowed to be celebrated and mourned by its herd.

Award-winning filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert start with the remains of two bull elephants and through a series of key flashbacks, look at the lives they would have led, the dramas they may have seen, their great migrations for water with their families, and their encounters with lions and hyenas. This film, shot over two years, will be an intimate look at elephants through the 10

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lens of perhaps the greatest storytellers of natural history.

9:00 NOVA: Secret Tunnel Warfare During World War I, the Allies devised a devastating plan, planting 600 tons of explosives in secret tunnels driven under German trenches. Join NOVA to uncover traces of the operation, and learn why it failed to break the lethal deadlock of trench warfare.

10:00 Supernature: Wild Flyers – Defying Gravity (Part 1 of 3) Explore the basic principles of flight to see how animals become airborne in the first place. From leapers to gliders and those that effortlessly fly for hours, each creature has special techniques.

But all must overcome a powerful force – gravity.

11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Chicago Tonight [R]

Thursday 14 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Charlie Rose 1:30 Tavis Smiley 2:00 Finding Your Roots with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Southern Roots See Tues.

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Finding Your Roots with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: The Vanguard [R] Rick Steves’ Europe: The Netherlands Beyond Amsterdam By train, bike, and boat, we visit the top Dutch sights outside of Amsterdam: from Haarlem to Rotterdam, and from Delft to the Zuiderzee. Along the way, we enjoy charming towns with fragrant cheese markets, soggy polderland, mighty dikes, and windmills both new and old.

Nightly Business Report Chicago Tonight [R]

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 The Great British Baking Show: Christmas Masterclass 9:00 A Chef’s Life: Holiday Special Join Vivian Howard as she serves up the best of her Southern cooking heritage and the Chanukah traditions of her husband Ben. From humble Hoppin’ John to elegant red velvet cake, sample a charming and delicious holiday celebration.

10:00 Is Your Brain Male or Female? New research suggests that the connections in men and women’s brains follow different patterns patterns which may explain typical forms of male and female behavior. But are these patterns innate, or are they shaped by the world around us? Using a team of human lab rats and a troop of Barbary monkeys, Michael Mosley and Alice Roberts test the science and challenge old stereotypes.

They ask whether this new scientific research will benefit both men and women - or whether it could drive the sexes even further apart.

11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Chicago Tonight [R]

Friday 15 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Charlie Rose 1:30 Tavis Smiley 2:00 Frontline [R] 3:00 NOVA: Secret Tunnel Warfare See Wed. Dec. 13 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Prague The capital of the Czech Republic, Prague is the best-preserved Baroque city in Central Europe. We experience its massive castle, beloved statue-lined bridge, evocative Jewish Quarter, and thrilling 20th-century history

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while enjoying its infectious love of music and perhaps the best beer in Europe.

With a beautifully preserved Old Town, Prague deserves its nickname: the Golden City of a Hundred Spires.

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MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review with Joel Weisman 7:30 Mike Leonard’s “Nothing Special” Local documentarian Mike Leonard (The Ride of Our Lives, Old St. Patrick’s Church: A Chicago Renaissance Story) visits the Wilmette Sports Shop and takes a funny look at a family tradition; offers a retrospective of ordinary Americans who donated extraordinary trees to Rockefeller Center; introduces us to two American characters who engage in coffee shop repartee about “nothing special” and offer witty social commentary reminiscent of Larry David; and much more.

8:00 Check, Please! Forbidden Root, Miss Saigon, Sofi Host Catherine De Orio welcomes three new guest-reviewers: Clare Lane, who loves Forbidden Root in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood; Daniel Nguyen, who chose the Uptown eatery Miss Saigon, and Mary Zavett, whose pick is Sofi in Printer’s Row. 8:30 European Christmas Markets Discover Europe’s Christmas Markets, where the town center, market square, or just the narrow, cobblestone streets of the cities and towns of Europe come alive in winter with festively decorated wooden stalls offering all sorts of treats and delights, as the Kingston Trio provides special folk arrangements of traditional Christmas carols.

9:00 Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Featuring Rolando Villazon 10:00 Lidia Celebrates America: Homegrown Heroes Join Lidia Bastianich to celebrate our homegrown heroes – veterans who now cultivate the land they fought to defend.

For many vets, farming is therapy for the wounds of war. Lidia farms and cooks with them, then gathers with them for a holiday dinner.

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EARLY MORNING 12:00 Charlie Rose 1:00 Tavis Smiley 1:30 Nature: Soul of the Elephant See Wed. Dec. 13 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Supernature: Wild Flyers – Defying Gravity (Part 1 of 3) See Wed. Dec. 13 at 10:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Is Your Brain Male or Female? See Thurs.

Dec. 14 at 10:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Nightly Business Report 5:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review with Joel Weisman [R]

AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country: When Only Chocolate Will Do 12:30 A Chef’s Life: Holiday Special See Thurs.

Dec. 14 at 9:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Simply Ming: Tiffani Faison 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Summer Dinner Party 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Outsmarting Thanksgiving 3:00 Martha Stewart’s Cooking School: Sweets 3:30 Martha Bakes: Better (For You) Bake Sale 4:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Crazy Noodles 4:30 Check, Please! Forbidden Root, Miss Saigon, Sofi See Fri. Dec. 15 at 8:00 pm. [R] 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Berlin 5:30 Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking

MORNING 5:30-10:00 WTTW Kids 10:00 Sara’s Weeknight Meals: Best-Loved Italian Recipes 10:30 Ellie’s Real Good Food: How to Fish

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Ashley Wheater with Anais Bueno

Making a New American Nutcracker In 2016, Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet gave the work an ingenious makeover and a new setting: the fairgrounds of Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition. Now, WTTW takes you behind the scenes to reveal how it was made and introduce the A-list creative talents who made it happen.

They and many of the performers share anecdotes about the process and recall their first experiences either seeing or performing in The Nutcracker.

Saturday, December 16, 10:00 pm Saturday, December 23, 7:00 pm For full schedule, visit wttw.com/schedule.

EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 Washington Week 7:00 Mr. Stink This holiday special from the U.K. is based on David Walliams’ bestselling book, telling the story of Chloe, a lonely little girl who meets the malodorous tramp Mr. Stink (Hugh Bonneville) and his clever dog Duchess, and lets them live in the family’s garden shed.

8:00 Father Brown: The Hand of Lucia When a local writer is murdered, Father Brown must delve into her infamous novel Lulu and Lucia for inspiration.

9:00 Death in Paradise (Season 3, Part 4 of 8) DI Goodman and his team are introduced to the jet-setting world of airline pilots and cabin crew when an air stewardess is discovered murdered. Will Humphrey and his team manage to unravel the mysteries at the heart of this seemingly impossible murder?

10:00 Making a New American Nutcracker 11:00 The Great British Baking Show: Christmas Masterclass [R]

Sunday 17 EARLY MORNING 12:00 A Chef’s Life: Holiday Special [R] 1:00 Is Your Brain Male or Female? [R] 2:00 Lidia Celebrates America: Homegrown Heroes See Fri. Dec. 15 at 10:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Mr. Stink See Sat. Dec. 16 at 7:00 pm. [R]

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MORNING 5:00-11:00 WTTW Kids 11:00 Pati’s Mexican Table 11:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: Santorini – Flavors of a Volcano AFTERNOON 12:00 Check, Please! Forbidden Root, Miss Saigon, Sofi [R] 12:30 Lidia’s Kitchen: A Special Occasion Lidia shares some of her best recipes for the perfect holiday feast.

1:00 Pritzker Military Presents: James Holland – The Allies Strike Back Author James Holland returns to the Pritzker Military Museum & Library to discuss the second book in his acclaimed War in the West trilogy on World War II. 2:00 To be announced EVENING 6:00 Making a New American Nutcracker See Sat. Dec. 16 at 10:00 pm. [R] 7:00 Last Tango in Halifax Holiday Special (Part 1 of 2) Caroline’s new headmistress position involves moving the family to a ramshackle farmhouse in time for Christmas. Alan has a difficult conversation with Gillian, who’s consumed by thoughts of the afterlife, convinced she’s being haunted by Eddie.

8:00 Victoria on Masterpiece: Doll 123 (Season 1, Part 1 of 7) As a new queen, the young Victoria struggles to take charge amid plots to manipulate her. Her friendship with the prime minister leads to a crisis in Parliament.

10:00 Marley’s Ghosts (Season 1, Part 2 of 3) The ghosts are still in residence at Marley’s home, and they’re driving her up the wall and out of the house.

10:30 Check, Please! Forbidden Root, Miss Saigon, Sofi [R] 11:00 Austin City Limits: Ryan Adams/Shakey Graves Enjoy intimate performances from singer/songwriters Ryan Adams and Shakey Graves. Adams performs a special acoustic set of hits and deep cuts. Graves showcases his latest effort, And the War Came.

Monday 18 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Death in Paradise (Season 3, Part 4 of 8) See Sat. Dec. 16 at 9:00 pm. [R] 1:00 Father Brown: The Hand of Lucia See Sat. Dec. 16 at 8:00 pm. [R]

Last Tango in Halifax Holiday Special This series continues the story of childhood sweethearts, reunited after nearly 60 years apart, as they and their families negotiate the highs and lows of life and relationships. In this two-part special, Caroline’s new headmistress position involves moving the family to a ramshackle farmhouse just in time for Christmas. Meanwhile, Alan has a difficult conversation with Gillian, who’s consumed by thoughts of the afterlife, convinced she’s being haunted by her late husband Eddie.

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Martha Stewart’s Cooking School: Sweets [R]

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Richmond (Part 2 of 3) Highlights include a 1765 Thomas Pitts silver epergne valued at $15,000 to $50,000,

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Wheaton College Christmas Festival: Love Divine This new special draws tells the story of a long-awaited child – a king of glory born into the humblest of circumstances, a story that changed human history. Join the Wheaton College Concert Choir, Men’s Glee Club, Percussion Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Women’s Chorale, and guest artist Claire Holley for a selection of pieces spanning the centuries, including “Wolcum Yole,” “A Rhapsody on Christmas Carols,” “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” and “Gloria.”

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and a Tiffany & Co. brooch, ca. 1937, valued at $65,000.

9:00 Antiques Roadshow: Richmond (Part 3 of 3) Highlights include a collection of Langston Hughes-signed first editions and a 1935 Bride of Frankenstein pressbook, featuring many of the graphics used for the film’s top posters.

10:00 Independent Lens: Supergirl Meet Naomi, a seemingly ordinary Orthodox Jewish preteen from New Jersey whose extraordinary talent – breaking world powerlifting records turns her into an international phenomenon in this unique coming-of-age story.

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EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Finding Your Roots with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Funny Business Comedic guests Garrison Keillor, Amy Schumer, and Aziz Ansari take a serious look at their family trees, learning contrasting stories of assimilation, independence, hardship, and success all over the globe.

9:00 Finding Your Roots with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: The Impression Comedian Larry David and politician Bernie Sanders discover they have more in common than they thought as they trace their roots from 1940s Brooklyn back to Jewish communities in Eastern Europe.

10:00 Frontline 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Chicago Tonight [R]

Wednesday 20 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Charlie Rose 1:30 Tavis Smiley 2:00 Antiques Roadshow: Richmond (Part 3 of 3) See Mon. Dec. 18 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Independent Lens: Supergirl See Mon. Dec. 18 at 10:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Nightly Business Report 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Nature: The Story of Cats Asia to Africa (Part 1 of 2) Discover how the first cats arose in the forests of Asia, how they spread across the continent, and later came to conquer Africa. We reveal how cats evolved with an in-depth look at lions, servals, caracals, cheetahs, tigers, fishing, and sand cats.

9:00 NOVA: Bird Brain Long mocked as empty-headed, birds hide surprisingly acute intelligence. But just how smart are they? As scientists test avian aptitude with brainteasers, discover how the genius of birds is leading us to rethink our basic notions of intelligence.

10:00 Supernature: Wild Flyers – Masters of the Sky (Part 2 of 3) Explore the extremes of true flight: power, acceleration, top

speed, maneuverability, and endurance.

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Thursday 21 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Charlie Rose 1:30 Tavis Smiley 2:00 Finding Your Roots with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Funny Business See Tues.

Dec. 19 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Finding Your Roots with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: The Impression See Tues.

Dec. 19 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Marley’s Ghosts (Season 1, Part 2 of 3) See Sun. Dec. 17 at 10:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Nightly Business Report 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Wheaton College Christmas Festival: Love Divine 9:00 Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Featuring Rolando Villazon See Fri. Dec. 15 at 9:00 pm. [R] 10:00 Christmas in Norway with the St. Olaf Choir This Christmas special was filmed in Trondheim, Norway’s magnificent Nidaros Dom cathedral, one of the oldest Gothic cathedrals in the world.

Featured performers include the renowned voices of the St. Olaf Choir, the premier mixed voice choral ensemble from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, conducted by Anton Armstrong and Jentekor, the girl choir of Nidaros conducted by Anita Brevik.

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Friday 22 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Charlie Rose 1:30 Tavis Smiley 2:00 Nature: The Story of Cats - Asia to Africa (Part 1 of 2) See Wed. Dec. 20 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:00 NOVA: Bird Brain See Wed. Dec. 20 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Mike Leonard’s “Nothing Special” See Fri. Dec. 15 at 7:30 pm. [R] 4:30 Nightly Business Report 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review with Joel Weisman

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Mike Leonard’s “Nothing Special” This year, Mike enlists his family in folly, giving grandchildren free rein of the holiday lighting. More joy in giving is shown through Top Box volunteers, the old-fashioned customer care of Wilmette Sports Shop, and a nostalgic but botched “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas.”

8:00 Check, Please! Simi’s, Cellar Door Provisions, Mexique Catherine’s guests are Don Heider, who chose Simi’s in West Rogers Park; Chinwe Okorafor, who loves the Logan Square eatery Cellar Door Provisions; and Kristin Nehls, who picked Mexique in the Noble Square/ West Town neighborhood.

8:30 Christmas on the Danube This special travels the majestic Danube River as it passes through stunning European landscape, history, and culture, visiting cities along the Danube that are particularly spectacular at Christmas.

9:00 Christmas at Belmont Join Grammy-winning host Sheryl Crow and almost 700 student musicians, Belmont School of Music faculty, and the Nashville Children’s Choir for a production of traditional carols, classical masterworks, world music, and lighthearted seasonal favorites.

10:00 Eric Idle’s The Entire Universe 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review with Joel Weisman [R]

Saturday 23 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Charlie Rose 1:00 Tavis Smiley 1:30 Finding Your Roots with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: The Impression [R] 2:30 Supernature: Wild Flyers – Masters of the Sky (Part 2 of 3) See Wed. Dec. 20 at 10:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Last Tango In Halifax Holiday Special [R] 4:30 Nightly Business Report 5:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review with Joel Weisman [R] MORNING 5:30-10:00 WTTW Kids 10:00 Sara’s Weeknight Meals: Beantown 10:30 Ellie’s Real Good Food: Desserts with Benefits 11:00 The Great British Baking Show: Christmas Masterclass AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country: The Italian-American Kitchen

In the Spotlight 12:30 Cook’s Country: Big Flavors from Little Italy 1:00 A Chef’s Life: Chasing Trout 1:30 Simply Ming: Matthew Peters 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Summer Pork Supper 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Korean Feast 3:00 Martha Stewart’s Cooking School: Cooking with Grains 3:30 Martha Bakes: BakeryStyle Cookies 4:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Japan Fried Chicken 4:30 Check, Please! Simi’s, Cellar Door Provisions, Mexique See Fri. Dec. 22 at 8:00 pm. [R] 5:00 Rick Steves Special: European Christmas See Sat. Dec. 9 at 4:00 pm. [R] 5:30 Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 Washington Week 7:00 Making a New American Nutcracker [R] 8:00 Father Brown: The Eagle and the Daw Father Brown visits a women’s prison to hear confession from a woman waiting to be hanged for the murder of her husband. Under the seal of the confessional, she tells him that she’s arranged the death of her former lover.

9:00 Death in Paradise (Season 3, Part 5 of 8) DI Goodman and his team are drawn into the world of politics when Saint-Marie’s scandalized Commerce Minister is discovered dead. Out of the blue, Camille’s father turns out to have a link to the victim, and she is forced to confront the fact that her dad could be the murderer.

10:00 Victoria on Masterpiece: Doll 123 (Season 1, Part 1 of 7) [R]

Sunday 24 Christmas Eve EARLY MORNING 12:00 Antiques Roadshow: Richmond (Part 2 of 3) See Mon. Dec. 18 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:00 Frontline See Tues.

Dec. 19 at 10:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Eric Idle’s The Entire Universe See Fri. Dec. 22 at 10:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Rick Steves Special: European Christmas [R] 4:00 Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Featuring Rolando Villazon [R] MORNING 5:00-11:00 WTTW Kids

11:00 Pati’s Mexican Table 11:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: Life of Pie AFTERNOON 12:00 Check, Please! Simi’s, Cellar Door Provisions, Mexique [R] 12:30 Lidia’s Kitchen: The Roast Today’s menu includes red onions stuffed with rice; a roast pork shoulder with roast vegetable sauce; and a brown sugar, bourbon, and warm baked pineapple served with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

1:00 Making a New American Nutcracker [R] 2:00 Christmas in Christ Chapel at Gustavus More than 300 students, faculty, and staff bring this program to life each year through the use of music, dance, spoken word, and the visual arts. The theme for the concert is “Ubuntu, Jesu: From the Cradle of Humankind to the Ends of the Earth.”

3:00 Christmas at Concordia: Gather Us In, O Child of Peace Under the artistic leadership of world-renowned composer and conductor Rene Claussen, 400 student musicians perform music including traditional favorites such as “Silent Night” and “I Saw Three Ships” to an original composition

by Rene Claussen.

4:00 St. Thomas Christmas: So Bright the Star Recorded before a live audience at Orchestra Hall in downtown Minneapolis, this program celebrates the Advent and Christmas season by drawing from a songbook of familiar traditional carols and innovative contemporary selections.

5:00 Festival of Carols with Sylvia McNair Grammy-winning soprano Sylvia McNair joins the 150-voice Indianapolis Symphonic Choir and the Chamber Orchestra at The Palladium at The Center for The Performing Arts for the 25th anniversary of this holiday favorite, which includes familiar carol classics such as “Joy to the World,” “The First Noel,” and “O Holy Night.”

EVENING 6:00 Wheaton College Christmas Festival: Love Divine See Thurs. Dec. 21 at 8:00 pm. [R] 7:00 Last Tango In Halifax Holiday Special (Part 2 of 2) Caroline tells Gillian the truth about why she took the new headmistress position. Gillian’s mounting guilt over Eddie’s death drives her to make a life-changing decision.

8:00 Victoria on Masterpiece: Brocket Hall (Season 1, Part 2 of 7) Facing rioters and suitors, Victoria grows

into her royal role. As she ponders marriage, her friendship with Lord Melbourne grows more complex.

9:00 Victoria on Masterpiece: The Clockwork Prince (Season 1, Part 3 of 7) Albert pays a visit against the queen’s wishes and meets royal disdain. Where could it possibly lead? Meanwhile, the mystery of Miss Skerrett’s past deepens.

10:00 Christmas at Belmont See Fri. Dec. 22 at 9:00 pm. [R] 11:00 Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Featuring Rolando Villazon [R]

Monday 25 Christmas Day EARLY MORNING 12:00 Christmas in Norway with the St. Olaf Choir See Thurs.

Dec. 21 at 10:00 pm. [R] 1:00 Death in Paradise (Season 3, Part 5 of 8) See Sat. Dec. 23 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Father Brown: The Eagle and the Daw See Sat. Dec. 23 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Festival of Carols with Sylvia McNair See Sun. Dec. 24 at 5:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Wheaton College Christmas Festival: Love Divine [R] 5:00 Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Featuring Rolando Villazon [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Naughty or Nice Highlights from this special holiday compendium of favorites from previous seasons includes an 1863 Temperance lithograph illustrating the evils of imbibing spirits, and a dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in the film Some Like It Hot valued at $150,000 to $250,000.

8:00 Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2017 9:30 In Their Own Words: Queen Elizabeth II Follow Queen Elizabeth II’s remarkable life, from her youth to her uncle’s abdication, her father’s coronation as King George VI, her experience during World War II, her sudden ascension to the throne, and her eventful reign of more than 60 years.

10:30 Independent Lens: Meet the Patels Ravi Patel is almost 30 and still single, and his tradition-minded Hindu family is not happy. After he breaks up with his white girlfriend, he enters the semi-arranged marriage system in America.

Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2017 This new holiday special opens with Poplar under a thick blanket of snow, as the midwives face the challenge of the coldest winter in the United Kingdom in 300 years. That winter – commonly referred to as the Big Freeze of 1963 – saw temperatures plunge to record lows; the whole country was brought to a standstill due to the severe weather. Battling snow, ice, power shortages and frozen pipes, the midwives strive to provide the best possible care for their patients. Valerie helps a young couple who experience a traumatic birth and Sister Julienne tries to reunite a family.

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Check, Please!

11-2 Around the Corner

Washington Week

Global 3000

11-3 Monks of Vina

11-2 Downton Abbey Marathon

11-1 To be announced

11-3 Focus on Europe

11-2 Downton Abbey Marathon

11-1 PBS NewsHour Wknd.

Nature

Victoria on Masterpiece

This is Bob Hope: American Masters

Young Hyacinth

Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler

Frontline

11-2 Motorweek

Ask This Old House

Food of Chicago: A Delicious History

11-3 Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler

Supernature - Wild Flyers

11-1 PBS NewsHour

Doctor Blake Mysteries

11-2 Articulate with Jim …

11-3 NOVA

Navy Pier: A Century of Reinvention

Independent Lens

11-1 PBS NewsHour

Baby Makes 3

Young Hyacinth

11-2 Vicious

Vicious

Antiques Roadshow

11-1 PBS NewsHour

11-3 Jewish Film Showcase

America ReFramed

11-3 Doc World

Mind of a Chef

Secret Life of Babies

11-1 PBS NewsHour

Wisconsin Foodie

Ancient Roads from Christ to Constantine

11-3 Ancient Roads from Christ to Constantine

Rick Steves

Last Tango in Halifax Holiday Special

Tolkien & Lewis: Myth, Imagination & the …

11-1 Wheaton College Christmas Festival

Pioneers of Television

Global 3000

11-2 Finding Your Roots

11-3 Focus on Europe

Washington Week

11-1 PBS NewsHour Wknd.

Mike Leonard

Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler

Frontline

11-2 Motorweek

Ask This Old House

The Week in Review

11-1 PBS NewsHour

11-3 Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler

Supernature - Wild Flyers

Doctor Blake Mysteries

Baby Makes 3

11-2 Articulate with Jim …

11-3 NOVA

Mike Leonard

Masterpiece Mystery: Miss Marple

Marley’s Ghosts

Independent Lens

11-2 Vicious

11-3 Independent Lens Chicago Tonight

Chicago Tonight

11-1 PBS NewsHour

11-1 PBS NewsHour

America ReFramed

11-3 Doc World

Mind of a Chef

Chicago Tonight

11-1 PBS NewsHour

Wisconsin Foodie

Ancient Roads from Christ to Constantine

11-3 Ancient Roads from Christ to Constantine

Rick Steves

Last Tango in Halifax Holiday Special

Buddha

7:30 pm

11-1 Making a New American Nutcracker

Pioneers of Television

Global 3000

Mr. Stink

7:00 pm

11-2 Finding Your Roots

Washington Week

6:30 pm

11-3 Focus on Europe

11-1 PBS NewsHour Wknd.

Father Brown (8:24)

Stories from the Stage

8:30 pm

Charlie Rose

Christmas on the …

Stories from the Stage

Charlie Rose

Focus on Europe

America ReFramed

Death in Paradise

PBS NewsHour

BBC Newsnight

11-2 is WTTW Prime

POV Marathon

Scully/The World

Focus on Europe

Global 3000

To the Contrary

Asia Insight

Overheard

Victoria on Masterpiece

Christmas at Belmont

Faith in the Big House

Nightly Business …

Over Hawai’i

Scully/The World

Hidden … (10:25)

Focus on Europe

Global 3000

Asia Insight

Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer

Victoria on Masterpiece

Nightly Business …

Downton Abbey Marathon

Nightly Business …

Chicago Tonight

Nightly Business …

Chicago Tonight

Supernature: Wild Flyers

Nightly Business …

Tales From the Royal Bedchamber

To the Contrary

Independent Lens

Our American Family

Mystery Science Theater 3000

Victoria on Masterpiece

Nightly Business …

The Week in Review

Eric Idle’s The Entire Universe

Nightly Business …

Chicago Tonight

Christmas in Norway

Nightly Business …

Chicago Tonight

Supernature: Wild Flyers

Nightly Business …

Chicago Tonight

Frontline

Nightly Business …

Chicago Tonight

Independent Lens

Fire in the Forest

11-3 is WTTW Create and WORLD

Billy Joel: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize

Focus on Europe

American Mosque Check, Please!

America’s Ballroom Challenge

Marley’s Ghosts

Mystery Science Theater 3000

In Their Own Words: Queen Elizabeth II

This is Bob Hope: American Masters

PBS NewsHour

PBS NewsHour

Death in Paradise

NOVA

PBS NewsHour

Victoria on Masterpiece

10:30 pm

Making a New American Nutcracker

10:00 pm

Secrets of Spanish Florida: A Secrets of the Dead Special

PBS NewsHour

Wildest Islands

Doc World

Christmas at Concordia, Gather Us In …

Victoria on Masterpiece

America ReFramed

Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration

Death in Paradise

PBS NewsHour

BBC Newsnight

Christmas at Belmont

PBS NewsHour

Wheaton College Christmas Festival

Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir

PBS NewsHour

Death in Paradise (9:09)

NOVA

PBS NewsHour

Finding Your Roots

PBS NewsHour

Wildest Islands

Antiques Roadshow

Doc World

Globe Trekker

America ReFramed

11-1 is WTTW Channel 11

The Sultan and the Saint

9:30 pm

Robin Williams Remembered

Death in Paradise

9:00 pm

Live From Lincoln Center: New York Philharmonic New Year’s Eve

Father Brown

Blueprint: The Story of Adventist Education

Washington Week

Monks of Vina

Jewel in the Crown

Hidden Chicago (9:10)

Father Brown

Nature

Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer

Victoria on Masterpiece

The Sultan and the Saint

Local USA

Nature

Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2017

Finding Your Roots

Wheaton College Christmas Festival

Victoria on Masterpiece

American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr …

Pioneers of Television

Father Brown

Adventists 2

Washington Week

Check, Please!

Let There Be Light

Miss Fisher Mysteries

Wheaton College Christmas Festival

Frontline

Nature

Faith in the Big House

Victoria on Masterpiece

Finding Your Roots

Local USA

Beyond A Year in Space

Antiques Roadshow

Finding Your Roots

My Wild Affair

Victoria on Masterpiece

Pioneers of Television

Father Brown

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Do it Yourself Saturdays 10:00 Saraí s Weeknight Meals 10:30 Ellieí s Real Good Food 11:00

This Old House Hour

12:00 Cookí s Country 12:30 Cookí s Country 1:00

A Chefí s Life

1:30

Simply Ming

2:00

Americaí s Test Kitchen

2:30

Americaí s Test Kitchen

3:00

Martha Stewartí s Cooking School

3:30

Martha Bakes

4:00

Christopher Kimballí s Milk Street Television

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Check, Please!

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Rick Stevesí Europe

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Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking

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fascinating. Featuring babies of all shapes and sizes, this program explores how a baby’s rapidly changing body affects its behavior, and also meets the miracle babies who have survived against all the odds.

8:00 The Sultan and the Saint 9:00 Secrets of Spanish Florida: A Secrets of the Dead Special 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Secret Life of Babies See 7:00 pm. [R]

Wednesday 27 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Charlie Rose 1:30 Tavis Smiley 2:00 Antiques Roadshow: Naughty or Nice See Mon. Dec. 25 at 7:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Independent Lens: Meet the Patels See Mon. Dec. 25 at 10:30 pm. [R] 4:30 Nightly Business Report 5:00 The Sultan and the Saint See Tues. Dec. 26 at 8:00 pm. [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Nature: The Story of Cats – Into the Americas (Part 2 of 2) Track the story of cats into the Americas, from battles with the rival Canids to the rise of domestic cats.

Meet the mighty jaguar, the urban mountain lion, the curious ocelot, the Siamese cat, the Sphynx, and more.

9:00 NOVA: The Day the Dinosaurs Died Investigate how an asteroid vanquished the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Join scientists as they drill into the impact crater and, for the first time, reconstruct the hell on earth that unfolded in the minutes, hours, and months after the impact.

10:00 Supernature: Wild Flyers – Crowded Skies (Part 3 of 3) The sky is a crowded world where mammals, birds, and insects hunt, escape, mate, defend territory, sleep, and even die on the wing.

Survival up there depends not just on beating gravity or mastering flight, but also out-flying the competition.

11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Chicago Tonight [R]

Thursday 28 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Charlie Rose 1:30 Tavis Smiley 2:00 Secrets of Spanish Florida: A Secrets of the Dead Special See Tues.

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Check, Please! Simi’s, Cellar Door Provisions, Mexique [R] Nightly Business Report Chicago Tonight [R]

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Navy Pier: A Century of Reinvention 9:10 Hidden Chicago Host Geoffrey Baer travels all over the Chicago region in search of often-overlooked fragments of our history including: relics from the World’s Fair of 1893, historic murals magnificently restored, the former movie studio where Charlie Chaplin worked, a Gold Coast alley still paved with century-old wood blocks, and much, much more! Each find has a fascinating story to tell.

10:25 Hidden Chicago 2 In the sequel, Geoffrey Baer explores dusty attics, deep tunnels, and the candy aisle at Walgreen’s in search of fascinating fragments of Chicago’s past and littleknown stories behind things we see and use every day.

11:20 BBC World News 11:50 Chicago Tonight [R]

Friday 29 EARLY MORNING 12:50 Charlie Rose 1:50 Tavis Smiley 2:20 Nature: The Story of Cats – Into the Americas (Part 2 of 2) See Wed. Dec. 27 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:20 NOVA: The Day the Dinosaurs Died See Wed. Dec. 27 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Nightly Business Report 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Foods of Chicago: A Delicious History 9:00 This is Bob Hope: American Masters See Sat. Dec. 2 at 12:00 pm. [R] 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Charlie Rose

Saturday 30 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Tavis Smiley 12:57 Hidden Chicago See Thurs.

Dec. 28 at 9:10 pm. [R] 2:10 Hidden Chicago 2 See Thurs.

Dec. 28 at 10:25 pm. [R] 3:01 Supernature: Wild Flyers – Crowded Skies (Part 3 of 3) See Wed. Dec. 27 at 10:00 pm. [R]

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Mike Leonard’s “Nothing Special” See Fri. Dec. 22 at 7:30 pm. [R] Nightly Business Report

MORNING 5:30-10:00 WTTW Kids 10:00 Sara’s Weeknight Meals: Double Down 10:30 Ellie’s Real Good Food: One Basket, One Week, Zero Waste 11:00 This Old House Hour Apprentices learn roofing; Kevin sees an elaborate railing put together. A slab of concrete for the basement and ductwork is put together.

Tom fixes a window and Ross finds a solar panel that can generate drinking water.

AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country: Pork and Pierogi 12:30 Cook’s Country: Badger State Favorites 1:00 A Chef’s Life: Liver Lover 1:30 Simply Ming: Ken Oringer 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Comfort Classics 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Big Easy Favorites 3:00 Martha Stewart’s Cooking School: Arabian Gulf Breakfast 3:30 Martha Bakes: Naturally Gluten-Free 4:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Home Cooking, Chinese Style 4:30 Check, Please! De Quay, Artango, Mott Street Catherine De Orio welcomes three more guest-reviewers: wine consultant Lee Salzman, who recommends the Lincoln Park eatery de Quay; medical salesman Gil Cagua, whose choice is Artango Bar & Steakhouse in Lincoln Square; and engineer Charles Drayton, who loves Mott Street in Wicker Park.

5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Germany’s Hamburg and the Luther Trail 5:30 Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 Washington Week 7:00 Young Hyacinth 8:00 Father Brown: The Smallest of Things Past and present collide when Father Brown investigates the macabre world of dollhouse crime scenes.

9:00 Death in Paradise (Season 3, Part 6 of 8) When a bird-watcher is discovered murdered in the Saint-Marie jungle, the team have a particularly puzzling conundrum to solve. Is the traditionally quiet and calm

world of bird-watching more cut-throat than it appears?

10:00 Victoria on Masterpiece: Brocket Hall (Season 1, Part 2 of 7) See Sun. Dec. 24 at 8:00 pm. [R] 11:00 Victoria on Masterpiece: The Clockwork Prince (Season 1, Part 3 of 7) See Sun. Dec. 24 at 9:00 pm. [R]

Sunday 31 New Year’s Eve EARLY MORNING 12:00 Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2017 See Mon. Dec. 25 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Foods of Chicago: A Delicious History See Fri. Dec. 29 at 7:00 pm. [R] 3:15 Navy Pier: A Century of Reinvention See Thurs.

Dec. 28 at 8:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Rick Steves’ Europe: Germany’s Hamburg and the Luther Trail [R] MORNING 5:00-11:00 WTTW Kids 11:00 To be announced AFTERNOON 12:00 To be announced EVENING 7:00 Victoria on Masterpiece: An Ordinary Woman (Season 1, Part 4 of 7) Courtship at court leads to second thoughts and other complications. Will Victoria and Albert take the fateful step into matrimony?

And will the queen promise “to obey” her foreign prince?

8:00 Live from Lincoln Center: New York Philharmonic New Year’s Eve - Bernstein on Broadway 10:00 Paul Simon: The Concert in Hyde Park Join the legendary musician on a trip through his extensive songbook in this 2012 Hard Rock Calling Festival concert recorded in London’s Hyde Park.

Performances range from “The Sound of Silence” and “The Boxer” to “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover” and “Late in the Evening.”

11:20 Willie Nelson: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize Rosanne Cash, Edie Brickell, Paul Simon, Alison Krauss, Raul Malo, Neil Young and more pay tribute to singer and songwriter Willie Nelson, the 2015 recipient of the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Nelson’s lyrics give voice to America’s heartland and his music pushes genre boundaries.

December At-a-Glance • Arts • Performance ACL Hall of Fame New Year’s Eve Monday, 2:00 am (1/1) American Masters: This Is Bob Hope Friday, 9:00 pm (12/29) Saturday, 12:00 pm (12/2) Monday, 3:00 am (1/1) Austin City Limits Sunday, 11:00 pm (12/17) Beatles: Eight Days a WeekThe Touring Years Friday, 7:30 pm (12/1) Brit Floyd: The World’s Greatest Pink Floyd Show Wednesday, 7:30 pm (12/6) Cat’s Attic: Yusuf Cat Stevens Wednesday, 9:00 pm (12/6) Celtic Woman: Homecoming Ireland Sunday, 5:00 pm (12/3) Christmas at Belmont Friday, 9:00 pm (12/22) Sunday, 10:00 pm (12/24) Christmas at Concordia: Gather Us In, O Child Sunday, 2:00 pm (12/24) Christmas in Christ Chapel at Gustavus Sunday, 2:00 pm (12/24) Christmas in Norway with the St. Olaf Choir Thursday, 10:00 pm (12/21) Monday, 12:00 am (12/25) Christmas on the Danube Friday, 8:30 pm (12/22) Tuesday, 4:00 am (12/26) Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Friday, 9:00 pm (12/15) Thursday, 9:00 pm (12/21) Sunday, 4:00 am, 11:00 pm (12/24) Monday, 5:00 am (12/25) ’80s My Music Saturday, 12:30 am (12/2) Ethan Bortnick: Generation of Music Sunday, 3:30 pm (12/10) Festival of Carols with Sylvia McNair Sunday, 5:00 pm (12/24) Monday, 3:00 am (12/25) Great Performances: Hit Man – David Foster and Friends Saturday, 7:00 pm (12/2) Hamilton’s America Monday, 7:30 pm (12/4) He Touched Me: The Gospel Music of Elvis Presley Sunday, 3:30 pm (12/3) Live from Lincoln Center: New York Philharmonic New Year’s Eve Bernstein on Broadway Sunday, 8:00 pm (12/31) Making a New American Nutcracker Saturday, 10:00 pm (12/16) Sunday, 6:00 pm (12/17) Monday, 2:00 am (12/18) Saturday, 7:00 pm (12/23) Sunday, 1:00 pm (12/24) Paul Simon: The Concert in Hyde Park Sunday, 10:00 pm (12/31) Pavlo Live in Kastoria Tuesday, 7:30 pm, 9:00 pm (12/5) ’60s Pop, Rock & Soul Friday, 10:00 pm (12/1) St. Thomas Christmas: So Bright the Star Sunday, 4:00 pm (12/24) Wheaton College Christmas Festival: Love Divine Thursday, 8:00 pm (12/21) Sunday, 6:00 pm (12/24) Monday, 4:00 am (12/250

Willie Nelson: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize Sunday, 11:20 pm (12/31)

Drama • Comedy • Movies American Masters: This Is Bob Hope Friday, 9:00 pm (12/29) Saturday, 12:00 pm (12/2) Monday, 3:00 am (1/1) Call the Midwife Holiday Special Monday, 8:00 pm (12/25) Sunday, 12:00 am (12/31) Death in Paradise Saturdays, 9:00 pm (12/16, 12/23, 12/30) Monday, 12:00 am (12/18) Monday, 1:00 am (12/25) Tuesday, 3:00 am (12/26) Father Brown Saturdays, 8:00 pm (12/16, 12/23, 12/30) Monday, 1:00 am (12/18) Monday, 2:00 am (12/25) Last Tango in Halifax Holiday Special Sundays, 7:00 pm (12/17, 12/24) Monday, 3:00 am (12/18) Saturday, 3:30 am (12/23) Tuesday, 12:30 am (12/26) Marley’s Ghosts Sunday, 10:00 pm (12/17) Thursday, 4:00 am (12/21) Victoria on Masterpiece Sundays, 8:00 pm (12/17, 12/24) Sunday, 7:00 pm (12/31) Sunday, 9:00 pm (12/24) Saturdays, 10:00 pm (12/23, 12/30) Saturday, 11:00 pm (12/30) Victoria Returns Sunday, 7:00 pm (12/3) Tuesday, 5:00 am (12/5) Young Hyacinth Saturday, 7:00 pm (12/30)

Cooking & Dining • Home Improvement • Travel America’s Test Kitchen Saturdays, 2:00 pm, 2:30 pm (12/16, 12/23, 12/30) Antiques Roadshow Monday, 8:00 pm, 9:00 pm (12/18) Monday, 7:00 pm (12/25) Wednesdays, 2:00 am (12/20, 12/27) Sunday, 12:00 am (12/24) Check, Please!

Fridays, 8:00 pm (12/15, 12/22) Saturdays, 4:30 pm (12/16, 12/23, 12/30) Sunday, 10:30 pm (12/17) Sundays, 12:00 pm (12/17, 12/24) Monday, 4:30 am (12/18) Thursday, 4:00 am (12/28) Chef’s Life Saturdays, 1:00 pm (12/23, 12/30) Chef’s Life Holiday Special Thursday, 9:00 pm (12/14) Saturday, 12:30 pm (12/16) Sunday, 12:00 am (12/17) Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Kitchen Saturdays, 4:00 pm (12/16, 12/23, 12/30) Cooks Country Saturdays, 12:00 pm (12/16, 12/23, 12/30) Saturdays, 12:30 pm (12/23, 12/30) Ellie’s Real Good Food Saturdays, 10:30 am (12/16, 12/23, 12/30)

European Christmas Markets Friday, 8:30 pm (12/15) Monday, 4:00 am (12/18) Great British Baking Show: Christmas Masterclass Thursday, 11:00 am (12/14) Saturdays, 11:00 am (12/16, 12/23) Saturday, 11:00 pm (12/16) Lidia’s Kitchen Sundays, 12:30 pm (12/17, 12/24) Martha Bakes Saturdays, 3:30 pm (12/16, 12/23, 12/30) Martha Stewart Cooking School Saturdays, 3:00 pm (12/16, 12/23, 12/30) Monday, 5:30 am (12/18) Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking Saturdays, 5:30 pm (12/16, 12/30) Mr. Stink Saturday, 7:00 pm (12/16) Sunday, 3:00 am (12/17) My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas Sundays, 11:30 am (12/17, 12/24) P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Monday, 5:00 am (12/18) Patti’s Mexican Table Sundays, 11:00 am (12/17, 12/24) Rick Steves’ Europe Saturdays, 5:00 pm (12/16, 12/30) Sunday, 4:30 am (12/31) Rick Steves’ European Christmas Saturday, 4:00 pm (12/9) Saturday, 5:00 pm (12/23) Rick Steves’ European Festivals Saturday, 2:30 pm (12/9) Sara’s Weeknight Meals Saturdays, 10:00 am (12/16, 12/23, 12/30) Simply Ming Saturdays, 1:30 pm (12/16, 12/23, 12/30) Suze Orman’s Financial Solutions for You Saturday, 8:00 am, 10:00 am (12/2) This Old House Hour Saturday, 11:00 am (12/30)

Nature • Science • Technology Eric Idle’s The Entire Universe Friday, 10:00 pm (12/22) Sunday, 2:00 am (12/24) How Not to Die with Michael Greger, MD Saturday, 5:00 am (12/2) Is Your Brain Male or Female Thursday, 10:00 pm (12/14) Saturday, 3:30 am (12/16) Sunday, 1:00 am (12/17) Nature Wednesdays, 8:00 pm (12/13, 12/20, 12/27) Saturday, 1:30 am (12/16) Sunday, 4:00 am (12/17) Fridays, 2:00 am (12/22, 12/29) NOVA Wednesdays, 9:00 pm (12/13, 12/20, 12/27) Fridays, 3:00 am (12/15, 12/22) Friday, 3:20 am (12/29) Secret Life of Babies Tuesday, 7:00 pm, 11:30 pm (12/26) Supernature: Wild Flyers Wednesdays, 10:00 pm (12/13, 12/20, 12/27) Saturdays, 2:30 am (12/16, 12/23) Saturday, 3:00 am (12/30)

Public Affairs • History • Documentary BBC World News Mondays-Fridays, 11:00 pm Beatles: Eight Days a Week-The Touring Years Friday, 7:30 pm (12/1) Charlie Rose Mondays-Fridays, 12:30 am Chicago River Tour with Geoffrey Baer Saturday, 2:00 pm, 4:30 pm (12/2) Thursday, 7:30 pm, 10:00 pm (12/7) Sunday, 5:00 pm, 7:30 pm (12/10) Chicago Tonight Mondays-Fridays, 7:00 pm, 11:30 pm, 5:00 am Evening with the HistoryMakers: Chicago Stories Sunday, 7:30 pm (12/3) Finding Your Roots Tuesdays, 8:00 pm, 9:00 pm (12/12, 12/19) Thursdays, 2:00 am, 3:00 am (12/14, 12/21) Saturday, 1:30 am (12/23) Wednesday, 2:00 am (12/13) Foods of Chicago: A Delicious History Friday, 7:00 pm (12/29) Sunday, 1:30 am (12/31) Frontline Tuesdays, 10:00 pm (12/12, 12/19) Wednesday, 3:00 am (12/13) Friday, 2:00 am (12/15) Sunday, 1:00 am (12/24) Hidden Chicago Thursday, 9:10 pm (12/28) Saturday, 1:00 am (12/30) Hidden Chicago 2 Thursday, 10:25 pm (12/28) Saturday, 2:10 am (12/30) In Their Own Words: Queen Elizabeth II Monday, 9:30 pm (12/25) Tuesday, 5:00 am (12/26) Independent Lens Monday, 10:00 pm (12/18) Monday, 10:30 pm (12/25) Wednesdays, 3:00 am (12/20, 12/27) Jewish Journey America Monday, 8:00 pm (12/11) Lidia Celebrates America Friday, 10:00 pm (12/15) Sunday, 2:00 am (12/17) Mike Leonard’s “Nothing Special” Fridays, 7:30 pm (12/15, 12/22) Friday, 4:00 am (12/22) Saturday, 4:00 am (12/30) Navy Pier: A Century of Reinvention Thursday, 8:00 pm (12/28) Sunday, 3:15 am (12/31) Nightly Business Report Tuesday-Saturday, 4:30 am PBS NewsHour Mondays-Fridays, 6:00 pm PBS NewsHour Weekend Saturdays, 6:00 pm Pritzker Military Library Presents Sunday, 1:00 pm (12/17) Secrets of Spanish Florida Tuesday, 9:00 pm (12/26) Thursday, 2:00 am (12/28) Sultan and the Saint Tuesday, 8:00 pm (12/26) Wednesday, 5:00 am (12/27) Tavis Smiley Tuesday-Saturday, 1:30 am Washington Week Saturdays, 6:30 pm (12/16, 12/23, 12/30)

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• Daily Radio Programming Programmer’s Picks James Levine and Verdi The Metropolitan Opera’s music director emeritus conducts Verdi’s Requiem, a unique stylistic fusion of sacred music and opera, to open the 2017-18 Met radio season. Levine has pointed out the human drama Verdi perceived in the Requiem text, which he set to appropriately dramatic music.

Saturday, December 2, 12:00 pm

Friday 1 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • The Kontras Quartet: Folk Music Inspirations • Bernstein Candide Suite – Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue. Reference RR-87. [18:08] Rutter Suite Antique – Andrew Nicholson, f; John Birch, hc; Royal Phil Strings/John Rutter. London B0001821-02. [17:45] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Traditional Red River Valley – Dale Warland Singers. American Choral Catalog ACC-122. [5:30] Copland Appalachian Spring – The Knights/Eric Jacobsen.

Sony 88697599782. [24:05] 12:00 Newscast • Music in Chicago 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Chabrier Suite pastorale – Suisse Romande Orch/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHSA-5122. [19:05] Grainger Shepherd’s Hey; Handel in the Strand – BBC Phil/ Richard Hickox. Chandos CHAN-9584. [6:04] 2:00 Ravel Habanera; Menuet antique; Valses nobles et sentimentales – Robert Casadesus, p (w/Gaby Casadesus in Habanera). Sony MH2K-63316 (2). [20:36] J. Strauss Jr. Waltzes, Accelerationen – Vienna Phil/Carlos Kleiber.

CBS 45564 (2). [8:21] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Gershwin Three Preludes – Joshua Bell, v; John Williams, p. Sony SK-60659. [6:46] Williams Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone film music: Prologue, Wondrous World, Arrival of Baby Harry – Orch/John Williams. Atlantic 83491-2.

[11:56] Debussy Preludes, bk 2: #s 7-12 – Pierre-Laurent Aimard, p. DG 4779982. [21:12] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 6:00 The Kontras Quartet: Folk Music Inspirations 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill

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The Film Score: Music for the Winter Holidays Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips’ latest special will sample seasonal music from holiday movie classics, including “White Christmas” from Holiday Inn.

Monday, December 18, 10:00 pm

McGlaughlin: A two-week sampling of music by Tchaikovsky 8:00 Music with Dennis Moore 10:00 Relevant Tones with Seth Boustead: ModernDay Moonlighters looks at composers with day jobs.

11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: In 1997, Studs celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Old Town School of Folk Music with special guests. The replay tonight honors the OTSFM’s 60th birthday.

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Saturday 2 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Dennis Moore 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar 11:00 Introductions: Spotlighting the Chicago area’s young musicians 12:00 Live from the Met: Verdi’s Requiem Mass – Krassimira Stoyanova, soprano; Ekaterina Semenchuk, mezzo-soprano; Aleksandr Antonenko, tenor; Ferruccio Furlanetto, bass; Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/James Levine.

1:45 PoetryNow with the Poetry Foundation: Joshua Edwards reads and discusses The Lamp of Mutual Aid. 2:00 Mozart Violin Concerto #4 in D, K 218 – Giuliano Carmignola, v; Orch Mozart/Claudio Abbado. Archive 4777371 (2).

[19:35] Stravinsky Petrouchka (original 1911 version) – Chicago Sym/Sir Georg Solti.

London 443775-2. [34:49] 3:00 Bach Clavier Partita #3 in a, BWV 827 – Vladimir Ashkenazy, p. London 4782163 (2). [16:32] Corelli Concerto grosso in g, Op 6/8, Christmas Concerto – Cantilena/Adrian Shepherd. Chandos CHAN6630. [15:59] Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute, set 1 – La Pieta`/Ange´le Dubeau. Analekta AN2-8719.

[14:08] Bartók Romanian Folk Dances – I Solisti Italiani. Denon CO-75040. [6:40] Debussy Sarabande; Danse (Tarantelle styrienne) – Lyon National Orch/Leonard Slatkin. Naxos 8.573124. [10:23] Debussy Suite bergamasque: Clair de

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Baroque&Before Johann Sebastian Bach premiered his Christmas Oratorio at Leipzig’s St. Thomas Church, featuring the St. Thomas Boys Choir, established more than 800 years ago. Host Candice Agree presents highlights from this year’s performances in partnership with the European Broadcasting Union.

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Lune – Anne Akiko Meyers, v; Emmanuel Ceysson, h.

E1 EOM-CD-7780. [4:30] Arias and Songs with Larry Johnson: The art of soprano Rosa Ponselle, part 2 Rachmaninoff Fourteen Songs, Op 34: #14, Vocalise – Demarre McGill, f; Anthony McGill, cl; Michael McHale, p. Cedille CDR 90000172. [5:08] Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances, Op 45 – Berlin Phil/Sir Simon Rattle.

Warner Classics 84519-2.

[35:51] Odessa Balalaikas Down the Long Road; Gypsy Fantasy – Odessa Balalaikas.

Nonesuch 79034-2. [6:38] Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: The Latin-American Express WFMT Classical Cabaret: From the Chopin Theatre, host Robbie Ellis with the Fat Babies classic jazz band, violinist and erhu player Chihsuan Yang, and singers E. Faye Butler and Emily Rohm.

Music director: Doug Peck.

Folkstage hosted by Rich Warren: The Bills live from Levin Studio The Midnight Special with Rich Warren

Sunday 3 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Dennis Moore 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar 12:00 Bizet L’Arlésienne Suite #1 – Orch de la Bastille/MyungWhun Chung. DG 431778-2.

[18:18] Saint-Saëns Violin Sonata #1 in d, Op 75 – Joshua Bell, v; Jeremy Denk, p. Sony 82026-2. [22:29] Dutilleux Flute Sonatina – Emmanuel Pahud, f; Eric Le Sage, p.

EMI CDC5-56488-2. [9:12] 1:00 Beethoven Symphony #1 in C, Op 21 – Chicago Sym/Sir Georg Solti. London 430320-2.

[24:41] Beethoven The Ruins of Athens, Op 113: Chorus of Dervishes; Turkish March; Twine Ye Garlands – Beecham Choral Society, Royal Phil/Sir Thomas Beecham. EMI CDM7-69871-2.

[10:10] Sarasate Magic Flute Fantasy – Gil Shaham, v; Akira Eguchi, p. DG 447640-2. [11:43] 2:00 Smetana The Bartered Bride: Overture and Dances – Royal Liverpool Phil/Libor Pesek.

Virgin Classics 59285-2. [17:42] Dvorák String Quintet #3 in E-Flat, Op 97, American – Takács Quartet; Lawrence Power, vi. Hyperion CDA-68142.

[32:57] Dvorák Rusalka, Op 114: Song to the Moon – Lucia Popp, s; Munich Radio Orch/ Stefan Soltesz. EMI CDC749319-2. [5:52] Kodály Summer Evening – Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 447109-2. [16:26] Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Suite: Montagues and Capulets, The Young Juliet, Madrigal, Minuet, Masks, Romeo and Juliet – Chicago Sym/ Riccardo Muti. CSO ReSound CSOR-9011402. [26:05] 4:00 Schubert Wanderer Fantasy in C, D 760 – Maurizio Pollini, p. DG 447451-2. [21:33] Turina Danzas fantásticas, Op 22 – London Phil/Enrique Bátiz. EMI CDC7-49405-2.

[17:05] Albéniz Suite española: Cadiz; Leyenda – Jorge Federico Osorio, p. Cedille CDR-90000075. [9:49] 5:00 Mozart Sinfonia Concertante in E-Flat, K 364 – Rachel Barton Pine, v; Matthew Lipman, va; ASMF/Marriner. Avie AV-2317.

[30:31] Stravinsky Danses Concertantes – City of London

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Sinfonia/Richard Hickox. Virgin Classics 61107-2. [20:47] Berlioz Roman Carnival Overture, Op 9 – London Sym/Sir Colin Davis. Philips 456143-2 (6). [8:58] Gershwin An American in Paris – Wu Han & Ken Noda, p’s. Music@ Menlo 2010. [22:25] Elgar Cockaigne Overture (In London Town), Op 40 – BBC Sym/Sir Colin Davis. Philips 420085-2.

[15:13] Bernstein On the Town: Times Square 1944 – New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein.

CBS MK-42263. [4:38] Ryan Opera Center Recital Series Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Susanna Mälkki, conductor; Branford Marsalis, saxophone – Bizet: Symphony in C. Fauré: Pavane. Williams: Escapades fr Catch Me If You Can film music. M. Wagner: Proceed, Moon. Debussy: Ibéria fr Images, set 3.

Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Kirill Kondrashin conducts Mahler with the Moscow Philharmonic.

Monday 4 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine

9:00 News Summary • The Kontras Quartet: Folk Music Inspirations • Ibert Trois Pièces Brèves – New York Woodwind Quintet. Boston Skyline BSD-139. [6:45] Handel Trio Sonata in G, Op 5/4 – London Baroque.

Harmonia Mundi HMC901389. [12:38] Bach Triple Concerto in a, BWV 1044 – English Baroque Soloists/Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Soli Deo Gloria SDG-165 (2). [20:32] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue – Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p; Baltimore Sym members/Marin Alsop. London B001409102. [16:51] Debussy Suite bergamasque: Clair de lune – Albrecht Mayer, ob; St. Martin’s Academy/Mathias Mönius.

London 4782564. [5:13] 12:00 Newscast 12:15 Chicago Chamber Musicians First Monday: Live from the Cultural Center 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Beethoven Symphony #2 in D, Op 36 – Chamber Orch of Europe/ Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Teldec 46452-2 (5). [33:38] 2:00 Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez – David Russell, g; Naples Phil/Erich Kunzel.

Telarc CD-80459. [21:07]

3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Tchaikovsky The Months (The Seasons), Op 37: December (Christmas) – Vladimir Ashkenazy, p. London 466562-2. [4:20] Shostakovich Moscow, Cheremushki, Op 105: Suite from the operetta – Philadelphia Orch/ Riccardo Chailly. London 452597-2. [19:57] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 6:00 The Kontras Quartet: Folk Music Inspirations 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Invitation to the Dance III 8:00 Live from WFMT: Fifth House Ensemble 10:00 Dylan Thomas A Child’s Christmas in Wales – Dylan Thomas, n. Caedmon Z-1002.

[19:43] Capote Breakfast at Tiffany’s: A Christmas Memory – Truman Capote, n.

United Artists 9001. [36:42] 11:00 Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Nocturne – Chicago Sym/James Levine.

DG 415137-2. [6:10] Chopin Nocturnes, Op 15 – Nelson Freire, p. London B001405302 (2). [13:20] Anonymous 14th Century Carol, Lullay, Lullay: Als I Lay on Yoolis

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Harmonia Mundi HMU907099. [8:02] Debussy Three Nocturnes – ORTF Cho, National Orch/Jean Martinon.

EMI CDM7-69587-2. [22:38]

Tuesday 5 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • The Kontras Quartet: Folk Music Inspirations • Webern Im Sommerwind – Chicago Sym/ Bernard Haitink. CSO ReSound CSOR-9011002. [15:03] Honegger Pastorale d’Été – London Phil/Vladimir Jurowski.

LPO LPO-0058. [7:23] Schubert Variations on an Original Theme in A-Flat, D 813 – Martha Argerich & Daniel Barenboim, p. DG 4793922. [18:32] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Handel Passacaglia – duoW. Sono Luminus DSL92171. [6:58] Vivaldi Cello Concerto in G, R 413 – Guy Fishman, vc; Handel & Haydn Society. New Focus Recordings FCR-907. [8:45] 12:00 Newscast • Haydn Symphony #101 in D, Clock – St. Luke’s Orch/Sir Charles Mackerras.

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Chopin Waltz in A-Flat, Op 42, Two-Four – Garrick Ohlsson, p. Arabesque Z-6669. [3:56] Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Debussy Quartet in g, Op 10 – Emerson String Quartet. DG 445509-2. [24:56] Mozart Piano Concerto #17 in G, K 453 – Norwegian Chamber Orch/Leif Ove Andsnes, p. EMI 00281-2. [28:01] Fine Arts Calendar • Puccini Crisantemi – Berlin RSO/ Riccardo Chailly. London 410007-2. [7:09] Join WFMT, Lisa Flynn, and Roger Pines for the opening of Puccini’s Turandot at Lyric Opera, tonight at 7:15. Mahler Blumine – San Francisco Sym/Michael Tilson Thomas. SFS Media SFS-0060.

[8:28] Delius In a Summer Garden – Welsh National Opera Orch/Sir Charles Mackerras.

Argo 430202-2. [14:07] Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm The Kontras Quartet: Folk Music Inspirations Lyric Opera of Chicago Broadcasts: Puccini’s “Turandot” – Live from the Lyric Opera House, starring Amber Wagner (Turandot); Stefano La Colla (Calaf); Maria Agresta (Liu); Andrea Silvestrelli (Timur); Lyric Opera Cho & Orch/Sir Andrew Davis.

Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Invitation to the Dance III

Wednesday 6 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • The Kontras Quartet: Folk Music Inspirations • Bach Toccata and Fugue in d minor, BWV 565 – Los Angeles Phil/ Esa-Pekka Salonen. Sony SK-89012. [10:07] Debussy Danse (Tarantelle styrienne) – Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue. Reference RR-79. [5:39] Lalo Cello Concerto in d – Janos Starker, vc; London Sym/ Stanislaw Skrowaczewski.

Mercury 432010-2. [22:50] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Khachaturian Gayaneh: Four Dances – Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN-8542. [12:21] Ferenc Farkas Ancient Hungarian Dances for Wind Quintet – Borealis Wind Quintet. MSR Classics MS-1128. [8:36] 12:00 Newscast 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: Cellist Benedict Kloeckner and pianist 22

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Andrew Armstrong live from the Cultural Center Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Ravel Daphnis and Chloe Suite #2 – Orch de Paris/Daniel Barenboim.

DG 4794648. [17:05] Bach French Suite #1 in d, BWV 812 – Vladimir Ashkenazy, p. Decca 4832150. [13:41] Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 55, Eroica – Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado.

DG 469000-2 (5). [46:33] Fine Arts Calendar • Vivaldi Flute Concerto in g, R 439 (Op 10/2), La Notte – Giovanni Antonini, r; Il Giardino Armonico.

Teldec 73267-2. [8:44] Falla Nights in the Gardens of Spain – Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, p; BBC Phil/Juanjo Mena.

Chandos CHAN-10694. [22:14] Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm The Kontras Quartet: Folk Music Inspirations Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Invitation to the Dance III Music with Dennis Moore Baroque&Before with Candice Agree Reflections from the Keyboard with David Dubal

Thursday 7 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • The Kontras Quartet: Folk Music Inspirations • Griffes The White Peacock – Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz. Delos DE-3099. [6:05] Loeffler Les Paons – Noel Lester, p.

Koch 3-7460-2. [5:39] Kodály Variations on a Hungarian Folksong, The Peacock – Chicago Sym/Neeme Järvi.

Chandos CHAN-8877. [25:10] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Rachmaninoff Vocalise – Northwestern University Cello Ensemble/Hans Jorgen Jensen. Sono Luminus SLE70004. [7:26] Mendelssohn Piano Concerto #1 in g, Op 25 – Murray Perahia, p; St. Martin’s Academy/Sir Neville Marriner. CBS 42401. [20:05] 12:00 Newscast • Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K 581 – David Shifrin, cl; Emerson String Quartet. DG 459641-2. [31:43] Grieg Symphonic Dances, Op 64: #1, Allegro moderato e marcato – Gothenburg Sym/Neeme Järvi. DG 419431-2. [6:47] 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Barber Violin Concerto, Op 14 – Itzhak

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Perlman, v; Boston Sym/Seiji Ozawa. EMI CDC5-553602. [22:22] Dvorák Slavonic Dances, Op 46: #2 in e – Itzhak Perlman, v; Samuel Sanders, p. EMI 56957-2. [4:15] Nielsen Wind Quintet, Op 43 – Pahud, f; J. Kelly, ob; S Meyer, cl; S Schweigert, bn; R Baborak, fh. EMI 94421-2.

[26:01] Nielsen Maskarade Overture – Swedish Radio Sym/Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Sony SK-46668. [4:42] Fine Arts Calendar • Mozart Variations on Ah, vous dirai-je, maman, K 265 – Myung-Whun Chung, p. ECM 481 0765. [9:04] Vaughan Williams English Folksong Suite – London Wind Orchestra/Denis Wick. ASV CDQS-6021. [10:19] Traditional The First Nowell; Huron Carol (‘Twas in the Moon of Winter) – Yolanda Kondonassis, h. Telarc 80446. [3:58] Morley Four Dances – Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Delos 3132. [7:18] Bill McGlaughlin continues his Invitation to the Dance series tonight at 7:00.

Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm The Kontras Quartet: Folk Music Inspirations Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Invitation to the Dance III Music with Dennis Moore The San Francisco Symphony in Concert: Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Susan Graham, mezzo-soprano – Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Haydn. Berlioz: La Mort de Cléopâtre; L’Ile inconnue fr Les Nuits d’Été.

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Friday 8 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • The Kontras Quartet: Folk Music Inspirations • Bach Three Lute Pieces – Andres Segovia, g. MCA 42068. [8:56] Bach Cantata #82, Ich habe genug: Aria, Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen – Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, ms; Emmanuel Music Orch/Craig Smith.

Nonesuch 79692-2. [10:00] Bach Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D, BWV 1050 – St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble. St. Luke’s Collection SLC-0302 (2). [20:44] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Chabrier Le roi malgré lui: Féte polonaise – Detroit Sym/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN-9227. [6:53] Beethoven

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Piano Sonata #15 in D, Op 28, Pastoral – John O’Conor, p. Telarc CD-80185. [22:45] Newscast • Music in Chicago Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Beethoven Symphony #4 in B-Flat, Op 60– St. Martin’s Academy/Joshua Bell. Sony 49176-2. [33:04] Britten A Simple Symphony, Op 4 – English Chamber Orch/ Benjamin Britten. London 417509-2. [17:28] Purcell The Fairy Queen: Masque of the Four Seasons – Taverner Consort/Andrew Parrott. Virgin Classics 45116-2. [16:17] Fine Arts Calendar • Brahms Academic Festival Overture, Op 80 – Scottish Chamber Orch/Sir Charles Mackerras. Telarc CD80450 (3). [9:40] Brahms Three Intermezzi, Op 117 – Jorge Federico Osorio, p. Cedille CDR 90000171 (2). [15:30] Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm The Kontras Quartet: Folk Music Inspirations: Tonight is the final installment of this series from our artists-in-residence.

Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Invitation to the Dance III Music with Dennis Moore Relevant Tones with Seth Boustead: Gender identity in music Best of Studs Terkel: In honor of WFMT’s 66th anniversary December 13, a rebroadcast of Studs’ 1990 tribute to station co-founder Rita Jacobs Willens.

Saturday 9 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Dennis Moore 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar 11:00 Introductions: Spotlighting the Chicago area’s young musicians 12:00 From the Met: Mozart’s “Magic Flute,” abridged, in English – Charles Castronovo (Tamino); Hanna-Elisabeth Müller (Pamina); Tobias Kehrer (Sarastro); Kathryn Lewek (Queen of the Night); Nathan Gunn (Papageno); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Edo de Waart.

2:00 PoetryNow with the Poetry Foundation: Sueyeun Juliette Lee reads and discusses after noise.

2:05 Manfredini Concerto grosso in C, Op 3/12, Christmas Concerto – Polish Chamber Orch/Jerzy Maksymiuk. EMI CDFB5-69749-2 (2). [10:09] Respighi Botticelli Triptych – Orpheus Chamber Orch.

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DG 437533-2. [19:41] Liszt Années de pèlerinage, 2nd year, Italy: Sonetto 104 del Petrarca – Nelson Freire, p.

London 4782728. [5:56] Beethoven Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61 – German Chamber Phil/Lisa Batiashvili, v. Sony 88697334002. [43:44] Sulkhan Tsintsadze Miniatures – Georgian Chamber Orch/ Lisa Batiashvili, v. Sony 88697334002. [12:46] Various Miniature Overture fr The Nutcracker; Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring/Ding, Dong, Merrily on High – Jeffrey Biegel, p. Steinway 30005.

[7:51] Bach Brandenburg Concerto #4 in G, BWV 1049 – European Brandenburg Ensemble/Trevor Pinnock.

Avie AV-2119 (2). [15:00] Arias and Songs with Larry Johnson: Puccini’s Turandot, currently playing at Lyric Opera Bizet Jeux d’enfants, Op 22 – Bastille Orch/Myung-Whun Chung. DG 431778-2. [11:21] Various March of the Siamese Children fr The King and I; March of the Toys fr Babes in Toyland – Boston Pops/ Arthur Fiedler. RCA 61249-2.

[7:15] Vienna Choir Boys Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen; Ding, Dong, Merrily on High; Adeste Fideles – Vienna Choir Boys w/Placido Domingo, t. RCA 68150-2. [8:31] Strauss Der Rosenkavalier: Suite – Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta. Naxos 8.572041. [23:47] Mozart String Divertimento in D, K 136 – Concerto Cologne.

Archive 4775800. [16:44] Gershwin Catfish Row Suite fr Porgy and Bess – Chicago Sym/James Levine. DG 431625-2. [23:21] Gershwin Embraceable You – Jenny Lin, p. Steinway 30011-A. [3:13] Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Lost But Not Forgotten Folkstage hosted by Rich Warren: Diamonds in the Rust live from Levin Studio The Midnight Special with Rich Warren

Sunday 10 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Dennis Moore 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar 12:00 Beethoven Piano Sonata #8 in c, Op 13, Pathétique – Rudolf Serkin, p. CBS MYK-37219.

[19:27] Haydn Flute Concerto in D – Jean-Pierre Rampal, f; Franz Liszt Chamber Orch/ János Rolla. Sony SBK62649. [18:03] Mozart The Marriage of Figaro, K 492: Voi che sapete; Non più andrai – Christine Schäfer, s; Ildebrando

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DG 4776558. [3:14] Smetana Má Vlast (My Fatherland): From Bohemia’s Meadows and Forests – Milwaukee Sym/Zdenek Macal.

Telarc CD-80265. [12:14] Schumann Waldszenen, Op 82 – András Schiff, p.

ECM 2122/23 (2). [21:19] Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel: Witches’ Ride, Gingerbread House, Witch’s Waltz, Dream Pantomime – Royal Phil/Rudolf Kempe. EMI CDZB5-68736-2 (2). [18:28] Britten A Ceremony of Carols, Op 28 – Finzi Singers/Paul Spicer. Chandos CHAN-9598.

[21:48] Elgar Enigma Variations, Op 36 – Vienna Phil/Sir John Eliot Gardiner. DG 463265-2.

[30:34] Brahms Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b – Martha Argerich & Nelson Freire, p’s. DG 4778570. [17:09] Vaughan Williams Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus – St. Martin’s Academy/Sir Neville Marriner. Argo 414595-2.

[13:00] Respighi Adagio con Variazioni – Mischa Maisky, vc; Orch de Paris/Semyon Bychkov. DG 435781-2. [12:54] Beethoven Symphony #5 in c minor, Op 67 – Montreal Sym/Kent Nagano. Analekta AN2-9150-5 (11). [34:11] Beethoven Fantasy for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra, Op 80 (Choral Fantasy) – Prague Phil Cho, Mahler Chamber Orch/Leif Ove Andsnes, p.

Sony 88843058862. [18:36] There’s more Beethoven on our Chicago Symphony broadcast tonight at 8:00.

Williams Summon the Heroes – Boston Pops/John Williams. Sony 70636-2. [6:14] Strauss Ein Heldenleben, Op 40 – Boston Sym/Seiji Ozawa; Joseph Silverstein, violin solo.

Philips 442645-2. [45:49] Various Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, arranged in the style of Beethoven; Un Sospiro/In the Bleak Midwinter – Jeffrey Biegel, p. Steinway 30005.

[7:35] Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in e, Op 64 – Isabelle Faust, v; Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/Pablo HerasCasado. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902325. [25:07] Sedaka Manhattan Intermezzo – Jeffrey Biegel, p; Brown University Orch/Paul Phillips. Naxos 8.573490. [18:10] Bernstein West Side Story Concerto for string quartet and orchestra – Harlem Quartet; Chicago Sinfonietta/Mei-Ann Chen.

Cedille CDR-90000141.

[25:47] Burt Suite of Carols – Tanglewood Festival Cho, Boston Pops/John Williams.

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Gesu Bambino – Luciano Pavarotti, t; National Phil/ Kurt Adler. London 460400-2 (2). [4:30] Bach Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring – St. Martin’s Academy/Sir Neville Marriner.

EMI CDM5-66646-2. [5:15] 8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Emanuel Ax, piano – Stravinsky: Scherzo à la russe.

Beethoven: Piano Concerto #4 in G. Sibelius: Symphony #2 in D. Britten: Four Sea Interludes & Passacaglia fr Peter Grimes /Jaap van Zweden.

10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Kirill Kondrashin conducts Mahler with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Monday 11 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Stravinsky Pastorale – Dame Joan Sutherland, s; London Sym/ Richard Bonynge. London 430006-2. [1:54] Jolivet Pastorales de Noel – Philadelphia Wind Quintet.

Boston Records 1061. [11:15] Berlioz Romeo and Juliet, Op 17: Scene – Chicago Sym/Carlo Maria Giulini.

EMI 85974-2 (4). [25:50] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Bridge Sir Roger de Coverley (Christmas Dance) – English String Orch/William Boughton.

Nimbus NI-5366. [4:53] Whitbourn Missa carolae: Processional & Kyrie; Gloria – Westminster Williamson Voices/James Jordan.

Naxos 8.573715. [11:20] 12:00 Newscast • Bizet L’Arlésienne Suite #2 – Granada City Orch/ Josep Pons. Harmonia Mundi HMC-901675. [17:22] Lizotte La Madone – Valérie Milot, h.

Analekta AN2-9974. [6:10] 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Mozart Symphony #29 in A, K 201 – Prague Chamber Orch/Sir Charles Mackerras.

Telarc CD-80165. [28:25] 2:00 Hanson Merry Mount Suite – Nashville Sym/Kenneth Schermerhorn. Naxos 8.559072. [17:59] Various O Magnum Mysterium by Victoria & Lauridsen – Robert Shaw Festival Singers.

Telarc CD-80531. [10:24] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Mascagni Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo sinfonico – Philharmonia/Riccardo Muti.

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London 4780192 (2). [11:03] Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm Bach Magnificat in D, BWV 243 – Collegium 1704, Collegium Vocale 1704.

EBU recording. [25:10] Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Don’t Shoot the Piano Player Live from WFMT: Pianist Matthew Hagle concludes his complete WFMT Beethoven sonatas cycle.

Itzahk Perlman’s Hanukkah Radio Party: The famed violinist shares his favorite music for the Jewish Festival of Lights.

Beethoven The Creatures of Prometheus: Adagio, Pastorale, Allegretto-Finale – Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 4196082. [12:41] Sullivan Ballet, Victoria and Merrie England: Festivities on the Village Green; Procession of Mummers and Revellers; Morrice Dance; Christmas Revels – Dublin RTE Concert Orch/Andrew Penny.

Marco Polo 8.223677. [24:29] Various Star Carol; Once in Royal David’s City – Bach Choir, Royal Phil/John Rutter.

London B0018092-02. [6:51] Rutter Angels’ Carol – Arturo Delmoni, vi; Emily Mitchell, h; Timothy Smith, o. John Marks Records JMR-20. [3:37]

Tuesday 12 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Locatelli Concerto grosso in f, Op 1/8, Christmas Concerto – Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon.

Analekta AN2-9811. [16:01] Prokofiev Scythian Suite, Op 20 – Chicago Sym/Claudio Abbado. DG 447419-2. [20:38] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Bach Christmas Suite – Septura. Naxos 8.573719.

[9:54] Fauré Dolly Suite, Op 56 – Seattle Sym/Ludovic Morlot. Seattle Symphony Media SSM-1004. [16:18] 12:00 Newscast • Charpentier Pastorale de Noël – Ensemble Correspondances/ Sébastian Daucé. Harmonia Mundi HMC-902247. [8:12] Massenet Thaïs: Meditation – AnneSophie Mutter, v; Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan.

EMI 07634-2 (2). [6:43] 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Beethoven Symphony #6 in F, Op 68, Pastoral – Minnesota Orch/ Osmo Vänskä. Bis [41:36] 2017

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[4:18] Piston The Incredible Flutist Suite – New York Phil/ Leonard Bernstein. Sony SMK-61849. [15:49] Various Fantasy on I Saw Three Ships; Patapan – BBC Singers, Royal Phil/James Galway, f.

RCA RCD1-5888. [4:29] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Don’t Shoot the Piano Player 8:00 Music with Dennis Moore

Wednesday 13 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff

6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Handel Harpsichord Suite #5 in E: Air with variations, The Harmonious Blacksmith–Sir Andrew Davis, hc. Pro Arte CDD-333. [4:49] Terkel Studs Terkel Sampler. WFMT recording. [9:00] Stravinsky Le Chant du Rossignol (Song of the Nightingale) – Chicago Sym/Fritz Reiner.

RCA 68168-2. [22:24] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Mozart Serenade #13 in G, K 525, Eine kleine Nachtmusik – Salzburg Mozarteum Camerata Academica/Sándor Végh.

Capriccio 10185. [17:28] Various Dormi, dormi; The Christmas Song – The King’s Men. King’s College Cambridge KGS-0017. [5:35] 12:00 Newscast 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: Pianist Drew Petersen live from the Cultural Center 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Korngold Violin Concerto in D, Op 35 – Gil Shaham, v; London Sym/ André Previn. DG 439886-2.

[25:06] Chicago A Cappella: Music for December Prayer of the Venerable Bede; Aleih Neiri (Rise Up My

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Cedille CDR-90000107. [6:32] Brahms Piano Trio #3 in c, Op 101 – Leonidas Kavakos, v; Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Emanuel Ax, p. Sony 88985407292. [21:05] Piazzolla Tango Suite – Yo-Yo Ma, vc, w/assisting artists.

Sony SK-63122. [9:51] Fine Arts Calendar • Mozart Piano Sonata #11 in A, K 331: Finale, Rondo alla turca – Alison Balsom, tr; Gothenburg Sym/ Edward Gardner. EMI CDC353255-2. [3:07] Saint-Saëns Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Op 28 – Itzhak Perlman, v; Orch de Paris/Jean Martinon. EMI CDC7-47725-2.

[9:13] Ravel Rapsodie espagnole – Seattle Sym/Ludovic Morlot. Seattle Symphony Media SSM-1002. [15:28] Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Don’t Shoot the Piano Player Music with Dennis Moore Baroque&Before with Candice Agree Reflections from the Keyboard with David Dubal

Thursday 14 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Falla The Three-Cornered Hat: Suite #2 – Philadelphia Orch/ Riccardo Muti. EMI CDM763572-2. [12:04] Victoria Motet, O Magnum Mysterium – Cambridge Singers/John Rutter. Collegium COLCD-111.

[4:00] Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez – Christopher Parkening, g; Royal Phil/ Andrew Litton. [21:18] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute, set 2 – Los Angeles Chamber Orch/Sir Neville Marriner. EMI CDFB569358-2 (2). [16:55] Noëls du Monde Ancien Il est né le divin enfant; Sussex Carol; The Old Yeare Now; Guillo prends ton tambourin – Apollo’s Fire voices & instruments.

Eclectra ECCD-2041. [7:48] 12:00 Newscast • Schubert Die Zauberharfe Overture – Vienna Sym/Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Teldec 8.43187. [10:59] Liszt Weihnachtsbaum: Abendglocken (Evening Bells) – Alfred Brendel, p.

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2:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Beethoven Symphony #7 in A, Op 92 – Vienna Phil/Carlos Kleiber.

DG 447400-2. [38:39] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Korngold Tänzchen im alten Stil – Helsinki Phil/John Storgards. Ondine ODE-1182-2. [7:18] Nielsen Little Suite for Strings, Op 1 – Norwegian Chamber Orch/ Iona Brown. Virgin Classics 45224-2. [15:38] Grainger Lincolnshire Posy – City of Birmingham Sym Winds/Sir Simon Rattle. EMI CDC556412-2. [16:47] Grainger The Sussex Mummers’ Christmas Carol – Jeffrey Biegel, p.

Steinway 30005. [2:34] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Don’t Shoot the Piano Player 8:00 Music with Dennis Moore 10:00 The San Francisco Symphony in Concert: Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Thomas Hampson, baritone – Stravinsky: Scènes de ballet. Adams: The Wound Dresser. Stravinsky: Petrouchka (complete ballet).

Friday 15 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Bach Violin Sonata in G, BWV 1021 – Andrew Manze, v; Richard Egarr, hc. Harmonia Mundi HMU-907250.51 (2). [9:08] Strauss Metamorphosen – Berlin Phil Strings/Herbert von Karajan. DG 447422-2. [27:30] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Bach Cantata #147, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring – Alison Balsom, tpt; King’s College Choir/Stephen Cleobury.

Warner 0190295924652. [5:42] Vivaldi Violin Concerto in D, R 210 (Op 8/11) – Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi, v. Virgin Classics 45465-2 (2). [10:55] 12:00 Newscast • Music in Chicago 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Tchaikovsky Swan Lake Suite – Vienna Phil/James Levine. DG 437806-2. [30:38] 2:00 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols – Thomas Allen, br; Corydon Singers, English Chamber Orch/ Matthew Best. [12:26] Chopin Polonaise-Fantasie in A-Flat, Op 61 – Maurizio Pollini, p. DG 413795-2. [13:05] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Mozart Don Giovanni

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Telarc CD-80442. [5:28] Beethoven Symphony #8 in F, Op 93 – Vienna Phil/Leonard Bernstein in concert. [26:01] Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Don’t Shoot the Piano Player Music with Dennis Moore Relevant Tones with Seth Boustead: Seth presents highlights from recent European concerts, in partnership with the European Broadcasting Union.

Best of Studs Terkel: Pianist Ursula Oppens interviewed in 1990

Saturday 16 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Dennis Moore 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar 11:00 Introductions: Spotlighting the Chicago area’s young musicians 12:00 Live from the Met: Bellini’s “Norma” – Angela Meade (Norma); Jamie Barton (Adalgisa); Joseph Calleja (Pollione); Matthew Rose (Oroveso); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Joseph Colaneri.

3:20 PoetryNow with the Poetry Foundation: Uche Nduka reads and discusses With A Swoop.

3:30 Beethoven Romance #1 in G, Op 40 – Gil Shaham, v; Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 449923-2. [6:13] Schumann Three Romances, Op 94 – Keisuke Wakao, ob; Christoph Eschenbach, p. Denon CO-18090. [15:34] Bartók Rumanian Christmas Carols – Zoltán Kocsis, p. Philips 442016-2. [10:41] Dvorák Slavonic Dances, Op 72: #’s 4-6 – Czech Phil/Jiri Belohlávek.

Decca 4789458. [12:02] 4:30 Arias and Songs with Larry Johnson: Two Sleepwalkers 5:00 Beethoven Romance #2 in F, Op 50 – Rachel Barton Pine, v; Göttingen Sym/ Christoph-Mathias Mueller.

Cedille CDR 90000144. [8:33] Beethoven Piano Sonata #14 in c-sharp minor, Op. 27/2, Moonlight – Yevgeny Kissin, p. RCA 68910-2. [15:37] Beethoven Rondo in B-Flat, WoO 6 – Sviatoslav Richter, p; Vienna Phil/Kurt Sanderling.

DG B0009666-72 (23). [9:22] 5:45 Beethoven Symphony #9 in d, Op 125, Choral – Annette Dasch, soprano; Eva Vogel, mezzo-soprano; Christian Elsner, tenor; Dimitry Ivashchenko, bass; Berlin Radio

Choir, Berlin Philharmonic/ Sir Simon Rattle. Berlin Philharmonic Beethoven: Complete Symphonies. [67:27] 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Music inspired by the writings of Jorge Luis Borges 8:00 Folkstage hosted

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Sunday 17 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Dennis Moore 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar 12:00 Vaughan Williams The First Nowell – Soloists; London Phil Orch & Cho/Vladimir Jurowski.

LPO 0050. [28:19] Elgar Serenade for Strings in E, Op 20 – Philharmonia Strings/ Sir Andrew Davis. Onyx 4025.

[12:16] Various Impressions on a French Noel (Fauré); Serenade for a Christmas Night (Susa) – Philip Brunelle, o; Lynne Aspnes, h; David John Olsen, vibraphone. Virgin Classics 91088-2. [12:11] 1:00 Mozart Serenade #6 in D, K 239, Notturna – English Concert/Andrew Manze.

Harmonia Mundi 907280.

[13:42] Mozart Piano Concerto #9 in E-Flat, K 271, Jeunehomme – Alfred Brendel, p; Vienna Phil/Sir Charles Mackerras. London 4782116 (2). [34:49] Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture, Op 21 – Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly. London 4756939.

[12:00] Schubert Ständchen (Horch, horch, die Lerch); Der Müller und der Bach; Auf dem Wasser zu singen – Yevgeny Kissin, p. DG 435028-2.

[12:44] Delius Two Aquarelles to be sung of a summer night on the water – English Chamber Orch/Benjamin Britten. London 425160-2.

[5:19] Rutter Shepherd’s Pipe Carol; Nativity Carol; Sans Day Carol; What Sweeter Music – Polyphony/Stephen Layton.

Hyperion CDA-67245. [14:49] 3:00 Prokofiev Six Pieces from Cinderella, Op 102 – Frederic Chiu, p. Harmonia Mundi HMU907195. [21:59] Stravinsky The Firebird Suite – Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly. London 458142-2.

[28:32] Samuel-Rousseau Variations pastorales sur un vieux Noël – Nicanor Zabaleta, h. DG 2531051. [8:00] Adam Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night) – Luciano Pavarotti, t; National Phil/Adler. London 414044-2. [4:13] Adam Giselle: Act 1 excerpts – Vienna

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London 4757507. [28:17] Poulenc Quatre Motets pour le Temps de Noël – Elora Festival Singers/Noel Edison.

Naxos 8.572978. [11:08] Mendelssohn Octet in E-Flat, Op 20 – COE Soloists/Daniel Hope, v 1. DG 4776634. [30:54] Fanny Mendelssohn Das Jahr: Excerpts – Jennifer Eley, p. Koch 3-7197-2. [18:22] Anderson Suite of Carols for String Orchestra – BBC Concert Orch Strings/Leonard Slatkin. Naxos 8.559621. [12:20] Whitacre Hope, Faith, Life, Love; Her Sacred Spirit Soars; Lux Aurumque – Polyphony/ Stephen Layton. Hyperion CDA-67543. [13:06] Lehár Gold und Silber Waltzes; Ballsirenen Waltzes fr The Merry Widow – Vienna Phil/Sir John Eliot Gardiner. DG 4631852. [16:09] Anderson Sleigh Ride – St. Louis Sym/Leonard Slatkin. RCA 68048-2. [2:50] Rutter Suite Antique – Andrew Nicholson, f; John Birch, hc; Royal Phil Strings/John Rutter.

London B0001821-02. [17:45] Bach Orchestra Suite #2 in b, BWV 1067 – Gonzalo X Ruiz, ob; Ensemble Sonnerie/ Monica Huggett. Avie AV-2171.

[17:45] Debussy Petite Suite– Kazuhito & Naoko Yamashita, g’s. RCA 6777-2-RC. [12:15] Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Charles Dutoit, conductor; Truls Mork, cello – Stravinsky: Chant funèbre. Dvorak: Cello Concerto in b. Prokofiev: Symphony #5. Beethoven: King Stephen Overture (/Esa-Pekka Salonen).

Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Kirill Kondrashin conducts Mahler with the Leningrad (St. Petersburg) Philharmonic.

Monday 18 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Tchaikovsky Yevgeny Onegin: Waltz – Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy. CBS MLK-39440.

[6:40] Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers – Chicago Sym/ Fritz Reiner. RCA 68530-2.

[6:29] Tchaikovsky Capriccio italien, Op 45 – Cincinnati Sym/Erich Kunzel. Telarc CD-80041. [15:20] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Lutoslawski Polish Christmas Carols: Excerpts – Polish National Radio Sym & Cho/ Antoni Wit. Naxos 8.555994.

[12:00] Chopin Barcarolle, Op 60 – Benjamin Grosvenor, p. Decca 4830255. [8:29]

12:00 Newscast • Rutter Hymn to the Creator of Light, preceded by plainchant antiphon O Oriens – Clare College Choir Cambridge U/Graham Ross.

Harmonia Mundi HMU-907579.

[8:24] Humperdinck Hänsel und Gretel Overture – Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan.

EMI CDM7-64629-2. [8:30] 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Mozart Piano Concerto #27 in B-Flat, K 595 – Alessio Bax, p; Southbank Sinfonia/Simon Over. Signum SIGCD-321.

[31:41] Torelli Concerto grosso in g, Op 8/6, Christmas Concerto – Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie.

Dorian DOR-90012. [6:01] 2:00 Vaughan Williams The Wasps incidental music – Kansas City Sym/Michael Stern. Reference Recordings RR-129. [25:18] Tallis Gloria fr Missa Puer Natus Est – Stile Antico. Harmonia Mundi HMU-807517. [9:28] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Beethoven O Come All Ye Faithful (after Pathétique piano sonata – Jeffrey Biegel, p. Koch KICCD-7737. [5:38] Weber Clarinet Concertino in E-Flat, Op 26 – David Shifrin, cl; Orch di Padova e del Veneto/ David Golub. Delos DE-3220.

[10:06] Traditional Oh Come Emmanuel; La Cloche de Noel; Lo How A Rose; O Come All Ye Faithful – Canadian Brass. Philips 426835-2.

[9:58] Traditional O Come All Ye Faithful – Mormon Tabernacle Choir, New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein.

Sony SFK-63303. [2:55] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: A Holiday Celebration 8:00 Holiday Music with Dennis Moore: Tonight Dennis will play a complete recording of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker ballet, to honor the 125th anniversary of the premiere of this holiday classic.

10:00 The Film Score with Michael Phillips: Movie music for the winter holidays

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Sinfonietta & Boston Pops/ Arthur Fiedler. RCA 60121-2.

[11:40] Daugherty Bells for Stokowski – University of Texas Wind Ensemble/Jerry F Junkin.

Reference RR-104. [13:55] Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour Poole Veni Redemptor Gencium; The Cherry Tree Carol – Anonymous 4.

Harmonia Mundi HMU-807453.

[8:41] Anderson A Christmas Festival – Boston Pops/Arthur Fiedler. RCA 61685-2. [8:37] Newscast • Schubert Adagio and Rondo in A, D 438 – Baiba Skride, v; CPE Bach Chamber Orch/Hartmut Haenchen. Sony SK-97749.

[13:44] Schubert Ave Maria – Valentina Lisitsa, p. London B0018987-02. [5:32] Biebl Ave Maria – Cantus. Cantus Recordings CTS-1211. [7:11] Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Bach Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D, BWV 1050 – Berlin Academy for Ancient Music. Harmonia Mundi HMC-901634/5 (2). [18:55] Bach Cantata #1, Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern: Opening chorus – Vienna Boys’ Choir, Cho Viennensis, Vienna Concentus Musicus/Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Warner Classics 68081. [9:36] Anonymous Star in the East – Rose Ensemble.

Rose Ensemble 00009. [4:16] Khachaturian Masquerade Suite – Scottish National Orch/ Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN8542. [16:17] Various My Little Dreydl; Candles Burning; Chanukah; Sunrise, Sunset fr Fiddler on the Roof – Rachel Van Voorhees, h. Centaur CRC-2317. [6:21] James Pierpont Jingle Bells (Jingle a cappella) – Chicago a cappella.

Cedille 90000107. [3:58] Fine Arts Calendar • Traditional The Twelve Days of Christmas – Joan Sutherland, s; Ambrosian Singers, New Philharmonia/Richard Bonynge. London 433010-2.

[3:10] Strauss Burleske in d – Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/ Herbert Blomstedt. London B0004645-02. [19:05] Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: A Holiday Celebration Music with Dennis Moore Handel Messiah: Christmas section and Hallelujah – Gritton, Mingardo, Padmore, Miles, Tenebrae Choir, London Sym/Sir Colin Davis. LSO Live LSO-0607 (2). [59:33]

Wednesday 20 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • J. Strauss Jr. Waltzes, Wine, Women and Song, Op 333 – Boston Sym Chamber Players. DG 4636672. [13:12] Lehár Frasquita: My Little Nest of Heavenly Blue – Jonas Kaufmann, t; Berlin RSO/ Jochen Rieder. Sony 08771.

[3:35] Benjamin Britten A Ceremony of Carols, Op 28 – Robert Shaw Chamber Singers.

Telarc CD-80461. [22:08] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Praetorius Terpsichore: Dances – New London Consort/ Philip Pickett. L’Oiseau Lyre 414633-2. [11:15] Various Es ist ein Ros entsprungen; Hodie Christus Natus Est – Stile Antico. Harmonia Mundi HMU-807575. [6:13] 12:00 Newscast 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: Violinist Naria Kim and pianist Kuang-Hao Huang live from the Cultural Center 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Orff Weihnachtsgeschichte (Christmas Story) – Tölz Boys’ Choir, instrumental ensemble/Carl Orff. EMI CDM7-69561-2. [27:54] 2:00 Haydn Quartet in D, Op 64/5, Lark – Danish String Quartet.

Avi Music 8553264. [17:31] Respighi Gli Uccelli (The Birds) – New York Respighi Symphony/Salvatore Di Vittorio.

Naxos 8.573168. [20:36] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Burgundian/Bizet Carol, Patapan & Farandole from L’Arlésienne Suite #2 – King’s Singers, City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox.

EMI CDC7-49909-2. [3:52] Rossini La Boutique fantasque – St. Martin’s Academy/Sir Neville Marriner.

Philips 420485-2. [20:34] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: A Holiday Celebration 8:00 Music with Dennis Moore 10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree: A special two-hour edition for Christmas will feature four cantatas from Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (#s 1, 2, 3 & 6), performed and recorded in St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.

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6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Nielsen Helios Overture, Op 17 – Chicago Sym/Jean Martinon.

Sony Classical 88843062752 (10). [12:27] Various Carols and Dance Tunes – Baltimore Consort. Dorian DOR-90198.

[18:00] Tchaikovsky The Snow Maiden, Op 12: First set of excerpts – Detroit Sym/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN-9324. [10:00] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker, Op 71: Waltz of the Flowers – Stewart Goodyear, p.

Steinway & Sons 30040. [6:26] Glazunov Concert Waltz #1 in D, Op 47 – Philharmonia/ Yevgeny Svetlanov. EMI CDC7-47847-2. [9:46] 12:00 Newscast • Various O Little Town of Bethlehem; Hark the Herald Angels Sing – St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir/Andrew Carwood. Decca 4789225.

[6:35] Arcangelo Corelli Concerto grosso in g, Op 6/8, Christmas Concerto – Les Violins du Roy/Bernard Labadie.

Dorian DOR-90180. [13:11] 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Tchaikovsky Symphony #1 in g, Op 13, Winter Dreams – Chicago Sym/Claudio Abbado.

Sony SK-48056. [43:33] 2:00 Larsson A Winter’s Tale incidental music: Four Vignettes – CBC Vancouver Orch/Mario Bernardi. Radio Canada Int’l 5157. [10:02] Holst Personent Hodie; Lullay My Liking; In the Bleak Midwinter – Christ Church Cathedral Choir/Stephen Darlington.

Nimbus NI-5098. [11:22] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Vivaldi The Four Seasons, Op 8/1-4: Violin Concerto #4 in f, R 297, Winter – Amsterdam Guitar Trio. RCA 61652-2. [8:58] Various Stille Nacht (Silent Night); Huron Carol (‘Twas in the Moon of Winter) – Dawn Upshaw, s; Chanticleer.

Teldec 85555-2. [8:19] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: A Holiday Celebration 8:00 Music with Dennis Moore 10:00 The San Francisco Symphony in Concert: Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Yefim Bronfman, piano – CPE Bach: Symphony #1 in D. Widmann: Trauermarsch (SF Symphony co-commission).

Brahms: Symphony #1 in c. Stravinsky: Apollo.

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12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Haydn Sinfonia Concertante in B-Flat – Soloists, Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy. Sony SBK-62649. [22:30] Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols – Stephen Varcoe, br; Cambridge Singers & City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter.

Collegium COLCD-121. [11:25] Prokofiev Cinderella, Op 87: Grand Waltz – Cleveland Orch/Vladimir Ashkenazy.

London 410162-2 (2). [5:19] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Rouse Karolju – Philharmonia Cho, BBC Sym/David Zinman.

RCA 11561-2. [29:25] Holborne Pavane & Galliard – Empire Brass. Telarc CD-80257. [5:59] 12:00 Newscast • Music in Chicago 1:00 Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Bizet L’Arlésienne Suite #2 – Barcelona Sym/José Serebrier. Bis CD-1305. [18:15] Various We Three Kings of Orient Are; Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day – Robert Shaw Chorale. RCA 6429-2. [5:16] Vivaldi Concerto in E, R 270, Il Riposo, per il Natale – I Solisti Italiani. Denon CO-78912. [8:36] 2:00 Liszt Weihnachtsbaum: Part One – Alfred Brendel, p. Philips 454140-2. [21:55] Traditional I Saw Three Ships; O Tannenbaum; Allon gay bergeres; The Holly and the Ivy – Robert Shaw Chorale.

RCA DCM2-1217 (2). [7:51] Liszt Weihnachtsbaum: Part Two – Alfred Brendel, p.

Philips 454140-2. [17:04] 3:00 Fine Arts Calendar • Various Hark, the Herald Angels Sing; Good King Wenceslas – Canadian Brass.

Philips 426835-2. [3:58] Mendelssohn Symphony #4 in A, Op 90, Italian – Vienna Phil/Christoph von Dohnányi.

London 433341-2. [25:38] 4:00 Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: A Holiday Celebration 8:00 Music with Dennis Moore 10:00 Relevant Tones with Seth Boustead: Highlights from the World Music Days held in Vancouver by the International Society for Contemporary Music.

11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Christmas Memories

12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Dennis Moore 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar 11:00 Introductions: Spotlighting the Chicago area’s young musicians 12:00 Live from the Met: Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro” – Adam Plachetka (Figaro); Christiane Karg (Susanna); Luca Pisaroni (Count); Rachel Willis-Sorensen (Countess); Serena Malfi (Cherubino); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Harry Bicket.

3:40 PoetryNow with the Poetry Foundation: Jennifer Foerster reads and discusses The Other Side.

3:45 M-A Charpentier Noels pour les Instruments – Les Violons du Roy/Bernard Labadie.

Dorian DOR-90180. [14:46] Traditional Angels We Have Heard on High – Kiri Te Kanawa, s; Philharmonia/ Carl Davis. London 414632-2.

[3:30] Traditional Ding, Dong, Merrily on High – Cambridge Singers/John Rutter. Collegium COLCD-111. [1:40] Ravel La Valse – Rotterdam Phil/ Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

EMI 66342-2. [12:27] 4:30 Arias and Songs with Larry Johnson: Music for the holidays 5:00 Anonymous To Drive the Cold Winter Away: Festivities in the Tavern – St. George’s Canzona/John Sothcott.

Vanguard VSD-71261. [8:03] Traditional The Twelve Days of Christmas – Elmer Iseler Singers & Canadian Brass. Philips 426835-2. [7:15] Anonymous To Drive the Cold Winter Away: A Medieval Holiday – St. George’s Canzona/John Sothcott. Vanguard VSD-71261.

[14:33] Ellisor Blackberry Winter – Stephen Seifert, dulcimer; Nashville Chamber Orch/Paul Gambill. Warner Classics 46739-2. [16:55] 6:00 Bach Pastorale in F; Air from Orchestra Suite #3 – David Russell, g. Telarc CD-80693.

[7:19] Pierné Divertissements sur un Thème Pastoral – BBC Phil/Juanjo Mena. Chandos CHAN-10633. [11:55] Mozart String Divertimento in F, K 138 – I Musici de Montréal/Yuli Turovsky. Chandos CHAN-9045.

[13:05] Various El Cant dels Ocells (Carol of the Birds); Gesu Bambino – Kathleen Battle, s; Christopher Parkening, g. Sony SK-62723. [5:42] Boccherini Guitar Quintet in D: Finale, Grave assai; Fandango – Milos Karadaglic, g; English Chamber Orch/Paul Watkins.

DG B0019383-02. [4:02] 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Latin-American

Christmas carols 8:00 Folkstage hosted by Rich Warren: Michael Smith, Jamie O’Reilly, and friends live from Levin Studio 9:00 The Midnight Special with Rich Warren

Sunday 24 Christmas Eve 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 King’s College Service of Lessons and Carols: Live from King’s College Chapel at England’s Cambridge University, the annual service of readings and music for Christmas Eve. 10:30 Weekend Mornings with Dennis Moore 11:00 Fine Arts Calendar 12:00 Mozart Clarinet Trio in E-Flat, K 498, Kegelstatt – Martin Fröst, cl; Antoine Tamestit, vi; Leif Ove Andsnes, p. Bis 1893. [18:41] Respighi Botticelli Triptych: Adoration of the Magi – St. Paul Chamber Orch/Hugh Wolff. Teldec 18970-2 (2). [8:45] Menotti Amahl and the Night Visitors: Orchestral Suite – Atlanta Sym/Robert Shaw.

Turnabout QTV-S-34647/48.

[6:15] Robert Russell Bennett Christmas Medley #3 – Atlanta Sym Cho & Orch/Robert Shaw.

Telarc CD-80087. [12:46] 1:00 Bach Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in d, BWV 903 – András Schiff, p. Philips 456925-2 (2).

[11:19] Join us tonight at 8:00, when Nicholas Kraemer and first-chair soloists from the Chicago Symphony perform Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos.

Bach Magnificat in E-Flat, BWV 243a, with four interpolated Christmas chorales – Sampson, Danz, Padmore, Nock; Ghent Collegium Vocale, Orch/ Philippe Herreweghe. Harmonia Mundi HMC-901781.82 (2). [34:10] Regney Do You Hear What I Hear – Yolanda Kondonassis, h; Jurij Konje, per. Telarc CD-80446. [3:40] 2:00 Hely-Hutchinson Carol Symphony – Pro Arte Orch/ Barry Rose. EMI ESD-7021.

[24:01] Traditional The First Nowell; O Come All Ye Faithful – King’s College Cho Cambridge, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble/David Willcocks. EMI CDM5-66241-2. [9:38] Harrison Something; Here Comes the Sun – Milos Karadaglic, g; Chris Hill, db; String Ensemble/ Christopher Austin. Mercury B0024425-02. [6:05] Britten A Hymn to the Virgin – Chanticleer/Joseph Jennings.

Chanticleer CR-8803. [3:33] Mozart Serenade #13 in G, K

525, Eine kleine Nachtmusik – English Concert/Andrew Manze. Harmonia Mundi 907280. [20:50] English String Miniatures The Holy Boy; Sir Roger de Coverley – English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones. Naxos 8.555068.

[7:25] Various Ave Maria; Comfort Ye…Ev’ry Valley – Juan Diego Florez, t; Bologna Teatro Comunale Orch/Michele Mariotti. London B0014875-02.

[11:20] Handel Messiah: And the Glory of the Lord; For Unto Us A Child Is Born – Robert Shaw Chorale; Orch/Robert Shaw. RCA 62317-2. [6:40] 4:00 Piazzolla Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (Four Seasons in Buenos Aires): Invierno Porteño (Winter) – Jason Vieaux, g; Julian Labro, bandoneon; Far Cry Chamber Orch. Azica ACD-71270. [7:48] Meyer Winter’s Chill – Modern Mandolin Quartet; Edgar Meyer, db. Windham Hill 11108-2.

[5:29] Ewazen Oboe Concerto, Down A River of Time – Linda Strommen, ob; International Sejong Soloists. Albany TROY577. [23:52] Rutter The Lord Bless You and Keep You; A Gaelic Blessing – Polyphony/ Stephen Layton. Hyperion CDA66947. [4:37] Various Sinfonia fr Christmas Oratorio; Pifa fr Messiah – Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood.

Oiseau 410179-2. [7:57] 5:00 Vaughan Williams Christmas cantata, Hodie – E Gale, R Tear, S Roberts, LSO Chorus, St. Paul’s Cathedral Choristers, London Sym/Richard Hickox.

EMI CDC7-54128-2. [57:42] 6:00 Falla The Three-Cornered Hat: Four Dances – Berlin Radio Sym/Lorin Maazel. DG 4474142. [20:08] Various Parade of the Wooden Soldiers; Three Nutcracker dances; The Toy Trumpet – Boston Pops/Arthur Fiedler. RCA 61685-2. [12:16] Mozart Piano Sonata #11 in A, K 331 – Fazil Say, p. Atlantic 21970-2. [18:35] Anderson A Christmas Festival – BBC Concert Orch/Leonard Slatkin.

Naxos 8.559621. [9:03] Ponce Canciones Mexicanas (Estrellita, La Barca del Marino, Cuiden Su Vida) – Jorge Federico Osorio, p. Cedille CDR-90000086.

[9:18] Anonymous Villancicos: Riu, Riu, Chiu; E la Don, Don, Verges Maria – Waverly Consort/Michael Jaffee. CBS MK-34554. [4:01] Rodrigo Zarabanda lejana y villancico – San Diego Chamber Orch/ Donald Barra. Koch 3-7160-2.

[9:12] Mozart Sleigh Ride – St. Martin’s Academy/Sir Neville Marriner. EMI CDZ7-62507-2.

[3:04] Anderson Sleigh Ride – Boston Pops/Arthur Fiedler.

RCA 61685-2. [2:59] Various

Suite of Carols; We Wish You A Merry Christmas – Tanglewood Festival Cho, Boston Pops Orch/John Williams.

Philips 416287-2. [14:48] 8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Nicholas Kraemer, conductor; soloists from the orchestra – Bach: Six Brandenburg Concertos.

10:00 Pierné Les Enfants à Bethléem – Soloists; French Radio Orch, French Radio Cho’s/Lasserre de Rozel.

Erato 45008-2. [56:39] 11:00 Christmas Silver Bells; Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas – Eaken Piano Trio. Naxos 8.554099.

[5:38] Chopin Prelude #15, Raindrop; Berceuse in D-Flat, Op 57 – Alicia de Larrocha, p. London 433089-2. [10:36] Anonymous 13th Century Christmas Day Mass, Notre Dame School: Gradual, Viderunt Omnes – Ensemble Organum/ Marcel Péres. Harmonia Mundi HMX-290649/54 (6).

[7:44] Tournier Six Noels, Op 32 – Nicanor Zabaleta, h.

DG 2531051. [8:14] Mozart Serenade #10 in B-Flat, K 361: Adagio – Netherlands Wind Ensemble/Edo de Waart. Philips 412244-1. [5:38] Various Still, still, still; Green Grow’th the Holly; In the Bleak Midwinter – Theatre of Voices/Paul Hillier.

Harmonia Mundi HMU-907079.

[9:06] Gruber Stille Nacht – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, s; Julian Bream, g; Philharmonia/ Sir CharlesMackerras. EMI CDM7-63574-2. [3:35]

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Monday 25 Christmas Day 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Traditional The Little Drummer Boy; We Wish You a Merry Christmas; O Little Town of Bethlehem – Mormon Tabernacle Cho; Philadelphia Brass Ensemble/Richard P Condie. Sony 88985 35958 2.

[9:40] Various Weihnachtsbaum: The Shepherds at the Manger (In Dulci Jubilo); Hark the Herald Angels Sing arranged in the style of Beethoven – Jeffrey Biegel, p. Steinway 30005.

[6:39] Anderson Suite of Carols for Woodwinds – BBC Concert Orch Winds/Leonard Slatkin.

Naxos 8.559621. [10:44] 12:00 Newscast • Chadwick Symphonic Sketches: #2, Noël – Eastman-Rochester Orch/Howard Hanson. Mercury 434337-2. [8:46] Yon Gesu Bambino – Giovanni De Chiaro,

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g. Centaur CRC-2101. [5:07] Various Candlelight Carols – Seraphic Fire/Patrick Dupré Quigley; Jacqueline Kerrod, h.

Seraphic Fire Media . [13:34] Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Corelli Concerto grosso in g, Op 6/8, Christmas – Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi.

Opus 111 OPS-30155. [13:16] Various A spotless Rose; In dulci jubilo; Quem pastores – Handel & Haydn Society/Harry Christophers. Coro COR16117. [11:26] Various Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland; Jesus Christ the Apple Tree – Music of the Baroque/William Jon Gray. MOB 2012. [8:42] Werner Christmas Pastoral in g for Organ and Strings – Preston, o (St. Paul’s Church, New Southgate, London); English Chamber Orch.

Novalis 150133-2 (2). [4:42] Morton Gould Serenade of Carols – New Philharmonia/ Morton Gould. RCA 79312. [13:38] Lee Holdridge Christmas Medley – Placido Domingo, t; Vienna Sym/Lee Holdridge. CBS MK-37245.

[5:18] Traditional Dormi, non piangere; Canta, rie, bebe – Choir. Philips PHS-600036.

[5:54] Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute, set 3 – Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 437533-2. [16:37] Various Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light; Hallelujah – Atlanta Choral Guild/William Noll. Newport Classic NPD-85529. [5:20] Schumann Piano Concerto in a, Op 54 – Maria-Joao Pires, p; Chamber Orch of Europe/Claudio Abbado. DG 463179-2. [31:48] Various Ave Maria – Luciano Pavarotti, t; Wandsworth School Boys Choir, National Phil/Adler. London 414044-2. [9:15] Various Angelus ad Virgenem; The Holly and the Ivy; I Sing of A Maiden; Ding, Dong, Merrily on High – Trinity College Choir Cambridge/Richard Marlow.

Conifer 51754-2 (2). [8:52] Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The music of London, week 1 Holiday Music with Dennis Moore

Tuesday 26 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Handel Concerto Grosso in F, Op 3/4 – Academy of Ancient

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DG 415371-2. [23:22] Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour Break Grieg Holberg Suite, Op 40 – English String Orch/William Boughton. Nimbus NI-5032.

[17:44] Handel Water Music: Allegro-Andante-Allegro da capo – Summit Brass.

Summit DCD-138. [7:08] Newscast • Schubert Impromptus, D 935 (Op 142): #2 in A-Flat – Radu Lupu, p. London 460975-2. [7:29] Mozart Idomeneo ballet music, K 367 – Apollo’s Fire/Jeannette Sorrell. Avie AV-2159. [16:21] Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto #1 in b-flat, Op 23 – András Schiff, p; Chicago Sym/Sir Georg Solti.

London 417294-2. [33:32] Gabrieli Motet, Angelus ad pastores ait – Music of the Baroque Choir/Edward Zelnis. MOB 2006. [4:16] Clarke Prelude, Allegro and Pastorale – Patricia McCarty, vi; Peter Hadcock, cl.

Northeastern NR-212. [14:43] Ravel Introduction and Allegro – Isabelle Moretti, h; Quatuor Parisii. Naive V-4919. [11:03] Fine Arts Calendar • Jos Strauss Polka mazur, Aus der Ferne, Op 270 – Vienna Phil/ Franz Welser-Most. London 4782601 (2). [5:09] Lanner Die Mozartisten Waltzes, Op 196 – Vienna Phil/Mariss Jansons. DG 4775566 (2).

[9:38] Mozart Symphony #38 in D, K 504, Prague – Chicago Sym/Sir Georg Solti. [26:00] Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The music of London, week 1 Music with Dennis Moore

Wednesday 27 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Copland El Salón México – New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein.

[11:01] Gershwin Three Preludes – Oscar Levant, p.

[5:38] Gershwin An American in Paris – Chicago Sym/ James Levine. [17:33] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in e, Op 64 – Anne Akiko Meyers, v; Philharmonia/Litton.

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RCA 61700-2. [27:19] Holborne The Honiesuckle; Paradizo; Fairie Round – Fretwork. Virgin Classics 90706-2. [5:55] Newscast Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: Pianist Sohyun Ahn live from the Cultural Center Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Wagner Siegfried Idyll – Berlin Phil/James Levine. [18:15] Holst A Winter Idyll – Ulster Orch/ JoAnn Falletta. [9:01] Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto #2 in g, Op 22 – Stephen Hough, p; City of Birmingham Sym/Sakari Oramo.[21:36] Saint-Saëns The Swan; Havanaise – Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Philippe Entremont, Gaby Casadesus, Kathryn Stott, p’s. Sony 93927. [11:59] Fine Arts Calendar • Chabrier Bourrée fantasque – Claire Aebersold & Ralph Neiweem, p. WFMT Live from the Archive . [5:54] Gismonti 7 Anéis – Brasil Guitar Duo. CAG 119.

[8:21] Bach Violin and Oboe Concerto in c, BWV 1060 – Johnny Gandelsman, v; Adam Hollander, ob; The Knights.

Warner 0825646170982. [12:35] Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The music of London, week 1 Music with Dennis Moore Baroque&Before with Candice Agree Reflections from the Keyboard with David Dubal

Thursday 28 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Brahms Academic Festival Overture, Op 80 – Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Muti. Philips 470942-2. [10:30] Bach Trio Sonata in G, BWV 1038 – Emmanuel Pahud, f; Berlin Baroque Soloists. EMI 57111-2. [7:15] Stravinsky Four Etudes – Chicago Sym/ Pierre Boulez. [9:36] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Gervaise Livres de Danseries: Branles – Renaissonics. Titanic TI-232. [7:20] Debussy Danses sacrée et profane – Elizabeth Hainen, h; IRIS Orch/Michael Stern. Avie AV-2285. [9:59] 12:00 Newscast • Purcell Chacony in g – Les Violons du Roy/ Bernard Labadie. Dorian DOR-90012. [5:27] Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op 34 – Cincinnati

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DG B0019102-02. [40:45] Bach Christmas Oratorio, part 1: Opening chorus, Jauchzet, frohlocket – Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Archive 439885-2. [7:43] Bach Christmas Oratorio: Final chorale, Nun seid ihr wohl gerochen – L Güttler, tr; Leipzig U Cho & New Bach Collegium Musicum/M Pommer. Capriccio 10039. [3:02] Tartini Sinfonia pastorale in D (Christmas Sinfonia) – Collegium Aureum.

RCA 77048-2. [12:58] Fine Arts Calendar • Shostakovich The Gadfly Suite, Op 97a: Romance – Detroit Sym/Neeme Järvi.

Chandos CHAN-9227. [5:50] Shostakovich Lyric Waltz; Short Piece; Spanish Dance; Nocturne; Polka – Vladimir Ashkenazy, p. London B0001846-02. [10:14] J. Strauss Jr. Waltzes, Voices of Spring – Vienna Phil/ Carlos Kleiber. [6:38] Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The music of London, week 1 Music with Dennis Moore The San Francisco Symphony in Concert: Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor; Karina Gauvin, soprano; Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano; SF Symphony Chorus – Mahler: Symphony #2, Resurrection. The final broadcast in this series.

Friday 29 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Carl Grapentine 9:00 News Summary • Bach Brandenburg Concerto #6 in B-Flat, BWV 1051 – English Concert/Trevor Pinnock. [16:45] Elgar Froissart Overture, Op 19 – English Sym/William Boughton. Nimbus NI-5206.

[14:23] Bach Fantasia and Fugue in c, BWV 537 – Los Angeles Phil/Esa-Pekka Salonen. Sony SK-89012. [9:10] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including new releases this hour 11:00 Granados Goyescas: #4, La maja y el ruiseñor – Alicia de Larrocha, p. RCA 60408-2-RC. [6:28] Haydn Symphony #83

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Erato 45807-2. [22:29] Newscast • Music in Chicago Afternoons with Kerry Frumkin • Mozart Divertimento in F, K 439b, II – Chicago Symphony Winds. CBS M2K42144 (2). [17:04] Schubert Impromptus, D 935 (Op 142): #3 in B-Flat – Andreas Haefliger, p. Sony SK-53108. [11:09] Ravel Piano Concerto in G – Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p; Montreal Sym/Charles Dutoit.

London 452448-2. [22:17] Fine Arts Calendar • Copland Billy the Kid Suite – London Sym/Aaron Copland. CBS MK-42431. [21:36] Korngold The Adventures of Robin Hood film music: Suite – Hollywood Bowl Sym/John Mauceri.

Philips 432109-2. [11:10] Late Afternoon Music with Candice Agree, including a Newscast at 4:00 pm and The Unrush Hour between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: The music of London, week 1 Music with Dennis Moore Relevant Tones with Seth Boustead: El Niño

by John Adams is discussed and sampled.

Best of Studs Terkel: A musical variety show from 1997, which Studs called the last picture program of recorded music.

Saturday 30 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Dennis Moore 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar 11:00 Introductions: Spotlighting the Chicago area’s young musicians 12:00 Live from the Met: Lehar’s “Merry Widow” – Susan Graham (Hanna); Paul Groves (Danilo); Andriana Chuchman (Valencienne); Taylor Stayton (Camille); Thomas Allen (Baron); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Ward Stare.

3:05 PoetryNow with the Poetry Foundation: Brenda Coultas reads and discusses An After Hour.

3:20 J Strauss Jr Artist’s Life Waltzes, Op 316 – Vienna Phil/Mariss Jansons. DG 4775566 (2). [8:43] Various Evenings Near Moscow; Russian Intermezzo – Odessa Balalaikas. Nonesuch 79034-2.

[5:55] Coates London Again Suite – Royal Liverpool Phil/ John Wilson. Avie AV-2070.

[15:35] Offenbach Gaîté Parisienne Suite – Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel. MMG MWCD-7119. [23:09]

4:30 Arias and Songs with Larry Johnson: New Year’s Eve, Viennese style 5:00 Schubert Symphony #8 in b, D 759, Unfinished – The Knights/Eric Jacobsen.

Ancalagon ANC-137. [21:50] Schubert Viennese Dances; Ecossaisen, Op 49 – Boskovsky Ensemble/Willi Boskovsky.

Vanguard OVC-8016. [10:56] Traditional Medley of Scots Tunes – Rachel Barton Pine & Alasdair Fraser, v’s; Scottish Chamber Orch/Alexander Platt.

Cedille 90000083 (2). [5:56] Traditional L’amour de moy; Loch Lomond – Chanticleer.

Teldec 16676-2. [7:58] Debussy Preludes, bk 2: Feux d’artifice – Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, p. DG 427391-2. [4:40] Stravinsky Fireworks, Op 4 – Chicago Sym/Pierre Boulez. DG 437850-2. [3:54] Shostakovich Piano Concerto #1 in c, Op 35 – Lise de la Salle, p; Gulbenkian Orch/Lawrence Foster. Naive V-5053. [23:25] Ravel Boléro – Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Muti. EMI CDC7-47022-2. [17:09] 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Latin-American mix tape part 2 8:00 Folkstage hosted

by Rich Warren 9:00 The Midnight Special with Rich Warren

Sunday 31 New Year’s Eve 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Dennis Moore 10:00 Fine Arts Calendar 12:00 Chopin Waltzes, Op 34/3, 34/2, 64/2 – Daniel Barenboim, p. DG B0015384-02. [12:51] Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier: Waltzes – Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi. Chandos CHAN-8834. [20:22] Brahms Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op 52: #s 8-16 – Westminster Choir/ Joseph Flummerfelt. Delos DE-3193. [10:36] Anderson The Waltzing Cat – BBC Concert Orch/Leonard Slatkin.

Naxos 8.559356. [2:36] 1:00 Respighi The Fountains of Rome – Cincinnati Sym/Jesús López-Cobos. Telarc CD80505. [15:21] Smetana Má Vlast (My Fatherland): Vltava (The Moldau) – Shelest Piano Duo. Sorel Classics SCCD-002.

[11:52] Thomson The River Suite – Los Angeles Chamber Orch/Sir Neville Marriner.

EMI CDM7-64307-2. [24:04] Schubert Song, Die Forelle, D 550 – Barbara Bonney, s; Emanuel Ax, p. Sony SK-61964.

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in A, D 667, Trout – Emanuel Ax, Pamela Frank, Rebecca Young, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer. Sony SK-61964. [37:48] Strauss Family Blue Danube Waltzes; Radetzky March – Vienna Phil/Riccardo Muti.

EMI CDC5-56393-2. [14:21] 3:00 Various Greensleeves; Nuttmigs and Ginger – Baltimore Consort. Dorian DOR-90142.

[8:09] Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks – Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood. Oiseau 400059-2.

[20:49] Bach Sleepers Wake; Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring; Chorale, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott – Mormon Tabernacle Cho, Philadelphia Orch/Eugene Ormandy. Sony MDK-48296.

[10:05] Bach In Dulci Jubilo; Awake Thou Wintry Earth; My Spirit Be Joyful – E Power Biggs, o; Orch/Zoltan Rozsnyai.

CBS MK-42646. [7:27] 4:00 Respighi The Pines of Rome – Oslo Phil/Mariss Jansons. EMI CDC5-55600-2. [22:29] Griffes Four Roman Sketches, Op 7 – James Tocco, p. Gasparo GSCD-231. [19:29] Wagner Tannhäuser: Pilgrim’s Chorus, Beglückt darf nun dich – Royal Opera House Cho, Philharmonia Orch/Giuseppe Sinopoli. DG 445769-2. [6:07] Bach Siciliano in g; Das alte Jahr vergangen ist – Angela Hewitt, p.

Hyperion CDA-67309. [6:34] Strauss Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op 28 – Berlin Phil/Gustavo Dudamel. DG B0018913-02. [15:54] Strauss Family Polkas: Bahn frei, Pizzicato, Fledermaus, Thunder and Lightning – Boston Pops/ Arthur Fiedler. RCA 61688-2.

[10:15] Strauss Die Fledermaus Quadrille, Op 363 – Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan. DG 410027-2. [5:08] Strauss Die Fledermaus: Champagne Chorus – Schwarzkopf, Gedda, Krebs, Streich, Kunz, Philharmonia Cho, Orch/ Karajan. EMI CHS7-695312 (2). [2:36] Rossini Soirées Musicales: La pastorella dell’Alpi; La danza – Kemal Gekic, p. Naxos 8.553961. [6:29 6:00 Mozart Symphony #31 in D, K 297, Paris – London Mozart Players/Jane Glover.

ASV CDDCA-647. [18:23] Charpentier Louise: Depuis le jour – Nicole Cabell, s; London Phil/Sir Andrew Davis.

London B0013059-02 (2).

[5:21] D’Indy Fantaisie sur des Thèmes populaires français, Op 31 – Albrecht Mayer, ob; St. Martin’s Academy/Mathias Mönius. London 4782564.

[14:54] Bernstein Candide Suite – University of South Carolina Wind Ensemble/ Scott Weiss. Naxos 8.573056.

[12:37] Rosenthal Fantasy on Waltzes by Johann Strauss Jr. – Konstantin Scherbakov, p. EMI CDZ569704-2. [10:41] J. Strauss Jr.

Kaiserwalzer, Op 437 – Vienna Phil/Claudio Abbado. DG 431628-2. [10:35] Respighi Feste Romane – Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Muti. EMI

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