The Guide | December 2020

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TUE DEC 1 | 7:30 pm WTTW News journeys back to offer a revealing look at how the year unfolded in Chicago.

December 2020 ALSO INSIDE

We’ll celebrate the holidays on WFMT with a new special, Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain, as the ensemble Apollo’s Fire explores the medieval Irish and Scottish roots of traditional holiday music in the Appalachians, and eminent violinist Itzhak Perlman celebrates Hanukkah.

From the President & CEO Dear Member, 2020 has been a year like none other, with a global pandemic, a recession, nationwide racial reckoning, the 2020 census, and a contentious presidential election. As COVID-19 impacted Chicago area schools and businesses, WTTW News hit the streets of the city and suburbs to report on local stories that mattered to residents – the struggle to cope, civil unrest and activism, and the drive to rebuild. In Making Sense of 2020, a WTTW News special premiering on December 1, we offer a revealing look at how 2020 unfolded in Chicago.

Also in December on WTTW, our popular series Call the Midwife returns with an all-new holiday special set in 1965. We also brighten the season with exceptional choral music, including Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir with Kelli O’Hara and Richard Thomas, The Wheaton College Christmas Festival, and Christmas at Belmont, and mark Hanukkah with Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas and Hanukkah: A Festival of Delights. On wttw.com, in this month of holiday treats, enter the Wonka-esque world of Chicago candymakers in Shelf Life: The Story of Lanzi Candy, and share some fun and safe ways to enjoy this special time in Chicagoland.

We’ll celebrate on WFMT as well with a new special, Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain, as the ensemble Apollo’s Fire explores the medieval Irish and Scottish roots of traditional holiday music in the Appalachians. Our Sunday morning series With Heart and Voice focuses on the Advent and Christmas seasons, Chicago a cappella and famed violinist Itzhak Perlman highlight Hanukkah, and the Chicago Symphony brings you Handel’s Messiah. On wfmt.com, get a rundown of safe holiday music celebrations in the area, rank Beethoven’s 10 most influential compositions in honor of his 250th birthday, and discover a playlist of underrated and obscure classical holiday music.

On behalf of all of us WTTW and WFMT, I wish you and your family a joyous and healthy holiday season.

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WTTW Listings

17 Do it Yourself Saturdays

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Making Sense of 2020

19 At-a-Glance

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WTTW Digital Channel Highlights

20 WFMT Listings

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WTTW Kid Grid

31 Sponsors

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Daily Television Programming •

Programmer’s Picks on WTTW11

I Am Ireland Featuring songs and stories with the traditional Irish tenor Paddy Homan & Orchestra and originally developed for the stage, this concert was filmed at Chicago’s renowned Old St. Pat’s Church and in the private residences of musicians.

Tuesday, December 15, 9:00 pm

Shelf Life: The Story of Lanzi Candy

Wild Travels: America’s Most Unusual Festivals

Lanzi Candy Company was one of dozens of family-run confectionaries that, alongside candy giants Brach’s, Mars, and Wrigley, made Chicago “the Candy Capital of the World.”

Enjoy this sweet piece of Chicago history.

Wild Travels goes off the beaten track to celebrate America’s most unusual festivals.

Host Will Clinger spotlights some of the oddest and quirkiest – from the Rattlesnake Roundup in Texas to Indiana’s Pierogi Fest.

Thursday, December 17, 8:00 pm

Friday, December 18, 9:00 pm

See page 6 for information about WTTW Prime listings.

In the Spotlight

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The Brain Revolution Via the latest scientific research and illuminating stories about neuroplasticity, this program shows how your brain works and how you can make it work for you.

The Brain Revolution [R] Chicago Tonight [R]

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids

Making Sense of 2020 2020 has been a year like none other, with a global pandemic, a recession, nationwide racial reckoning, and a presidential election. As COVID-19 closed down Chicago area schools and businesses and citizens adjusted to a new normal, Chicago Tonight and WTTW News hit the streets of the city and suburbs to report on local stories that mattered – the struggle to cope, racial unrest and activism, and the drive to rebuild. Journey back to the beginning with WTTW News for this revealing look at 2020 in Chicago.

Tuesday, December 1 7:30 pm

Tuesday 1 EARLY MORNING 12:00 John Denver: Country Roads - Live in England John Denver was one of the most popular recording artists of the 20th century.

This concert was filmed at the Birmingham NEC in 1986 and showcases his singular voice, easygoing manner, and superb songwriting skills.

EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 7:30 Making Sense of 2020 2020 has been a year like none other, with a global pandemic, a recession, nationwide racial reckoning, and a presidential election. As COVID-19 closed down Chicago area schools and businesses and citizens adjusted to a new normal, Chicago Tonight and WTTW News hit the streets of the city and suburbs to report on local stories that mattered – the struggle to cope, racial unrest and activism, and the drive to rebuild. Journey back to the beginning with WTTW News for this revealing look at 2020 in Chicago.

8:30 Ken Burns: Here & There This film captures Ken Burns’ love of storytelling, his love of small town life, and his love for a bridge in Brooklyn.

The documentary also reveals a strong reciprocal love from his neighbors and colleagues – those who admire his passion as an artist and those who share that passion as colleagues and storytellers themselves.

10:00 Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You This music special includes complete performances from America’s perennially popular country singer, songwriter, multiinstrumentalist, record producer, and actress.

11:30 BBC World News

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EARLY MORNING 12:00 Riverdance 25th Anniversary Special Catapulting Riverdance into the 21st century, this new cinematic experience reveals the extraordinary energy and passion of Irish music and dance.

2:00 Change Your Brain, Heal Your Mind with Daniel Amen, MD Dr. Amen shares six practical steps to help you feel happier, sharper, and more in control of your own destiny.

3:30 Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide Join the acclaimed personal finance expert for essential advice on planning for and thriving in retirement.

5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]

EARLY MORNING 12:00 BBC World News 12:30 Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2019 Eric Clapton presents the 2019 Crossroads Guitar Festival from Dallas, Texas. The Festival hosts performances and impromptu collaborations for the world’s most legendary guitarists.

2:30 Deepak Chopra: Becoming Metahuman Become happier, more joyful, and energetic with a simple three-step

In the Spotlight

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 7:30 Chicago from the Air Host Geoffrey Baer narrates a sweeping bird’s-eye tour of the city and beyond via a drone camera, sharing his signature “I never knew that” facts on the journey. From this thrilling new perspective, trace the remnants of long-lost trails and roads, see the ways industry literally re-shaped our region, and discover how Chicago truly lives up to its motto, “City in a Garden.”

9:00 WTTW Great Treasure Hunt Sweepstakes 2020 Drawing Join us to learn if you are the winner of an all-new 2021 Suburu Forester, a $10,000 home makeover from Walter E. Smithe, a City Scooter, a hand-woven rug, spa packages, cooking classes, or other sensational prizes!

9:10 Making Sense of 2020 See Tues. Dec. 1 at 7:30 pm. [R] 10:15 Chicago from the Air [R]

WTTW Great Treasure Hunt Sweepstakes 2020 Drawing Join us to learn if you are the winner of an all-new 2021 Suburu Forester, a $10,000 home makeover from Walter E. Smithe, a City Scooter, a handwoven rug, spa packages, cooking classes, or other sensational prizes!

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A Q & A with the Production Team 2020 has been a year unlike any other in memory, with a worldwide pandemic,

Balta: Our role now is the same as it has

a recession, racial reckoning, and a presidential election. As COVID-19 turned everyday life upside down, Chicago area residents were left with more questions than answers, and WTTW News had to innovate as they served the public with news and information. WTTW News Director Hugo Balta, Senior Supervising Producer Jay Smith, and Senior Line Producer Crystin Immel look back on the year and its challenges, while documentary producer Daniel Andries takes us behind the scenes of Making Sense of 2020.

always been – to produce fair and accurate coverage reflective and inclusive of the public it serves. In a situation where Chicagoans are overwhelmed with seemingly overlapping emergencies, WTTW News helps them make sense of it all with trustworthy reporting.

What did you learn about Chicago and Chicagoans in 2020?

You made the decision to send WTTW News out to different neighborhoods throughout the spring. What challenges and opportunities did that present?

Hugo Balta: I discovered how resilient people in our community are. No matter what 2020 threw at the community, courageous Chicagoans picked themselves up, rolled up their sleeves, and persevered.

What role do you think WTTW News plays during turbulent times such as these?

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Balta: In telling the COVID-19 story, clearly it was imperative to go into Chicago’s

diverse neighborhoods to hear directly from residents, especially when it came to disparities in access to vital resources. We then had to figure out how to do it while keeping everyone safe. The opportunities this approach gave us to help build bridges between communities outweighed any challenges we faced.

Jay Smith: I think being live from a differ-

ent local community each night allowed us to give our audience an invaluable look at how their neighbors were dealing with everything they were facing.

What changes did you make to the WTTW News operation to ensure that everyone, guests included, would be safe?

Crystin Immel: Toward the end of March

we made the decision to not have guests in the studio, which meant doing all of our interviews via Zoom. We had used similar technology a few times before, but never on a nightly basis! At the same time, we set up the majority of our broadcast and digital staff to work remotely. And there was the added benefit of keeping Chicago Tonight hosts Brandis Friedman and Paris Schutz separated so that if one were to get sick, the other would still be able to serve our viewers.

Smith: Brandis reported from the studio each night and Paris co-anchored the show from the field. Our crew was very careful to wear masks and social-distance while reporting, and to constantly clean and sanitize all of the equipment we were using.

What were the most important ways that WTTW News met the public’s need for trusted and timely information during 2020?

Immel: We expanded our coverage online and added two weekend programs, and

regularly brought on public health officials and other medical professionals to provide updates on COVID-19, as well as business owners and employees to address the economic impact of the virus.

Smith: In addition to covering the pandemic, of course 2020 was an election year. Our WTTW News Voter Guide was a great resource, which included – among other things – a platform where voters could hear from candidates in their own words.

Looking back, was there a story covered by WTTW News that best captures 2020 in Chicago?

Immel: A story that I think represented the best of 2020: a mother and son who used their 3D printer to make face shields, sharing the instructions online for others to do the same.

An Oak Park resident who saw the story created a group called the “Noble Army,” and they’ve distributed thousands of free face shields to healthcare workers.

How did you decide which stories to highlight in Making Sense of 2020?

Daniel Andries: The WTTW News team’s on-the-ground reporting was vital in helping us make sense of what was happening. Some of what they uncovered: the CEO of Roseland Community Hospital revealing the record number of African-American patients dying, having received none of the drugs they needed. A Little Village Alderman tearfully apologizing for approving the destruction of a smokestack that sent toxic debris into his neighborhood. An audio recording (shared thanks to reporter Heather Cherone) of a profanity-laden showdown between Mayor Lightfoot and Aldermen grappling with citywide violence and destruction.

Aside from the people viewers are used to seeing on Chicago Tonight, who will they get to know in this special?

Andries: They will meet the behind-the-scenes team that brings them the news, from Chicago Tonight to Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review to Latino Voices and Black Voices, as well as the WTTW News digital reporters and producers. Like producer Quinn Myers who covered the neighborhoods with Paris. And Chicago Tonight’s line producer Nicole Cardos who reported from North Lawndale during the protests. And Rebecca Palmore, WTTW News digital editor. And ground reporters who did incredible work 24/7, as protests led to National Guard troops mobilized in the streets.

What do you hope viewers take away from this look back at the year?

Andries: 2020 is a year that defies understanding. COVID-19 dominated our behavior,

the long overdue racial reckoning continues, and the presidential election has been mind bending. Communities around the city did their very best to help each other stay healthy.

Activists and community organizers walked a fine line between outrage and leadership, pointing the way to greater equity for everyone. And the record number of early and mail-in voters and the crowds who turned out peacefully on election day showed that in Chicago, democracy is still very much alive and well.

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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WTTW Digital Channel Highlights

Freedom Riders: American Experience Saturday, December 5 at 8:00 pm

Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules

Friday, December 25 at 12:00 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.

Revisit the most recent season of Call the Midwife in anticipation of the 2020 Call the Midwife Holiday Special, premiering on WTTW 11-1 at 8:00 pm that evening. This series, based on the memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth, follows the nurses, midwives, and nuns from Nonnatus House in London’s East End.

Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: The midwives of Nonnatus House and Santa

Masterful Bakers Sunday, December 6 at 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.

On your marks, get set... BAKE! Watch Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood put on a British baking masterclass while tackling the signature, technical, and showstopper challenges from the past five seasons of this favorite series.

Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood

The Ornament of the World Friday, December 11 at 7:00 pm

WTTW World WTTW World features public media’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.

The story of a remarkable time in history when Muslims, Christians, and Jews forged a common cultural identity that transcended their religious differences, this film retraces an 800-year period in medieval Spain, from the 8th through 15th centuries, during which the three cultures, though they competed and sometimes fought, managed to sustain relationships that enabled them to coexist, collaborate, and flourish.

Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: Abd Al-Rahman I, heir to the Umayyad dynasty

Let’s Go Luna: Christmas Around the World Friday, December 18 at 6:00 pm

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.

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Call the Midwife Marathon

Photo: Courtesy of Neal Street Productions

Pictured: CORE members (Freedom Riders) looking at map

Image: Courtesy of Kikim Media

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.

When the Circo gets stuck at the South Pole on Christmas eve, Leo, Andy, and Carmen are convinced that Santa will never find them. With the help of their friend Luna, the kids endeavor to save Christmas, learning about holiday traditions from around the world along the way.

Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules Pictured: Let’s Go Luna

Image: Courtesy of © LATW Productions Inc.

WTTW Prime

In 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives – and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment – for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws in order to challenge a segregated travel system, the Freedom Riders met with bitter racism and mob violence along the way.

Photo: Courtesy of Associated Press

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.

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process that unlocks the secrets of moving beyond our limitations to access a field of infinite possibilities. The program includes interviews with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Martha Beck, and more.

Deepak Chopra: Becoming Metahuman [R] Chicago Tonight [R]

conquered distances and built empires. Together, humans and horses flourished side by side. What makes us so perfect for each other?

11:30 BBC World News

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MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 7:30 Independent Lens: Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Celebrate the legacy of icon Fred Rogers in a film from Academy Award winner Morgan Neville. Beamed daily into American homes, Rogers and his cast of puppets and friends spoke simply and directly to children about some of life’s weightiest issues.

10:00 Nature: Equus - Story of the Horse: Origins (Part 1 of 2) The relationship between man and his noble steed is almost as old as civilization itself. Ever since the mysterious beginning of our extraordinary partnership, horses helped shape the human world. At the speed of a horse, our ancestors

Photo: Courtesy of Andrew Eccles

In the Spotlight

EARLY MORNING 12:00 Red, White, and Rock Join Frankie Valli, The Righteous Brothers, Connie Francis, and more for a 2002 patriotic celebration of America and pop oldies music. Featuring a dream lineup of artists from the rock, pop, and doo-wop days of the late ’50s and early to mid-’60s.

2:30 The Brain Revolution [R] 4:00 The Brain Revolution [R] 5:30 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review 7:30 Washington Week 8:00 Josh Groban: An Evening of Harmony In celebration of Josh’s new album Harmony, enjoy this compilation from his virtual concert tours, including highlights from select shows and never-before-seen performances. Hear some of Josh’s greatest hits and fan favorites, and a few songs from the new album.

9:30 Ledisi Live: A Tribute to Nina Simone From the historic Apollo Theatre, award-winning jazz and R&B recording artist Ledisi pays tribute to legendary African American singer, songwriter, and civil rights activist, Nina Simone.

11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Chicago from the Air [R]

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Josh Groban

Josh Groban: An Evening of Harmony In celebration of Josh’s new album Harmony, enjoy this compilation from his virtual concert tours, including highlights from select shows and never-before-seen performances. Hear some of Josh’s greatest hits and fan favorites, and a few songs from the new album.

Friday, December 4 8:00 pm

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EARLY MORNING 1:00 Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide [R] 3:00 Change Your Brain, Heal Your Mind with Daniel Amen, MD [R] 4:00 Rick Steves’ European Christmas From manger scenes and mistletoe to wintry wonderlands, this program celebrates the Christmas season throughout the European continent, offering a colorful, musical celebration of Christmas revealing customs from “the old countries” and holiday family traditions.

MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:00-6:00 To be announced EVENING 6:00 Making Sense of 2020 [R]

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In the Spotlight Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years! From Upstairs, Downstairs and I, Claudius to The Jewel in the Crown and Downton Abbey – Masterpiece has stood the test of time and introduced generations of public television audiences to the delights of British period drama. Join Alan Cumming to celebrate the iconic series that introduced generations of viewers to the delights of British drama.

To be announced

Sunday 6 EARLY MORNING 12:00-5:00 To be announced 5:00 Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide [R] MORNING 7:00 Chicago from the Air [R] 8:30 Chicago By ‘L’ with Geoffrey Baer Geoffrey Baer hops on the CTA’s famous Red, Blue, Green, Brown, Orange, Yellow, Pink, and Purple Lines to bring you a fascinating exploration of the colorful and diverse neighborhoods that Chicagoans access via the city’s storied elevated train system. Climb aboard with Geoffrey as he shares untold stories about the history of the ‘ L’ and introduces you to many of the attractions you can reach by riding it, the businesses that grew up around it, and the people who live and work in its shadow.

11:30 Chicago from the Air [R] AFTERNOON 1:00 Chicago River Tour with Geoffrey Baer Geoffrey takes us on 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, he 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.

3:30 Chicago from the Air [R] 5:00 To be announced EVENING 6:00 To be announced

Monday 7 EARLY MORNING 12:00 To be announced MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids

Host Alan Cumming

Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years!

From Upstairs, Downstairs and I, Claudius to The Jewel in the Crown and Downton Abbey – Masterpiece has stood the test of time and introduced generations of public television audiences to the delights of British period drama. Join host Alan Cumming to celebrate the iconic series that introduced generations of viewers to the delights of British drama.

Saturday, December 5 7:00 pm EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Rick Steves’ European Christmas See Sat. Dec. 5 at 4:00 pm. [R] 10:00 Making Sense of 2020 [R] 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 To be announced

Tuesday 8 EARLY MORNING 12:00 To be announced 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Chicago from the Air [R] 9:30 John Denver: Country Roads - Live in England See Tues. Dec. 1 at 12:00 am. [R] 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 To be announced

Wednesday 9 EARLY MORNING 12:00 To be announced 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]

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MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids

Afternoons 12:00 Dinosaur Train 12:30 Clifford the Big Red Dog 1:00 Sesame Street 1:30 Elinor Wonders Why 2:00 Hero Elementary 2:30 Let’s Go Luna 3:00 Nature Cat 3:30 Wild Kratts 4:00 Molly of Denali 4:30 Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum

Saturday Mornings 6:00 Sesame Street 6:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific 7:00 Elinor Wonders Why 7:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 8:00 Curious George 8:30 Clifford the Big Red Dog 9:00 One-Hour Specials

Sunday Mornings

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EARLY MORNING 12:00 To be announced 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]

EARLY MORNING 12:00 To be announced

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids

5:00 Cat in the Hat 5:30 Arthur 6:00 Let’s Go Luna 6:30 Wild Kratts 7:00 Nature Cat 7:30 Nature Cat 8:00 Molly of Denali 8:30 Molly of Denali 9:00 Hero Elementary 9:30 Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 10:00 Odd Squad

Xavier Riddle and Yadina

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EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 To be announced 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 To be announced

Friday 11 EARLY MORNING 12:00 To be announced 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 7:30 Washington Week 8:00 To be announced 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 To be announced

MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:00-6:00 To be announced EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices Brandis Friedman hosts this weekly series focusing on stories relevant to Chicago’s Black communities.

6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 8) A coach accident brings Charlotte to Sanditon, where she meets Tom and Sidney Parker.

Charlotte and Sidney have an awkward encounter.

In the Spotlight Photo: Courtesy of Jessica Nelson

6:00 Pinkalicious & Peterrific 6:30 Nature Cat 7:00 Molly of Denali 7:30 Wild Kratts 8:00 Hero Elementary 8:30 Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 9:00 Curious George 9:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 10:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 10:30 Elinor Wonders Why 11:00 Sesame Street 11:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific

5:00 Odd Squad 5:30 Arthur

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Monday-Friday Mornings

EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You See Tues.

Dec. 1 at 10:00 pm. [R] 9:30 Ken Burns: Here & There See Tues. Dec. 1 at 8:30 pm. [R] 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 To be announced

politics and university drinking societies to find the killer.

8:10 Endeavour Season 7 on Masterpiece: Oracle As Morse sees in 1970 at an opera house in Venice, a murder in Oxford puts Thursday on a quest to find the man responsible. Returning home, Morse makes a new acquaintance, and old friendships show signs of strain.

10:00 To be announced

Saturday 12 EARLY MORNING 12:00 To be announced MORNING-AFTERNOON 12:00 To be announced 4:30 Hanukkah: A Festival of Delights Explore the evolution of Hanukkah from a small holiday within Judaism to prominence in American culture.

William Shatner, Lainie Kazan, authors, rabbis, and others share historical background and personal memories.

Elinor Wonders Why Mondays-Fridays at 10:30 and 1:30 pm Saturdays at 7:00 am

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EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices Hugo Balta hosts this weekly series focusing on stories relevant to Chicago’s Latino communities.

6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Grantchester Season 5 on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 6) When a student from an allfemale college is found dead, Will and Geordie must infiltrate the murky world of campus

Hanukkah: A Festival of Delights Explore the evolution of Hanukkah from a small holiday within Judaism to prominence in American culture.

William Shatner, Lainie Kazan, authors, rabbis, and others share historical background and personal memories.

Saturday, December 12 4:30 pm

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Sanditon on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 8) Lady Denham hosts a pineapple party for West Indian heiress Miss Lambe. Edward’s relatives complicate matters. Charlotte and Sidney have an awkward encounter.

9:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 8) Young Stringer presses Tom for back pay owed his builders, currently toiling under dangerous conditions. Aided by the new doctor, Charlotte and Sidney respond to an emergency. Miss Lambe pines for her absent lover.

10:00 To be announced

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Antiques Roadshow: New Orleans (Part 3 of 3) Fabulous finds include an Andy Warhol portrait by Jamie Wyeth from around 1975, a Chinese gold-splashed bronze wine vessel dating to about 1795, and a 1904 English Smith & Son tourbillon pocket watch.

Which is valued at $75,000?

9:00 Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir featuring Kelli O’Hara and Richard Thomas the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square are joined

by Broadway headliner Kelli O’Hara and actor Richard Thomas (The Waltons), for the beloved Christmas tradition featuring favorite holiday music, dancing, and storytelling.

10:00 Independent Lens: The Force Go deep inside the long-troubled Oakland Police Department as it struggles to confront federal demands for reform, a popular uprising following events in Ferguson, Missouri, and an explosive scandal.

11:30 BBC World News

Monday 14 EARLY MORNING 12:00 To be announced MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices See Sun. Dec. 13 at 6:00 pm. [R] 5:30 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices See Sat. Dec. 12 at 6:00 pm. [R] 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids

Photo: Courtesy of Simon Ridgway/© Red Planet Pictures / ITV 2019

In the Spotlight

Sanditon on Masterpiece Experience Jane Austen’s last, fragmented work, where entrepreneurs, love interests, legacy hunters, hypochondriacs, and medical mountebanks come together at a struggling resort aimed to be the next fashionable playground in early 1800s England.

Sundays, December 13, 20, and 27, 7:00 pm

Voted one of the top 10 holiday historic home tours in 2019

by USA Today and 10Best!

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EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight

Theo James as Sidney Parker

1800 South Prairie Avenue, Chicago

EARLY MORNING 12:00 Amanpour and Company 1:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 8) See Sun. Dec. 13 at 7:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 8) See Sun. Dec. 13 at 8:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 8) See Sun. Dec. 13 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Ella Wishes You a Swingin’ Christmas, with Vanessa Williams Enjoy an evening celebrating Ella Fitzgerald’s entire iconic album of holiday classics presented by the American Pops Orchestra.

Featuring appearances by Dee Dee Bridgewater, Norm Lewis, Carmen Ruby Floyd, Nova Payton, Dave Detwiler, and Morgan James.

9:00 I Am Ireland This program features songs and stories with the traditional Irish tenor Paddy Homan & Orchestra.

Originally developed for the stage, this concert was filmed at Chicago’s renowned Old St. Pat’s Church and in the private residences of musicians, featuring the 40 members of

Christmas Candlelight Tours Saturday and Sunday December 12-13 & 19-20 Tours begin every 15 minutes First tour 4:30pm, last tour 6:30pm

Explore Christmas customs and decorations of the late 19th century including two trees, toys, the eight-course Christmas feast, and more!

House Decorated for Christmas

November 25 - December 30 Experience the house, decked out in its Christmas finery, during a docent-led tour.

Tours offered Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday at 11:30am, 1:00pm, and 2:30pm.

PLEASE NOTE All tours by advance ticket only Tours limited to four people to ensure safe social-distancing; face mask required Tours subject to change based on current state and city COVID-19 guidelines

For tickets and more information visit GlessnerHouse.org or call 312.326.1480 2020

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The City Lights Orchestra, conducted by Rich Daniels.

10:00 Frontline: I Am Not a Monster The story of an American boy taken by his mother to the ISIS-controlled city of Raqqa. This special report, three years in the making, investigates how the family ended up in Syria, and what happened when they came home to the United States.

11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Wednesday 16 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Antiques Roadshow: New Orleans (Part 3 of 3) See Mon. Dec. 14 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir featuring Kelli O’Hara and Richard Thomas See Mon. Dec. 14 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Independent Lens: The Force See Mon. Dec. 14 at 10:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]

Irish tenor Paddy Homan

I Am Ireland This program features songs and stories with the traditional Irish tenor Paddy Homan & Orchestra. Originally developed for the stage, this concert film was filmed at Chicago’s renowned Old St. Pat’s Church and in the private residences of musicians, featuring the 40 members of The City Lights Orchestra, conducted by Rich Daniels.

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Shelf Life: The Story of Lanzi Candy For 60 years, Lanzi Candy Company was one of dozens of family-run confectioneries that alongside candy giants Brach’s, Mars, and Wrigley, earned Chicago the title of “Candy Capital of the World.” Michael Lahey explores his Italian immigrant grandfather Elmo Lanzi’s sweet piece of Chicago history in a story of economic shifts, and family division.

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EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Nature: Animal Odd Couples Uncover the variety of activity, both human and natural, that occurs on the slopes of active volcanoes. See the surprising number of animals that survive and thrive alongside these fiery natural phenomena.

9:00 NOVA: Einstein’s Quantum Riddle Quantum entanglement is poised to revolutionize technology from networks to code breaking, but first we need to know that it’s real.

Join physicists as they capture light from across the universe in a bid to prove Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance.”

10:00 NOVA: Apollo’s Daring Mission Hear Apollo astronauts and engineers tell the inside story of how the first mission to the moon, Apollo 8, pioneered groundbreaking technologies that would pave the way to land a man on the moon and win the space race.

11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Thursday 17 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Ella Wishes You A Swingin’ Christmas, with Vanessa Williams See Tues.

Dec. 15 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 I Am Ireland See Tues.

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MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Shelf Life: The Story of Lanzi Candy For 60 years, Lanzi Candy Company was one of dozens of family-run confectioneries that alongside candy giants Brach’s, Mars, and Wrigley, earned Chicago the title of “Candy Capital of the World.” Filmmaker Michael Lahey explores his Italian immigrant grandfather Elmo Lanzi’s sweet piece of Chicago history in a story of economic shifts, family division, and one entrepreneur’s seven-year quest to remake Elmo’s most popular confection, Lanzi’s Cashew Nut Crunch.

9:30 Foods of Chicago: A Delicious History You are what you eat, goes the old saying. So what can we learn about Chicagoans from the food on our plates? Geoffrey Baer plays both taste tester and tour guide, exploring the little-known stories behind Chicago’s favorite foods.

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Lawn, who picked El Solazo in the West Elsdon neighborhood; and performing arts center director Tommy Hensel from Berwyn, who loves Fulton Market Kitchen.

8:30 Chicago Stories: The Marshall Field’s Christmas Windows For over a century, Marshall Field’s delighted children at Christmas time – the biggest attraction being the Christmas windows. These fantasies behind glass were a huge marketing success for the company, but they have come to mean much more to the people of Chicago.

9:00 Wild Travels: America’s Most Unusual Festivals This program, hosted by Will Clinger, is your VIP pass to the craziest annual celebrations that the USA has to offer. From the Rattlesnake Roundup in Texas to Pierogi Fest in Indiana, enjoy these truly odd and delightfully quirky festivals.

10:00 A Few Good Pie Places Come along on a tour of fruity and creamy pie shops from Maine to Minnesota.

11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

In the Spotlight Photo: Courtesy of The Haring Foundation

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In the Spotlight

Friday 18 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Amanpour and Company 1:00 Nature: Animal Odd Couples See Wed. Dec. 16 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 NOVA: Einstein’s Quantum Riddle See Wed. Dec. 16 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:00 NOVA: Apollo’s Daring Mission See Wed. Dec. 16 at 10:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Egypt’s Nile, Alexandria, and Luxor 4:30 BBC World News 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 7:30 Washington Week 8:00 Check, Please! Heritage, El Solazo, Fulton Market Kitchen Alpana welcomes West Town resident and esthetician Nanda Wait, who recommended Heritage Restaurant and Caviar Bar in Humboldt Park; teacher Michael Konkoleski of West

Keith Haring as a young boy

American Masters: Keith Haring – Street Art Boy Explore the definitive story of international art sensation Keith Haring who blazed a trail through the art scene of ‘80s New York and revolutionized the worlds of pop culture and fine art. The film features previously unheard interviews with Haring.

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Saturday 19 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Shelf Life: The Story of Lanzi Candy See Thurs.

Dec. 17 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Foods of Chicago: A Delicious History See Thurs.

Dec. 17 at 9:30 pm. [R] 4:00 Nature: Animal Odd Couples [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R] 5:30 The McLaughlin Group MORNING 6:00-10:00 WTTW Kids 10:00 This Old House: Project Interrupted 10:30 Ask This Old House: All About Windows 11:00 Flavor of Poland: Krakow 11:30 Lidia’s Kitchen AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country 12:30 Pati’s Mexican Table 1:00 Simply Ming: On the Road in California – Monterey 1:30 Stephen Raichlen’s Project Fire: Steak and Beyond 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: The Perfect Cookie 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Childhood Favorites, Grown Up 3:00 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: The Dodecanese for Dinner 3:30 A Chef’s Life 4:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Middle East Favorites 4:30 Check, Please! Heritage, El Solazo, Fulton Market Kitchen See Fri. Dec. 18 at 8:00 pm. [R] 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Ethiopia – A Development Story Rick uses Ethiopia as a classroom for understanding global hunger and extreme poverty – exploring and how to beat it.

5:30 MEXICO – One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless: Picture-Perfect Pozole Party EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Doc Martin: Listen with Mother Martin reluctantly agrees to help Louisa hand out awards at her school’s sports day. Ruth and Margaret have a showdown. Mike has a shady revelation from his past.

8:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – The Promised End Undertaker Peter Quintus leads a quiet and unassuming life with his loving wife Anne. So when he’s visited one morning by two mysterious hitmen who inform

him he has just 24 hours to live, he goes into a tailspin.

9:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – This Rough Magic Magician Lawrence Pross is in the midst of his grand finale when tragedy strikes and his unlucky volunteer is fatally trapped in his medieval iron maiden. Lawrence’s daughter Maggie doesn’t believe the trick was faulty and convinces him to enlist Frank and Lu. 10:00 Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas This irreverent documentary tells the story of the unlikely Jewish immigrants who, enamored with Broadway and Hollywood, wrote some of the most popular songs in America: Christmas music.

The doc features rarely seen archival footage, musical performances, and interviews.

11:00 Wild Travels: America’s Most Unusual Festivals See Fri. Dec. 18 at 9:00 pm. [R]

Sunday 20 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 8) [R] 1:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 8) [R] 2:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece (Part 3 of 8) [R] 3:00 Ella Wishes You A Swingin’ Christmas, with Vanessa Williams [R] 4:00 Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir featuring Kelli O’Hara and Richard Thomas [R] MORNING 5:00-11:00 WTTW Kids 11:00 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 11:30 The Chavis Chronicles AFTERNOON 12:00 Fly Brother with Ernest White II: Cape Town – The City Beautiful Amid good food and belly laughs, Ernest explores the spectacular natural and urban beauty of Cape Town, South Africa, by car with his road dog, Charlie Walters.

12:30 Kitchen Queens: New Orleans 1:00 Field Trip with Curtis Stone 1:30 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.

The Kingston Trio provides special folk arrangements of traditional Christmas carols.

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Meanwhile, Mother Superior falls ill, and it’s time for a new spiritual leader to be elected.

Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2019 Mother Mildred and the Nonnatus House team go to the Outer Hebrides in response to a nursing shortage. Navigating the terrain, they strive to keep up with the needs of the locals.

Charley Pride: American Masters Explore the complicated history of the American South and its music through the life of country star Charley Pride. Raised in segregated Mississippi, his journey shows the ways that artistic expression can triumph over prejudice and injustice.

EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece (Part 4 of 8) Lord Babington courts Esther, who prefers Edward. Charlotte and Sidney clash over Miss Lambe’s illicit meeting with Otis.

Young Stringer and Charlotte strike up a friendship.

8:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece (Part 5 of 8) Young Stringer threatens a worker boycott of the annual cricket match with Sanditon’s gentlemen. Even Charlotte joins the game as simmering tensions boil over.

9:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece (Part 6 of 8) At loggerheads over the disappearance of Miss Lambe, Charlotte and Sidney comb the London underworld to find her.

Meanwhile, Tom tries to save Sanditon and his marriage, and Edward and Clara hatch a cunning plot to seize Lady Denham’s legacy.

10:00 Check, Please! Heritage, El Solazo, Fulton Market Kitchen [R] 10:30 The Great British Baking Show: Pies (Part 5 of 10) In the Signature, the bakers must master a perfect Wellington. The fiendishly difficult Technical challenge, hand-raised pies, proves the downfall of many. American pies are the Showstopper feature. Who will be this week’s star-spangled baker?

11:30 Austin City Limits: Khalid/Mac Demarco

Monday 21 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Doc Martin: Listen with Mother See Sat. Dec. 19 at 7:00 pm. [R]

Photo: Courtesy of © Rebecca Larson

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Wheaton College Christmas Festival 2020: Through His Own Redeeming Love The Wheaton College Conservatory of Music in Wheaton, Illinois, performs its annual Christmas Festival Concert, Through His Own Redeeming Love.

Watch as the Wheaton College Concert Choir, Harp Ensemble, Men’s Glee Club, Women’s Chorale, and Symphonic Band perform various choral and instrumental pieces, including holiday favorites including “Greensleeves,” “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing,” and “Once in Royal David’s City.”

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Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – The Promised End See Sat. Dec. 19 at 8:00 pm. [R] Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators – This Rough Magic See Sat. Dec. 19 at 9:00 pm. [R] Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas See Sat. Dec. 19 at 10:00 pm. [R] BBC World News Chicago Tonight: Black Voices See Sun. Dec. 20 at 6:00 pm. [R] Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices [R]

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Orlando (Part 1 of 3) Finds include Joe Strummer’s boots, circa 1979; Ned Hanlon championship pins and cufflinks, circa 1895; and a 1941 Grant Wood “March” lithograph. Learn which is valued at $200,000!

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Antiques Roadshow: Orlando (Part 2 of 3) Finds include a 1965 NASA “Corned Beef” archive, a Korean The Water Moon Viewing Guanyin painting, and a 1918 World War I peach can label letter.

Which is the big find?

10:00 American Masters: Keith Haring – Street Art Boy Explore the definitive story of international art sensation Keith Haring who blazed a trail through the art scene of ‘80s New York and revolutionized the worlds of pop culture and fine art. The film features previously unheard interviews with Haring.

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Sanditon on Masterpiece (Part 5 of 8) See Sun. Dec. 20 at 8:00 pm. [R] Sanditon on Masterpiece (Part 6 of 8) See Sun. Dec. 20 at 9:00 pm. [R] The Great British Baking Show: Pies (Part 5 of 10) See Sun. Dec. 20 at 10:30 pm. [R] BBC World News Chicago Tonight [R]

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Tuesday 22 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Sanditon on Masterpiece (Part 4 of 8) See Sun. Dec. 20 at 7:00 pm. [R]

Photo: Courtesy of Neal Street Productions

In the Spotlight

EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Finding Your Roots: Reporting on the Reporters Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. shows journalists Christiane Amanpour, Ann Curry, and Lisa Ling that the stories within their own family trees are every bit as compelling as the news stories they have been covering for the world.

9:00 Lincoln is Crying: The Grifters, Grafters & Governors of Illinois This new documentary is a scathing indictment of politics in the “Land of Lincoln,” a funny/ sad look at the pervasive, deep-rooted culture of political corruption in Illinois and Chicago. Voiced by comedic actor David Pasquesi (Veep, Lodge 49, At Home with Amy Sedaris).

10:30 Chicago Stories: The Marshall Field’s Christmas Windows See Fri. Dec. 18 at 8:30 pm. [R] 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

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Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2020 In December 1965, everyone at Nonnatus House is looking forward to a traditional Christmas, but things don’t go to plan. Poor Sister Monica Joan is rushed to the hospital, while Trixie is angry to receive a subscription to a Marriage Bureau as a Christmas gift! Meanwhile, the Circus arrives in Poplar bringing new friendships and experiences, there’s an exciting adventure for Nurse Crane, and Shelagh is involved in a deeply moving birth. Peter Davison (Doctor Who) guest stars.

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EARLY MORNING 12:30 Antiques Roadshow: Orlando (Part 1 of 3) See Mon. Dec. 21 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Antiques Roadshow: Orlando (Part 2 of 3) See Mon. Dec. 21 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:30 American Masters: Keith Haring – Street Art Boy See Mon. Dec. 21 at 10:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Charley Pride: American Masters See Sun. Dec. 20 at 5:00 pm. [R] 4:30 BBC World News 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: Snowbound Animals of Winter Travel across the snow globe with wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan to meet animal survivors of winter, from the penguins of Antarctica to

the Arctic fox and the bison of Yellowstone. Snow looks magical, but it’s a harsh reality to these animals.

9:00 NOVA: Pluto and Beyond Join the mission as the New Horizons spacecraft attempts to fly by NASA’s most distant target yet. Since it explored Pluto in 2015, New Horizons is zooming toward Ultima Thule, an object four billion miles from Earth.

10:00 Nature: Wild Way of the Vikings Experience the natural world through the eyes of the Vikings. From the killer whales of the North Sea to the volcanic mounts of Iceland, explore the deep history and cultural respect the Vikings had with the land and sea.

Ewan McGregor narrates.

11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Thursday 24 Christmas Eve EARLY MORNING 12:30 Finding Your Roots: Reporting on the Reporters See Tues.

Dec. 22 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2018 See Sun. Dec. 20 at 2:00 pm. [R]

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MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 7:30 Chicago Stories: The Marshall Field’s Christmas Windows [R] 8:00 Wheaton College Christmas Festival 2020: Through His Own Redeeming Love The Wheaton College Conservatory of Music in Wheaton, Illinois, performs its annual Christmas Festival Concert, Through His Own Redeeming Love.

Watch as the Wheaton College Concert Choir, Harp Ensemble, Men’s Glee Club, Women’s Chorale, and Symphonic Band perform various choral and instrumental pieces, including holiday favorites including “Greensleeves,” “Hark! the Herald Angels Sing,” and “Once in Royal David’s City.”

9:00 The St. Olaf Christmas Festival: A New Song of Grace and Truth This year’s Festival features the St. Olaf Choir, the St. Olaf Orchestra, 2020

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America ReFramed

Shakespeare & Hathaway

PBS NewsHour

World on Fire

DW The Day

Chicago Tonight

NOVA

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Foods of Chicago: A Delicious History

9:30 pm

Wild Travels: America’s Most Unusual Festivals

PBS NewsHour

The Coroner

PBS NewsHour

Secrets of the Six Wives

NOVA

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Wheaton College Christmas Festival Concert 2020 The St. Olaf Christmas Festival: A New Song …

Roads to Memphis: American Experience

Gandhi’s Awakening & Gandhi’s Gift

NOVA

Shakespeare & Hathaway

Nature

Hillary

Finding Your Roots

Tending Nature

Nature

Antiques Roadshow

Same God

Poison Squad: American Experience

Sanditon on Masterpiece

Great Performances: Twilight - Los Angeles

11-3 Gandhi’s Awakening & Gandhi’s Gift

11-2 Motorweek

Future of America’s …

Sanditon on Masterpiece

Chicago Tonight Ask This Old House

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11-3 City Hall

11-2 History Detectives

11-1 Black Voices

11-3 American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story

Antiques Roadshow

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11-2 Poldark on Masterpiece

NOVA

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Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2020

11-2 The Great British Baking Show

11-3 NOVA Washington Week

Chicago Tonight

11-1 PBS NewsHour

Around the Corner

Chicago Tonight

11-1 PBS NewsHour

11-3 Independent Lens

America ReFramed

11-3 Standing on Sacred Ground

Chicago Stories

Maya Angelou: American Masters

Guru Nanak: The Founder of Sikhism

Call the Midwife

11-2 Milk Street Television America’s Test Kitchen

Chicago Tonight

11-1 PBS NewsHour

NOVA

11-2 Motorweek Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer

Chicago Tonight

11-1 PBS NewsHour

11-3 The Many Storeys and Last Days of Thomas …

Nature

11-3 Three Faiths, One God …

Ask This Old House

Influenza 1918: American Experience

11-2 History Detectives

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Antiques Roadshow

11-2 Poldark on Masterpiece

11-3 Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman …

Shakespeare & Hathaway

11-1 Latino Voices

Sanditon on Masterpiece

Check, Please!

Earth’s Sacred Wonders

Midsomer Murders

Holy Silence PBS NewsHour Wknd.

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Shelf Life: The Story of Lanzi Candy

Frontline

Secrets of the Six Wives

Nature

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11-3 Inside the Vatican Doc Martin

NOVA Rick Steves’ Europe

Midsomer Murders

11-2 The Great British Baking Show

11-3 NOVA Washington Week

Chicago Tonight

Independent Lens

7:30 pm

11-1 PBS NewsHour

Secrets of the Six Wives

Around the Corner

11-2 Wisconsin Foodie

7:00 pm

11-3 Our American Family

6:30 pm Chicago Tonight

6:00 pm

11-1 PBS NewsHour

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the St. Olaf Cantorei, the St. Olaf Chapel Choir, the Manitou Singers, and the Viking Chorus, performing as individual groups and as a massed ensemble.

10:00 Christmas at Belmont This special features Belmont University students along with Michael W. Smith, CeCe Winans, and the Nashville Children’s Choir. Taped in Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center, the show includes classic holiday songs and festive tunes.

11:00 Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir featuring Kelli O’Hara and Richard Thomas [R]

Friday 25 Christmas Day EARLY MORNING 12:00 BBC World News 12:30 Wheaton College Christmas Festival 2020: Through His Own Redeeming Love See Thurs. Dec. 24 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 The St. Olaf Christmas Festival: A New Song of Joy and Hope See Thurs.

Dec. 24 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Christmas at Belmont See Thurs. Dec. 24 at 10:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir featuring Kelli O’Hara and Richard Thomas [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 5:30 Check, Please! Heritage, El Solazo, Fulton Market Kitchen [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 BBC World News America 7:30 Washington Week 8:00 Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2020 In December 1965, everyone at Nonnatus House is looking forward to a traditional Christmas, but things don’t go to plan. Poor Sister Monica Joan is rushed to the hospital, while Trixie is angry to receive a subscription to a Marriage Bureau as a Christmas gift! Meanwhile, the Circus arrives in Poplar bringing new friendships and experiences, there’s an exciting adventure for Nurse Crane, and Shelagh is involved in a deeply moving birth. Peter Davison (Doctor Who) guest stars.

9:30 Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas Join Lucy Worsley on a 12-day extravaganza as she discovers that much of what we enjoy

in contemporary Christmas - from carols to turkey, gift-giving to mistletoe and mulled wine - has surprising Tudor origins, rooted in devotion and charity.

10:30 European Christmas Markets See Sun. Dec. 20 at 1:30 pm. [R] 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Saturday 26 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Nature: Snowbound Animals of Winter See Wed. Dec. 23 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 NOVA: Pluto and Beyond See Wed. Dec. 23 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Nature: Wild Way of the Vikings See Wed. Dec. 23 at 10:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas See Fri. Dec. 25 at 9:30 pm. [R] 4:30 European Christmas Markets [R] 5:00 Washington Week [R] 5:30 The McLaughlin Group MORNING 6:00-10:00 WTTW Kids 10:00 This Old House: New Light in Old Windows 10:30 Ask This Old House: Installing Water Features 11:00 Flavor of Poland: Warsaw 11:30 Lidia’s Kitchen AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country 12:30 Pati’s Mexican Table 1:00 Simply Ming: On the Road in California – San Jose 1:30 Stephen Raichlen’s Project Fire: Fish Hits the Fire 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: How to Braise Everything 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: Tasty Thai 3:00 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: Aegean Cuisine 3:30 A Chef’s Life 4:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Vietnamese Every Day 4:30 Check, Please! Ema, Passero, Whisk Alpana welcomes Villa Park resident and medical science liaison Monica Timmerman, who recommended the River North eatery EMA; writer Helen Weiner, who loves Passero in Arlington Heights; and South Loop business development executive Carlos Vasquez, who chose Whisk in West Town.

5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Why We Travel In times of crisis and challenge, we ask ourselves: What is the true value of travel? Is it just hedonism…or something more powerful? After a lifetime of exploring Europe - and inspiring Americans to see

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Europe as the springboard for world exploration - Rick Steves shares his reasons why. This special episode is a sonnet to travel - an introspective love story, set in Europe, that vividly celebrates the rewards of exploring our world and the joy that awaits those who travel.

MEXICO – One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless: Beautifully Balanced Ceviche

EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Doc Martin: Departure Louisa has shocking news for Martin, Bert and Jennifer’s party goes off with a bang, and Al has a business proposition for Ruth.

8:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway, Private Investigators: Toil and Trouble When the Mayor of Arden is discovered murdered in his isolated cottage, suspicion falls on a local man, but he’s nowhere to be found.

9:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway, Private Investigators: Exit, Pursued by a Bear It’s a slow day in the office for Frank and Lu until a hysterical Sally Balthasar flies into the office.

9:55 City Hall Master long-form documentarian Frederick Wiseman delivers this

epic look at Boston’s city government, covering racial justice, housing, climate action, and more, focusing on Boston mayor Marty Walsh.

Sunday 27 EARLY MORNING 2:30 Lincoln is Crying: The Grifters, Grafters & Governors of Illinois See Tues. Dec. 22 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Nature: Wild Way of the Vikings [R] MORNING 5:00-11:00 WTTW Kids 11:00 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 11:30 The Chavis Chronicles AFTERNOON 12:00 Fly Brother with Ernest White II: Double Feature – Bogota and Casablanca Ernest hangs out in Colombia’s capital city with his bud, telenovela heartthrob Roberto Manrique. Then, it’s on to Morocco’s most underrated city, replete with a range of delicious delights, as guided by his friends, Omar Wydadi and Thierry Kabeya.

12:30 Kitchen Queens: New Orleans 1:00 Field Trip with Curtis Stone 1:30 To be announced

Do it Yourself Saturdays 10:00 This Old House 10:30 Ask This Old House 11:00 Flavor of Poland 11:30 Lidia’s Kitchen 12:00 Cook’s Country 12:30 Pati’s Mexican Table 1:00 Simply Ming 1:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen 3:00 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas 3:30 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television 4:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television 4:30 Check, Please!

5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 5:30 Mexico: One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless 2020

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Pritzker Military Presents Bestselling author Antony Beevor discusses his book, Ardennes, 1944: Hitler’s Last Gamble, a history of the Battle of the Bulge that brings realism to the battlefield and coherence to the larger story of the Second World War. Craft in America: Storytellers Meet artists who use narrative to communicate personal and universal truths. Featuring artist Nicholas Galanin, Julie Schafler Dale, Linda J. Mendelson, George Rodriguez, and Christina Bothwell.

Craft in America: Democracy Explore how craft is intertwined with our nation’s defining principles. Featuring Robert L. Lynch, Sammy Little, Smithsonian Institution museums, Harvey Pratt, the Veterans History Project, Eudorah Moore, and Berea College Student Craft.

Making Sense of 2020 [R]

EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece (Part 7 of 8) With the approach of Sanditon’s regatta, the success of the resort hangs in the balance - as do assorted romances. How will Charlotte, Sidney, and other lovers fare in the marriage game?

8:00 Sanditon on Masterpiece (Part 8 of 8) On the night of the Midsummer Ball, romance, jealousy, and betrayal fill the air. Events conspire to leave Charlotte and the Parker family facing difficult choices.

9:00 Call the Middwife Holiday Special 2020 [R] 10:30 The Great British Baking Show: Puddings (Part 6 of 10) For their Signature challenge, the bakers go all out with two types of sponge puddings. In the Technical, they face Queen of Pudding, a recipe direct from the archives of Mary Berry. A Showstopper strudel stretches them to their limits.

11:30 Austin City Limits: Gary Clark, Jr. The Austin singer-songwriter and guitarist performs songs from his highly acclaimed album This Land.

Monday 28 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Doc Martin: Departure See Sat. Dec. 26 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Shakespeare & Hathaway, Private Investigators: Toil and Trouble See Sat. Dec. 26 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Shakespeare & Hathaway, Private Investigators: Exit, 18

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Pursued by a Bear See Sat. Dec. 26 at 9:00 pm. [R] A Few Good Pie Places See Fri. Dec. 18 at 10:00 pm. [R] BBC World News Chicago Tonight: Black Voices See Sat. Dec. 26 at 6:00 pm. [R] Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices See Sun. Dec. 27 at 6:00 pm. [R]

MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Orlando (Part 3 of 3) Finds include a 1946 Einstein-signed photo and prints; an Agassiz pendant watch, circa 1905; and a Chinese gold-splashed bronze vase, circa 1850.

9:00 Antiques Roadshow: Harrisburg (Part 1 of 3) Finds include a Pennsylvania Dutch coffeepot, an 1892 H. F. Farny painting, and a Rene Lalique necklace.

10:00 Vernon Jordan: Make it Plain This film explores Vernon Jordan’s rise from the segregated South, his tenure as the head of several civil rights organizations, and his current position as a partner at a corporate law firm and financial behemoth Lazard.

11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Tuesday 29 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Sanditon on Masterpiece (Part 7 of 8) See Sun. Dec. 27 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Sanditon on Masterpiece (Part 8 of 8) See Sun. Dec. 27 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2020 [R] 4:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 American Masters: Laura Ingalls Wilder – Prairie to Page Follow the journey of the award-winning author of the best-selling Little House series in this exploration of her life and legacy and her little-known, secret collaboration with her daughter on the books that shaped American ideas of the frontier.

9:30 Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew Follow Anne Shirley’s journey to Queen’s College

in Charlottetown. She misses Matthew and Marilla, and is overwhelmed by loneliness, city life, and the intense competition. Will Anne find that the dark cloud over her life does have a silver lining?

11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

Wednesday 30 EARLY MORNING 12:30 Antiques Roadshow: Orlando (Part 3 of 3) See Mon. Dec. 28 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Antiques Roadshow: Harrisburg (Part 1 of 3) See Mon. Dec. 28 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Vernon Jordan: Make it Plain See Mon. Dec. 28 at 10:00 pm. [R] 3:30 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices [R] 4:00 Check, Please! Ema, Passero, Whisk [R] 4:30 BBC World News 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: Cold Warriors – Wolves and Buffalo For thousands of years, wolves hunted buffalo across the vast North American plains until the westward settlement of the continent saw the virtual extinction of both.

9:00 NOVA: The Impossible Flight Follow two intrepid pilots as they take on the greatest aviation adventure of our time, overcoming countless challenges as they construct and fly the first solar-powered airplane around the world.

11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company

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United in Song: Celebrating the Resilience of America Join us for an evening of powerful performances to unite and celebrate our country, affirming our commitment to come together as Americans through the arts. The slave cemetery at Mt. Vernon will be highlighted, with a moving narrative by Anna Deavere Smith and a special performance by Denyce Graves.

9:00 Sherlock Season 4 on Masterpiece: The Six Thatchers Sherlock Holmes is back once more on British soil, as Doctor Watson and his wife prepare for their biggest challenge yet: becoming parents.

10:35 Sherlock Season 4 on Masterpiece: The Lying Detective In this episode, Sherlock faces perhaps the most chilling enemy of his long career: the powerful and seemingly unassailable Culverton Smith, a man with a dark secret.

In the Spotlight

Thursday 31 New Year’s Eve EARLY MORNING 12:30 American Masters: Laura Ingalls Wilder – Prairie to Page See Tues.

Dec. 29 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew See Tues.

Dec. 29 at 9:30 pm. [R] 3:30 The Great British Baking Show: Puddings (Part 6 of 10) See Sun. Dec. 27 at 10:30 pm. [R] 4:30 BBC World News 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] MORNING-AFTERNOON 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight

Nature: Cold Warriors – Wolves and Buffalo For thousands of years, wolves hunted buffalo across the vast North American plains until the westward settlement of the continent saw the virtual extinction of both. However, this ancient relationship was not lost altogether, and continues uninterrupted in just one location - Wood Buffalo National Park. Today, the descendants of those ancient buffalo and wolves still engage in epic life and death dramas, and by getting to know the individual wolves in a specific pack and following them as they hunt, we get a sense of how these two animal species coexist.

Wednesday, December 30 8:00 pm

December At-a-Glance • Arts • Performance Austin City Limits Sundays, 11:30 pm (12/20, 12/27) Christmas at Belmont Thursday, 10:00 pm (12/24) Friday, 2:30 am (12/25) Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir featuring Kelli O’Hara and Richard Thomas Monday, 9:00 pm (12/14) Wednesday, 1:30 am (12/16) Sunday, 4:00 am (12/20) Thursday, 11:00 pm (12/24) Friday, 3:30 am (12/25) Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You Tuesday, 10:00 pm (12/1) Wednesday, 8:00 pm (12/9) Ella Wishes You a Swingin’ Christmas, with Vanessa Williams Tuesday, 8:00 pm (12/15) Thursday, 12:30 am (12/17) Sunday, 3:00 am (12/20) Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival Thursday, 12:30 am (12/3) I Am Ireland Tuesday, 9:00pm (12/15) Thursday, 1:30 am (12/17) John Denver: Country Roads: Live in England Tuesday, 9:30 pm (12/8) Josh Groban: An Evening of Harmony Friday, 8:00 pm (12/4) Ledisi Live: A Tribute to Nina Simone Friday, 9:30 pm (12/4) Red, White, and Rock Friday, 12:00 am (12/4) Riverdance 25th Anniversary Show Wednesday 12:00 am (12/2) St. Olaf Christmas Festival: A New Song of Grace and Truth Thursday, 9:00 pm (12/24) Friday, 1:30 am (12/25) United in Song: Celebrating the Resilience of America Thursday, 7:30 pm (12/31) Wheaton College Christmas Festival: Through His Own Redeeming Love Thursday, 8:00 pm (12/24) Friday, 12:30 am (12/25)

Drama • Comedy • Movies Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew Tuesday, 9:30 pm (12/29) Thursday, 2:00 am (12/31) Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2018 Sunday, 2:00 pm, Thursday, 1:30 am (12/24) Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2019 Sunday, 3:30pm (12/20), 3:00 am (12/24) Call the Midwife Holiday Special 2020 Friday, 8:00 pm (12/25) Sunday, 3:30 am, 9:00 pm (12/27) Tuesday, 2:30 am (12/29) Doc Martin Saturdays, 7:00 pm (12/19, 12/26) Mondays, 12:30 am (12/21, 12/28) Endeavour Season 7 on Masterpiece Saturday, 8:10 pm (12/12) Grantchester Season 5 on Masterpiece Saturday, 7:00 pm (12/12) Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years!

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Sanditon on Masterpiece Sunday, 7:00 pm, 8:00 pm, 9:00 pm (12/13) Tuesday, 1:00 am, 2:00 am, 3:00 am (12/15) Sunday, 12:00 am, 1:00 am, 2:00 am, 7:00 pm, 8:00 pm, 9:00 pm (12/20) Tuesday, 12:30 am, 1:30 am, 2:30 am (12/22) Sunday, 7:00 pm, 8:00 pm (12/27) Tuesday, 12:30 am, 1:30 am (12/29) Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators Saturdays, 8:00 pm, 9:00 pm (12/19, 12/26) Mondays, 1:30 am, 2:30 am (12/21, 12/28) Sherlock Season 4 on Masterpiece Thursday, 9:00 pm, 10:35pm (12/31) Friday, 12:10 am (1/1/21)

Cooking & Dining • Home Improvement • Travel America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Saturdays, 2:00 pm, 2:30 pm (12/19, 12/26) Antiques Roadshow Monday, 8:00 pm (12/14) Wednesday, 12:30 am (12/16) Thursday, 3:30 am (12/17) Mondays, 8:00 pm, 9:00 pm (12/21, 12/28) Wednesdays, 12:30 am, 1:30 am (12/23, 12/30) Ask This Old House Saturdays, 10:30 am (12/19, 12/26) Check, Please!

Friday, 8:00 pm (12/18) Saturdays, 4:30 pm (12/19, 12/26) Sunday, 10:00 pm (12/20) Friday, 5:30 am (12/25) Wednesday, 4:00 am (12/30) Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Saturdays, 4:00 pm (12/19, 12/26) Cook’s Country Saturdays, 12:00 pm (12/19, 12/26) European Christmas Markets Sunday, 1:30 pm (12/20) Friday, 10:30 pm (12/25) Saturday, 4:30 am (12/26) Few Good Pie Places Friday, 10:00 pm (12/18) Monday, 3:30 am (12/28) Field Trip with Curtis Stone Sundays, 1:00 pm (12/20, 12/27) Flavor of Poland Saturdays, 11:00 am (12/19, 12/26) Fly Brother with Ernest White II Sundays, 12:00 pm (12/20, 12/27) Foods of Chicago: A Delicious History Thursday, 9:30 am (12/17) Saturday, 2:00 am (12/19) Great British Baking Show Sundays, 10:30 pm (12/20, 12/27) Tuesday, 3:30 am (12/22) Thursday, 3:30 am (12/31) Kitchen Queens: New Orleans Sundays, 12:30 pm (12/20, 12/27) Lidia’s Kitchen Saturdays, 11:30 am (12/19, 12/26) Mexico: One Plate at a Time Saturdays, 5:30 pm (12/19, 12/26) My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas Saturdays, 3:00 pm (12/19, 12/26) Pati’s Mexican Table Saturdays, 12:30 am (12/19, 12/26)

Rick Steves’ Europe Friday, 4:00 am (12/18) Saturdays, 5:00 pm (12/19, 12/26) Rick Steves’ European Christmas Saturday, 4:00 pm (12/5) Monday, 8:00 pm (12/7) Simply Ming Saturdays, 1:00 pm (12/19, 12/26) Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire Saturdays, 1:30 pm (12/19, 12/26) This Old House Saturdays, 10:00 am (12/19, 12/26) Wild Travels: America’s Most Unusual Festivals Friday, 9:00 pm (12/18) Saturday, 11:00 pm (12/19)

Nature • Science • Technology Brain Revolution Friday, 2:30 am, 4:00 am (12/4) Change Your Brain, Heal Your Mind Wednesday, 2:00 am (12/02) Saturday, 3:00 am (12/5) Deepak Chopra: Becoming Metahuman Thursday, 2:30 am, 4:00 am (12/3) Nature Thursday, 10:00 pm (12/3) Wednesdays, 8:00 pm (12/16, 12/23, 12/30) Wednesday, 10:00 pm (12/23) Wednesday, 4:00 am (12/27) Sunday, 10:00 pm (12/3) Friday, 1:00 am (12/18) Saturday, 4:00 am (12/19) Saturday, 12:30 am (12/26) Sunday, 4:00 am (12/27) Friday, 3:30 am (1/1/21) NOVA Wednesdays, 9:00 pm (12/16, 12/23, 12/30) Wednesday, 10:00 pm (12/16) Friday, 2:00 am, 3:00 am (12/18) Saturday, 1:30 am, 2:30 am (12/26)

Public Affairs • History • Documentary Amanpour and Company Tuesday, 12:00 am (12/15) Tuesdays, 11:30 pm (12/15, 12/22, 12/29) Wednesdays, 11:30 pm (12/16, 12/23, 12/30) Friday, 12:00 am (12/18) Fridays, 11:30 pm (12/18, 12/25) Mondays, 11:30 pm (12/21, 12/28) Friday, 2:30 am (1/1/21) American Masters: Laura Ingalls Wilder – Prairie to Page Tuesday, 8:00 pm (12/29) Thursday, 12:30 am (12/31) American Masters: Keith Haring – Street Art Boy Monday, 10:00 pm (12/21) Wednesday, 2:30 am (12/23) BBC World News Mondays-Fridays, 4:30 am, 11:00 pm BBC World News America Friday, 7:00 pm (12/25) Charley Pride: American Masters Sunday, 5:00 pm (12/20) Wednesday, 3:30 am (12/23) Chavis Chronicles Sundays, 11:30 pm (12/20, 12/27) Chicago by ‘L’ with Geoffrey Baer Sunday, 8:30 am (12/6) Chicago from the Air Wednesday, 7:30 pm, 10:15 pm (12/2) Friday, 11:30 pm (12/4)

Sunday, 7:00 am, 11:30 am, 3:30 pm (12/6) Tuesday, 8:00 pm (12/8) Chicago River Tour with Geoffrey Baer Sunday, 1:00 pm (12/6) Chicago Stories Friday, 8:30 pm (12/18) Tuesday, 10:30 pm (12/22) Thursday, 7:30 pm (12/24) Chicago Tonight Mondays-Thursdays, 7:00 pm, 5:00 am Chicago Tonight: Black Voices Sundays, 6:00 pm (12/13, 12/20, 12/27) Mondays, 5:00 am (12/14, 12/21, 12/28) Wednesday, 4:00 am (12/16) Wednesday, 3:30 am (12/30) Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices Saturdays, 6:00 pm (12/12, 12/19, 12/26) Mondays, 5:30 am (12/14, 12/21, 12/28) Tuesdays, 4:00 am (12/15, 12/29) Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review Fridays, 7:00 pm (12/12/4, 12/11, 12/18) Saturday, 5:00 am (12/19) City Hall Saturday, 9:55 pm (12/26) Craft in America Sunday, 3:00 pm, 4:00 pm (12/27) Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas Saturday, 10:00 pm (12/19) Monday, 3:30 am (12/21) Finding Your Roots Tuesday, 8:00 pm (12/22) Thursday, 12:30 pm (12/24) Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Sunday, 11:00 am (12/20, 12/27) Hanukkah: A Festival of Delights Saturday, 4:30 pm (12/12) Independent Lens Thursday, 7:30 pm (12/3) Monday, 10:00 pm (12/14) Wednesday, 2:30 am (12/16) Ken Burns: Here & There Tuesday, 8:30 pm (12/1) Wednesday, 9:30 pm (12/9) Lincoln Is Crying Tuesday, 9:00 pm (12/22) Sunday, 2:00 am (12/27) Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas Friday, 9:30 pm (12/25) Saturday, 3:30 am (12/26) Making Sense of 2020 Tuesday, 7:30 pm (12/1) Wednesday, 9:20 pm (12/2) Saturday, 6:00 pm (12/5) Monday, 10:00 pm (12/7) Sunday, 5:00 pm (12/27) McLaughlin Group Saturdays, 5:30 pm (12/19, 12/26) PBS NewsHour Mondays-Fridays, 6:00 pm PBS NewsHour Weekend Saturdays, 6:30 pm (12/12, 12/19, 12/26) Sundays, 6:30 pm (12/20, 12/27) Shelf Life: The Story of Lanzi Candy Thursday, 8:00 pm (12/17) Saturday, 12:30 am (12/19) Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide Wednesday, 3:30 am (12/2) Saturday, 1:00 am (12/5) Sunday, 5:00 am (12/6) Vernon Jordan: Make it Plain Monday, 10:00 pm (12/28) Wednesday, 2:30 am (12/30) Washington Week Fridays, 7:30 pm (12/4, 12/11, 12/18, 12/25) Saturday, 5:00 am (12/26) WTTW 2020 Great Treasure Hunt Sweepstakes Drawing Wednesday, 9:00 pm (12/2)

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Programming Subject to Change Without Notice

Programmer’s Picks Live from WFMT Encore

Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari

Exploring Music

We’ll hear pianist Matthew Hagle in sonatas to honor the Beethoven anniversary, and an international holiday-themed concert by the Wicker Park Choral Singers. And Chicago Baroque specialists perform a 17th-century Christmas cantata.

Elbio Barilari goes back in time for little-known Spanish and Latin-American Christmas music, including portions of the Missa Pastoril para Noite de Natal by Brazil’s José Maurício Nunes Garcia.

And listen for Jose Feliciano’s Feliz Navidad.

As a musical response to the scourge of violence in the world, Host Bill McGlaughlin plays peaceful, inspiring music from Bach and Mozart to Vaughan Williams to Bill Evans for a thoughtprovoking Christmas week series.

Mondays, December 7, 14, 21, 8:00 pm

Saturday, December 19, 7:00 pm

Weekdays, December 21-25, 7:00 pm

12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Alberto Ginastera Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2 – Pola Baytelman, p. Elan 82288 (2). [8:11] Ottorino Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute, set 1 – La Pietà/ Angèle Dubeau, v. Analekta FL2-3125. [14:09] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Arcangelo Corelli Concerto grosso in C, Op. 6/10 – Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi. Opus 111 OPS-30-155. [10:49] 11:00 Daily Excursion: Darius Milhaud Saudades do Brasil, Op. 67: set 2 – William Bolcom, p. Nonesuch 71316-2. [11:10] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Henry Cowell Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 10 – Celia Nicklin, ob; St. Martin’s Academy/Sir Neville Marriner. Argo 417818-2. [6:50] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Johann Sebastian Bach Flute Sonata in E-Flat, BWV 1031: II. Siciliano; Chorale-prelude, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Now Come, Saviour of the Heathens), BWV 659a; Chorale- prelude, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Sleepers wake), BWV 645 – Wilhelm Kempff, p. DG 439672-2 (2). [13:03] Richard Wagner Lohengrin: Preludes to Acts 1 & 3 – Chicago Sym/Daniel Barenboim. Teldec 99595-2.

[13:20] Giuseppe Verdi I Vespri Siciliani: Four Seasons Ballet: Autumn – Munich Radio Orch/Roberto Abbado.

RCA 62651-2. [9:23] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Johannes Brahms Piano

Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat, Op. 83 – Leon Fleisher, p; Cleveland Orch/George Szell.

Sony MH2K-63225 (2). [47:26] 3:00 William Walton Orb and Sceptre, Coronation March 1953 – Royal Liverpool Phil/ Sir Charles Groves. EMI CDZ7-62528-2. [7:13] Benjamin Britten Gloriana: Courtly Dances – Julian Bream Consort. RCA 61589-2.

[10:05] Sergei Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet Suite: Morning Dance, Montagues and Capulets, The Young Juliet – Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta. Beau Fleuve Records 605996-998524. [11:23] 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: Violin concertos 8:00 From the CSO’s Archives: The First 130 Years – Works given their US premieres by the Chicago Symphony and Theodore Thomas – Glazunov: Concert Waltz No. 2 (/Frederick Stock). Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (/Jean Martinon).

Elgar: Enigma Variations (/ Sir Georg Solti). Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela (Grover Schiltz, eh/Herbert Blomstedt).

Strauss: Don Quixote (Janigro, Preves/Reiner).

10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – Beethoven: String Quartet in E-Flat, Op. 74, Harp. Plus: Haydn.

11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Wednesday 2 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff

All prerecorded music on 98.7WFMT is provided by the Richard and Mary L. Gray Music Library.

Most live performances on 98.7WFMT are broadcast from the Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio.

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6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Giovanni Gabrieli Jubilate Deo – Music of the Baroque Choir & Brass/Edward Zelnis. MOB 2006. [6:24] Johann Sebastian Bach Clavier Concerto No. 6 in F, BWV 1057 – St. Martin’s Academy/Murray Perahia, p.

Sony SK-89690. [15:39] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Franz Liszt Mephisto Waltz No. 1 – Chicago Sym/Sir Georg Solti. London 443444-2. [10:40] 11:00 Daily Excursion: Felix Mendelssohn The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) Overture, Op. 26 – Vienna Phil/Christian Thielemann.

DG 4745022. [10:20] 12:00 Music in Chicago 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: The Lincoln Trio live from the Cultural Center 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Heitor Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9 – French National Radio Orch strings/ Villa-Lobos. EMI CDU5-669642. [10:56] Various Lament in Tremolo Form; Eleanor Alberga If the Silver Bird Could Speak – William Chapman Nyaho, p. MSR Classics MS-1708. [7:48] Bach Flute Sonata in E, BWV 1035 – Gary Schocker, f; Jason Vieaux, g.

Azica ACD-71230. [13:08] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Ludwig van Beethoven Fantasy for Piano, Chorus, and Orchestra, Op. 80 Choral Fantasy – Rudolf Serkin, p; Marlboro Festival Cho & Orch/Peter Serkin. Sony SM2K-89200 (2). [20:01] 3:00 Antonin Dvorák American Suite in A, Op. 98b – Royal Liverpool Phil/Libor Pesek.

Virgin Classics 90723-2. [22:39] Mark O’Connor Strings and Threads Suite – Mark O’Connor, v; Metamorphosen Chamber Orch/Scott Yoo. Sony SK-89660. [15:29] 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: Violin concertos

In the Spotlight Photo: Courtesy of WFMT / Bill Richert

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From the CSO’s Archives: The First 130 Years The first December program focuses on works by European composers, including Elgar’s Enigma Variations and Strauss’s Don Quixote with cellist Antonio Janigro and violist Milton Preves. The following week, hear an all-Bartok performance under the baton of composer and frequent guest conductor Pierre Boulez featuring soprano Jessye Norman.

The series also marks this month’s Beethoven anniversary with the Piano Concerto No. 4 interpreted by Van Cliburn and the Eroica Symphony conducted by Sir Georg Solti. For Christmas week, guest conductor Claudio Abbado leads works by Tchaikovsky, including the Nutcracker Suite. And the final program of the month spotlights several other guest conductors: Neeme Jaervi, Pierre Monteux, Leopold Stokowski, and John Williams.

Tuesdays, 8:00 pm

8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Thursday 3 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Frédéric Chopin Boléro, Op. 19 – Lara Downes, p.

Postcards 772001-2. [7:37] Emmanuel Chabrier Habanera – BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier. Chandos CHAN-9765. [4:16] Maurice Ravel Pièce en forme de habanera – Emmanuel Pahud, f; Mariko Anraku, h. EMI CDC5-57740-2.

[3:09] Paquito D’Rivera Habanera – TransAtlantic Ensemble. Steinway & Sons 30052. [2:47] Arturo Márquez Danzón No. 2 – Simón Bolívar Youth Orch/Gustavo Dudamel.

DG B0013458-02. [9:39] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F, BWV 1047 – Wynton Marsalis, tr; English Chamber Orch/Anthony Newman.

Sony SK-66244. [12:30] 11:00 Daily Excursion: Robert Beaser Mountain Songs: Fair and Tender Ladies, Quicksilver – Matthew Slotkin, g; Craig Butterfield, db.

Summit DCD-571. [7:36] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: George Frideric Handel Coronation Anthem, Zadok the Priest – Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/ Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

Philips 432110-2 (2). [5:44] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35 – Lise de la Salle, p; Gulbenkian Orch/Lawrence Foster. Naive V-5053. [23:25] Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov The Snow Maiden Suite – Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz.

Naxos 8.572787. [12:29] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Felix Mendelssohn Symphony No. 5 in d, Op. 107, Reformation – Chamber Orch of Europe/ Yannick Nézet-Séguin. DG 4797337 (3). [31:13] 3:00 Francisco Tárrega Capricho árabe (Serenata); Recuerdos de la Alhambra – Jason Vieaux, g. Azica ACD-71287. [10:22] Ralph Vaughan Williams Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1 – New Philharmonia/Sir Adrian Boult. EMI CDC7-47218-2.

[10:14] George Enescu Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A, Op. 11 – Civitas Ensemble, Gipsy Way Ensemble. Cedille CDR-90000179. [7:24] 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: Violin concertos 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 9:00 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Onstage: Ken-David Masur, conductor; Sergei Babayan, piano – Shostakovich: Festive Overture. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3. Schnittke: Kein Sommernachtstraum.

Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition.

11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Friday 4 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Fantasia in c, K. 475 – Alfred Brendel, p. Philips 446921-2 (5). [12:27] Franz Waxman Carmen Fantasy – Maxim Vengerov, v; Israel Phil/Zubin Mehta. Teldec 17045-2. [9:57] Friedrich von Flotow Martha Overture – Royal Scottish National Orch/Lance Friedel.

Naxos 8.573418. [8:24] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Jan Koetsier Brass Symphony, Op. 80 – TenThing.

EMI 88326-2. [13:58] 11:00 Daily Excursion: José Bragato Graciela y Buenos Aires – Viktor Aepli, vc, Camerata Bariloche.

Dorian DOR-90201. [8:04] 12:00 Impromptu Encore: Pianist Benjamin Hochman visited Levin Studio in 2009.

George Preston hosts.

1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Zoltán Kodály Háry János Suite, Op. 35a – London Phil/Klaus Tennstedt. EMI CDD7-63900-2. [25:05] John Williams Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Rey’s Theme; Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: Hedwig’s theme – AnneSophie Mutter, v; Recording Arts Orchestra of Los Angeles/ Williams. DG B0030629. [9:21] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Franz Schubert Moments musicaux, D. 780 – András Schiff, p.

London 430425-2. [30:32] 3:00 Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 in G, BWV 1049 – Age of Enlightenment Orch/ Monica Huggett. Virgin Classics 90747-2 (2). [15:30] Conni Ellisor Blackberry Winter – Stephen Seifert, dulcimer; Nashville Chamber Orch/Paul Gambill. Warner Classics 46739-2. [16:51] 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: Violin concertos 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 9:00 The New York Philharmonic

Photo: Courtesy of Simon Ridgway/© Red Planet Pictures / ITV 2019

In the Spotlight This Week: Guest conductors; Garrick Ohlsson, piano – Haydn: Symphony No. 95 in c. Martinu: Piano Concerto No. 4, Incantation.

Sibelius: Symphony No. 1.

11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Members of Empire Brass recorded in 1979.

Saturday 5 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg, including Saturday Morning Listeners’ Choice at 8:00 am and Soundtrack at 9:00 am.

11:00 Introductions: Mark Zhu, 16, piano – Bach: WTC Bk 1: Prelude & Fugue in D; Debussy: Arabesque No. 1; Ginastera: Danza de la moza donosa; Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 1 in g minor; Rachmaninoff: Etude-Tableau, Op. 33/8; Liszt: Mazeppa.

12:00 From the Metropolitan Opera: Prokofiev’s “War and Peace” – Anna Netrebko (Natasha); Gegam Grigorian (Bezukhov); Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Andrei); Samuel Ramey (Kutuzov); Elena Obraztsova (Mme Akhrosimova); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Valery Gergiev. From 2002.

4:30 Arias and Songs Encore: Happy Endings 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Max Bruch Violin Concerto No. 2 in d minor, Op. 44 – Jack Liebeck, v; BBC Scottish Sym/ Martyn Brabbins. Hyperion CDA-68055. [25:30] Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 21 in C, Op. 53, Waldstein – Paul Lewis, p. Harmonia Mundi HMX-2901902. 11 (10). [26:54] 6:00 Florence Price Mississippi River Suite – Women’s Phil/ Apo Hsu. Koch 7518-2. [27:46] Virgil Thomson Louisiana Story: Acadian Songs and Dances – New London Orch/ Ronald Corp. Hyperion CDA-66576. [15:00] Various Old American Songs, set 2: At the River; Pineapple Rag; The Entertainer – Chicago Brass Quintet. Centaur CRC-3159. [5:55] 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: The life, music, and legacy of the Spanish pianist Alicia de Larrocha (1923-2009).

8:00 Folkstage hosted

by Rich Warren 9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

Sunday 6 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice: Advent, week 2, sampling the words of prophets set to music.

Susanna Phillips

From the Metropolitan Opera The Metropolitan Opera is delving into its vast archives to bring us presentations from the past. The month begins with War and Peace, Sergei Prokofiev’s four-hour distillation of Tolstoy’s novel, marking the 2002 Met debut of soprano Anna Netrebko. The Met’s tribute to the Beethoven anniversary will be the 2017 staging of the composer’s only opera, Fidelio, starring Canadian soprano Adrienne Pieczonka. Then enjoy a December favorite: an English-language version of Hansel and Gretel from 2018. Finally, join us for another Met holiday tradition: an abridged English-language version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute from 2010 featuring Russell Thomas as Tamino and Susanna Phillips as Pamina.

Saturdays, 12:00 pm

7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis • Johann Sebastian Bach Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variations 26-30 and Aria da Capo – Peter Serkin, p. RCA 68188-2. [7:45] Various Magic Flute Fantasy; The Love for Three Oranges: March – Gil Shaham, v; Akira Eguchi, p. DG 447640-2.

[13:13] Sergei Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 43 – Lang Lang, p; Maryinsky Theatre Orch/Valery Gergiev. DG B0003902-02. [24:02] 1:00 Jennifer Higdon Harp Concerto: First Light – Yolanda Kondonassis, h; Rochester Phil/ Ward Stare. Azica AXA-71327.

[6:52] Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 6 in D, Le Matin – Lausanne Chamber Orch/Jesús López-Cobos.

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[18:04] Richard Wagner Götterdämmerung: Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey – Chicago Sym/Fritz Reiner.

RCA 63301-2. [13:12] William Lloyd Webber Aurora – City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox. Chandos CHAN-9595.

[9:27] Eric Whitacre The River Cam – Julian Lloyd Webber, vc; London Sym/Eric Whitacre.

London B0016636-02. [11:49] Whitacre Lux Aurumque – Polyphony/Stephen Layton.

Hyperion CDA-67543. [4:08] Various Preludio Cubano; Pomme Cannelle; In the Bottoms: Humoresque, Honey – William Chapman Nyaho, p.

MSR Classics MS-1708. [6:10] Leonard Bernstein Candide Suite – U of South Carolina Wind Ensemble/Scott Weiss.

Naxos 8.573056. [12:37] Elmer Bernstein To Kill A Mockingbird: Selections – Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

Varese-Saraband 5754. [19:20] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Fantasia in D minor, K. 397 – Inna Faliks, p. Delos DE-3540.

[5:51] Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 7 in C, Le Midi – English Concert/Trevor Pinnock.

Archive 423098-2. [21:55] John Playford The English Dancing Master: Drive the Cold Winter Away/The Beggar Boy; A Division on A Ground – Les Witches. Alpha 502. [11:47] Antonin Dvorák The Noon Witch, Op. 108 – Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi.

Chandos CHAN-8530. [12:35] Tomaso Albinoni Adagio in g – Sharon Isbin, g; Zürich Chamber Orch/Howard Griffiths.

Warner Classics 45312-2. [7:51] Domenico Cimarosa TwoFlute Concerto in G – Mathieu Dufour, f; Alex Klein, ob; Czech National Sym/Paul Freeman.

Cedille CDR-90000080.

[19:11] Richard Strauss Duet-Concertino – Larry Combs, cl; David McGill, bn; Chicago Sym/Daniel Barenboim.

Teldec 23913-2. [19:49] Evening Music on WFMT • George Gershwin Piano Concerto in F – Kirill Gerstein, p; St. Louis Sym/David Robertson. Myrios Classics MYR-022. [33:32] There’s more Gershwin, and several other American composers, on our Chicago Symphony broadcast tonight at 8:00.

Amilcare Ponchielli La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours – La Scala Phil/Riccardo Chailly. Decca 4831148. [9:44] Various La Gioconda: Cielo e mar; Granada – Joseph Calleja, t; BBC Concert Orch/ Steven Mercurio. London B0017438-02. [8:34] Ludwig van Beethoven Quartet No. 7 in F, Op. 59, No. 1, DECEMBER

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Razumovsky – Emerson String Quartet. DG B0009666-72 (23). [37:40] Frédéric Chopin Nocturnes, Op. 9 – Yundi Li, p. EMI 08391-2 (2). [16:18] 7:00 Ryan Opera Center Recital Series 8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Handel’s “Messiah” – Amanda Forsythe, s; Sasha Cooke, ms; Nicholas Phan, t; Joshua Hopkins, br; Chicago Sym & Chorus/Matthew Halls.

10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Berlin Philharmonic.

Henry will continue playing these historic BPO broadcasts through the end of December.

Monday 7 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Peter Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker, Op. 71: Waltz of the Flowers – Stewart Goodyear, p. Steinway & Sons 30040.

[6:26] Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty Waltz – Vienna Phil/ Christoph Eschenbach. Sony Classical 88985425932. [5:23] Richard Rodgers Carousel Waltz – Hollywood Bowl Sym/ John Mauceri. Philips 432109-2.

[4:50] Rodgers Victory at Sea: The Song of the High Seas – Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel. Telarc CD-80175. [5:06] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Johann Nepomuk Hummel Trumpet Concerto in E – Ludwig Güttler, tr; New Bach Collegium Musicum/Max Pommer.

Capriccio 10009. [16:11] 11:00 Daily Excursion: Javier Alvarez Metro Chabacano – Simón Bolívar Sym/ Keri-Lynn Wilson. Dorian XCD-90254. [6:47] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Maurice Ravel Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose) Suite – Chicago Sym/Jean Martinon. RCA 63683. [15:52] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 8 in G, Le Soir – Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch/Adam Fischer.

Nimbus NI-5240. [21:51] Leó Weiner Serenade for small orchestra, Op. 3 – Budapest Festival Orch/Sir Georg Solti.

London 458929-2. [19:58] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61 – AnneSophie Mutter, v; Berlin Phil/ Herbert von Karajan. DG 457861-2 (2). [48:27] 3:00 Sergei Prokofiev Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60 – Chicago Sym/Fritz Reiner. RCA 5605-2.

[20:08] Johann Sebastian Bach French Suite No. 5 in G,

BWV 816 – Vladimir Ashkenazy, p. Decca 4832150. [15:51] 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: Vienna and the great composers who lived and worked there, including Beethoven. First of two weeks.

8:00 Live from WFMT Encore: Pianist Matthew Hagle in an all-Beethoven sonata recital, recorded live in Levin Studio June 26, 2017.

10:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin

Tuesday 8 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Ludwig van Beethoven Andante favori in F, WoO 57 – Dmitry Paperno, p.

Cedille CDR-90000074. [9:03] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Sonata No. 11 in A, K. 331: Rondo alla Turca – Jeanne Galway, f; Sinfonia Varsovia/ James Galway, f. DG B0007148-02. [3:17] David Diamond Rounds – Seattle Sym Strings/Gerard Schwarz.

Delos DE-3189. [14:19] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Gustav Mahler Blumine – San Francisco Sym/ Michael Tilson Thomas. SFS Media SFS-0060. [8:28] 11:00 Daily Excursion: George Frideric Handel Water Music Suite No. 1 in F – English Concert/Trevor Pinnock. DG B0005828-02 (2). [14:48] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Johannes Brahms Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 – Royal Concertgebouw Orch/ Bernard Haitink. Philips 442068-2 (4). [10:24] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Edvard Grieg Old Norwegian Romance With Variations, Op. 51 – Iceland Sym/Petri Sakari. Chandos CHAN-9028.

[24:23] Thomas Canning Fantasy on a Hymn Tune by Justin Morgan – Cincinnati Sym/Jesús López-Cobos.

Telarc CD-80462. [8:56] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 11 in f minor, Op. 95, Serioso – Vermeer Quartet. Teldec 76457-2 (9). [20:43] 3:00 Johann Sebastian Bach Orchestra Suite No. 3 in D, BWV 1068 – Ensemble Sonnerie/Monica Huggett.

Avie AV-2171. [17:20] Johann Kaspar Mertz Bardenklänge, Op. 13: Four Pieces – Eduardo Fernández, g. Delmark DE-5033. [11:09]

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: Vienna and the great composers who lived and worked there, including Beethoven. First of two weeks.

8:00 From the CSO’s Archives: The First 130 Years – Pierre Boulez and Bela Bartok – Concerto for Orchestra (recorded 1992); Dance Suite (recorded 1998); Bluebeard’s Castle (recorded 1993; Jessye Norman, s, and Laszlo Polgar, b).

10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – Nielsen: Wind Quintet; Copland: Appalachian Spring, original chamber version.

11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Wednesday 9 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Johann Sebastian Bach Chorale-prelude, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Now Come, Saviour of the Heathens), BWV 659; Cantata No. 147: Chorale, Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring – Angela Hewitt, p. Hyperion CDA-67309. [9:17] Gustav Holst Ave Maria, Op. 9b – Trinity College Women’s Choir, Cambridge/Richard Marlow.

Conifer 51261-2. [4:42] Tomaso Albinoni Oboe Concerto a cinque in B-Flat, Op. 9/11 – Han de Vries, ob; Alma Musica Amsterdam/Bob van Asperen.

Virgin Classics 61152-2. [11:09] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Gabriel Fauré Dolly Suite, Op. 56 – Katia, Marielle Labèque, p. Philips 420159-2. [16:41] 11:00 Daily Excursion: Edward Elgar Cockaigne Overture (In London Town), Op. 40 – London Phil/Sir Georg Solti.

London 443856-2 (2). [14:12] 12:00 Music in Chicago 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: Violinist Joshua Brown and pianist Milana Pavchinskaya live from the Cultural Center 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Germaine Tailleferre Flute and Piano Concerto – Leta Miller, f; Josephine Gandolfi, p; UC Santa Cruz Orch/Nicole Paiement. Helicon HE-1048.

[17:13] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Idomeneo ballet music, K. 367 – Apollo’s Fire/ Jeannette Sorrell. Avie AV-2159.

[16:20] Maurice Ravel Menuet antique – Sean Chen, p.

Steinway & Sons 30029. [6:45] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Robert Schumann

Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. 97, Rhenish – San Francisco Sym/Michael Tilson Thomas. SFS Media 821936-0071-2 (2). [36:41] 3:00 Arthur Foote Francesca da Rimini, Op. 24 – Seattle Sym/ Gerard Schwarz. Naxos 8.559365. [14:41] Antonio Vivaldi Violin and Organ Concerto in C, R. 774 – Modo Antiquo/Federico Maria Sardelli. Glossa GCD-924601.

[10:09] Franz Liszt Années de pèlerinage: 2nd Year, Italy: Sonetto 123 del Petrarca – Daniel Barenboim, p. Philips 456721-2 (2). [7:11] 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: Vienna and the great composers who lived and worked there, including Beethoven. First of two weeks.

8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Thursday 10 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 George Frideric Handel

Judas Maccabaeus: See the conqu’ring hero comes; Sing Unto God – St. Martin’s Academy and Cho/Sir Neville Marriner. Philips 412733-2.

[5:04] Johann Sebastian Bach Three-Violin Concerto in D, BWV 1064 – Linda Melsted & David Greenberg, v’s; Tafelmusik/Jeanne Lamon, v. Sony SK-66265. [16:51] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Giuseppe Verdi La forza del destino Overture – La Scala Phil/Riccardo Muti.

Sony SK-68468. [7:41] 11:00 Daily Excursion: Harl McDonald San Juan Capistrano: Fiesta – Boston Pops/Keith Lockhart.

RCA 68786-2. [4:15] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Franz Joseph Haydn Cello Concerto No. 2 in D, H VIIb:2 (Op. 101) – Steven Isserlis, vc; Chamber Orch of Europe/Sir Roger Norrington.

RCA 68578-2. [23:24] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Zoltán Kodaly Marosszék Dances – Buffalo Phil/ JoAnn Falletta. Naxos 8.573838. [13:37] Frédéric Chopin Rondo a la Mazurka, Op. 5 – Daniil Trifonov, p.

London B0018271-02. [8:17] Johann Strauss II Waltz, Seid umschlungen, Millionen,

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Op. 443 – Vienna Phil/Andris Nelsons. Sony. [10:17] Afternoon Masterwork: Ludwig van Beethoven Quartet No. 12 in E-flat, Op. 127 – Danish String Quartet.

ECM New Series 2561. [38:38] Samuel Barber Violin Concerto, Op. 14 – Anne Akiko Meyers, v; London Sym/Leonard Slatkin. EOne EOM-CD-7791.

[23:21] Robert Beaser Mountain Songs – Waller & Maxwell Guitar Duo. Berto Records 1801. [11:19] Various My Little Dreydl; Candles Burning; Chanukah; Sunrise, Sunset fr Fiddler on the Roof – Rachel Van Voorhees, h. Centaur CRC-2317. [6:21] 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: Vienna and the great composers who lived and worked there, including Beethoven. First of two weeks.

From the EBU and the BBC: Max Richter’s “Voices” – Being broadcast worldwide in honor of UN Human Rights Day, the music includes excerpts from the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights in several languages.

Performers include members of

the Tenebrae vocal ensemble and string players from the Max Richter Ensemble with the composer on keyboards.

Sheila Atim, narrator.

9:00 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Onstage: Stefan Asbury, conductor; Joyce Yang, piano – RimskyKorsakov: Russian Easter Overture. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1.

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 3.

11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Friday 11 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Carl Maria von Weber Clarinet Concertino in c minor/E-flat major, Op. 26 – Richard Stoltzman, cl; Slovak Radio Sym/Kirk Trevor. Navona Records NV-5801. [10:30] Carl Nielsen Little Suite, Op. 1 – ASMIF Strings/Sir Neville Marriner.

Argo 417132-2. [13:48] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Hector Berlioz Les Troyens: Royal Hunt and Storm Music – BBC Sym & Cho/ Sir Andrew Davis. Chandos CHSA-5169 (2). [9:40] 11:00 Daily Excursion: JeanBaptiste Arban Variations on The Carnival of Venice – John 2020

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Photo: Courtesy of Roger Mastroianni

In the Spotlight

Jeannette Sorrell

Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain From Jeannette Sorrell and her award-winning early-music ensemble Apollo’s Fire, a new special that traces music from Scotland and Ireland as it has been absorbed into the traditional music of Appalachia.

Performed on fiddles, a medieval harp, a hammered dulcimer, and bagpipes to support children’s and adults’ voices, the music journeys from Christmas Eve in the Scotland of the Middle Ages to the folk carols and shape-note hymns of a Christmastime gathering in Virginia. Co-hosted by Sorrell and Candice Agree. Repeats on Christmas night at 6:00 pm.

Sunday, December 13 7:00 pm

Wilbraham, tr; London Festival Orch/Salvador Camarata. DG B0005042-02 (2). [5:57] 12:00 Impromptu Encore: Inon Barnatan, piano; Sergey Khachatryan, violin; and Alisa Weilerstein, cello from 2019.

1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Various Aleih Neiri (Rise Up, My Light); Lo Yisa Goy (Prayer for Peace) – Chicago A Cappella.

Cedille CDR-90000107.

[9:00] Antonin Dvorák Violin Sonatina in G, Op. 100 – Gil Shaham, v; Orli Shaham, p.

DG 449820-2. [17:31] Josef Suk String Serenade in E-Flat, Op. 6 – London Chamber Orch/ Christopher Warren-Green.

Virgin Classics 91165-2. [26:11] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat, Op. 19 – Stewart Goodyear, p; BBC National Orch of Wales/ Andrew Constantine. Orchid Classics ORC-100127. [28:03] 3:00 Arcangelo Corelli Concerto 24

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grosso in g, Op. 6/8, Christmas – Europa Galante/ Fabio Biondi. Opus 111 OPS-30155. [13:16] Ottorino Respighi Trittico botticelliano: II. The Adoration of the Magi – St. Paul Chamber Orch/Hugh Wolff. Teldec 18970-2 (2).

[8:37] Ennio Morricone The Mission: Gabriel’s Oboe; The Falls – Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Roma Sinfonietta/Ennio Morricone.

Sony SK-93456. [5:38] 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: Vienna and the great composers who lived and worked there, including Beethoven. First of two weeks.

8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 9:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week: Jeffrey Kahane, conductor & piano; Liang Wang, oboe; Sheryl Staples, violin – Bach: Violin and Oboe Concerto. Mozart: Symphony No. 33. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1.

11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Celebrating Beethoven’s Birthday in 1968.

Saturday 12 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg, including Saturday Morning Listeners’ Choice at 8:00 am and Soundtrack at 9:00 am.

11:00 Introductions: A look back at some of the best Beethoven performances from Chicago’s young performers in 2020.

Includes Isabella Brown playing the Violin Concerto and Beatrice & Noah Chen with the Eyeglasses Duet.

12:00 From the Metropolitan Opera: Beethoven’s “Fidelio” – Adrianne Pieczonka (Leonore); Klaus Florian Vogt (Florestan); Falk Struckmann (Rocco); Hanna-Elisabeth Mueller (Marzelline); David Portillo (Jaquino); Greer Grimsley (Don Pizarro); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Sebastian Weigle. From 2017.

3:00 Weekend Music with Oliver Camacho Roy Harris An American Overture (When Johnny Comes Marching Home) – Seattle Sym/Gerard Schwarz. Delos DE-3140. [6:59] Sergei Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34 – Chamber Orch of Europe/ Claudio Abbado; Stefan Vladar, p. DG 429396-2. [7:53] Sergei Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 – Berlin Phil/Sir Simon Rattle. Warner Classics 84519-2. [35:51] Elizabeth

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Poston Arrangement of My Dancing Day; Jesus Christ the Apple Tree – King’s College Choir Cambridge/Sir David Willcocks. EMI CDM5-66244-2.

[4:37] Antonin Dvorák Slavonic Dances, Op. 72: Nos. 1-4, No. 6 – Katia, Marielle Labèque, p’s. Philips 426264-2. [20:13] Arias and Songs Encore: Music from the operas and sacred choral music of Antonio Vivaldi.

Evening Music on WFMT • Arnold Bax Three Pieces for Small Orchestra – English Chamber Orch/Jeffrey Tate. EMI CDC7-47945-2. [21:22] Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Petite Suite de Concert – Chicago Sinfonietta/Paul Freeman.

Cedille CDR-90000055. [13:36] Johann Sebastian Bach Clavier Partita No. 3 in a minor, BWV 827 – Vladimir Ashkenazy, p. London 4782163 (2). [16:24] A Hanukkah Celebration with Chicago A Cappella: Jonathan Miller, founder and artistic director of Chicago A Cappella, shares the group’s performances of music for the Jewish Festival of Lights.

Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Fresh Ink looks at LatinAmerican classical compositions from the last decade.

Folkstage hosted

by Rich Warren The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

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Sunday 13 WFMT first went on the air December 13, 1951.

12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice: Advent, week 3, on the theme Song of Mary.

7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis • A WFMT listener favorite: Gerald Finzi Eclogue, Op. 10 – Joshua Pierce, p; Slovak Radio Sym/Kirk Trevor.

Kleos Classics KL-5137. [8:56] And one more all-time English favorite: Ralph Vaughan Williams The Lark Ascending – Hilary Hahn, v; London Sym/ Sir Colin Davis. DG 4798295 (2). [16:10] Plus a favorite tone poem: Bedrich Smetana Má Vlast (My Fatherland): Vltava (The Moldau) – Czech Phil/Jirí Belohlávek. Decca 4833187. [12:08] 1:00 Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 12 in A-Flat, Op. 26 – Angela Hewitt, p.

Hyperion CDA-67797. [19:11] Leonard Bernstein West Side Story Suite – Eroica Trio. EMI CDC5-07351-2. [11:43] Peter Tchaikovsky Romeo and

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Juliet – Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink. Philips 442061-2 (6). [20:16] Georges Bizet Carmen Suite – Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Telarc CD-80593. [15:26] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Don Giovanni, K. 527: Giovinette; Deh vieni alla finestra; Già la mensa è preparata – Netherlands Wind Ensemble. Philips 4788977.

[6:12] Charles Gounod Faust ballet music – Royal Opera House Orch/Sir Georg Solti.

London 421396-2. [15:54] Alberto Ginastera Overture to the Creole Faust – Simón Bolívar Sym/Maximiano Valdés.

Dorian DOR-90227. [8:48] Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24, Spring – Gidon Kremer, v; Martha Argerich, p. DG 4197872. [23:36] Claude Debussy Printemps – Cleveland Orch/ Pierre Boulez. DG 435766-2.

[16:43] Gustav Holst In the Bleak Midwinter – Trinity College Choir, Cambridge/ Stephen Layton. Hyperion CDA-68087. [4:39] A WFMT listener favorite: Joaquín Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez – Julian Bream, g; Melos Ensemble/Sir Colin Davis. RCA 61598-2. [19:53] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Flute Concerto No. 1 in G, K. 313 – Emmanuel Pahud, f; Berlin Phil/Claudio Abbado.

EMI CDC5-56365-2. [24:29] And two more listener favorites: Leo Délibes Lakmé: Flower duet, Dome épais, le jasmin – Nicole Cabell & Alyson Cambridge, s’s; Lake Forest Sym/Vladimir Kulenovic.

Cedille CDR-90000181.

[5:47] Georges Bizet The Pearlfishers: Duet, Au fond du temple saint – Jussi Bjoerling, t; Robert Merrill, br; Orch/Renato Cellini. RCA 7799-2. [4:34] Evening Music on WFMT • Igor Stravinsky Jeu de cartes – Chicago Sym/Sir Georg Solti. London 443775-2.

[22:27] There’s more Stravinsky tonight at 8:00 pm on our Chicago Symphony broadcast, conducted by Riccardo Muti. Claudio Monteverdi Cantate Domino – Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/ Stephen Cleobury. King’s College KGS-0034. [2:09] Igor Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms: 1st mvt, Exaudi orationem meam – Atlanta Sym & Cho/Robert Shaw. Telarc CD-80254. [3:12] Another WFMT listener favorite: Max Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 in g minor, Op. 26 – Nicola Benedetti, v; Czech Phil/Jakub Hrusa. DG 4764092. [24:36] Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59: Suite – Buffalo Phil/JoAnn

Falletta. Naxos 8.572041.

[23:47] Ludwig van Beethoven String Quartet No. 9 in C, Op. 59, No. 3, Razumovsky – Ébène Quartet.

Warner Classics. [31:46] 7:00 Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain: An IrishAppalachian Celebration – Performed by Apollo’s Fire under the direction of Jeannette Sorrell.

8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts – Bizet: Roma Symphony; Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana in concert form – Anita Rachvelishvili, s (Santuzza); Piero Pretti, t (Turiddu); Luca Salsi, br (Alfio); Sasha Cooke, ms (Lola); Ronnita Miller, ms (Lucia); CSO Chorus/Riccardo Muti.

10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Berlin Philharmonic

Monday 14 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Georg Philipp Telemann Viola Concerto in G – Collegium Musicum 90/Simon Standage, vi. Chandos CHAN-0593.

[12:21] Carl Maria von Weber Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65 – Garrick Ohlsson, p.

Arabesque Z-6584 (2). [9:49] Arthur Sullivan The Merchant of Venice Suite – City of Birmingham Sym/Vivian Dunn.

EMI CMS7-64412-2 (2). [14:14] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Peter Tchaikovsky The Snow Maiden, Op. 12: Suite – St. Petersburg Philharmonia/ Alexander Dmitriev. Sony SMK-46680. [10:46] 11:00 Daily Excursion: Francis Poulenc Suite française – London Wind Orch/Denis Wick.

ASV CDWHL-2067. [12:20] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Morten Lauridsen O Magnum Mysterium – Bay Brass. Harmonia Mundi HMU-807556. [6:28] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Igor Stravinsky Pulcinella Suite – Teatre Lliure Chamber Orch Barcelona/ Josep Pons. Harmonia Mundi HMC-901609. [22:59] Pietro Locatelli Concerto grosso in f, Op. 1/8, Christmas Concerto – I Solisti Italiani.

Denon CO-78912. [14:53] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 – Alfred Brendel, p; Vienna Phil/Sir Simon Rattle.

Philips 462781-2 (3). [35:43] 3:00 Various Six Morceaux: No. 3, Berceuse; Three Pieces for Cello and Piano, Op. 40: No. 2, Berceuse – Rachel Barton Pine,

v; Matthew Hagle, p. Cedille CDR-90000139. [6:19] Emile Waldteufel España Waltzes, Op. 236 – Monte Carlo Phil/ Willi Boskovsky. EMI CDM763136-2. [6:23] Zoltán Kodály Summer Evening – Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 447109-2.

[16:28] Traditional Huron Carol (Twas in the moon of winter); Noël nouvelet – La Pietà/Angèle Dubeau.

Analekta AN2-8730. [6:21] 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: Vienna and the great composers who lived and worked there, including Beethoven (b. 12/16/1770).

Second of two weeks.

8:00 Live from WFMT Encore: The Wicker Park Choral Singers 10:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin

Tuesday 15 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Various Pièces de clavecin: Les Sauvages; Images, set 1: II. Hommage à Rameau – Víkingur Ólafsson, p. DG. [8:37] Marc-Antoine Charpentier Noël sur les instruments – Masques/Olivier Fortin.

Analekta AN2-9908. [15:06] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Richard Wagner Rienzi Overture – Berlin Phil/Klaus Tennstedt. EMI CDC7-47030-2. [13:34] 11:00 Daily Excursion: Antonín Dvorák Prague Waltzes – Detroit Sym/Antal Dorati.

London 414370-2. [8:54] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Peter Warlock Capriol Suite – Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter.

RCA 7761-2. [9:29] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Manuel de Falla The ThreeCornered Hat Suite – Simón Bolívar Sym/Eduardo Mata.

Dorian DOR-90210. [12:46] Various O magnum mysterium; Ríu, ríu, chíu – Stile Antico.

Harmonia Mundi HMM-902312.

[7:23] Johann Sebastian Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat, BWV 1051 – Apollo’s Fire/Jeannette Sorrell. Avie AV-2207 (2). [15:27] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 9 in A, Op. 47, Kreutzer – Itzhak Perlman, v; Martha Argerich, p. EMI CDC5-56815-2. [34:11] 3:00 Lita Grier Flute Concertino, Renascence – Mary Stolper, f; Czech National Sym/ Paul Freeman. Cedille

CDR-90000046. [10:55] Hugo Wolf Italian Serenade in G – I Solisti Italiani. Denon 81757-9150-2. [7:10] Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 3 in G – Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orch/Adam Fischer.

Nimbus NI-5407. [17:32] 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: Vienna and the great composers who lived and worked there, including Beethoven.

8:00 From the CSO’s Archives: The First 130 Years – Ludwig van Beethoven at 250 – Leonore Overture No. 3 (/Sir Georg Solti). Piano Concerto No. 4 (Van Cliburn, p/Fritz Reiner).

Elegy, Op. 118 (CSO Chorus/ Daniel Barenboim). Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, Eroica (/Solti).

10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – Francaix: String Trio. Schoenfeld: Trio for clarinet, violin, and piaNo. Prokofiev: String Quartet No. 2.

11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Wednesday 16 Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827

12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Various Joy to the World (after Sonata in D); What Child Is This? (after Sonata in c-sharp, Op. 27/1) – Jeffrey Biegel, p. Koch KICCD-7737.

[6:59] Frederick Delius Sleigh Ride – English Northern Sinfonia/Richard Hickox.

EMI CDM5-65067-2. [6:29] Ralph Vaughan Williams The Wasps: March; Entr’acte; Ballet & Final Tableau – London Phil/Sir Adrian Boult. EMI CDC7-47216-2. [12:59] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Ludwig van Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3 in C, Op. 72b – Chicago Sym/ Sir Georg Solti. London 421773-2. [13:52] 11:00 Daily Excursion: Chinese Traditional Spring Flowers in the Moonlit Night on the River – Lang Lang, p; Fan Wei, pipa. DG B0008233-00. [7:29] 12:00 Music in Chicago 12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts: For today’s big birthday, the Avalon String Quartet plays Beethoven’s Quartet No. 14 in c-sharp minor, Op. 131.

1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Camille Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2 in g minor, 2020

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Op. 22 – André Watts, p; Atlanta Sym/Yoel Levi. Telarc CD-80386. [23:55] Vincent Persichetti Pastoral – Prairie Winds. Albany TROY-401.

[5:57] Giovanni Gabrieli Canzon Septimi Toni; Sonata Pian’e Forte – Canadian Brass.

Opening Day ODR-7380. [8:06] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92 – Vienna Phil/Carlos Kleiber. DG 447400-2. [38:39] 3:00 Alexander Borodin Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances – Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel. Telarc CD-80657. [11:20] Ludwig van Beethoven Variations in A on a Dance by Wranitzky, WoO 71 – Vladimir Ashkenazy, p. London 4758401. [10:55] Ludwig van Beethoven The Ruins of Athens, Op. 113: March and Chorus, Twine Ye Garlands; Chorus of Dervishes – Beecham Choral Society, Royal Phil/Sir Thomas Beecham. EMI CDM7-69871-2.

[8:24] Emile Waldteufel The Skaters Waltz, Op. 183 – Vienna Phil/Gustavo Dudamel. Sony 88985376182. [7:55] 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: Vienna and the great composers who lived and worked there, including Beethoven.

8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in d minor, Op. 125, Choral – Soloists, Choruses and Orchestras/ Leonard Bernstein. DG 4298612. [77:34] A performance from 1989 that celebrated the demolition of the Berlin Wall.

10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat, Op. 73, Emperor – Alessio Bax, p; Southbank Sinfonia/ Simon Over. Signum SIGCD-525. [37:30]

Thursday 17 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Various O Come, O Come Emmanuel; Once in Royal David’s City – King’s College Choir Cambridge/Sir David Willcocks. EMI CDM5-66241-2.

[8:42] Leroy Anderson A Christmas Festival – Boston Pops/Arthur Fiedler. RCA 64282. [8:37] Dmitri Shostakovich Festive Overture, Op. 96 – London Phil/Andrew Litton.

Virgin Classics 61134-2. [5:50] 26

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10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Greensleeves – Royal Liverpool Phil/Vernon Handley. EMI CDM7-64613-2.

[4:06] Traditional Carol, What Child Is This?

(Greensleeves) – Cambridge Singers, Orch/John Rutter.

Collegium CSCD-503. [2:50] Franz Schubert Rosamunde incidental music, D. 797: Ballet music No. 1 – Chamber Orch of Europe/Claudio Abbado. DG 431655-2. [8:08] 11:00 Daily Excursion: George Gershwin An American in Paris – Seattle Sym/Ludovic Morlot. Seattle Symphony Media SSM-1003. [18:45] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Lars-Erik Larsson A Winter’s Tale incidental music: Four vignettes – Helsingborg Sym/Andrew Manze. CPO 777671-2. [10:19] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20 in d minor, K. 466 – Martha Argerich, p; Orch Mozart/Claudio Abbado.

DG 4791033. [30:58] Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28 – Chicago Sym/Sir Georg Solti. London 436623-2. [14:59] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Some Benjamin Britten Britten Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes, Op. 33a: Sunday Morning – Chicago Gargoyle Brass & Organ Ensemble/ Stephen Squires. MSR Classics MS-1704. [3:31] Britten A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28 – Westminster Abbey Choir/Martin Neary. Sony SK-62615. [23:01] Britten Peter Grimes: Four Sea Interludes, Op. 33a: Moonlight – New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein.

Sony SMK-47541. [5:07] 3:00 Franz Joseph Haydn Symphony No. 104 in D, London – Philharmonia/Leonard Slatkin. RCA 62549-2. [28:29] Aaron Copland Our Town: No. 2, Conversation at the Soda Fountain – James Tocco, p. Pro Arte CDD-183. [9:29] 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: Vienna and the great composers who lived and worked there, including Beethoven.

8:00 Itzahk Perlman’s Hanukkah Radio Party: The famed violinist shares his favorite music for the Jewish Festival of Lights.

9:00 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Onstage: Edo de Waart, conductor; Johannes Moser,

cello – Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1; Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2.

11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Friday 18 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Antonio Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E, R. 270, Il Riposo, per il Natale – Europa Galante/ Fabio Biondi, v. Virgin Classics 45424-2. [7:15] Engelbert Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel: Overture, Dream Pantomime – Royal Phil/Rudolf Kempe. EMI CDZB5-68736-2 (2). [13:25] The complete opera is coming to us from the Met tomorrow at noon.

10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Claudio Monteverdi Vespro della Beata Vergine: Hymn – Apollo’s Fire/Jeannette Sorrell. Avie AV-2206 (2). [7:43] 11:00 Daily Excursion: Bedrich Smetana Má Vlast (My Fatherland): From Bohemia’s Meadows and Forests – Czech Phil/Sir Charles Mackerras. Supraphon SU-3465-2031. [12:07] 12:00 Impromptu Encore: Members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in Levin Studio in 2015.

1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Claude Debussy String Quartet in g minor, Op. 10 – Takács Quartet. Hyperion CDA-68061.

[25:09] Robert Nathaniel Dett Magnolia: Part I: Magnolias; The Deserted Cabin; My Lady Love – Clipper Erickson, p.

Navona NV-6013. [10:48] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, Op. 35 – Borusan Istanbul Phil/Sascha Goetzel. Onyx 4124. [47:54] 3:00 Traditional A New Year’s Gift (Greensleeves); Green Grow’th the Holly; The Cherry Tree Carol – Theatre of Voices/Paul Hillier. Harmonia Mundi HMU-907079. [9:23] Morton Gould Serenade of Carols – New Philharmonia/ Morton Gould. RCA 7931-2.

[13:38] Traditional Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella; Carol of the Bells – Imani Winds.

Koch KICCD-7748. [10:24] 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: Vienna and the great composers who lived and worked there, including Beethoven.

8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 9:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week: Kurt Masur,

conductor – Brahms: Symphony No. 3; Symphony No. 4.

11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: A celebration of Hanukkah first aired in 1988.

Saturday 19 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg, including Saturday Morning Listeners’ Choice at 8:00 am and Soundtrack at 9:00 am.

11:00 Introductions: Eytan Raviv, 17, cello – Bach: Cello Suite No. 2: Sarabande & Gigue; Van Goens: Scherzo; Kabalevsky: Concerto No. 1 in Gm: 1st mvt; Fauré: Élégie; arr. Raviv: Eye of the Tiger; Sheng: Tibetan Dance. With Shirley Trissell, p.

12:00 From the Metropolitan Opera: Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel” – Tara Erraught (Hansel); Lisette Oropesa (Gretel); Gerhard Siegel (Witch); Dolora Zajick (Gertrude); Quinn Kelsey (Peter); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Donald Runnicles.

From 2018; sung in English.

2:30 Weekend Music with Oliver Camacho Johann Sebastian Bach Italian Concerto in F, BWV 971 – Peter Serkin, p.

RCA 68188-2. [13:02] Bach Toccata and Fugue in d minor, BWV 565 – Philadelphia Orch/ Wolfgang Sawallisch. EMI CDC5-55592-2. [9:39] 3:00 Peter Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker, Op. 71: Suite of excerpts – Chicago Sym/Fritz Reiner. RCA 68530-2. [40:12] Reiner, the legendary CSO music director of the 1950s and early Sixties, lived December 19, 1888, to November 15, 1963.

Manuel de Falla El Amor Brujo: Excerpts – Chicago Sym/Fritz Reiner. RCA 62586-2. [13:00] 4:00 Alan Thomas Out of Africa: I. Call at Sunrise; Morning Dance – Denis Azabagic, g.

Cedille CDR-7005. [6:45] Adolphus Hailstork Three Spirituals – Virginia Sym/JoAnn Falletta. Naxos 8.559722.

[8:17] George Gershwin I Got Rhythm Variations – Orion Weiss, p; Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta. Naxos 8.559705. [8:53] 4:30 Arias and Songs Encore: Music for the holidays.

5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Edward Elgar Cello Concerto in e minor, Op. 85 – Jacqueline Du Pré, vc; Philadelphia Orch/ Daniel Barenboim. Sony SK-60394. [31:08] Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols – Thomas Allen, br; Corydon Singers, English Chamber Orch/Matthew Best. Hyperion CDA-66420.

[12:26] John Jacob Niles I

Wonder As I Wander – Pro Arte Singers/Paul Hillier. Harmonia Mundi HMU-907233. [3:08] Niles Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair; Go ‘Way from My Window – Susanne Mentzer, ms; Sharon Isbin, g.

Erato 23419-2. [6:59] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 39 in E-Flat, K. 543 – Camerata Salzburg/Leonidas Kavakos. Sony 82876842412.

[28:47] Various The Months (The Seasons): December (Christmas); Weihnachtsbaum: The Shepherds at the Manger (In Dulci Jubilo); Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring/Ding, Dong, Merrily on High – Jeffrey Biegel, p. Steinway 30005.

[11:42] Traditional Ding Dong Merrily on High – Music of the Baroque Chorus/William Jon Gray. Music of the Baroque CD. [1:12] Leroy Anderson The Waltzing Cat; Bugler’s Holiday; The Syncopated Clock; Sleigh Ride – St. Louis Sym/Leonard Slatkin. RCA 68048-2. [2:50] 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Latin-American Christmas carols 8:00 Folkstage hosted

by Rich Warren 9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

Sunday 20 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice: A Christmas Celebration 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis 12:00 George Frideric Handel Messiah: Chorus, Hallelujah – Chicago Sym Cho & Orch/Sir Georg Solti. London 466075-2 (2). [3:46] Tonight at 8:00 the Chicago Symphony and its chorus perform this favorite oratorio. Francesco Manfredini Concerto grosso in C, Op. 3/12, Christmas Concerto – I Musici.

Philips 412739-2. [8:23] Franz Joseph Haydn Cello Concerto No. 1 in C, H VIIb:1 – Yo-Yo Ma, vc; English Chamber Orch/Jose-Luis Garcia. CBS MK-36674. [23:41] Franz Lehár Violin Concertino in b minor – Robert McDuffie, v; Cincinnati Pops/Erich Kunzel.

Telarc CD-80402. [12:57] 1:00 Joaquín Turina Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 35 – Eaken Piano Trio. Excelsius 730172. [19:16] Bach-Gounod Ave Maria – Eaken Piano Trio. Naxos 8.554714. [7:51] Various Gesu Bambino; Mille Cherubini in Coro – Luciano Pavarotti, t; National Phil/Kurt Adler. London 414044-2. [8:29] Ottorino Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute, set 3 – St.

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Paul Chamber Orch/Hugh Wolff.

Teldec 18970-2 (2). [16:59] Johannes Brahms Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79 – Emanuel Ax, p. Sony SK-48046. [17:05] Maurice Ravel Rapsodie espagnole – Seattle Sym/Ludovic Morlot. Seattle Symphony Media SSM-1002. [15:28] Robert Russell Bennett Christmas Medley No. 1 – Robert Shaw Chorale, Orch/ Mr. Shaw. RCA 6429-2. [11:24] Lawrence Ashmore Four Seasons (Suite on English folksongs) – Richard Stoltzman, cl; Guildhall String Ensemble.

RCA 60437-2. [21:26] Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring: Second half – Music@Menlo Ensemble. Music@Menlo Live 2012 (6). [11:08] Leopold Mozart Trumpet Concerto in D – Wynton Marsalis, tr; National Phil/ Raymond Leppard. CBS MK-37846. [7:54] L Mozart Sinfonia Pastorale in G – New Zealand Chamber Orch/Donald Armstrong. Naxos 8.553347.

[12:18] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 26 in D, K. 537, Coronation – Alicia de Larrocha, p; English Chamber Orch/Sir Colin Davis. RCA 61698-2. [31:25] Evening Music on WFMT • George Frideric Handel Messiah: He Shall Feed His Flock...Come Unto Him – Arleen Auger, s; Mostly Mozart Orch/Gerard Schwarz. Delos 3026. [6:20] Handel Messiah: Finale, Worthy Is the Lamb – Chicago Sym Cho & Orch/Sir Georg Solti. London 425825-2.

[6:35] We have a complete CSO Messiah tonight at 8:00. Franz Schubert Symphony No. 6 in C, D. 589 – Australian Chamber Orch/Sir Charles Mackerras.

Omega OCD-1005. [33:19] Yolanda Kondonassis Dream Season – Yolanda Kondonassis, h. Telarc CD-80446. [3:56] Respighi Lauda per la Natività del Signore – Valente, Forrester, Philadelphia Singers, Orch/ Michael Korn. RCA 7787-2.

[26:36] Alfredo Catalani Contemplazione – La Scala Phil/Riccardo Muti. Sony SK63025. [10:48] Jules Massenet La Vierge: The Last Sleep of the Virgin – Minnesota Orch/Eiji Oue. Reference Recordings RR99-CD. [4:30] Jules Massenet Thaïs: Méditation – Joshua Bell, v; Royal Phil/Andrew Litton. London 433519-2.

[5:12] French Traditional Carol, Il est né le divin enfant – Chanticleer/Joseph Jennings.

Chanticleer CR-8803. [2:27] Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Trio in B-Flat, Op. 97, Archduke – Itzhak Perlman, v; Lynn Harrell, vc; Vladimir Ashkenazy, p. EMI

CDC7-47010-2. [42:30] Various O Come All Ye Faithful (after Sonata in c, Op. 13); Silent Night, after Clair de Lune – Jeffrey Biegel, p. Koch 7737. [10:47] 8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Riccardo Muti, conductor; Mitsuko Uchida, piano—Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro Overture; Piano Concerto No. 20 in d.

Varese: Deserts (/Pierre Boulez).

Stravinsky: Divertimento fr The Fairy’s Kiss; The Firebird Suite.

10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Berlin Philharmonic

Monday 21 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Edgar Meyer Winter’s Chill – Modern Mandolin Quartet; Edgar Meyer, db.

Windham Hill 11108-2. [5:29] Robert Nathaniel Dett Tropic Winter: Parade of the Jasmine Banners – Clipper Erickson, p. Navona NV-6013. [4:11] Various Parade of the Wooden Soldiers; The Nutcracker: Dance of the Toy (Reed) Flutes; Sleigh Ride – Boston Pops/Arthur Fiedler. RCA 61685-2. [8:57] Various O Little Town of Bethlehem; Hark the Herald Angels Sing – BBC Welsh Chorus, Welsh Guards Fanfare Trumpets/John Thomas; Huw Williams, o.

Nimbus NI-5310. [7:22] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Leroy Anderson Suite of Carols for Brass Choir – BBC Concert Orch Brass/Leonard Slatkin.

Naxos 8.559621. [11:41] 11:00 Daily Excursion: Peter Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1 in g, Op. 13, Winter Dreams: I. Allegro tranquillo – Chicago Sym/Claudio Abbado.

Sony SK-48056. [11:43] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Giuseppe Torelli Concerto grosso in g, Op. 8/6, Christmas Concerto – Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan. DG 449924-2.

[9:17] Traditional Star in the East; The Shepherds’ Star – Anonymous 4. Harmonia Mundi HMU-807453. [5:37] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Franz Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in a, D. 821 – Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Emanuel Ax, p. Sony 61964.

[24:28] Johann Sebastian Bach Cantata No. 1: Opening chorus, Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern; Christmas Oratorio, part 1: Opening chorus, Jauchzet, frohlocket – Vienna Boys’ Choir, Cho Viennensis, Vienna Concentus Musicus/Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

Warner Classics 68081. [18:05] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Antonio Vivaldi The Four Seasons, Concerto No. 1 in E, Spring – Franz Liszt Chamber Orch/Jean-Pierre Rampal, f. Sony SK-53105.

[9:01] Concerto No. 2 in g, Summer – Avi Avital, m; Venice Baroque Orch. DG 4794017. [10:12] Concerto No. 3 in F, Autumn – Yolanda Kondonassis, h; Flanders Orch/Rudolf Werthen. Telarc CD-80523. [11:37] Concerto No. 4 in f, Winter – Anne Akiko Meyers, v; English Chamber Orch/David Lockington. E One EOM-CD-7790. [8:50] 3:00 Gustav Holst Personent Hodie; Lullay My Liking; In the Bleak Midwinter – Christ Church Cathedral Choir/ Stephen Darlington. Nimbus NI-5098. [11:22] Gustav Holst The Planets, Op. 32: Mars, the Bringer of War; Venus, the Bringer of Peace – Atlanta Sym/ Yoel Levi. Telarc CD-80466.

[15:00] Traditional Cold Frosty Morning; To Drive the Cold Winter Away – Rose Ensemble.

Rose Ensemble 00009. [7:06] 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: Dona Nobis Pacem; the ancient prayer, interpreted by composers of the past and present, leads Bill to other music on the theme of peace.

8:00 Live from WFMT Encore: Joel Spears, lute, and friends in some rare Baroque music for Christmastide.

10:00 The Film Score with Michael Phillips: Movie music for the winter holidays 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Tuesday 22 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Various Christmas Medley No. 2 – Atlanta Sym & Cho/ Robert Shaw. Telarc CD-80087.

[10:56] Various It Came Upon A Midnight Clear; Fantasia on Greensleeves – Philharmonia/ Morton Gould. RCA 7931-2.

[7:28] Traditional The Holly and the Ivy; I Saw Three Ships – Imani Winds. Koch KICCD-7748. [6:46] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Leopold Mozart Toy Symphony in G – Kremerata Baltica. Nonesuch 79633-2.

[7:23] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Variations on Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman, K. 265 – Fazil Say, p. Atlantic 21970-2. [11:39] 2020

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11:00 Daily Excursion: Frederick Delius Sleigh Ride – English Northern Sinfonia/ Richard Hickox. EMI CDC7-47610-2. [6:29] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Antony Holborne Renaissance Suite – Philadelphia Brass Ensemble. Sony SBK-63061. [11:45] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Claude Debussy La Boîte à Joujoux – Seattle Sym/Ludovic Morlot. Seattle Symphony Media SSM-1010. [32:29] Gabriel Fauré Dolly Suite, Op. 56: IV. Kitty-Valse – Julian Bream & John Williams, g’s. RCA 61450-2. [2:24] Zez Confrey Kitten on the Keys – Eteri Andjaparidze, p. Naxos 8.559016. [2:27] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Johann Sebastian Bach Magnificat in D, BWV 243 – La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall. Alia Vox AVSA-9909-D. [27:38] 3:00 Richard Strauss Oboe Concerto in D – Alex Klein, ob; Chicago Sym/Daniel Barenboim.

Teldec 23913-2. [26:32] Tomas Luis da Victoria O Magnum Mysterium – Music of the Baroque/Thomas Wikman.

Music of the Baroque MB-108.

[3:23] Michael Praetorius Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen – Music of the Baroque/ William Jon Gray. MOB 2012.

[2:51] Gian-Carlo Menotti Amahl and the Night Visitors: Orchestral suite – Atlanta Sym/Robert Shaw. Turnabout QTV-S-34647/48. [6:21] 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: Dona Nobis Pacem 8:00 From the CSO’s Archives: The First 130 Years – Claudio Abbado, former principal guest conductor, in Tchaikovsky – Symphony No. 1, Winter Dreams; Romeo and Juliet; The Tempest; The Nutcracker Suite.

10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – Debussy: String Quartet in g; Bartok: Sonata for two pianos and percussion.

11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Wednesday 23 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Antony Holborne The Fairy Round; Alman, The Honie Suckle or Hartes Ease; Heigh Ho Holiday – Julian Bream, l.

RCA 61587-2. [5:34] Giovanni Gabrieli Motet, Angelus ad 28

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pastores ait; Jubilate Deo – Music of the Baroque/Edward Zelnis. MOB 2006. [10:41] Manuel de Falla Harpsichord Concerto – David Schrader, hc; Rembrandt Chamber Players.

Cedille CDR-90000011. [12:07] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Various The Shepherd’s Carol; What Sweeter Music – King’s College Choir Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury. EMI CDC5-58070-2 (2). [8:12] Frank Bridge Christmas dance, Sir Roger de Coverley – English Northern Philharmonia/David LloydJones. Naxos 8.555068. [4:15] 11:00 Daily Excursion: Bernard Herrmann Currier and Ives Suite – New Zealand Sym/James Sedares. Koch 3-7224-2. [13:16] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Robert Russell Bennett Christmas Medley No. 3 – Robert Shaw Chorale & Orch. RCA 6429-2. [12:21] Live Hess concerts resume on Wednesdays in January.

1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Flute and Harp Concerto in C, K. 299 – Rune Most, f; Sivan Magen, h; Odense Sym/Scott Yoo. Bridge 9502. [29:18] Traditional Joy to the World; Deck the Halls; O Come All Ye Faithful – Choral Guild of Atlanta. Sony SFK-62698. [7:53] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Maurice Ravel Quartet in F – Emerson String Quartet.

DG 445509-2. [28:02] 3:00 Giuseppe Sammartini Concerto grosso in g, Op. 5/6, Christmas – English Chamber Orch/Simon Preston.

Novalis 150133-2 (2). [15:03] Joaquín Rodrigo Zarabanda Lejana y Villancico – London Sym/Enrique Bátiz. EMI CZS7-67435-2 (4). [9:20] Traditional Entre le boeuf et l’âne gris; Guillô, pran ton tamborin (Patapan); El Rorro – Monteverdi Choir/Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Philips 462050-2. [2:16] Francis Poulenc Aubade – Gabriel Tacchino, p; Paris Conservatory Orch/Georges Prêtre. EMI CDM7-64714-2. [20:05] 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: Dona Nobis Pacem 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin 9:00 Winter Holidays Around the World with Bill McGlaughlin: Bill highlights diverse cultures as he samples

holiday music from number of different traditions.

10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree: A special two-hour edition for Christmas

Thursday 24 Christmas Eve 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Live from King’s College Cambridge University: A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols 10:30 Midday with Lisa Flynn 11:00 Daily Excursion: Russian Traditional Folksong, The Troika Speeds Along – Washington Balalaika Society, Paul Hill Chorale/ Paul Hill. Centaur CRC-2230.

[5:06] Sergei Prokofiev Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Op. 60: IV. Troika – Chicago Sym/Fritz Reiner. RCA 5605-2. [2:36] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Adolphe-Charles Adam Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night) – Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia/ John Rutter. Collegium 111.

[6:35] Various Hansel and Gretel: Evening Prayer; Gesu Bambino – Eaken Piano Trio.

Naxos 8.554099. [7:44] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Traditional Go Tell It on the Mountain – Chicago Children’s Choir/Josephine Lee, Chicago Children’s Cho CD; Imani Winds, Koch 7748.

[5:35] Giacomo Puccini La Bohème Suite – National Opera Orch/Paul Freeman. Pro Arte CDS-3671. [14:12] The first two acts of La Boheme take place on Christmas Eve. Leonard Bernstein West Side Story: Symphonic Dances – Utah Sym/Keith Lockhart.

Reference RR-105. [22:09] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Ralph Vaughan Williams Christmas cantata, Hodie – E Gale, R Tear, S Roberts, LSO Chorus, St Paul’s Cathedral Choristers, London Sym/Richard Hickox.

EMI 54128-2. [57:42] 3:00 Frédéric Chopin Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58 – Daniil Trifonov, p. London B0018271-02. [27:03] Elinor Remick Warren Wexford Bells: Suite on Old Irish Tunes – Royal Ballet Sinfonia/ Gavin Sutherland. ASV 2126.

[11:26] Traditional Jingle Bells – Imani Winds. Koch 7748. [2:54] Nicolai Leontovich Carol of the Bells – St. Paul’s Cathedral Choir/Andrew Carwood. Decca 4789225.

[1:26] Traditional The Twelve Days of Christmas – Elmer Iseler Singers & Canadian Brass. Philips 426835-2. [7:15]

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: Dona Nobis Pacem 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin Lewis Redner O Little Town of Bethlehem – Trinity Choir/Brian Jones. Dorian DOR-93240.

[2:50] Traditional Angels We Have Heard on High – Joan Sutherland, s; Ambrosian Singers, New Philharmonia/ Richard Bonynge. London 421095-2. [1:43] AdolpheCharles Adam Cantique de Noël (O Holy Night) – Luciano Pavarotti, t; National Phil/ Adler. London 414044-2. [4:13] Joaquín Rodrigo Concierto pastoral – James Galway, f; Philharmonia/Eduardo Mata.

RCA 68428-2. [24:28] 9:00 Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra Onstage: Peter Oundjian, conductor; Todd Levy, clarinet – Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead.

Debussy: Clarinet Rhapsody.

Bernstein: Clarinet Sonata arr Ramin for clarinet & chamber group. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5. The final broadcast in this series.

11:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Gian-Carlo Menotti Amahl and the Night Visitors – Ike Hawkersmith, Kirsten Gunlogson, Nashville Sym & Cho/Alastair Willis. Naxos 8.669019. [49:05] Anonymous Christmas Day Mass, Notre Dame School: Introit, Puer natus est – Ensemble Organum/ Marcel Peres. Harmonia Mundi HMX-290649/54 (6). [5:59] Franz Gruber Stille Nacht – Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, s; Julian Bream, g; Philharmonia/ Sir CharlesMackerras. EMI CDM7-63574-2. [3:35]

Friday 25 Christmas Day 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Johann Sebastian Bach Christmas Oratorio: Sinfonia – Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood. Oiseau 410179-2.

[5:12] Peter Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a: Waltz of the Flowers – Martha Argerich & Nicolas Economou, p’s. DG 449816-2. [6:22] 11:00 Various There Is A Flower; Bethlehem Down – King’s Singers. Signum Two SIG-0502.

[7:53] Leroy Anderson A Christmas Festival – Dallas

Wind Sym/Jerry Junkin.

Reference RR-126. [6:54] 12:00 Impromptu Encore: The male-voice chamber choir Chanticleer, which performed in Levin Studio in 2012 with Carl Grapentine hosting. [40:00] Otto Nicolai Weihnachtsouvertüre (Christmas Overture 1833) – Bavarian Radio Choir, Bamberg Sym/Karl Anton Rickenbacher.

Virgin Classics 91079-2. [10:51] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Arcangelo Corelli Concerto grosso in g, Op. 6/8, Christmas Concerto – Cantilena/ Adrian Shepherd. Chandos CHAN-6630. [15:59] Victor Hely-Hutchinson A Carol Symphony – City of Prague Phil/Gavin Sutherland. Naxos 8.557099. [24:42] Various God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen; We Three Kings of Orient Are; L’Enfance du Christ: The Shepherds’ Farewell – Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/ Stephen Cleobury. King’s College KGS-0033. [4:00] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Franz Schubert Symphony No. 9 in C, D. 944, Great – Vienna Phil/Sir Georg Solti. London 400082-2. [55:11] 3:00 Vernon M. Whaley Christmas Spiritual Medley – Oklahoma Woodwind Quintet. Integra ICD-801. [4:49] Robert Russell Bennett Christmas Medley No. 4 – Robert Shaw Chorale & Orch/Mr Shaw.

RCA 6429-2. [12:03] Agustín Barrios Mangoré Villancico de Navidad – Alexander-Sergei Ramírez, g. DG 471532-2.

[2:50] Traditional Three Spanish Carols (Fum, Fum; Hacia Belen; Ya Viene la Vieja) – Robert Shaw Chorale. RCA DCM2-1217 (2).

[3:45] Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28 – Pittsburgh Sym/ Manfred Honeck. Reference FR-707. [14:35] Strauss Wiegenlied (Lullaby) – Barbara Hendricks, s; Ralf Gothoni, p.

EMI CDC7-54381-2. [4:43] 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 Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain: An IrishAppalachian Celebration – Performed by Apollo’s Fire under the direction of Jeannette Sorrell.

7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Dona Nobis Pacem 8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin Johann Sebastian Bach Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248: Part 1 – Soloists; Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

Archive 423232-2 (2). [24:43] 9:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week: A potpourri of classical and pops favorites for the winter holidays.

11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Christmas Memories

Saturday 26 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg, including Saturday Morning Listeners’ Choice at 8:00 am and Soundtrack at 9:00 am.

11:00 Introductions: Sami Gershenhorn, 11, piano. Chopin: FantaisieImpromptu, Op. 66; Bach: Italian Concerto 1st mvt; Beethoven: Tempest Sonata 3rd mvt; Rachmaninoff: Prelude Op. 3/2; Liszt: Consolation No. 3 in Db; Debussy: Jardins sous la pluie.

12:00 From the Metropolitan Opera: Mozart’s “Magic Flute” (abridged; sung in English) – Russell Thomas (Tamino); Susanna Phillips (Pamina); Nathan Gunn (Papageno); Morris Robinson (Sarastro); Erika Miklosa (Queen of the Night); Metropolitan Opera Cho & Orch/Erik Nielsen. From 2010.

2:00 Weekend Music with Oliver Camacho Peter Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker, Op. 71: Excerpts – Stewart Goodyear, p.

Steinway & Sons 30040. [11:12] Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35 – Nicola Benedetti, v; Czech Phil/Jakub Hrusa.

DG 4764092. [35:34] Sergei Rachmaninoff Bogoroditse Dyevo (Hail O Virgin Mother, preceded by plainchant antiphon O Virgo Virginum) – Clare College Choir Cambridge U/Graham Ross. Harmonia Mundi HMU-907579. [3:48] 3:00 George Bristow A Winter’s Tale Overture – Royal Northern Sinfonia/Rebecca Miller.

New World 80768-2. [9:46] Giuseppe Verdi I Vespri Siciliani: Winter and Spring fr Four Seasons Ballet – Bournemouth Sym/José Serebrier. Naxos 8.572818-19 (2). [14:27] Ottorino Respighi Trittico botticelliano – Lausanne Chamber Orch/Jesús López-Cobos. Telarc CD-80309.

[18:21] Franz Schubert Ave Maria – Luciano Pavarotti, t; National Phil/Kurt Adler. London 414044-2. [4:47] Schubert Impromptus, D. 935 (Op. 142): No. 3 in B-Flat – Alfred Brendel, p. Philips 422237-2. [11:10] Various A Christmas Jig; Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen; In Dulci Jubilo; To Drive the Cold Winter Away – Baltimore Consort instrumentalists.

Dorian DOR-90198. [11:59]

4:30 Arias and Songs Encore: Waltzes for the New Year 5:00 Evening Music on WFMT • Edouard Lalo Symphonie espagnole in d, Op. 21 – Isaac Stern, v; Philadelphia Orch/ Eugene Ormandy. Sony SM2K-64501 (2). [32:59] Various El la don don; Riu, riu, chiu; Salve Regina; Ave Maria – Chanticleer/Joseph Jennings. Chanticleer CR-8803, Warner 0190295617783. [17:05] 6:00 Ottorino Respighi Roman Festivals (Feste Romane) – Oregon Sym/James de Preist.

Delos D/CD-3070. [25:42] Edward Elgar Cockaigne Overture (In London Town), Op. 40 – Oregon Sym/Carlos Kalmar. Pentatone PTC5186471. [15:02] Elgar There Is Sweet Music – Cambridge Singers/John Rutter. Collegium CSCD-505. [5:34] John Rutter What Sweeter Music – Cambridge Singers/Rutter.

Collegium COLCD-111. [4:18] 7:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Revisiting Mexico 8:00 Folkstage hosted

by Rich Warren 9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer

3:00

Sunday 27 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 With Heart and Voice: More music for the Christmas season.

7:00 Weekend Mornings with Maggie Clennon Reberg 12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis • Antonio Vivaldi Viola d’amore Concerto in d, R. 393 – Alessandro Tampieri, vi; Accademia Bizantina/Ottavio Dantone. Naïve OP-30570.

[9:25] Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude & Fugue in e, BWV 548 – Yo-Yo Ma, vc; Chris Thile, mandolin; Edgar Meyer, db.

Nonesuch 558933-2. [11:47] Joaquín Rodrigo Concierto para una fiesta – David Russell, g; Naples Phil/Erich Kunzel.

Telarc CD-80459. [29:39] 1:00 Frédéric Chopin Ballade No. 1 in g minor, Op. 23 – Maurizio Pollini, p. EMI CDM5-66221-2.

[8:58] Witold Lutoslawski Twenty Polish Christmas Carols: Angels to the shepherds came; Hey! We rejoice now – Polish Radio Chorus, Polish National Radio Sym/Antoni Wit. Naxos 8.555994. [2:46] Morton Gould Serenade of Carols – New Philharmonia/Morton Gould.

RCA 7931-2. [13:38] Various Nocturne in B, Op. 22; Nocturne, Op. 33/3 in A-Flat; Soirées musicales: Nocturne – Michael Landrum, p. Sono Luminus DSL-92158 (2). [16:06] 2:00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 31 in D, K. 297, Paris – Berlin Phil/

5:00

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Claudio Abbado. Sony SK-48385. [16:47] Claude Debussy Danses sacrée et profane – Elizabeth Hainen, h; IRIS Orch/Michael Stern.

Avie AV-2285. [9:53] Michael Praetorius Terpsichore: Five Dances – Collegium Terpsichore/Fritz Neumeyer.

Boston Skyline BSD-118.

[12:15] Praetorius Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen – Vasari Singers/Jeremy Backhouse.

Naxos 8.573030. [3:56] William Schuman New England Triptych – St. Louis Sym/Leonard Slatkin. RCA 61282-2. [15:20] Leroy Anderson Suite of Carols for Woodwinds – BBC Concert Orch Winds/Slatkin. Naxos 8.559621. [10:44] Johann Sebastian Bach Clavier Partita No. 5 in G, BWV 829 – Stewart Goodyear, p. Sono Luminus DSL-92220. [17:17] George Frideric Handel Messiah: And the Glory of the Lord; For Unto Us A Child Is Born – Les Arts Florissants/ William Christie. Harmonia Mundi HMU-901498/9 (2).

[6:56] Franz Joseph Haydn Quartet in D, Op. 64, No. 5, Lark – Danish String Quartet.

Avi Music 8553264. [17:31] Hans Christian Lumbye Drommebilleder (Dream Pictures) Fantasy – Danish National Radio Sym/ Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

Chandos CHAN-9209. [9:46] William Hirtz The Wizard of Oz Fantasy – Jon Kimura Parker, p. Jon Kimura Parker FP-0908. [7:34] Evening Music on WFMT • Giuseppe Verdi Aida: Gloria all’Egitto (Triumphal Scene) – Chicago Sym & Cho/Sir Georg Solti. London 430226-2. [11:48] The spotlight is on the CSO Chorus on our Chicago Symphony broadcast tonight at 8:00. Richard Wagner Tannhäuser: Overture and Venusberg Music – Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Riccardo Chailly. London 448155-2.

[23:17] Aaron Copland The Tender Land: Introduction and Love Music – Elgin Sym/Robert Hanson. Naxos 8.559297.

[10:11] Copland The Tender Land: Finale, The Promise of Living – Tanglewood Festival Cho, Boston Pops/John Williams. Sony SK-48224. [5:39] Eric Ewazen Oboe Concerto, Down A River of Time – Linda Strommen, ob; International Sejong Soloists. Albany TROY-577. [23:52] Ralph Vaughan Williams The First Nowell – Soloists; London Phil & Cho/Vladimir Jurowski. LPO 0050. [28:19] Francis Poulenc Piano and Wind Sextet – Music@Menlo 2020

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Ensemble. Music@Menlo Live 2018 Creative Capitals, Volume 2. [17:32] Felix Mendelssohn String Octet in E-Flat, Op. 20 – Nuttall, St. John, Ganatra, Bernhardsson, v’s; Rostad, Robertson, vi’s; Finckel, Vamos, vc’s. Music@ Menlo Live 2009. [31:37] 8:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts: Spotlighting the CSO Chorus – Bruckner: Psalm 150 (Ruth Welting, s/Daniel Barenboim). Bartok: Cantata Profana (John Aler, t; John Tomlinson, br/Pierre Boulez).

Brahms: A German Requiem (Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, s; Bernd Weikl, br/Sir Georg Solti).

10:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Berlin Philharmonic

Monday 28 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Ottorino Respighi Ancient Airs and Dances for the Lute arr piano: Campanae Parisienses; Villanella – Konstantin Scherbakov, p. Naxos 8.553704. [8:49] Various Suite bergamasque: III. Clair de lune; Gymnopédie No. 1 – Albrecht Mayer, ob, eh; St. Martin’s Academy/ Mathias Mönius. London 4782564. [8:47] Maurice Ravel Introduction and Allegro – Galway, f; Stoltzman, cl; Lehwalder, h; Tokyo String Quartet. RCA 62552-2. [10:51] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Aram Khachaturian Masquerade Suite – Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi.

Chandos CHAN-8542. [16:17] 11:00 Daily Excursion: Federico Moreno Torroba Castles of Spain – Christopher Parkening, g. EMI CDC7-49404-2. [9:10] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Antonio Vivaldi Flute Concerto in D, Op. 10, No. 3, R. 428, The Goldfinch – Giovanni Antonini, r; Il Giardino Armonico.

Teldec 73267-2. [10:17] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-Flat, K. 595 – Chamber Orch of Europe/Pierre-Laurent Aimard, p. Warner Classics 62259-2. [31:35] Sergei Prokofiev Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34 – Chamber Orch of Europe/Claudio Abbado; Stefan Vladar, p.

DG 429396-2. [7:53] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Johannes Brahms Clarinet Quintet in b minor, Op. 115 – Karl Leister, cl; Leipzig String Quartet. MD+G Recordings 3070719-2. [37:20] 30

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3:00 Jean-Philippe Rameau Une Symphonie Imaginaire: Music from Naïs, Castor et Pollux, Les Talens lyriques, Dardanus – Les Musiciens du Louvre/ Marc Minkowski. Archive B0004478-02. [12:50] Jean Françaix L’Horloge de Flore (Flower Clock) – Albrecht Mayer, ob; St. Martin’s Academy/ Mathias Mönius. London 4782564. [17:03] Marin Marais La Guitare – Trio Settecento.

Cedille CDR-90000129. [6:32] 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: You and the Night and the Music looks at the ways novelists and poets have incorporated great music into their plots and verses.

8:00 Evenings with Kerry Frumkin Hector Berlioz L’Enfance du Christ, Op. 25 – Tenebrae Choir, London Sym/Sir Colin Davis.

LSO Live LSO-0606 (2). [96:34] 10:00 Encore Broadcast: Critical Thinking with Andrew Patner – Andrew explores the rich world of Eastern Orthodox church music for the Christmas season.

11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Tuesday 29 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Georges Bizet L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2 – Toronto Sym/ Sir Andrew Davis. CBS MDK-45649. [17:36] Bedrich Smetana The Bartered Bride: Three Dances – Prague Sym/ Jiri Belohlàvek. Supraphon 110377-2. [12:23] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: George Frideric Handel Concerto grosso in C, Alexander’s Feast – La Stravaganza Cologne/Andrew Manze.

Denon CO-79943. [12:34] 11:00 Daily Excursion: Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari Il Campiello (The Square) Suite – Berlin Chamber Orch/Heinz Rögner. Berlin Classics 0091772-BC. [9:40] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Ludwig van Beethoven Fidelio Overture – German Chamber Phil/Daniel Harding. Virgin Classics 45364-2. [7:26] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Franz Schubert Guitar Quartet, D. 96 (after Wenzel Matiegka Trio) – Göran Söllscher, g; Wolfgang Schulz, f; Wolfram Christ, vi; Georg Faust, vc. DG 431783-2.

[25:14] Various Ave Maria; Vocalise – Isaac Stern, v, w/ orch. CBS MDK-45816. [11:29] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork:

Camille Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 in c minor, Op. 78, Organ – Gillian Weir, o; Ulster Orch/Yan-Pascal Tortelier.

Chandos CHAN-8822. [34:23] 3:00 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart German Dances, K. 536 – Tafelmusik/Bruno Weil. Sony SK-46696. [9:06] Johann Strauss II Waltz, Tales from the Vienna Woods, Op. 325 – Vienna Phil/Riccardo Muti. Sony 88985477002.

[12:29] Johann Strauss II Frühlingsstimmen Waltz, Op. 410 – Vienna Phil/Mariss Jansons. DG 4775566 (2). [6:24] 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: You and the Night and the Music 8:00 From the CSO’s Archives: The First 130 Years – Guests in the House – Khachaturian: Symphony No. 3 (/Leopold Stokowski). Williams: Suite from Memoirs of A Geisha (Yo-Yo Ma, vc/ John Williams). Kodaly: Dances of Galanta (/Neeme Jaervi). Franck: Symphony in d (/Pierre Monteux).

10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center – Brahms: Intermezzo in E-Flat, Op. 117/4; Rhapsody in E-Flat, Op. 119/4; Piano Quartet in g, Op. 25 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Wednesday 30 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Eduard Strauss Carmen Quadrille, Op. 134; Telephon Polka – Vienna Phil/Mariss Jansons. Sony 92710 (2), DG 4775566(2). [9:15] Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier: Waltzes – Dresden Staatskapelle/Rudolf Kempe.

EMI CMS7-64346-2 (3). [17:45] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Samuel Barber The School for Scandal Overture, Op. 5 – Baltimore Sym/David Zinman. Argo 436288-2. [8:16] 11:00 Daily Excursion: Malcolm Arnold Four Cornish Dances, Op. 91 – London Phil/Sir Malcolm Arnold.

Lyrita SRCD.201. [12:26] 12:00 Music in Chicago 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Erich Wolfgang Korngold Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35 – Andrew Haveron, v; RTÉ Concert Orch/John Wilson. Chandos CHAN-20135.

[25:01] Various Porgy and Bess: I loves you, Porgy; Melancholia; Gladiolus Rag – Lara Downes, p. Sono

Luminus DSL-92207. [10:56] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Ludwig van Beethoven Quartet No. 10 in E-flat, Op. 74, Harp – Juilliard String Quartet.

CBS M3K-37869 (3). [32:20] 3:00 George Frideric Handel Organ Concerto in F, The Cuckoo and the Nightingale – Academy of Ancient Music/Richard Egarr, o. Harmonia Mundi HMU-807447.48 (2). [16:09] Johann Sebastian Bach Flute Sonata in E-Flat, BWV 1031: II. Siciliano; Sheep May Safely Graze; Das alte Jahr vergangen ist, BWV 641; In Dulci Jubilo – Angela Hewitt, p.

Hyperion CDA-67309. [14:18] Einojuhani Rautavaara Cantus Arcticus, Op. 61 – Helsinki Phil/Leif Segerstam. Ondine ODE-1041-2. [19:23] 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: You and the Night and the Music 8:00 Law and Opera: In memory of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Lisa Flynn presents a tribute based on Justice Ginsburg’s guest-hosting appearance on WFMT in September 2015. It highlights her knowledge of and love for the art of opera.

Rebecca Nystedt, co-producer.

10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree 11:00 Evening Music on WFMT

Thursday 31 New Year’s Eve 12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff 6:00 Mornings with Dennis Moore 9:00 Gerald Finzi New Year Music (Nocturne), Op. 7 – Northern Sinfonia/Richard Hickox. [11:53] Frédéric Chopin Nocturnes, Op. 9: No. 2 in E-Flat – JeanGuihen Queyras, vc; Alexandre Tharaud, p. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902274. [4:10] Hector Berlioz Rêverie et Caprice, Op. 8 – Giovanni Radivo, v; Lyon National Orch/Leonard Slatkin. Naxos 8.573297. [8:44] 10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn, including today’s new release, plus: Claude Debussy Petite Suite – Philharmonia/Geoffrey Simon.

Cala CACD-1001. [12:45] 11:00 Daily Excursion: Astor Piazzolla Four Seasons of Buenos Aires: Invierno Porteño (Winter) – Jason Vieaux, g; Julian Labro, bandoneon; Far Cry Chamber Orch. Azica ACD-71270. [7:46] 12:00 Music in Chicago, plus: Johann Sebastian Bach Violin Concerto No. 1 in a minor,

BWV 1041 – Hilary Hahn, v; Los Angeles Chamber Orch/ Jeffrey Kahane. [13:29] 1:00 Music for the Afternoon • Igor Stravinsky The Firebird Suite (1919) – Royal Concertgebouw Orch/Carlo Maria Giulini.

Sony SK-45935. [24:10] Igor Stravinsky Three Movements from Petrouchka – Yuja Wang, p. DG B0014108-02. [15:23] 2:00 Afternoon Masterwork: Manuel de Falla Nights in

the Gardens of Spain – Jorge Federico Osorio, p; Xalapa Sym/Herrera De La Fuente. IMP Classics PCD-1074. [22:14] 3:00 Trad Auld Lang Syne – Elora Festival Singers/Noel Edison.

Naxos 8.573861. [3:23] Franz Waxman Auld Lang Syne Variations – Kremerata Baltica.

Nonesuch 79657-2. [12:47] Josef Strauss Dynamiden Waltz, Op. 173 – Vienna Phil/ Andris Nelsons. Sony. [10:34]

Strauss Family Blue Danube Waltzes; Radetzky March – Vienna Phil/Mariss Jansons.

Sony 92710 (2). [13:12] 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 7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: You and the Night and the Music 8:00 For New Year’s Eve: Favorites

December Sponsors Antiques Roadshow Illinois Secretary of State Senior Lifestyle/The Breakers at Edgewater Beach Arts Programming An anonymous donor, in memory of Arthur Wike City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events Donna Van Eekeren, CEO & President of Springboard Arts Chicago Illinois Arts Council Agency Jim and Kay Mabie BBC World News Howard and Ursula Dubin Foundation British Programming Robert Ammann Patricia Duff Grisemer Family Charitable Trust Erika and Dietrich Gross Illinois Secretary of State Gary and Mary Walther Chicago Tonight: A WTTW News Production Anonymous Barnes & Thornburg Diane and Michael Beemer Tom Dacey Carr and Holly Johnson Carr City Club of Chicago Clifford Law Offices Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation The Dauntless Charitable Fund Frances DeBlasio Charitable Fund Howard and Ursula Dubin Foundation Gail M. Elden David and Janet Fox Julius N. Frankel Foundation Lloyd A. Fry Foundation The Gecht Family – Robert, Rachel, Amanda, and Maddy

The Joseph B. Glossberg Foundation Illinois Secretary of State Jim and Kay Mabie John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Mollenhauer Progressive Philanthropic Fund Alexandra and John Nichols William F. O’Connor Foundation Laurie and Michel Petersen Polk Bros. Foundation Rose Pest Solutions Steve & Delores Sarovich Foundation Richard and Cynthia Schilsky Jill and John Svoboda Walter E. Smithe Arts Coverage on Chicago Tonight The JCS Fund of the DuPage Foundation Science Segments on Chicago Tonight Joel M. Friedman, President, Alvin H. Baum Family Fund Chicago Tonight: Black Voices: A WTTW News Production Nicholas Antoine Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation Hiranda and Paul Donoghue The Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Fifth Third Bank Judy and John McCarter Gertrude Dyane and James H. Wooten, Jr. Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices: A WTTW News Production CIBC Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation Judy and John McCarter Check, Please!

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of the WFMT Hosts – George Preston hosts an end-of-year broadcast featuring a multitude of varied music choices, classical, jazz, and folk, from WFMT’s hosts and programmers, as we look back on the challenges and struggles of 2020 and forward with hope for the new year of 2021. We’ll end as we traditionally do, with If We Only Have Love and Auld Lang Syne.

Thank You Cooking Programming Sue and Bob Wieseneck Finding Your Roots Chicago Scanning LLC

Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts Admiral at the Lake

Frontline Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation David Snyder and Dr. Margaret Salamon

Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William G. Brown Earl and Brenda Shapiro Foundation Wintrust Helen Zell

Masterpiece BMO Harris Bank Walter E. Smithe NOVA Brinson Foundation PBS NewsHour Abe and Ida Cooper Foundation Programming Celebrating Diverse Voices ComEd

Children’s Programming The Duchossois Family Foundation Kiphart Family Foundation Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trust, a partner of the Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation Edmond and Alice Opler Foundation Rose Pest Solutions Philip F. Schoch Charitable Trust Dr. Scholl Foundation The Segal Family Foundation Shriners Hospitals for Children WTTW Kids Community Engagement Initiatives Aldi Russell and Josephine Kott Memorial Charitable Trust Physicians Immediate Care

Fiesta Joyce Saxon Impromptu Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation International Programs and Remote Broadcasts Friends of Oliver Dragon Introductions Kiphart Family Foundation The Negaunee Foundation Steve and Delores Sarovich Foundation Live from WFMT Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation Spoken Word Programming Poetry Foundation Studs Terkel Radio Archive Laura and Bob Watson, in memory of Charles Benton The Becca Kopf Memorial Circle of Friends Weather Reports AARP Experience Corps Rose Pest Solutions

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Host Elbio Barilari goes back in time to listen to Spanish and Latin-American Christmas music, including portions of the Missa Pastoril para Noite de Natal by Brazil’s José Maurício Nunes Garcia (1767-1830).

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