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Our staff wishes you a very happy holiday season.

December 25th

9am: Welcome Christmas! – An hour of joyful holiday music featuring Philip Brunelle and the Minneapolis-based chorus, VocalEssence. Hosted by John Birge.

10am: A Choral Christmas with Stile Antico – The award-winning choir from London, performs sacred music by the most acclaimed composers of the renaissance. Hear their luminous blend of voices sing the intricately woven music of Thomas Tallis and William Byrd. Hosted by Cathy Fuller.

noon: Christmas with Morehouse and Spelman Glee Clubs – The choirs of Morehouse and Spelman Colleges present a concert program featuring the best works of the last several years. This encore presentation is a joyous celebration of the schools’ tradition of singing excellence, with their trade-mark mixture of spirituals and carols. Korva Coleman hosts.

3pm: A Chanticleer Christmas – A celebration of the season with Chanticleer, the 12-voice San Francisco-based men’s choir. The program spans the globe and the centuries — from England in the 1300s to new arrangements of classic and contemporary carols.

8pm: 2013 Holiday Choral Festival – This year’s festival fea-tures the acclaimed American Spiritual Ensemble, Louisville Chamber Choir, University of Louisville Cardinal Singers and the Louisville Youth Choir. Recorded at St. Martin of Tours.

December 28th at 6pm

Handel’s Messiah with Bourbon Baroque – Louisville’s period-instrument ensemble presents the Christmas por-tion of Handel’s Messiah.

January 1st (time TBD)

New Year’s Day from Vienna – A live broadcast with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Daniel Barenboim.

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Prelude in C Major, BWV 547

Paul Weber

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J.S. Bach

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Enjoy Holiday Programming on Classical 90.5 FM and wuol.org

December 11th noon

Lunchtime Classics with Ballard Madrigal Singers – Always a fun concert, Noel Weaver brings his Madrigal Singers to sing some carols and bring good cheer.

December 22nd 8pm

St. Olaf Christmas Festival – A service in song and word that has become one of the nation’s most cherished holiday celebrations. Tickets to the event sell out months in advance. The festival includes hymns, carols, choral works, and orchestral selections celebrating the Nativity and featuring more than 500 student mu-sicians who are members of five choirs and the St. Olaf Orchestra.

December 23rd 8pm

Advent Voices – Advent is a time of quiet contemplation and waiting for darkness to become light. Throughout the centuries Advent has been observed musically in sacred and secular ways. Join Lynne Warfel for an hour of beautiful vocal music inspired by and written for Advent.

December 24th 10am and 9pm

A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols – A live broadcast from the chapel of King’s College in Cambridge, England present-ing the legendary A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols service (biblical readings and music) as performed by the 30-voice King’s College Choir.

December 24th 8pm

Holiday Choral Festival 2012 – A rebroadcast of the 2012 Holiday Choral Festival, featuring organist Philip Brisson, Louisville Vocal Project and the University of Louisville Cardinal Singers.

Vom Himmel hoch da komm ich her (From Heaven

Above to Earth I Come)

In dulci jubilo

Paul Weber

Let’s Be Merry and Joyful

Personent Hodie

Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

Christmas Is A’Comin’ In (Old English)

Domine Deus from GLORIA

Dormi, Dormi (Spanish Carol)

Star Carol

Magnificat

Praise the Name of the Lord

O Beatum et Sacrosanctum Diem

O Magnum Mysterium

God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

My Dancing Day

In dulci jubilo

Silent Night

Hodie, Christus Natus Est

Hodie Christus Natus Est

O Nata Lux

J.S. Bach

J.S. Bach

organ

XII Century Carol

PIAE CANTIONES, 1582

PICARDY, arr. Andrew White and Louie Bailey

arr. Betty Ann Ramseth

Antonio Vivaldi

arr. Mary Goetze

John Rutter

C.V. Stanford

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Peter Philips

Morten Lauridsen

arr. Alice Parker & Robert Shaw

arr. Alice Parker & Robert Shaw

Matthew Culloton

Gruber, arr. Stephen Paulus

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Francis Poulenc

David C. Dickau

Behold the Star

Away in a Manger

Here’s a Pretty Little Baby

Mary Had a Baby

I Can Tell the World

Amen

William Dawson

William J. Kirkpatrick arr. Johnie Dean

arr. André J. Thomas

arr. William Dawson

arr. Moses Hogan

arr. Johnie Dean

Go Tell It on the Mountain

See Dat Babe

Alleluia

Jingle Bells

arr. Joshua Shank

arr. Stacey V. Gibbs

Eric Whitacre

arr. Gordon Langford

The American Spiritual Ensemble

Louisville Youth Choir Lyric & Descant Singers

The University of Louisville Cardinal Singers

Louisville Chamber Choir

Everett McCorvey, Founder and Director Tedrin Blair Lindsay, piano

Dr. Louie L. Bailey, conductor Ms. Rhonda Hibdon, piano

Kent Hatteberg, Director

Kent Hatteberg, Director