Holiday Schedule
Saturday December 21, 2024 at 8 p.m.
Choral Arts Festival
Featuring beautiful holiday music from the Baltimore Choral Arts Society -- one of the finest Christmas concerts in Maryland: Christmas with Choral Arts. This annual holiday tradition is led by music director Anthony Blake Clark, along with special guests The Morgan State University Choir, directed by Eric Conway. Christmas with Choral Arts was recorded live at the Baltimore Basilica on December 3rd, 2024 and features traditional holiday favorites, such as Silent Night, The First Nowell, and O, Holy Night, along with the premiere of a new composition, Our Merry Land, created in partnership with Choral Arts' CoroLAB high school students.
Sunday, December 22, 4 p.m. & 11 p.m.
PRX Special: "Christmas Music and Memories"
Whether it’s a traditional hymn or a holiday song from our childhood, many people say Christmas just wouldn’t be Christmas without the music that marks this season. The sense of joy, comfort, or spiritual uplift comes in all kinds of music at this time of year. From a Charlie Brown Christmas to Donny Hathaway and carols from the 15th century, guests share their favorite holiday music and memories.
Tuesday, December 24 at 12 p.m.
Midday's Christmas Eve Special
Wednesday, December 25, at 12 p.m.
NPR Special: Jazz Piano Christmas
Your favorite holiday classics as you’ve never heard them! The Kennedy Center and NPR present A Jazz Piano Christmas, the annual sell-out event featuring jazz-infused renditions of the season’s most-loved tunes performed by Grammy Award–winning pianist Kris Davis, 2023 Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz International Piano Competition winner Jahari Stampley and Cuban sensation Roberto Fonseca
Thursday, December 26, at 12 p.m.
PRX Special: "Their Music Survives, The Resilience and Revival of Jewish Music from The Holocaust"
In this documentary, hosted by former Morning Edition reporter and producer Mat Edelson, we’ll meet conductors, musicians and others rediscovering this lost generation of music and performing it for new audiences worldwide. They’re using this music to educate, to remember and to correct an historical injustice.
The WYPR Sunday Special:
Sunday December 29, 4 p.m. & 11 p.m.
Embodied: Is Food the Key to Cultural Belonging?
Food is a popular and accessible pathway to finding cultural connection, especially when other routes — like religion, language, or a robust familial network — are less available. Embodied host Anita Rao felt particularly connected to her Indian heritage growing up eating her mom’s cooking … but now as an adult, she makes very few of those recipes on her own. Now, she’s looking for solid ways to connect back to her cultural identity, and she’s heading into the kitchen.
Tuesday, December 31 12 p.m.
Climate One: This Year in Climate 2024
The past year set new records for extreme heat around the world in what is already the warmest decade on record. According to the World Meteorological Organization, sea-level rise and ocean heating are accelerating along with the loss of ice from glaciers. And we continue to see extreme weather of all kinds wreak havoc on communities across the world. How will the re-election of Donald Trump to the presidency affect the transition to cleaner forms of energy? Climate One hosts Greg Dalton and Ariana Brocious look back upon recent climate progress and pitfalls of the past year.
Tuesday December 31, 8 p.m.
Toast of the Nation
An NPR tradition every New Year's Eve since the 1970s, Toast of the Nation is the perfect audio complement for the occasion. It's festive jazz you can party to, all night long. Hosted by musician Christian McBride.
Wednesday, January 1, 12 p.m.
BBC Newshour: A look ahead at 2025
Wednesday, New Year’s Day, 2025. Some of the BBC’s finest correspondents look ahead to the coming year and predict what 2025 might have in store.