Slow down, relax, and ease yourself into the holidays with these specials on Montana Public Radio. Tune in for holiday cheer all week, on your radio or right here at mtpr.org.
Thursday December 20, 2018
- 7:30 p.m. Musician’s Spotlight
John Floridis hosts a special holiday edition of Musician's Spotlight featuring music by artists who have appeared as guests on the program over the last two decades. Featured artists include Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, The Indigo Girls, Derek Trucks, Alison Krauss, John Gorka and Karan Casey.
Friday December 21, 2018
- 9:00 a.m. Morning Classics
Sir Arnold Bax Winter Legends; Alexey Shor Four Seasons of Manhattan; Antonio Vivaldi Concerto #4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297 – Winter; Frederic Chopin Nocturnes: Op. 9 # 1-3 and Op. 15 # 1-3; Franz Schubert Selections from Winterreise - for tenor and piano
Sunday December 23, 2018
- 2:00 p.m. A Swingin’ Holiday Jazz Party with Wynton Marsalis
- 3:00 p.m. Jazz Piano Christmas 2018
- 5:00 p.m. Weekend All Things Considered – NPR News
- 6:00 p.m. Happy(ish) Holidays from Terrible, Thanks for Asking
Some people celebrate the holidays with cheer and eggnog and magic. Some people don’t celebrate the holidays at all. And a lot of people endure the holidays with a grin on their face and a pain in their heart. Because the holidays are tough, and host Nora McInerny is going to talk about it
Monday December 24, 2018
- 9:00 a.m. Morning Classics
Johann Friedrich Fasch Trumpet Concerto in D, FWV L:D1; Giuseppe Torelli Sonata con stromenti e tromba, G1; Various Selections from "A Winter's Light"; Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco Evangelion - Part 1: The Infancy, for piano; Pietro Locatelli Concerto Grosso in F minor, Op. 1 #8; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Missa O Magnum Mysterium; Franz Xaver Gruber Silent Night
- 4:00 p.m. Pea Green Boat - The annual reading of Stubby Pringle Christmas
- 7:00 p.m. The Moth Radio Hour Holiday Special
- 8:00 p.m. St Olaf Christmas Festival Broadcast 2018
- 10:00 p.m. A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Taped live from Kings College in Cambridge, England earlier today.
Tuesday December 25, 2018
- 9:00 a.m. A Chanticleer Christmas
- 10:00 a.m. Christmas with the Morman Tabernacle Choir
- 11:00 a.m. Christmas Freeforms with Michael Marsolek
- 1:00 p.m. Tinsel Tales 4 - NPR Christmas favorite stories
- 2:00 p.m. Thistle and Shamrock Celtic Christmas
- 3:00 p.m. Hungry: Julia Child presents “a Dickens Holiday Feast”
- 3:25 p.m. A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote read by Gus Chambers
- 4:00 p.m. Christmas Pea Green Boat
- 7:00 p.m. This American Life Special Including David Sedaris Santa Land Diaries
- 8:00 p.m. Tinsel Tales 3 - More Holiday stories from NPR
- 9:00 p.m. The Big Tiny Desk Holiday Special from NPR
- 10:00 p.m. A World Café Holiday special
- 11:00 p.m. All is Bright - Contemplative music for Christmas