Holiday Music

Christmas Memories with Marian McPartland

December 20, 2006 • McPartland celebrates the holidays with a special hour of her favorite Christmas music and memories. McPartland and several of her Piano Jazz guests perform traditional Christmas songs, as well as more modern works that celebrate the season.

Christmas Memories with Marian McPartland

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Jazz Piano Christmas XVII with Allen Toussaint

December 15, 2006 • Recorded at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, New Orleans keyboard legend Allen Toussaint headlines another stellar program. Jazz Piano Christmas mixes established jazz stars with promising newcomers to offer original and unique jazz interpretations of holiday favorites.

Jazz Piano Christmas XVII with Allen Toussaint

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America Sings!

December 14, 2006 • Acclaimed choral master Philip Brunelle presents a varied history of American choral music with his own VocalEssence ensemble. Various members of the Washington, D.C. choral community join to celebrate colonial anthems, the African-American choral tradition, barbershop quartets, and the music of Leonard Bernstein.

Christmas Around the Country: 2005

December 23, 2005 • Performance Today's annual tradition of holiday concerts features a range of beautiful holiday music from a variety of sources: the Baltimore Consort from NPR's Studio 4A; the Empire Brass from Florida; Canticle from Santa Barbara, Calif.; and Chanticleer from Petaluma, Calif.

Christmas Around the Country: 2005

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Traditions Old and New: 'Jazz Piano Christmas'

December 16, 2005 • Legendary pianists mix with promising newcomers at the Jazz Piano Christmas, recorded live at the Kennedy Center. The 16th edition of the annual concert features Hilton Ruiz, Marcia Ball and others playing jazzy renditions of holiday classics.

Traditions Old and New: 'Jazz Piano Christmas'

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A Christmas Concert from 'World Cafe'

December 9, 2005 • Many songs heard at Christmastime are so well known, they merely become background noise. To counteract that trend, Christmas at the World Cafe presents soulful roots music inspired by the holiday.

A Christmas Concert from 'World Cafe'

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Christmas with the Choir of King's College

December 25, 2004 • The ethereal sounds of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge have become a staple of the Christmas season throughout the world. NPR's Jacki Lyden talks with choir director Stephen Cleobury and choristers Sam Landman and Alexander Ryan.

Christmas with the Choir of King's College

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Harmonies of a 'Chanticleer Christmas'

December 21, 2004 • The twelve men of Chanticleer, one of America's premiere vocal ensembles, present a program of a cappella music at the St. Vincent Church in Petaluma, Calif. Joseph Jennings directs.

Live at NPR: Anonymous 4

December 25, 2003 • The women of Anonymous 4 — Marsha Genensky, Susan Hellauer, Jaqueline Horner and Johanna Maria Rose — join NPR's Fred Child in Studio 4A to perform a selection of holiday music. The ensemble, together for 17 years, is accompanied on several tracks by harpist Andrew Lawrence King.