This activity is made possible in part by the Minnesota Legacy Amendment's Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.
One of the highlights of Classical MPR's broadcast schedule each holiday season, Christmas With Cantus presents a modern take on the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, reimagined for our world today. Listen now to this holiday treat.
Each December, Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, rings out with the sounds of the Christmas season to present a concert of vivid joy and profound inspiration. Enjoy highlights from this year's musical celebration, featuring the college's combined choirs, orchestra, handbell choirs and mighty pipe organ.
Celebrate the season with song! Brian Newhouse hosts this one-hour program of a cappella holiday favorites, new and old, presented live in concert by Chanticleer, the superb 12-man choral ensemble known as 'an orchestra of voices.'
The St. Olaf Christmas Festival has become one of the nation's most cherished holiday celebrations. Listen now to this year's performance, including hymns, carols, choral works and orchestral selections featuring more than 500 student musicians.
The world-renowned Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square continues its tradition of great artistry this holiday season, with touching arrangements of familiar carols and lesser-known melodies that are fast becoming the new classics. Julie Amacher hosts this annual favorite.
'Welcome Christmas' is a perennial Christmas favorite from VocalEssence, one of the world's premier choral ensembles. Join host John Birge for an hour of traditional carols and new discoveries, including the world premiere of two carols from the annual Christmas Carol Contest.
'All Is Bright' offers an hour of gorgeous, contemplative choral music that tells the traditional Christmas story with songs about angels, the star and the manger scene. Featured artists include Cantus, Chanticleer, Cambridge Singers, Bryn Terfel, Emma Kirkby, Jessye Norman and a variety of choirs. Lynne Warfel hosts.
Stephen Cleobury, the esteemed director of England's world-famous Choir of King's College, Cambridge, died Friday at 70. Michael Barone, the host of the U.S. broadcast of King's 'A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols,' pays tribute to the musical mastermind.
Come along as we cruise through the Duluth Canal and experience a glorious Lake Superior morning aboard the longest ship plying the Great Lakes, the Interlake Steamship Company's Paul R. Tregurtha -- all accompanied by beautiful classical music!
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This activity is made possible in part by the Minnesota Legacy Amendment's Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.
