Tune in to Classical Minnesota Public Radio for these holiday specials which feature Minnesota touches. See our holiday page for a full list of our 2012 holiday programming, and be sure to enjoy our online stream of holiday classics.
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12:00 am | Music Through The Night® |
5:00 am | John Zech |
6:00 am | John Birge |
10:00 am | Alison Young |
11:00 am | Christmas with Luther College |
1:00 pm | Performance Today® |
3:00 pm | Steve Staruch |
7:00 pm | Advent Vespers |
9:00 pm | Bill Morelock |
11:00 pm | Bob Christiansen |
In this podcast, host Emily Reese takes an in-depth listen to video game music and talks with the people who make it.
Jesper Kyd and Darksiders II on Top Score
Jesper Kyd explains how he scored the afterlife, light and darkness for Darksiders II on Top Score from Classical MPR. Enter for a chance to win one of two copies of the original soundtrack.
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The Composer Conversation Series features some of today's most original, prominent, and prestigious voices in composition.
View MoreImagine 600 musicians - singers, bell-ringers, organ, brass, percussion, strings and winds - dressed in elegant robes, and lit by candlelight singing some of the most ravishing music for the season.
Tuesday, 7 pm: Slavic Wonders, with the Rose Ensemble. Wednesday, 11 am: Saint Olaf Christmas Festival. Wednesday, 6 pm: Taste of the Holidays, vol. 3. Thursday, 11 am: Christmas with Luther College. Thursday, 3 pm hour: Regional Spotlight: Choral Arts...
Highlights from Dec. 11 to Dec. 18 Tuesday, 7 pm: Welcome Christmas!, with VocalEssence. Wednesday, 12 noon: Music with Minnesotans: Actor and singer Dane Stauffer. Wednesday, 7 pm: Candles Burning Brightly. Thursday, 11 am: Cantus, live at Westminster Presbyterian Church....
Music lovers are learning today about the death of the soprano Lisa Della Casa. She was especially renowned for her performances of Mozart and Richard Strauss. If she had a signature role, it was Strauss's Arabella. And since she was...
Tune in to Classical Minnesota Public Radio for these holiday specials which feature Minnesota touches. See our holiday page for a full list of our 2012 holiday programming, and be sure to enjoy our online stream of holiday classics.
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Holiday Classics Stream
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A free holiday light show that's been the focus of preachers' legal fight over access is staying in Duluth.
Read MoreCeramic artist Kimberlee Roth is taking a whole new approach to plates and bowls, turning them into artistic sculptures that can live on the wall or on the table.
Read MoreTuesday, 7 pm: Slavic Wonders, with the Rose Ensemble.
Wednesday, 11 am: Saint Olaf Christmas Festival.
Wednesday, 6 pm: Taste of the Holidays, vol. 3.
Thursday, 11 am: Christmas with Luther College.
Thursday, 3 pm hour: Regional Spotlight: Choral Arts Ensemble, Magnum Chorum, Minnesota Symphonic Winds, and the Mirandola Ensemble.
Thursday, 7 pm: Advent Vespers.
Friday, 11 am: Today, Heaven Sings, with the musicians of Concordia College, Moorhead.
Friday 8 pm: Minnesota Orchestra: Handel's Messiah.
Saturday, 12 noon: Metropolitan Opera: Rossini's Barber of Seville, (abridged holiday presentation).
Saturday, 4 pm: A Chanticleer Christmas.
Sunday, 6 am: Pipedreams: An American Organist's Christmas.
Sunday, noon: From the Top.
Sunday, 1 pm: SymphonyCast: The Rotterdam Philharmonic in The Nutcracker.
Monday, 9 am: A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, from Cambridge, England
Monday, 11 am: Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker.
Monday, 5 pm: A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, from Cambridge, England.
Tuesday, 5 pm: Welcome Christmas!, with VocalEssence.
Tuesday, 7 pm: Echoes of Christmas, with the Dale Warland Singers.