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Volume 52, Issue 4 | Holiday 2023
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Holiday Programming on WYSU! The staff of 88.5 WYSU-FM would like to thank you for your generous support over the past year, and wish you a safe, healthy, fulfilling, and prosperous New Year!
Please join us for some very special holiday programming commencing on Wednesday, December 13.
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WEDNESDAY, December 1311:00 a.m. Classical Music with Gary Sexton
Music for the holiday season, including Peter Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Ballet, Act 1.
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THURSDAY, December 1411:00 a.m. Classical Music with Gary Sexton
Music for the holiday season, including Peter Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Ballet, Act 2.
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FRIDAY, December 1511:00 a.m. Classical Music with Gary Sexton
Music for the holiday season, including Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Part One: for the First Day of Christmas. BWV 248.
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MONDAY, December 1811:00 a.m. Classical Music with Gary Sexton
Music for the holiday season, including Alfred Reed's Russian Christmas Music.
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TUESDAY, December 1911:00 a.m. Classical Music with Gary Sexton
Music for the holiday season, including Antonio Vivaldi's Magnificat, RV 611.
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WEDNESDAY, December 2011:00 a.m. Classical Music with Gary Sexton
Music for the holiday season, including Johann Sebastian Bach's Magnificat.
7:00 p.m. Performance Today
Live performances of holiday music from around the country.
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THURSDAY, December 2111:00 a.m. Classical Music with Gary Sexton
Music for the holiday season, including George Frideric Handel's Messiah, Part 1, plus Hallelujah Chorus, at noon.
7:00 p.m. Performance Today
Live performances of holiday music from around the country.
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FRIDAY, December 229:00 a.m. Your Classical Christmas Favorites
Join us this holiday season as we count down the top Christmas songs in a two-hour special.
11:00 a.m. All is Bright
All is Bright, with host Lynne Warfel, offers an hour of gorgeous, contemplative choral music that tells the traditional Christmas story with songs about angels, the star, and the manger scene.
Noon Winter Holidays around the World with Bill McGlaughlin
This program's eclectic playlist includes ancient Italian Christmas melodies, Mexican celebrations by Dave Brubeck, a Parisian ode by Debussy, a Polynesian hymn, and an excerpt from Gian Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors.
1:00 p.m. In Winter's Glow
A winter solstice program, with modern classical sounds for the longest night of the year, chosen especially to compliment the chilly, starry nights of the season.
2:00 p.m. Anticipation and Celebration: Advent with the Montserrat Boy Choir
The Monserrat Boy Choir sing music from Gregorian Chant to pieces by contemporary Spanish composer Bernat Vivancos.
7:00 p.m. The Jazz Sofa with Rick Popovich
An evening of holiday jazz favorites.
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SATURDAY, December 237:00 p.m. The Jazz Sofa with Rick Popovich
An evening of holiday jazz favorites.
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SUNDAY, December 24 (CHRISTMAS EVE)10:00 a.m. A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols presents the popular, live world-wide Christmas Eve broadcast performed in the 500-year-old Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, England.
6:00 p.m. The Thistle & Shamrock
Cerys Matthews narrates excerpts from the Dylan Thomas holiday classic, A Child's Christmas In Wales, set to music that she created and recorded with her collaborator Mason Neely. Hosted by Fiona Ritchie.
7:00 p.m. Sunday Baroque
An evening of holiday music from the Baroque era presented by Suzanne Bonna.
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MONDAY, December 25 (CHRISTMAS DAY)9:00 a.m. Welcome Christmas
The VocalEssence holiday concert is an hour of joyful, classic holiday music of traditional carols and new discoveries.
10:00 a.m. Carols at Home with the Imani Winds
Carols as Home features a modern take on classic Christmas carols, hosted by Imani Winds founding oboist, Toyin Spellman-Diaz.
11:00 a.m. Chanticleer Christmas
This program of holiday favorites, new and old, will be presented live in concert by Chanticleer, the superb 12-man ensemble known as "an orchestra of voices."
Noon Christmas at The Movies
There have been many Christmas scenes in movies, and host David Garland unwraps some of the accompanying music for them. Holiday favorites such as It's a Wonderful Life, Miracle On 34th Street, and The Bishop's Wife are included.
1:00 p.m. Pittsburgh Symphony Radio: Messiah
Music Director Manfred Honeck leads the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, and soloists in Handel's Messiah.
7:00 p.m. Performance Today
Live performances of holiday music from around the country.
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NPR's 'Books We Love'
Books We Love, National Public Radio's interactive reading guide, returns this holiday season for its eleventh year with 380+ books published in 2023. You can mix and match 'tags' including "Book Club Ideas," "Eye-Opening Reads," "Nonfiction," and "Kids' Books" to browse titles hand picked by NPR staff and trusted critics. CLICK HERE to see this year's selections, and happy reading!
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Are you listening to?...The Splendid Table | Sundays at 3 PM
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The Splendid Table, hosted by award-winning food writer Francis Lam, is an original weekly companion, celebrating the intersection of food and life for more than two decades. A culinary, culture and lifestyle program, it hosts our nation's conversations about cooking, sustainability and food culture, and introduces us to generations of food dignitaries.
In 2018 Francis took over the program from founding host Lynne Rossetto Kasper. The Splendid Table explores different cultures, cuisines and ideas, as well as the small personal stories that come out of the expansive world of the table. As a former restaurant cook and culinary school graduate, Francis can handle virtually any food query and loves taking listener’s calls. He is keenly interested in people and their stories and believes that one of the keys to understanding people better is to learn what they cook and how they eat.
Tune-in to The Splendid Table Sunday afternoons at 3:00 this holiday season for some culinary inspiration!
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Light Up the Holidays with a Vehicle Donation to WYSU!
Jingle, jingle, jingle – goes the sound of your keys as you hand them to the tow driver picking up your vehicle donation to WYSU. Donate a car, truck, boat or other vehicle this holiday season and enjoy the sounds of giving, like the beep of the free tow backing up your vehicle donation, or the sound of a possible year-end tax deduction - Cha-ching!
Or you could consider keeping a car you no longer need. How does keeping the costs like insurance, registration, maintenance, gas, and more sound? Not pleasant!
To learn more about our vehicle donation program, or to get started with your vehicle donation, visit our vehicle donation webpage, or call 855-277-2346. Our Vehicle Donation Support Team is available seven days a week.
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Thank You & Happy Holidays!Thank you for listening, and for your generous support throughout another year. We really appreciate it, and we look forward to being your radio station of choice in 2024.
Happy Holidays from The Staff of 88.5 WYSU-FM!
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