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A Choral Christmas Card

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What better way to greet the Christmas season than with voices, raised in song? Songs to usher us into the mystical and to transport us to Yuletides past, whether it's hundreds of years past or just last year. A Choral Christmas Card is a coast-to-coast sampler of the country’s best choirs singing carols for the season.

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Host:

Valerie Kahler

Producer:

Brad Althoff

Program Length:

59:00

ContentDepot:

Dec. 5 at 9am ET

Broadcast Rights:

Affiliate stations may carry this program two times before January 11, 2009. The program must be carried in its entirety. No excerpting is permitted. Simulcast streaming rights are available for this program. Prior to carrying this program, stations must contact their American Public Media Station Relations Representative.

Fees: See Program Fees page

 

Program Web Site:
http://americanpublicmedia.publicradio.org/programs/choral_xmas_card/

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Program Playlist:

National Lutheran Choir: Twas in the Moon of Wintertime
(Traditional Huron)

National Lutheran Choir: Let Our Gladness Have No End
(Traditional Czech, arr. Mark Sedio)

National Lutheran Choir: E'en So, Lord
(Paul Manz)

National Lutheran Choir: Love Looked Down
(Dale Warland)

National Lutheran Choir: Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
(Traditional, arr Hugo Distler)

San Francisco Girls Chorus: Hanget Soi
(Heikki Sarmanto)

San Francisco Girls Chorus: Noel des enfant
(Claude Debussy)

San Francisco Girls Chorus: Dona Nobis
(Ko Matsushita)

floating break - Dona Nobis Pacem
(Traditional arr. Yo Yo Ma) from Yo Yo Ma: Songs of Joy & Peace

Chorus Angelicus and Gaudeamus: Sans Day Carol
(Traditional arr. John Rutter)

Chorus Angelicus and Gaudeamus: Bethlehem Down
(Peter Warlock)

Chorus Angelicus and Gaudeamus: Nativity Carol
(John Rutter)

Chorus Angelicus and Gaudeamus: Sir Christemas
(William Mathias)

Chicago a Capella: O Come Emmanuel
(Jerry J. Troxell)

Chicago a Capella: O lux beatissima
(Howard Helvey)

KC Chorale: Estampie Natalis
(Vaclav Nelhybel)

KC Chorale: Uns ist ein Kind geboren
(attr. JS Bach)

KC Chorale: Gaudete
(Steven Sametz)

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Timings & Cues:

Total program time = 00:59:00

00:00 INCUE: (music) Twas in the Moon of Wintertime
23:47 OUTCUE: …from American Public Media

23:47 Floating break (:58)

24:47 INCUE: Sans Day Carol
59:00 OUTCUE: APM LOGO
END

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Promotional Materials

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