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Happy Holidays with Bing & Frank
Expires 12/31/23
Celebrate the holidays with this timeless favorite featuring the magical combination of Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby in an early color television special from 1957. The two legends swap Christmas carols, songs, and stories, pay a musical visit to Victorian England, and duet on Christmas classics. Directed by Sinatra, with music conducted by Nelson Riddle.
20 Years of Christmas With The Tabernacle Choir
Expires 12/12/25
Former Tabernacle Choir guest artist and Tony Award-winner, Brian Stokes Mitchell, is back to remember and relive twenty years of inspiring Christmas concerts. From opera, gospel, and pop singers to Broadway and cabaret stars; from Shakespearean actors and movie and television stars, the Choir’s guest artists provide, not just formidable talent, but a little something for everyone.
O Holy Night: Christmas with The Tabernacle Choir
Stars Megan Hilty and Neal McDonough join The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square to celebrate the holidays with a return to the Emerald Isle. McDonough and Hilty, who each share Irish heritage and traditions, deliver a deeply personal program that weaves together well-known holiday tunes, classic Christmas carols and hymns with some traditional Irish musical numbers.
Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas with Vanessa Williams
Expires 12/14/24
In collaboration with the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, the American Pops Orchestra presents an evening celebrating the entire iconic album of holiday classics. This 60-minute performance stars host and vocalist Vanessa Williams with appearances by Dee Dee Bridgewater, Norm Lewis, Carmen Ruby Floyd, Nova Payton, Dave Detwiler and Morgan James.
Stories From the Stage "Holidays: Cheers, Tears, and Fears"
A lot of emotions goes into making a holiday a holiday. Joe tries to break a nightmare-before-Christmas bad luck streak; Jamie connects with his polar opposite older brother through an amazing, unexpected gift; and Cora learns a lesson about courage through an unlikely teacher: golden sneakers.
Stories From the Stage "Holidays: the Good, the Bad"
If there is any truth about holidays, it’s that they are a mixed bag of good and bad. Melanée tests her adulthood with the Thanksgiving turkey; John shows that when it comes to being Santa, it’s all about the grownups; and Andrea proves that lighting a menorah may be trickier than you think.
All is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914
The Western Front, Christmas, 1914. Out of the violence a silence, then a song. A German soldier steps into No Man’s Land singing “Stille Nacht.” Thus begins an extraordinary night of camaraderie, music, peace. A remarkable true story, told in the words and songs of the men who lived it.
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Holiday Cooking and Baking
Iowa Ingredient "French Holiday"
In the spirit of iconic PBS Chef Julia Child, Iowa Ingredient will celebrate the holidays by going gourmet. Iowa’s own French master chef, David Baruthio, enlightens and empowers us to cook Julia Child’s famous beef burgundy, and some other French-inspired holiday dishes, when he joins host Charity Nebbe in our festive studio kitchen.
Holiday Documentaries, Shows, and Themed Episodes
A Southwest Christmas
Captured with striking on-location photography by a multi-award-winning team, A Southwest Christmas is a high-quality, entertaining and educational celebration of four of the Southwest's most unique traditions. The religion and folk tales of the Spanish, Mexican, Native American and Anglo cultures, surrounding the Christmas season, are told through four stories.
¡COLORES! "Audubon New Mexico"
Audubon New Mexico’s Christmas bird count is part of a century-old tradition where bird-loving volunteers provide critical data about bird populations in the Americas. The elaborately painted skateboard designs of Ben Thompson and Johnny Scott prove dreams do come true. And chocolatier Annie Rupani creates morsels of happiness.
Doc Martin "Last Christmas in Portwenn"
Portwenn is full of festive cheer—until Martin tells Leonard that he needs to stop playing Santa while he awaits the results of his medical tests. Leonard decides to show "Doc the Grinch" the magic of Christmas, with unintended consequences, and Louisa works to arrange a Christmas parade through Portwenn. After a mishap, Martin confronts some of his fears and tries to embrace the holiday spirit.
Craft in America "Celebration"
Discover the role craft plays in our winter holiday traditions, rituals, and festivities. Featuring lion dancers and float builders for San Francisco’s acclaimed Chinese New Year Parade, artists in Michigan making ceramics for the holidays at Pewabic (Detroit) and Motawi Tileworks (Ann Arbor), Kwanzaa celebrations with artists in Chicago and Oakland, and Christmas card making with Yoshiko Yamamoto.
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly "Hanukkah Lamps"
“The rabbis going back to Maimonides and earlier felt that the lights of the Hanukkah lamp were sacred,” according to Susan Braunstein, curator at the Jewish Museum in New York City, and if you couldn’t afford a gold or silver lamp “you could use an egg shell, or a nut shell, or a potato carved out.”
Monstrum "The Wicked Feline Murder Floof, a Yule Cat Story"
Christmas isn’t just a time for presents, cookies, and holiday cheer, but the hunting period of Iceland’s murderous monster feline, the Yule Cat. This giant, fluffy cat towers over buildings, roaming the snowy countryside for human victims who have yet to receive new clothes before Christmas.