APM Presents: Q2 Specials

For years, APM affiliate stations have been accessing special programming through APM Celebrates to help their audiences commemorate holidays, offer seasonal cooking tips, and provide kid-friendly programming for families.

More recently, APM specials have evolved to address timely topics that audiences care about, like climate change, structural inequity, mental health, and more. In recognition of the expanded reach of our programming, we are excited to rename our quarterly specials package to: APM Presents. Find the full announcement here and see below for Q2 specials.

News / Talk

Unexplainable from Vox

  • Broadcast Window: October 1, 2021 – January 7, 2022
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: In an hour-long special, Vox’s Unexplainable will explore some of the most exciting unanswered questions in physics.

Uprooted: The 1950s plan to erase Indian Country

  • Broadcast Window: October 7, 2021 – November 30, 2021
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: This documentary presents the voices of people who survived a devastating plan to solve “the Indian problem.” In the 1950s, the U.S. government launched a campaign to assimilate Native Americans by eliminating reservations, terminating tribal governments, and persuading Native people to move to cities. This documentary provides listeners a unique opportunity to hear the voices of Native people who lived through this era, and people still struggling to overcome its effects.

Selected Shorts: Holiday Hurdles

  • Broadcast Window: November 24, 2021 – January 7, 2022
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: In Selected Shorts: Holiday Hurdles with David Sedaris, audiences are invited to reimagine holiday rituals.

Turkey Confidential

  • Broadcast Window: November 25, 2021
  • Duration: TBD
  • Description: Turkey Confidential is The Splendid Table’s annual Thanksgiving show. Francis Lam takes calls and comes to the rescue of Thanksgiving cooks, kitchen helpers, and inner guests during the biggest cooking day of the year. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the special may not be live – more information to come. Keep an eye out for additional details, including special guest information.

BBC Witness History: World War Two in the Pacific

  • Broadcast Window: December 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: To mark the 80th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Witness History brings you an hour of personal stories from the time.

Musical

The Current

2021 Remembered from the Current

  • Broadcast Window: December 13, 2021 – January 9, 2022
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: Join The Current in honoring the life, music, and legacy of artists we lost this year with 2021 Remembered from The Current. This hour-long musical tribute is a celebration of all sounds – from indie to influential – and the perfect way for music lovers to unite in paying homage to the artists who have shaped music history.

Classical

Hollywood Halloween

  • Broadcast Window: October 1, 2021 – November 1, 2021
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: Hollywood Halloween is a scary collection of the best (and darkest) classical film scores, ranging from “Night on Bald Mountain” to the horror classic “Bride of Frankenstein” and its comic cousin “Young Frankenstein.” Join Lynne Warfel, host of APM’s Saturday Cinema and Flicks in Five, for a musical ride through popular film scores just right for Halloween.

Every Good Thing

  • Broadcast Window: November 4, 2021 – November 30, 2021
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: On Thanksgiving, host Andrea Blain and classical music fans from all around the country take some time to give thanks and celebrate one of life’s most meaningful gifts: music. It’s “Every Good Thing” — an hour of stories and music to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Giving Thanks

  • Broadcast Window: November 4, 2021 – November 30, 2021
  • Duration: One hour and two hours
  • Description: Giving Thanks sounds the way Thanksgiving feels: inviting, warm, and festive. It’s a contemporary, thoughtful celebration of the spirit of the holiday. Special guests Stanley Tucci and Naomi Shihab Nye join our Thanksgiving table, and music from Eric Whitacre, Bach, Copland and more complete the scene.

All is Bright

  • Broadcast Window: November 23, 2021 – December 31, 2021
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: Hosted by Lynne Warfel, All Is Bright: Contemplative Music for Christmas presents one hour of gorgeous, contemplative music related to the Christmas season and its symbolism. This program uses sacred choral music grouped in a way to tell the traditional Christmas story by way of songs about angels, the star, and the manger scene. Featured artists include Cambridge Singers, Cantus, and Chanticleer.

Candles Burning Brightly

  • Broadcast Window: November 23, 2021 – December 31, 2021
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: Candles Burning Brightly is a one-hour celebration of Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights with an exploration of Chanukah foods and traditional activities … and plenty of music. Encore from 2020.

Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square

  • Broadcast Window: November 23, 2021 – December 31, 2021
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: The sounds of the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square floated into many homes during the holidays in the ’60s & ’70s on Goodyear and Firestone albums, bringing lush renditions of favorite Christmas carols. Those warm memories and feelings come right back again in this holiday special. The choir continues its tradition of great artistry with touching arrangements of familiar carols, and surprises with lesser-known melodies that are fast becoming the new classics.

Hollywood Holiday

  • Broadcast Window: December 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: Lynne Warfel, host of Saturday Cinema, takes listeners on a one-hour musical retrospective of some of Hollywood’s most cherished Christmas themed movies. Selections feature scores from “Scrooge, the Musical”, “A Muppet Christmas Carol”, “The Polar Express”, “It’s A Wonderful Life,” and more.

A Soulful Christmas

  • Broadcast Window: December 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: A Soulful Christmas is an uplifting, relevant display of Black music in the classical, gospel, spiritual, and jazz-inspired style. This special celebrates the non-idiomatic Black classical music, while exploring non-idiomatic choral traditions. Guest details to be announced.

Welcome Christmas

  • Broadcast Window: December 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: Welcome Christmas is a perennial Christmas favorite from VocalEssence, one of the world’s premiere choral groups, conducted by Philip Brunelle. This program presents an hour of traditional carols and new discoveries, including the world premiere of two carols from the annual Christmas Carol Contest. Guest details to be announced.

Hygge Holiday

  • Broadcast Window: December 1, 2021 – January 31, 2022
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: Join host Elena See for an hour-long program of nostalgic favorites for the winter season. Programming includes favorites from Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Debussy and Blake.

A Chanticleer Christmas

  • Broadcast Window: December 15, 2021 – December 31, 2021
  • Duration: One hour
  • Description: This one-hour 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.” Chanticleer is one of the premiere vocal ensembles in the nation. The ensemble has won two Grammys and is a member of the American Classical Music Hall of Fame.

St. Olaf Christmas Festival

  • Broadcast Window: December 15, 2021 – December 31, 2021
  • Duration: Two hours
  • Description: APM’s distribution of the St. Olaf Christmas Festival is a chance for listeners across the country and around the world to participate in one of the nation’s most treasured holiday celebrations. Programming includes sacred choral and instrumental music from many traditions: beloved hymns, classical masterworks, folk songs from around the world, and African-American spirituals.

A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

  • Broadcast Window: December 24, 2021 – December 25, 2021
  • Duration: Two hours
  • Description: A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols presents your audience with an opportunity to share in a live, world-wide Christmas Eve broadcast of a service of Biblical readings, carols, and related seasonal Classical music. This special will be presented by one of the world’s foremost choirs of men and boys and performed in an acoustically and architecturally renowned venue, the 500-year-old Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge, England.

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