As in years past, APM is offering a selection of specials to help your audiences celebrate the holiday season at no added cost to your station. APM Presents includes timely specials highlighting holidays like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukah and the turning of a new year. Find broadcast windows and program details below, or visit our website for more information including links to ContentDepot and digital assets.
Questions? Reach out to your station relations representative.
News / Talk
Selected Shorts: Holiday Hurdles
One hour
Broadcast Window: November 24, 2021 – January 7, 2022
In Selected Shorts: Holiday Hurdles with David Sedaris, audiences are invited to reimagine holiday rituals.
Turkey Confidential
Two hours
Broadcast Window: November 25, 2021
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 details to come.
Musical
From the Current
2021 Remembered from the Current
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 13, 2021 – January 9, 2022
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
One hour
Broadcast Window: October 1, 2021 – November 1, 2021
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
One hour
Broadcast Window: November 4, 2021 – November 30, 2021
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
One hour or Two hours
Broadcast Window: November 4, 2021 – November 30, 2021
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
One hour
Broadcast Window: November 23, 2021 – December 31, 2021
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. Encore from 2018
Candles Burning Brightly
One hour
Broadcast Window: November 23, 2021 – December 31, 2021
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
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021
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
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021
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. Encore from 2018
A Soulful Christmas
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021
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
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 1, 2021 – December 31, 2021
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
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 1, 2021 – January 31, 2022
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. Encore from 2019
A Chanticleer Christmas
One hour
Broadcast Window: December 15, 2021 – December 31, 2021
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
Two hours
Broadcast Window: December 15, 2021 – December 31, 2021
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
Two hours
Broadcast Window: December 24, 2021 – December 25, 2021
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.