#with the boston symphony orchestra conducted by john williams

[transfemgeorgecostanza]

what we need now more than ever is a philharmonic concert of classic broadway numbers performed by a group of like, classical soprano, sitcom star with a voice range of five tones, broadway / off-broadway performers known to absolutely nobody outside the fandom

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Thursday, 11-21-24, 8am Pacific

'Mornin' folks...it's a draggin' Mr. Baggins back with our Morning Coffee Music, selections to get us in gear and in good cheer. There is no better way to start the day than with a little Bach. Here is Harpsichordist Malcolm Hamilton, recorded on Everest Records in 1964, with Prelude and Fugues numbers 1 , 2 and 3 from Book 1 of The Well Tempered Clavier. It was this very 6 -record set that I got mail-order, along with a 10-LP set of the Complete Concerti of Bach, on Murray Hill. Ah, the old days! Top up your cup and enjoy.

Here is one of only two recordings by Vladimir Horowitz and Fritz Reiner. Here is their magnificent recording from 1952, of Beethoven's Concerto No. 5, the "Emperor" Concerto. Horowitz at the piano and Reiner at the helm of the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Pour another cup and enjoy!

Readers of Horowitz' story know that a very young and very nervous Vladimir Horowitz, Gregor Piatigorsky (a young cellist) and Nathan Milstein (a young violinist) all left the Soviet Union together in the 1920s and never returned as Soviet citizens. They toured together, and all three went on to renowned solo careers. Here is Piatigorsky's wonderful reading of Dvorak's Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, with the Boston Symphony conducted by Charles Munch. Another RCA Living Stereo masterpiece of a recording!

Let's hear another installment of our series of the Symphonies of Dvorak recorded in '65 by Istvan Kertesz and the London Symphony. I believe we heard number 5 last, so here is Dvorak's 6th Symphony, in D Major, Op. 60.

American pianist William Kappel was, like Kertesz, cut down at the beginning of a promisingly brilliant career. Kappel was killed in a plane crash on his way back from a tour of Australia. This is one of the two Rachmaninoff recordings he left us, and truly one of the most brilliant performances of it I've ever heard. This is Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 43, recorded in 1951. The Robin Hood Dell Orchestra is led by none other than Fritz Reiner. Enjoy!

Here is Schubert's Quintet in C major, Opus 163 in a historic recording by Isaac Stern: violin-Alexander Schneider: violin-Milton Katims: alto-Pablo Casals:cello-Paul Tortelier: cello. From 1952.

Now let's hear music of Paganini, an album of works for Violin and Guitar duo. We'll hear Sechs Sonaten Für Violine Und Gitarre, Op 2, 6 Pieces, played by Gyorgy Terebesi and Sonja Prumbauer. I have this record...it's delightful stuff!

Now let's hear this one fragment I was able to find of a marvelous CD called "Under A Near Sky", by oboist John Dee and the Tantalon Ensemble. This is the first movement of the Mozart Oboe Quartet in F Major. I will keep trying to find the whole thing out there, but if you can find a copy of this CD, buy it! You won't regret it!

That's all the space we've got for today's Morning Coffee Music. Hope you've enjoyed this morning's music! I'll be back at 2pm Pacific with your Afternoon Stack of Classic Wax!

Until then, be kind, babies, be kind.

Baggins out.

[petervintonjr]

Farewell to a musical god and the best thing to ever happen to the Boston Symphony Orchestra. I vividly remember a summer, decades ago, at the age of ten, when I was lucky enough to be able to attend a BSO performance at Tanglewood, Mass. The concert was of course riveting, but the unforgettable part came near the end: it was announced that Maestro Ozawa had received "a very important phone call" just before the final number and had to leave the stage, passing the baton to the first chair. The final number was John Williams's "Superman" theme, and the performance went ahead. Just as it was about to shift into its final heroic movement, Ozawa returned in triumph, racing up the center aisle --and sporting a Superman t-shirt. Realizing we'd all been had, the audience burst into cheers as Ozawa resumed conducting for the song's crescendo. Phenomenal moment. Some weeks later I was (apparently) still high from the experience, when my fifth grade teacher assigned an in-class essay about A Person Who Impressed You --probably trying to get a better handle on her new class. I'm sure there was a flood of breathless essays about actors and historical figures and athletes --mine was unapologetically about Ozawa. Apparently it stood out. [grin]

Rest well, maestro. You broke all manner of records and a fair number of barriers, too. Thank you from this still-impressed ten year-old.

Enjoy this one-of-a-kind performance from the Sesame Street All-Animal Orchestra:

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“Han Solo and the Princess” from The Empire Strikes Back (1980) – composed, conducted, and arranged by John Williams; performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra; solo violin by Anne-Sophie Mutter

Since 2017, John Williams has collaborated with German violinist  Anne-Sophie Mutter for various classical music compositions. In addition to those works, Williams has also reworked select cues from his film music for Mutter’s talents. In this case, he arranges “Han Solo and the Princess” (The Empire Strikes Back’s love theme) for orchestra and solo violin.

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With Nimoy aboard at Pops, eyes turn heavenward

As the old saying goes, when the cat’s away, the mice will play music that looks upward beyond the bounds of our fragile, curious planet. So it was Friday at Symphony Hall, when the Minnesota Orchestra’s Sarah Hicks stood in for Keith Lockhart to conduct the Boston Pops on the first of two nights devoted to our fascination with the stars. One can only presume that Lockhart’s not a rabid “Star Trek” fan; it would be hard otherwise to imagine him handing over the baton for a program featuring Leonard Nimoy.

Despite his short-lived, oddball career as a recording artist, Nimoy was on hand purely as a host, not a performer. With a twinkle in his eye, he read sometimes portentous, sometimes punny introductions peppered with plenty of corny “Star Trek” jokes. “It’s good to be home, and I don’t mean Vulcan,” the Boston-born actor said at the outset.

A Pops program devoted to space would be negligent without selections by John Williams, and the laureate conductor featured heavily, with selections from “E.T.,” “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” and the “Star Wars” films. But Nimoy’s bread and butter was represented as well, with Alexander Courage’s horn-forward, eyes-to-the-heavens “Star Trek” theme appearing not once but twice.

Source: https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2014/05/24/nimoy-hosts-pops-concert/oGdKekksMd5gX5nF2bOKUJ/story.html

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2018 TV Holiday Premieres

Updated: December 30, 2018

ABC

Mickey’s 90th Spectacular (two-hour celebration of Mickey Mouse’s 90th birthday featuring music and appearances by Skylar Astin Kelsea Ballerini, Miles Brown, Anna Camp, Josh Gad, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Sage Steele, Luis Fonsi and Tori Kelly. Original Mouseketeers Bob Burgess and Sharon Baird will also appear) - Nov. 4

Mary Poppins Returns: Behind the Magic (Behind the scenes look at the upcoming feature film sequel starring Emily Blunt) - Nov. 22

I’m Coming Home (stars Kristen Chenoweth, Tiffany Haddish and Tyler Perry return to their hometowns for a documentary-style special produced by Whoopi Goldberg) - Nov. 22

The Great Christmas Light Fight (season 6 of the limited-run reality competition featuring outrageous holiday displays judged by Carter Oosterhouse and Taniya Nayak) - weekly starting Nov. 26

The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration (musical celebration from the Disney parks hosted by Jordan Fisher and Sarah Hyland, featuring Gwen Stefani, Meghan Trainor and Andrea Bocelli) - Nov. 29 

The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Holiday Special (holiday fashion show featuring top models and musical acts Bebe Rexha, The Chainsmokers, Halsey, Kelsea Ballerini, Rita Ora, Shawn Mendes and The Struts) - Dec. 2

The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition (season 4 of the American version of the popular cooking contest, The Great British Baking Show, focused on holiday treats; hosted by Emma Bunton and Anthony Adams, with judges Sherry Yard and Paul Hollywood) - weekly starting Dec. 6

Dancing with the Stars: Holiday Special (special holiday-themed season finale of the series) - Dec. 9

CMA Country Christmas (annual musical celebration of the season, featuring Country artists performing original music and Christmas classics, hosted by Reba McEntire and featuring Tony Bennett, Dan+Shay, Brad Paisley and Martina McBride. Filmed in front a live audience in Nashville) - Dec. 10

The Year in Memoriam 2018 (Robin Roberts and Jimmy Kimmel pay tribute to the legendary stars and icons the world lost this year) - Dec. 17

The Year: 2018 (two-hour special looking at the most iconic moments of 2018, hosted by Robin Roberts) - Dec. 23

Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade (annual holiday parade/musical showcase taped in Disney World, Disneyland and other worldwide Disney Parks) - Dec. 25

Dick Clark’s Primetime New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest (47th annual Times Square New Year’s countdown) - Dec. 31 

NBC

A Saturday Night Live Thanksgiving (look back at 44 years of SNL Thanksgivings) - Nov. 21

Macy’s 92nd Thanksgiving Day Parade (official parade coverage, LIVE)  - Nov. 22 (also available on the NBC app and Verizon’s YouTube Channel)

The National Dog Show (annual pet competition hosted by John O’Hurley ) - Nov. 22

86th annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center (annual New York City tree lighting featuring musical performances, LIVE) - Nov. 28

A Legendary Christmas with John and Chrissy (musical special featuring real-life husband-and-wife John Legend and Chrissy Teigen) - Nov. 28 ***Review***

LEGO Jurassic World: The Secret Exhibit (original animated special set before first Jurassic World movie; A trio of dinosaurs needs to be moved to a new super-secret exhibit.) - Nov. 29 (Trailer) **Review**

Deal or No Deal: Happy Howie Days (a special $1 million dollar holiday offering of the game show which last aired 10 years ago) - Dec. 3

Saturday Night Live: Best of Christmas (holiday retrospective from the late-night sketch series) - Dec. 4

Penatonix: A Not So Silent Night (third holiday special with the a cappella group, featuring special guests Kelly Clarkson, the Backstreet Boys, Marren Morris, and Penn & Teller; filmed in Las Vegas) - Dec. 10

Darci Lynne: My Hometown Christmas (one-hour musical special starring the 13-year-old winner of 2017′s America’s Got Talent, singing and celebrating the season in her Oklahoma City hometown) - Dec. 11

Ho Ho Hollywood Game Night: Holiday Edition (one-hour holiday-themed game special) - Dec. 11

Ellen’s Game of Games Holiday Spectacular (holiday edition of game show hosted by Ellen Degeneres) - Dec. 12

Little Big Holiday Special (one-off return of the Steve Harvey-hosted series with holiday fan favorites) - Dec. 12

America’s Got Talent: Holiday (holiday edition of the popular series) - Dec. 17

Timeless: The Miracle of Christmas (the two-season NBC series gets a holiday-themed, wrap-up movie, starring the original cast, including Abigail Spencer, Matt Lanter and Malcolm Barrett; according to the release, “ride through the past, present and future, with a healthy dose of Christmas spirit”) - Dec. 20 **Review**

Christmas Eve Mass (from St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, conducted by Pope Francis) - Dec. 24

NBC News Special: A Toast to 2018 (year-end review hosted by Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb) - Dec. 31

NBC New Year’s Eve (live from Times Square hosted by Carson Daly and Chrissie Teigen with special guest Leslie Jones) - Dec. 31

130th Annual Tournament of Roses Parade (LIVE parade coverage) - Jan. 1

CBS

The Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS (unofficial parade coverage of the Macy’s parade hosted by Kevin Frazier and Keltie Knight, LIVE) - Nov. 22

Garth: Live at Notre Dame (LIVE concert with country singer Garth Brooks, broadcast from South Bend, Ind.) - Dec. 6

A Home for the Holidays: The 20th Anniversary (20th annual special celebrating foster children and their caregivers) - Dec. 21

The 41st Annual Kennedy Center Honors (celebration recognizing groundbreaking work in entertainment, featuring this year’s honorees: Cher, Reba McEntire, composers Philip Glass and Wayne Shorter, and Hamilton co-creators Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, Andy Blankenbuehler and Alex Lacamoire) - Dec. 26

FOX

MasterChef Junior: Celebrity Showdown (Thanksgiving-special battle with celebs and their kids, with money going to charity) - Nov. 22

FOX’s New Year’s Eve with Steve Harvey: Live from Times Square (New Year’s eve countdown special featuring special guests and musical performances from Sting, Robin Thicke, Florence + the Machine, Jason Aldean, Juanes and Why Don't We) - Dec. 31

CW

87th Annual Hollywood Christmas Parade (tape-delayed presentation of the annual holiday parade, featuring Grand Marshal Nancy O’Dell, filmed Nov. 25 in Hollywood) - Dec. 14

iHeartRadio Jingle Ball 2018 (holiday concert special featuring Shawn Mendes and Cardi B) - Dec. 16

Greatest Holiday Commercial Countdown 2018 (ET’s Kevin Frazier and Keltie Knight host this holiday countdown of the top 12 holiday commercials) - Dec. 18

Greatest Holiday Video Countdown (hosted by the Holderness family, taking a look at viral holiday video clips) - Dec. 18

Masters of Illusion: Christmas Magic (holiday special featuring well known magicians) - Dec. 23

Popstars Best of 2018 (musical special looking back at the year’s biggest pop hits, hosted by Elizabeth Stanton) - Dec. 28

PBS

Hanukkah: A Festival of Delights (documentary featuring American Jewish families from a variety of backgrounds along with actors William Shatner and Lainie Kazan, all sharing their personal Hanukkah experiences, plus archival film and images) - Nov. 25

Let’s Go Luna: Christmas Around the World (Christmas special of the preschool series) - Dec. 10

15th Annual Christmas with the Morman Tabernacle Choir (holiday concert with the famed choir, featuring Sutton Foster and Hugh Bonneville) - Dec. 17

Lidia Celebrates America: A Heartland Holiday Feast (chef Lidia Bastianich undertakes a cross-country journey to find traditional American holiday cuisine) - Dec. 18

Happy Holidays with the Boston Pops (one-hour music special showcasing the best of the New England holiday season) - Dec. 22

Call the Midwife Christmas Special (special holiday episode of the series, airing same day as in the UK) - Dec. 25

Nova: Apollo 8 (in-depth look at the Christmas Eve mission that circled the moon and perhaps saved NASA, featuring exclusive interviews with astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders) - Dec. 26

Great Performances: Leonard Bernstein Centennial Celebration at Tanglewood (celebrate the legendary composer with the Boston Symphony Orchestra) - Dec. 28

ACL Hall of Fame New Year’s Eve 2018 (celebrate the induction of new Austin City Limits Hall of Famers: Ray Charles, Los Lobos and Marcia Ball, with performances by Boz Scaggs and Norah Jones; Hosted by Chris Isaak) - Dec. 29

Live from Lincoln Center: New York Philharmonic New Year’s Eve (LIVE concert performance to ring in the New Year) - Dec. 31 

Hallmark Channel

Hallmark Channel’s Christmas: First Look (Lacey Chabert gives a sneak peek at Hallmark’s 2018 Christmas movie line-up) - Jul. 21 (Watch Online)

Christmas: A Second Look Preview Special (Kellie Pickler hosts a follow-up preview to both the Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas and Hallmark Movies and Mysteries’ Miracles of Christmas 2018 line-up) - Sep. 29 (Watch Online)

2018 Countdown to Christmas Preview Special (preview of the 22 new movies set to air during Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas, hosted by Kellie Pickler) - Oct. 20 (Watch Online)

Christmas at Pemberley Manor (holiday movie starring Jessica Lowndes and Michael Rady, an event planner crosses paths with a surly billionaire while organizing a small town Christmas festival) - Oct. 27 (On Location)

Christmas Joy (movie starring Danielle Panabaker and Matt Long, based on the book by Nancy Naigle; a marketer reluctantly returns to run the family farm for her ailing aunt, then she and her one-time crush must organize the town’s cookie crawl) - Nov. 3 (Preview) (On Location) **Review**

Road to Christmas (holiday movie starring Jessy Schram and Chad Michael Murray; An assistant is charged with making sure her employer’s adult sons make it home for Christmas, but a blizzard interferes with travel plans) - Nov. 4 (Preview) (On Location) **Review**

It’s Christmas, Eve (movie starring and featuring three original songs by LeAnn Rimes: It's Christmas, Eve, The Gift of Your Love and You and Me and Christmas; also starring Tyler Hines. A school superintendent sent to cut costs at her hometown High School meets a handsome, single music teacher, who is desperate to raise enough money to protect his program) - Nov. 10 (soundtrack available Oct 12, featuring, The Gift of Your Love and You and Me and Christmas and It’s Christmas, Eve) (Preview) (On Location)

Christmas in Love (holiday movie starring Mary-Margaret Humes, Daniel Lissing and Brooke D’Orsay; A daughter tries to protect her family bakery, famous for its Kringle Christmas cookies, from a corporate takeover ) - Nov. 11 (Preview) (On Location)

Christmas at Graceland (movie starring country singer Kellie Pickler and Wes Brown, directed by Eric Close and set in Memphis and featuring both Elvis Presley’s music and his iconic Tennessee estate; Chicago exec returns to Memphis hometown at holidays on business and reunites with an old flame who rekindles her musical dreams) - Nov. 17 (On Location) (NOTE: Special world premiere at Graceland, Nov. 15)

Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa (movie sequel to 2017′s Christmas in Evergreen starring Jill Wagner, Mark Deklin, Holly Robinson-Peete, Andrew Francis, Barbara Niven, Rukyia Bernard and Ashley Williams; When she finds out Evergreen’s quaint General Store has been closed, a woman enlists the help of townspeople, and a little Christmas magic, to save it and a mysterious 25-year-old letter to Santa.) - Nov. 18 (Preview) Review

Reunited at Christmas (holiday movie starring Mike Faiola and Nikki DeLoach as a novelist struggling with writer’s block who returns with her boyfriend to her late grandmother’s house for the holidays and rediscovers the true meaning of Christmas.) - Nov. 21

Christmas at the Palace (holiday movie starring Brittany Bristow, Andrew Cooper and Merritt Patterson; A former figure skating champ is hired by a European monarch to coach his daughter for a Christmas skating pageant and finds himself falling in love at the holidays, but is she ready to be royalty?) - Nov. 22

Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe (holiday movie starring Lacey Chabert and Brendan Penny, based on the book by Melissa de la Cruz; Christmas-themed, modern update of the Jane Austen classic, but with a role reversal that casts Chabert as Darcy, returning to her hometown to plan a holiday event with a rival restaurant owner and restore her relationship with her father) - Nov. 23

Christmas Everlasting (Hallmark Hall of Fame movie directed by Ron Oliver, who also helmed 2017′s The Christmas Train, based on the book The Second Sister by Marie Bostwick, starring Tatyana Ali, Dennis Haysbert, Patti LaBelle and Dondre T Whitfield; A corporate lawyer returns home after her sister passes away to settle her estate, not knowing her will stipulates she must live there for 30 days. While back in a place she never thought she’d return to, she discovers what she’s been missing.) - Nov. 24

A Shoe Addict’s Christmas (holiday movie starring Candace Cameron Bure, Jean Smart and Luke Macfarlane, based on the book by Nicole Harbison; in this modern take on A Christmas Carol, a holiday hater is locked in the department store she works in on Christmas Eve and visited by her guardian angel in the shoe department, before getting a glimpse of Christmases past, present and future.) - Nov. 25 *Review*

Mingle All the Way (holiday romance starring Brant Daugherty, Lindsay Wagner and Jen Lilley; In an effort to prove to her family that her app matching compatible couples for events, without romance, works, she uses it herself. When she’s matched with someone she’s already had disastrous encounters with, she’s forced to save face and make it work.) - Dec. 1 Review

A Majestic Christmas (holiday movie starring Jerrika Hinton and Christian Vincent; an architect returns to turn her hometown theater into a modern multiplex, much to her chagrin, as she tries to convince the theater’s owner that the playhouse, and the town’s Christmas traditions, are worth preserving.) - Dec. 2 (Preview)

Amy Grant’s Tennessee Christmas (holiday musical special, featuring musical experiences and holiday reminisces with singer Amy Grant) - Dec. 3

Meet the Peetes Christmas Special (special featuring Holly Robinson Peete and family) - Dec. 3 (Preview)

Homegrown Christmas (holiday movie starring Victor Webster, Lori Loughlin and Kate Isaac, who plays a CEO who returns to her hometown at the holidays to regroup after being forced to step down. There, she reconnects with her high school sweetheart when they’re forced to plan a dance together for the local high school.) - Dec. 8

Welcome to Christmas (movie based on the book The Trouble with Christmas by Debbie Mason, starring Jennifer Finnigan and Eric Mabius as a small town sheriff desperate to convince a resort developer to save their community by turning it into a Christmas vacation destination)- Dec. 9

Entertaining Christmas (holiday movie starring Brendan Fehr and Jodie Sweetin as a  daughter striving to impress her perfectionist cooking and crafting expert mother, and prove she’s worthy of taking over the family business, by creating the perfect Christmas for a young girl whose father is deployed) - Dec. 15

A Gingerbread Romance (holiday movie starring Tia Mowry-Hardrict and Duane Henry; an architect pairs with a local baker, and single dad, to build life-size gingerbread houses in hopes of getting a promotion) - Dec. 16 **Review**

Candace Cameron Bure’s Christmas Across America (holiday special, produced and hosted by Candace Cameron Bure, featuring Christmas celebrations from across the U.S.) - Dec. 17

Jingle Around the Clock (holiday movie starring Brooke Nevin and Michael Cassidy, a young advertising exec must ditch her holiday college reunion to work on a new Christmas campaign with a partner who doesn’t share her vision.) - Dec. 22

Christmas Made to Order (holiday movie starring Alexa PenaVega and Jonathan Bennett; an architect hires an event planner to help his family Christmas go off without a hitch.) - Dec. 23

When Calls the Heart: The Greatest Christmas Blessing (4th holiday movie based on the television series, starring Lori Loughlin, Erin Krakow, Jack Wagner, Pascale Hutton, Kavan Smith and Paul Greene; A group of orphans become stranded in Hope Valley for the holidays with two mysterious sisters) - Dec. 25

A Midnight Kiss (holiday movie starring Carlos PenaVega and Adelaide Kane; a family of party planners has only one week to prepare for the biggest New Year’s Eve event of their lives, but when her brother breaks his leg and her parents have to leave, their daughter is forced to enlist outside assistance to get the job done.) - Dec. 29

2019 Winterfest Preview Special (preview special of the Winterfest movies set to air in January 2019) - Dec. 29

Hallmark Movies & Mysteries

Miracles of Christmas Preview Special (preview of the 15 new movies set to air during Hallmark Movie & Mysteries’ Miracles of Christmas hosted by Candace Cameron-Bure) - Oct. 14 (Watch Online)

Marrying Father Christmas (movie starring Erin Krakow, Niall Matter and Wendie Malick; sequel to 2017′s Engaging Father Christmas and 2016′s Finding Father Christmas, based on the book series by Robin Jones Gunn) - Nov. 4 (First Look)

A Veteran’s Christmas (holiday movie starring Eloise Mumford and Sean Faris; a decorated solider separated from her service dog returns home from Afghanistan and finds herself stranded in the town of Rivers Crossing for the holiday.) - Nov. 11 (Preview) (First Look) **Review**

Return to Christmas Creek (holiday movie starring Steven Weber, Tori Anderson, Stephen Huszar and Kari Matchett; after her app is rejected by Silicone Valley a young woman returns to her family’s hometown and, along with her childhood best friend, works to reunite her father with his pilot brother, who flies over the town each Christmas Eve dressed as Santa delivering toys to needy children) - Nov. 17 ***Review***

A Godwink Christmas (movie starring Kimberly Sustad, Paul Campbell and Kathie Lee Gifford, based on the book by SQuire Rushnell; an antiques dealer reluctantly gets engaged to her longtime boyfriend at Christmas, but her aunt invites her to Nantucket after sensing her reluctance) - Nov. 18 (First Look)

Last Vermont Christmas (holiday movie starring Justin Bruening, Catherine Corcoran and Erin Cahill; Parents decide to sell the family home—to their daughter’s high school sweetheart—telling their grown children at the holidays that this will be their last Christmas in Vermont.) - Nov. 19

Hope at Christmas (holiday movie based on the book by Nancy Naigle, starring Scottie Thompson and Ryan Paevey, who plays a school teacher that dreams of being a writer, with a holiday job as the local Santa, determined to make a little girl’s Christmas dreams come true) - Nov. 20

Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane (movie starring Alicia Witt, Mary McDonough, Laura Leighton and Colin Ferguson, based on McDonough’s novel, House on Honeysuckle Lane; siblings return home for one last Christmas before selling their family home after their parents’ passing, but a discovery changes everything) - Nov. 24 **Review**

Christmas Wonderland (holiday movie starring Kelly Hu, Emily Osment and Ryan Rottman; an overworked gallery owner returns to her hometown due to a family emergency to watch her niece and nephew, where she reunites with her high school boyfriend, now a teacher, and helps him plan the school’s annual Christmas Snow Ball) - Dec. 1

Once Upon a Christmas Miracle (holiday movie starring Lolita Davidovich, Aimee Teegarden and Brett Dalton, based on the true story of Heather Krueger and Christopher Dempsey; A dying woman receives a liver transplant from a kind stranger and, over three Christmases, they fall in love.) - Dec. 2

Memories of Christmas (holiday movie starring Mark Taylor and Christina Milian as Noelle, who returns to her late mother’s house for the holidays, and reluctantly regains her passion for Christmas through her mother’s love of the holiday and a handsome holiday decorator) - Dec. 8 *Review*

Time for Me To Come Home for Christmas (holiday movie based on the song by Blake Shelton and book by Shelton’s mother, Dorothy Shackleford, and Travis Thrasher, starring Josh Henderson and Megan Park; a country star and a small-town business woman returning to Oklahoma for Christmas are stymied by a snowstorm and decide to drive to their destination together, learning how much they have in common along the way.) - Dec. 9

Northern Lights of Christmas (holiday movie starring Ashley Williams and Corey Sevier, based on the book Sleigh Bell Sweethearts by Teri Wilson; when an aspiring pilot inherits a reindeer farm she finds herself overwhelmed until a mysterious stranger shows up to help at the holidays.) - Dec. 15

Small Town Christmas (holiday movie starring Kris Polaha and Ashley Newbrough; a first-time novelist’s book tour to promote her surprise best-seller takes her to the hometown of an old colleague who broke her heart and unwittingly helped inspire her novel.) - Dec. 16

A Christmas for the Books (holiday movie starring Chelsea Kane and Drew Seeley a life guru with a best-selling book all about finding love finds herself single at the holidays. When she’s asked to host a major holiday gala she’s got to find someone who will pretend to be her boyfriend, or risk being exposed as a fraud) - Dec. 20

Christmas at Grand Valley (holiday movie starring Danica McKellar, Brennan Elliott and Dan Lauria; A burned out Chicago art dealer wants to spend a quiet Christmas relaxing and rejuvenating in her favorite town, where she meets up a single dad and his kids who are reviewing the hotel they’re all staying in) - Dec. 21

Christmas Bells Are Ringing (holiday movie starring Emilie Ullerup and Josh Kelly; a photographer returns to Cape Cod to celebrate her father’s Christmas Eve wedding and finds an inspiring winter wonderland through the eyes of a local) - Dec. 22

Happy and Friends Yule Log (visual “Yule Log” featuring Happy the Dog and other cute canine and feline friends) - Dec. 24-25

Lifetime

It’s a Wonderful Lifetime Preview Special (holiday preview special hosted by Melissa Joan Hart) - Nov. 17 (Watch Online)

My Christmas Inn (holiday movie starring Tia Mowry-Hardrict, Rob Mayes, Jackee Harry, Tim Reid and Erin Gray, shot on location in Utah; A San Fran ad exec inherits a small-town Alaska inn at the holidays and falls in love with the town, and a handsome architect she meets there) - Nov. 21 (Preview) **Review**

A Christmas Arrangement (holiday movie starring Nicky Whelan, Miles Fisher, Julie McNiven, Leslie Easterbrook, and Daphne Zuniga; when a flower shop owner enters a holiday floral show that features a $5,000 grand prize, she finds a worthy rival, and love blossoms) - Nov. 21

The Christmas Contract (holiday movie starring One Tree Hill alums Hilarie Burton, Robert Buckley, Danneel Ackles and Antwon Tanner with an original song from Tyler Hilton; also starring Jordan Ladd, Cheryl Ladd, Bruce Boxleitner and Jason London; A women not wanting to face her newly-coupled ex during a hometown Christmas celebration, so she hires her best friend’s brother to pretend to be her boyfriend) - Nov. 22 (Preview) ***Review***

'Tis the Season: A One Tree Hill Cast Reunion (holiday special featuring the cast of One Tree Hill plus special guests) - Nov. 22

Poinsettias for Christmas (holiday movie starring Bethany Joy Lenz, Sharon Lawrence, John Schneider, Lauren London and Marcus Rosner; Daughter comes home to help on her family’s poinsettia farm as a disaster looms as the plants aren’t ready for the holiday.) - Nov. 23 (Preview) ***Review***

Every Other Holiday (holiday movie starring Schulyer Fisk, David Clayton Rogers, Dee Wallace and Abby James Witherspoon; Daughters scheme to reunite their estranged parents by getting the whole family to spend Christmas together at a family farmhouse) - Nov. 23 ****Review****

Every Day is Christmas (holiday movie starring Toni Braxton, Towanda Braxton, Gloria Reuben and Michael Jai White; Modern take on A Christmas Carol where a humbug money manager sees her past, present and future collide.) - Nov. 24 (Preview)

Christmas Harmony (holiday movie starring Kelley Jakle, Chandra Wilson, Adam Mayfield and Sally Struthers; When her pop star boyfriend breaks up with her at Christmas, a young woman returns to her hometown at the holidays and rediscovers her own dreams.) - Nov. 24

Jingle Belle (movie starring Tatyana Ali, Cornelius Smith Jr, Loretta Devine, Valarie Pettiford, Keshia Knight Pulliam and Tempestt Bledsoe; high school sweethearts once known for their flawless Christmas duet are reunited to work on the pageant they once starred in) - Nov. 25 (Preview)

Christmas Perfection (movie starring Caitlin Thompson, James Henri-Thomas and Robbie Silverman; A Christmas control freak finds herself transported into a magical Christmas village where she learns “the perfect Christmas” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be) - Nov. 25

A Very Nutty Christmas (starring Melissa Joan Hart, Barry Watson, Marissa Winokur, Conchata Ferrell and Rizwan Manji; Hart plays a workaholic baker who’s just been dumped and decides to “give up on Christmas” when a magic nutcracker comes to life; filmed on location in Conn.) - Nov. 30 (Preview) ****Review****

A Twist of Christmas (holiday movie starring Brendon Zub, Vanessa Lachey, Rick Fox and Christian Convery; Single parents accidentally switch their kids Christmas gifts and must work together to fix the mix-up or the holiday will be ruined.) - Dec. 1 *Review*

The Christmas Pact (holiday movie starring Kyla Pratt, Jarod Joseph, Kadeem Hardison and Jasmine Guy; Childhood besties have kept their Christmas pact intact since they planted a tree together at age 8, but now life is getting in the way of their annual traditions.) - Dec. 2 (Preview)

Christmas Lost and Found (holiday movie starring Tiya Sircar, Ed Ruttle and Diane Ladd; A big city event planner is guilted into spending the holidays with her grandmother, but when she accidentally trashes the heirloom family ornaments, she ends up finding out what the season really means.) - Dec. 7 ***Review***

Santa’s Boots (holiday movie starring Megan Hilty, Fiona Vroom, Marc-Anthony Massiah, Noah Mills, June Squibb and Patricia Isaac; A young women returns home for Christmas to find her family’s store on brink of bankruptcy. To help out she fills in as one of Santa’s helpers where she meets a charming store St. Nick, who mysteriously disappears just before the holiday, leaving behind just his boot.) - Dec. 8 **Review**

A Christmas in Tennessee (holiday movie starring Rachel Boston, Andrew Walker, Patricia Richardson and Caroline Rhea; When a developer tries to turn their town, including the family-owned bakery, into a ski resort, the mom-daughter baking duo set out to stop him with a little Christmas magic.) - Dec. 9 ***Review***

Christmas Around the Corner (holiday movie directed by Megan Follows, starring Alexandra Breckenridge, Jamie Spilchuk and Jane Alexander; A woman escaping her city life during Christmas discovers her Vermont holiday rental requires her to run an attached bookshop, where she unexpectedly falls in love) - Dec. 14

Christmas Pen Pals (holiday movie starring Michael Gross, Sarah Drew and Niall Matter; Creator of a dating app heads home for the holidays following a devastating breakup where she runs into her high school love while running the town’s Christmas Cupid pen pal program.) - Dec. 15

Hometown Christmas (holiday movie starring Beverley Mitchell, Stephen Colletti, Erin Cahill, Melissa Gilbert and Danny Boaz; High school sweethearts return to their hometown and find their parents have fallen in love, filmed on location in Louisiana) - Dec. 16

Freeform

The Truth About Christmas (holiday movie starring Kali Hawk, Damon Dayoub and Ali Ghandour; a political consultant famed for her spin finds herself unable to lie after a run in with a toy store Santa on the way to meet her mayoral candidate boyfriend’s family for the first time) - Nov. 25 (Trailer) ****Review****

Life-Size 2: A Christmas Eve (movie starring Tyra Banks, Francia Raisa and Gavin Stenhouse, Christmas-themed sequel to the 2000 Wonderful World of Disney film) - Dec. 2 (Teaser, Trailer)

Pop Up Santa Special (viewers are surprised with special Christmas gifts by Freeform’s “Pop Up Santa”) - Dec. 3

Disney Fairy Tale Weddings: Holiday Magic 2 (second special featuring Christmas weddings at Disney parks hosted Stephen “tWitch” Boss and Allison Holker and featuring a performance by Martina McBride) - Dec. 8

No Sleep ‘Til Christmas (holiday movie starring real life husband and wife Dave and Odette Annable as a pair of insomniacs who come to depend on one another even though one of them is engaged to someone else; also starring Sheryl Lee Ralph) - Dec. 10 (Trailer) Review

ION

A Wedding for Christmas (starring Vivica A. Fox and Cristine Prosperi; an assistant for a top wedding planner returns to her hometown to plan her sister’s Christmas wedding, only to run into her childhood sweetheart) - Nov. 25

Christmas Cupid’s Arrow (starring Elisabeth Harnois and Jonathan Togo; After Holly’s younger sister announce she’s pregnant, the college professor signs up for a dating service, determined to find a mate, but maybe the guy she’s looking for is fellow faculty member, and single dad, David, who she’s planning the winter formal with) - Dec. 2

Rent-an-Elf (holiday movie starring Kim Shaw and Sean Patrick Thomas; Type-A Ava runs a full-service holiday planning company called Rent-an-Elf, but finds herself wanting to share the Christmas she plans for a single dad and his son, until his ex-wife returns for the holidays) - Dec. 8

A Snow White Christmas (starring Carolyn Hennesy and Liam McNeill; stuck with her evil stepmother for the holidays, Bianca Snow tries to make the best of it, bonding with the decorator, much to her stepmother’s chagrin, who tries to hypnotize Bianca into forgetting about her inheritance) - Dec. 9 (Trailer)

Country Christmas Album (starring Hannah Barefoot and Evan Gamble; a country singer tries to save her career by reluctantly agreeing to make a Christmas album with a former teen heartthrob) - Dec. 15

A Christmas in Royal Fashion (starring Cindy Busby and Diarmaid Murtagh; a PR assistant is put in charge of a charity Christmas fashion show sponsored by the royal family of Edgewater, when the prince confuses her for her boss and falls for her, the assistant is too scared to tell him the truth) - Dec. 16

UP

Beverly Hills Christmas II (a.ka. This Is Our Christmas; sequel to 2015′s Beverly Hills Christmas starring Margaret O’Brien, Ronn Moss and Kira Reed Lorsch; when a Beverly Hills family suffers financial hardship at the holidays, they’re in need of a true Christmas miracle) - Nov. 3

The Christmas Switch (holiday movie starring Jackie Seiden, Ashley Wood, Oana Gregory; Two moms swap bodies and have to figure out how to switch back before Christmas) - Nov. 4

Chandler Christmas Getaway (movie starring Malinda Williams, GregAllen Williams, DeEtta West and Victoria Rowell, fifth in the series that began with 2013′s Marry Me for Christmas; The Chandler family heads to a cabin for Christmas) - Nov. 11

Christmas on the Coast (movie starring Julie Ann Emery and Burgess Jenkins about a New York novelist known for holiday romances who spends the holidays in a resort locale, and finds herself with her own Christmas romance) - Nov. 18 (Twitter, Trailer)  (available on DVD Nov. 6)

Christmas Catch (movie starring Yanic Trusedale, Genelle Williams and Emily Alatalo; a detective goes undercover over the holidays and might just be falling for the man she’s sent to watch) - Dec. 2

Christmas with a Prince (holiday movie starring Kaitlyn Leeb, Nick Hounslow and Charles Shaughnessy; a doctor finds herself taking care of a handsome, spoiled prince after he breaks his leg skiing; also available on DVD) - Dec. 9 (Trailer)

Christmas on Holly Lane (holiday movie starring Karen Holness, Jamie M Callica and Giles Panton; lifelong friends come together to save a house they cherish at the holidays) - Dec. 16

Hometown Holiday (holiday movie starring Kevin McGarry, Sarah Troyer and Stephen Huszar; a record exec goes to a country holiday wedding in hopes of signing a social media celeb, but falls for a small town girl instead, also available on DVD) - Dec. 23  (Trailer)

TV One

A Special Night of Rickey Smile for Real (the comedian hosts a special holiday comedy and cooking extravaganza) - Nov. 20

Merry Wish-Mas (movie starring real-life husband and wife Tamela and David Mann, as former high school sweethearts reunited for the holidays amidst family drama) - Dec. 2 (Clip)

Living by Design Holiday Special (brother and sister Jake and Jazz Smollett bring viewers into their home for a spectacular Christmas dinner)- Dec. 9

Coins for Christmas (movie starring Essence Atkins, Stephen Bishop, TC Carson and Kelly Price, as herself; the story of a single mother, struggling to make ends meet after the IRS freezes her bank account. Doing odd jobs to survive, she ends up working for a pro football player two weeks before Christmas, and the two change each other’s lives.) - Dec. 16 (Clip)

INSP

Christmas on the Coast (movie starring Julie Ann Emery and Burgess Jenkins about a New York novelist known for holiday romances who spends the holidays in a resort locale, and finds herself with her own Christmas romance) - Nov. 25 (Twitter, Trailer)  (available on DVD Nov. 6)

BYU TV

Shoelaces for Christmas (movie based on the book by Craig S Buehner, starring Bailey Chase, Mia Topalian and Austin Grant; A selfish teen learns the true meaning of service after receiving devastating news at the holiday) - Dec. 2

Christmas Under the Stars (concert featuring Train and The Band Perry) - Dec. 16

15th Annual Christmas with the Morman Tabernacle Choir (holiday concert with the famed choir, featuring Sutton Foster and Hugh Bonneville) - Dec. 20

Disney Channel/Disney Jr.

Snow Place Like Home (holiday special based on the Elena of Avalor series) - Nov. 24 (Disney Jr.)

A Very Muppet Babies Christmas (holiday special based on the series) - Nov. 30 ***Review***

Ducktales Last Christmas! (special holiday episode of the rebooted series, featuring the voices of Danny Pudi, Bobby Moynihan, Ben Schwartz and David Tennant; Scrooge avoids the pressures of the holidays by traveling back in time with a trio of fun-loving ghosts to crash history's greatest Christmas parties.) - Nov. 30 (Trailer)

Disney Parks Presents a 25 Days of Christmas Holiday Party (holiday season kickoff special featuring music from Gwen Stefani, Brett Eldredge and Asher Angel) - Dec. 1 (available on DisneyNOW app starting Nov. 23)

Doc McStuffins Christmas Special (special holiday episode of the Disney Jr. series; Doc and the toys travel back in time to the North Pole to save Christmas) - Dec. 2 (Disney Jr.) (Trailer)

Nancy and the Nice List (animated special based on the Fancy Nancy series; When Nancy struggles to make Santa's Nice List, she learns the true meaning of Christmas.) - Dec. 14 (Disney Jr.)

Nickelodeon

The Loudest Thanksgiving (holiday special of the animated series) - Nov. 12

Spacebob Merrypants (new holiday special episode of SpongeBob Squarepants) - Nov. 25

WGN

Uncle Dan’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (LIVE coverage of Chicago’s Thanksgiving Day parade) - Nov. 22

CNN

New Year’s Eve Live (LIVE coverage of the events in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, hosted by Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen) - Dec. 31

TBS

Elf Pets: Santa’s St. Bernards Save Christmas (original animated special featuring the Elf on the Shelf, also available on DVD) - Nov. 17 (Trailer)

Full Frontal Presents Christmas on I.C.E. (commercial-free comedy special benefiting KIND, an organization dedicated to helping migrant children in detention; special guests include Adam Rippon) - Dec. 19 (Trailer, Clip)

BET

Throwback Holiday (holiday movie starring Jennifer Freeman, Robert Ri'chard and Rhyon Nicole Brown.; A harried mom in a shaky marriage wishes her way back to high school for a life do-over at the holidays) - Dec. 16 (Trailer)

BET Her

One Crazy Christmas (holiday movie starring Carl Payne, Terri Abney, Junie Hoang, Anton Peeples, Kiana Dancie and Tammy Townsend; filmed on location in Houston) - Nov. 17

VH1

RuPaul’s Drag Race Holi-slay Spectacular (one-off holiday special of the RuPaul-hosted series featuring all-star cast members in a holiday competition to be crowned the “Christmas Queen”) - Dec. 7 (Trailer)

TLC

The 12 Pops of Christmas (holiday-themed special with Dr. Pimple Popper, dermatologist Dr. Lee) - Dec. 13

Ovation

2018 National Christmas Tree Lighting (live musical performances and the official lighting of the National Christmas tree, in front of the White House, LIVE) - Dec. 2 (will also air on REELZ)

Food Network

Ultimate Thanksgiving Challenge (three episode cooking competition, hosted by Giada De Laurentiis) - starting Nov. 4

Holiday Baking Championship (holiday baking contest series hosted by Host Jesse Palmer, along with judges Nancy Fuller, Duff Goldman, and Lorraine Pascale) - starting Nov. 5

Christmas Cookie Challenge (cookie baking contest series hosted by Eddie Jackson, with judge Roe Drummond) - starting Nov. 5

Giada's Holiday Handbook (Giada De Laurentiis shares tips and tricks for pulling of holiday parties) - Nov. 11

Worst Cooks in America: Thanksgiving Redemption (special cooking challenge) - Nov. 11

Barefoot Contessa: Cook Like a Pro Thanksgiving Special (special primetime episode of the series with guests Jennifer Garner and Nigella Lawson helping Ina Garten cook their favorite Thanksgiving side dishes) - Nov. 17

Macy’s Thanksgiving Cake Spectacular (parade themed cake contest, hosted by Martha Stewart) - Nov. 18

Holiday Wars (three teams of cake bakers compete to create the most outstanding Christmas cake possible, hosted by Jonathan Bennett with judges Shinmin Li and Jason Smith) - Nov. 25

Holiday Gingerbread Showdown (four episode series featuring master Gingerbread makers competing against one another to create holiday delights, hosted by Marcela Valladolid with judges Kerry Vincent, Molly Yeh and Adam Young) - Nov. 25

Crazy Christmas Cakes (five cake artists from across the country bake elaborate holiday cakes) - Dec. 1

Gingerbread Giants 2 (special episode following five competitors at the annual National Gingerbread House Competition in Asheville, N.C.) - Dec. 23

Holiday Baking Championship: Homecoming (6 past Holiday Baking Championship winners return to the kitchen for a one-off competition to prove who is the best of the best holiday bakers ) - Dec. 24

Cooking Channel

Holiday Cookie Builds (limited episode holiday reality show featuring Salt Lake City gingerbread masters Brenda Nibley and Alisha Nuttall) - starting Nov. 9

SyFy

Santa Jaws (movie starring Reid Miller, Courtney Lauren Cumming and Jim Klock; comic book author’s Christmas killer shark somehow comes to life and begins menacing his friends at the holidays) - Aug. 14

Discovery ID

The Thanksgiving Ambush (true crime special, featuring the story of an Oklahoma couple ambushed in their garage two days before Thanksgiving) - Nov. 22

Animal Planet

AKC National Championship Dog Show  (dog show with hosts Mario Lopez and Shawn Johnson) - Jan. 1

POP

Schitt's Creek Holiday Special (special one-off holiday episode of the series starring Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara) - Dec. 19

Bravo

WWHL: O Come OG Faithful (Watch What Happens Live holiday episode featuring original Housewives Vicki Gunvalson, NeNe Leakes, Ramona Singer, Bethenny Frankel, Teresa Giudice and Kyle Richards to deck the halls and spill some tea ) - Dec. 20

TruTV

Impractical Jokers: Staten Island Holiday Spectacular and After Party (starring Joe Gatto, James "Murr" Murray, Brian "Q" Quinn and Sal Vulcano, a two-hour special taped live at Staten Island's St.George Theater, benefiting Toys for Tots) - Dec. 6

HGTV

House Hunters: Home for the Holidays (limited-run series featuring Christmas-loving home buyers looking for a new home to spend the holidays in) - weekly starting Nov. 27

White House Christmas 2018 (look at the decorations and design that adorn the White House for the holidays) - Dec. 9

HGTV Dream Home 2019 (look at the latest HGTV Dream Home which will be given away in a sweepstakes, in Whitefish, Montana) - Jan. 1

BBC America

Dr. Who: Who Year’s Day (stand alone episode of the long-running series, currently starring Jodie Whittaker; As the New Year begins the Doctor must save planet Earth from a terrifying evil.) - Jan. 1

BBC One

Zog (animated special based on the book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, starring Tracey Ullman and Kit Harington) - Dec. 25 UK (US airdate TBA)

RTEjr

Hopscotch and the Christmas Tree (original animated special, based on the book of the same title) - Dec. 24, Ireland (US airdate TBA) (Trailer)

Discovery Family

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic “Best Gift Ever” (the pony friends are on an adventure to find the best gift ever for each of them ) - Oct. 27 (Trailer)

Oxygen

Homocide for the Holidays (season three of the true crime series that features Christmas crimes) - weekly starting Dec. 9

CMT

Dolly & Friends: Making of a Soundtrack (documentary special on the making of Dolly Parton’s latest album, the soundtrack for the movie Dumplin’) - Nov. 29

Get TV

The Soul and Spirit of Christmas (original music special featuring CeCe Winans, BeBe Winans, Koryn Hawthorn and Take 6) - Nov. 23

Me TV 

Pastor Greg’s Reboot: Hope for Christmas (Christmas movie shot in upstate New York, a reboot of the 2004 film starring Kevin Sizemore; a veteran turned pastor get stuck in an elevator with non-believers at the holidays ) - Dec. 2 on WBBZ (all others check local listings, airdate may vary and may not be available on all affiliates)

Hulu

Into the Dark: Flesh & Blood (Blumhouse-produced horror anthology with each monthly movie taking place on a different holiday; On Thanksgiving, teenager Kimberly tries to move on from her mom’s unsolved murder to cure her agoraphobia, but begins to suspect she’s in danger from her seemingly doting father.) -  Nov. 7

Pixi Saves Christmas (2018 animated special from Spain) - Dec. 1

Into the Dark: Pooka (Blumhouse-produced horror anthology with each episode taking place on a different holiday; When a struggling actor agrees to dress up as a cartoon character at the holidays, he finds himself developing a distinctly different personality when he’s wearing the suit. ) -  Dec. 7

Into the Dark: New Year, New You (Blumhose produced horror anthology with each episode taking place on a different holiday; As an Instagram “influencer” looks to make her mark outside social media, a New Year’s weekend with her girl group turns dark) - available now 

A Very Terry Christmas: Get Cozy With Terry Crews (Terry Crews paints a Christmas tree in front of a fire) - available now

Netflix

The Land of Steady Habits (dark comedy/drama starring Connie Britton, Charlie Tahan, Ben Mendelsohn and Edie Falco; Sick of his job in finance a man leaves his wife and Westport, Conn. enclave in search of a more “real” life at the holidays) - available now (Trailer)

Christmas with a View (holiday movie starring Vivica A Fox, Kaitlyn Leeb, Patrick Duffy and Scott Cavalheiro; a fancy new head chef makes a splash at a ski resort, but not everyone is excited about his arrival; based on a Harlequin novel) - available now (Trailer)

The Holiday Calendar (original holiday movie starring Kat Graham, Quincy Brown and Ron Cephas Jones, about a magical advent calendar that seems to predict the future) - Nov. 2 (Trailer) **Review**

The Princess Switch (original holiday movie; Christmas-set take on The Prince and the Pauper, starring Vanessa Hudgens and Sam Palladino) - Nov. 16 (Trailer) ***Review***

Puppy Star Christmas (children’s holiday film in the continuing Pup Stars franchise, starring David DeLuise, Makenzie Moss and Denisse Ojeda; the just-married dogs are spending their first Christmas with their new pups and planning a very special Christmas treat.)  - Nov. 20 (Trailer) (NOTE: also available via DVD on Nov. 22)

The Christmas Chronicles (original movie produced by Chris Columbus, starring Kurt Russell, Kimberly Williams-Paisley and Judah Lewis; family holiday comedy about two brothers who, while trying to prove if Santa is real, crash his sleigh in Chicago, and must get the big guy back on track or Christmas is cancelled) - Nov. 22 (Trailer) ***Review***

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic “Best Gift Ever” (the pony friends are on an adventure to find the best gift ever for each of them) - Nov. 25  (Trailer)

Angela’s Christmas (animated special based on the children’s book by Frank McCourt) - Nov. 30 (Trailer) **Review**

A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding (original holiday movie; wedding-themed sequel to 2017′s A Christmas Prince, starring Ben Lamb and Rose McIver) - Nov. 30 (Teaser, Trailer)

Great British Baking Show: Holidays (two-episode Christmas special of The Great British Bake Off, which aired in the UK in 2016, but has never been seen before in the U.S.) - Nov. 30 ***Review***

Natale A Cinque Stelle (a.k.a. Five Star Christmas; Italian Christmas comedy starring Massimo Gini; when the Italian P.M. secretly meets up with his mistress during a Budapest Christmas trip, things quickly go awry.) - Dec. 7 (Trailer)

Free Rein: The Twelve Neighs of Christmas (original special one-off holiday episode of the teen series; Bright Fields prepares for its Mistletoe Ball) - Dec. 7

Nailed It! Holiday! (original one-off, holiday baking-themed special episode of the series) - Dec. 7 (Trailer) *Review*

Super Monsters and the Wish Star (original animated special based on the series) - Dec. 7

Neo Yokio Pink Christmas (original animated special created by Ezra Koenig and starring Jaden Smith and Jamie Foxx) - Dec. 7 (Twitter preview, Trailer)

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina: A Midwinter’s Tale (original special holiday stand-alone episode of the series featuring Sabrina and her coven telling ghost stories around the fire for the Winter Solistice) - Dec. 13 (Trailer)

Prince of Peoria: A Christmas Moose Miracle (original special holiday one-off episode of the tween series; A snowstorm threatens the Festival of Lights) - Dec. 14

Aggretsuko: We Wish You a Metal Christmas (original holiday special of the Japanese anime-style series) - Dec. 20 (Trailer)

Watership Down (original animated mini-series of the classic Richard Adams novel, featuring the voices of James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult, Ben Kingsley and John Boyega; a BBC co-production) - Dec. 25

Netflix New Year’s Eve Countdowns (19, new, original countdowns based on kids and tween Netflix shows that can be watched anytime. New countdowns based on: Alexa and Katie, Prince of Peoria, Pinky Malinky, Motown Magic, Larva Island, Beat Bugs, Skylanders Academy, Super Monsters, True and the Rainbow Kingdom, Tales of Arcadia, All Hail King Julien, Boss Baby, Spirit Riding Free and Fuller House) - Dec. 26 (Trailer)

Taylor Swift reputation Stadium Tour (original concert film featuring the last stop of Swift’s latest tour) - Dec. 31 (Trailer)

Amazon Prime

Bigfoot (animated movie directed be Evan Tramel; An evil Yeti steals Santa’s naughty list and uses it to banish Santa from the North Pole) - available now

Clara’s Ultimate Christmas (family movie where a young vlogger documents her “ultimate Christmas” but everything goes awry when her dad has to leave for a business trip and her dog runs away right before Christmas Eve) - available now (Trailer)

Crawford the Cat’s Christmas (animated special aimed at preschoolers, directed by Russ Harris) - available now (Trailer)

Dead by Christmas (holiday slasher film starring Holly Bonney; Reunited for the holidays, a group of friends raised together in a troubled Louisiana orphanage are stalked by a killer from Christmas past) - available now (Trailer)

Discarding Santa (”found footage” mockumentary about a Kentucky town that outlawed Santa) - available now (Trailer)

Madness Farewell (black comedy about a suicidal comedian in Los Angeles who, unable to do the deed herself, hires a hit man; starring Charlene DeGuzman ) - available now (Trailer)

A Raunchy Christmas Story (very R-rated “comedy” in the Cinemax-after-dark vein) - available now

Straight no Chaser: Live in New York Holiday Edition (a cappella group’s Christmas concert, filmed live in New York City) - available now

A Unicorn Christmas (animated special featuring the voices of Alicia Condrey, Aisha Ricketts and Yasmin Palmer) - available now

Pete the Cat: A Very Groovy Christmas (animated holiday special, based on the book series; Pete and the gang try to find the Christmas Cat to get cool gifts) - Nov. 20 (Trailer)

Arty’s Holiday Masterpiece (animated holiday special, based on the Creative Galaxy series; Arty makes a Christmas ornament for his family, but it comes to life and runs away) - Nov. 20

Max’s Christmas (animated special based on the Max and Ruby storybook) - Dec. 1

YouTube

Ken Jeong Cracks Christmas (original special featuring the comedian and celebrity friends on the ultimate quest to uncover the pop-culture myths behind the world's most celebrated holiday.) - Dec. 12 on the Buzzfeed YouTube Channel (Trailer)

Nick Offerman’s Yule Log (Nick Offerman silently drinks whisky in front a fire) - available now on Lagavulin’s My Whisky Official YouTube Channel (age restricted due to depiction of alcohol); Ten Hour Version

A Very Terry Christmas: Get Cozy With Terry Crews (Terry Crews paints a Christmas tree in front of a fire) - available now on America’s Got Talent YouTube Channel

MUSEO (Spanish language movie starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Leonardo Ortizgris and Alfredo Castro; the true story of small-time, seemingly inept crooks who stole priceless Mayan artifacts from Mexico's National Anthropology Museum on Christmas Eve 1985) - TBA (Trailer)

Holiday Spectacular (family movie from Brat Studios, starring Annie LeBlanc and Mackenzie Ziegler; the story of an estranged family that is brought back together for the holiday season at the mall) - Dec. 21 on the Brat YouTube channel (Trailer)

Sony Crackle

A Prayer for Mr. T: The SuperMansion Thanksgiving Special (adult, stop-motion animation special holiday episode of the streaming series, featuring the voices of Chris Pine and Bryan Cranston; The annual Thanksgiving turkey competition between Titanium Rex and Dr. Devizo goes awry when Rex’s turkey transforms into a nightmarish bird monster.) - Nov. 15

Britbox

Upstart Crow Christmas Special (U.S. premiere of the special Christmas episode of the series) - Dec. 7

Would I Lie to You Christmas Specials (U.S. premieres of the special Christmas episode of the game show) - Dec. 7

QI Christmas Specials (U.S. premiere of the special Christmas episodes of the game show) - Dec. 7

The Snow Queen (U.S. premiere of the 2005 BBC animated movie based on the classic tale, starring Patrick Stewart) - Dec. 7 

Mr. Stink (U.S. premiere of the 2012 BBC movie starring Hugh Bonneville, based on the popular children’s book) - Dec. 7

Mary Berry’s Absolute Favorites (holiday special featuring The Great British Bake Off’s Mary Berry) - Dec. 12

Clash of the Santas (US debut of the 2008 BBC movie) - Dec. 15

The Lights Before Christmas: Luminous London (Britbox original, “slow TV” holiday-themed special) - Dec. 19

Swingin’ Christmas (Michael Parkinson presents the John Wilson Orchestra with special guests, including Seth McFarlane) - Dec. 22

Hold the Sunset Christmas Special (U.S. premiere of the special Christmas episode of the series) - Dec. 23

Mock the Week Christmas Special (U.S. premiere of the 2018 special Christmas episode of the comedy news show) - Dec. 24

Click & Collect (2018 BBC movie starring Stephen Merchant and Asim Chaudhry as neighbors making a cross country journey to get the perfect toy for Christmas) - Dec. 24

Carols from Kings (LIVE coverage of the celebration of Christmas from The Chapel of King’s College Cambridge) - Dec. 24

The Queen’s Christmas Message 2018 (annual holiday message delivered by Queen Elizabeth II to her subjects via the BBC) - Dec. 25

Emmerdale Christmas Special (U.S. premiere of the 2018 Christmas episode of the British soap) - Dec. 25

Casualty Christmas Special (U.S. premiere of the 2018 Christmas episode of the British soap) - Dec. 25

Holby City Christmas Special (U.S. premiere of the 2018 Christmas episode of the British soap) - Dec. 25

EastEnders Christmas Special (U.S. premiere of the 2018 Christmas episode of the long-running British soap) - Dec. 25

Coronation Street Christmas Special (U.S. premiere of the 2018 Christmas episode of the long-running British soap) - Dec. 25

The Last Leg New Year’s Special, LIVE (aired at same time as in UK) - Jan. 1

Shudder

The Dinners of Death (Joe Bob Briggs Thanksgiving meal-themed marathon which he calls, “the best deadly-dinner movies in history”) - Nov. 22

A Very Joe Bob Christmas (Job Bob Briggs-hosted Christmas horror movie marathon) - Dec. 21

Funny or Die

The 2019 Rose Parade Hosted by Cord and Tish (Live coverage of the Rose Parade with commentary by Cord Hosenbeck and Tish Cattigan, a.k.a. Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon) - Jan. 1

On Demand/Digital/DVD

Sick for Toys (horror movie starring Camille Montgomery, Jon Paul Burkhart and Justin Xavier; Sad sack nice guy accepts a Christmas dinner invitation from a beautiful woman only to find out she and her brother are not what they seem) - Sep 4 (Twitter, Trailer)

Battle of the Bulge: Wunderland (war movie starring Steven Luke, Tom Berenger and Mikeal Burgin; true story of the Christmas 1944 battle that was amongst the WWII’s deadliest offensives, available via digital and DVD) - Oct 2 (Trailer)

The Least of These: A Christmas Story (starring Tayla Lynn and Emma Faith; a homeless single mother is befriended by a feisty waitress and a store Santa in this tale of holiday love and forgiveness, shot on location in Fayetteville, Ark.; available via digital and DVD) - Oct. 22 (Trailer) 

Christmas Break-In (A blizzard strands nine-year-old at school at the start of Christmas break. When bad guys kidnap the school janitor, it’s up to the kid to save him; starring Danny Glover, Denise Richards and Cameron Seely, filmed on location in Minnesota; available via DVD) - Nov. 1 (interview)

A Christmas Village (A cynical cookbook author facing a scandal helps a single father reinvigorate his struggling Christmas theme park in hopes of getting some good PR; starring Madeline Leon and Neil Paterson; available via iTunes) - Nov. 1 (Trailer)

Best Thanksgiving Ever (starring Jay Seals, Eric Roberts and Heather Adair; Raunchy Thanksgiving-themed sex comedy supposedly based on a true holiday; this one has been floating around festival circuit for a while, but this is first time it’s widely avaiable via iTunes) - Nov. 6, Rated R (Redband Trailer)

Christmas Manger (movie starring Andrea Logan White, Steve Young and Tara Reid; A widower and his estranged foster daughter are forced to spend the holidays together after an injury leaves him unable to live alone. Can faith reunite them?; Available via DVD) - Nov. 6

Lez Bomb (movie written by and starring Jenna Laurenzo, with Kevin Pollack, Bruce Dern, Cloris Leachman and Steve Guttenberg; comedy about a lesbian determined to come out to her quirky family over Thanksgiving, but a series of mishaps may foil her plans; available via digital and blu-ray) - Nov. 9 (digital) / Jan. 8 (blu-ray) (Trailer)

Mrs. Claus (holiday horror slasher film starring Brinke Stevens, Helene Udy and Kaylee Williams) - Nov. 13 (Trailer)

A Christmas Carol (Scottish version of the classic tale, where Scrooge is a billionaire obsessed with profits, starring Stuart Brennan; available on iTunes) - Nov. 16 (Trailer)

Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer (starring Josh Hutcherson, Morena Baccarin, John Cleese, Samantha Bee and Martin Short; international animated film about a miniature horse who dreams of being one of Santa’s reindeer; available via digital) - Dec. 1, Rated PG (Trailer, Twitter) ****Review****

Holly Star (written, directed and starring Michael Nickles, with Katlyn Carlson and Brian Muller; A broke puppeteer returns home for the holidays and gets caught up in a treasure hunt with her paintball-obsessed best friend, her tango-dancing grandmother and a childhood sweetheart. Shot on location in Portland, Maine; available via DVD/digital) - Dec. 4, Rated PG (Trailer)

All the Creatures Were Stirring (holiday horror movie starring Constance Wu, Amanda Fuller and Jonathan Kite; a couple wander into a movie theatre on a Christmas Eve date to be greeted by a series of bizarre holiday tales of woe; available via digital and DVD) - Dec. 4 (digital) / Dec. 7 (DVD) (Trailer)

Smallfoot (starring Channing Tatum, Zendaya, Gina Rodriguez, James Corden and Danny Devito; animated Yeti adventure where the mythical beasts discover humans actually exist; available via DVD and digital) - Dec. 4 (digital) /Dec. 11 (DVD/blu-ray), rated PG (Trailer, Website, Twitter) ****Review****

I’ll Be Next Door for Christmas (crowd-funded movie starring Nicole Sullivan, Atticus Shaffer, Juliette Angelo and Kirrilee Berger; 16-year-old embarrassed by her Christmas-crazy family, tries to trick her long distance boyfriend by hosting a calmer Christmas celebration in the empty house next door; available via digital) - Dec. 4, Rated PG (Website, Trailer, Clip)

Little Women (modern-set take on the classic Louisa May Alcott novel, starring Lea Thompson; available via DVD and digital) - Dec. 18, rated PG-13 (Trailer)

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September 25 in Music History

1683 Birth of French composer and organist Jean-Philippe Rameau. 1716 Death of German composer Johann Christoph Pez.

1717 The Earl of Carnarvon commissions two anthems of Handel.

1718 Birth of Italian Opera composer Nicola Conforto in Naples. 

1741 Birth of Bohemian composer Vaclav Pichl in Bechyne.  1752 Birth of composer Carl Stenborg. 1785 Birth of composer George Frederic Pinto. 1830 Birth of German pianist, conductor and composer Karl Klindworth.  1849 Death of Austrian composer Johann Strauss Sr. at age 45, in Vienna.

1862 Birth of Alsace organist and composer Léon Boëllmann.

1869 Birth of German soprano Annie Dirkens in Berlin. 

1871 Birth of American composer Percy Lee Atherton. 1879 Birth of composer Luis da Costa.

1883 Birth of German baritone Peter van Der Bilt, in Amsterdam. 

1886 Birth of Spanish composer Jesus Guridi.

1887 Birth of Italian tenor Giuseppe Nessi in Bergamo.  1896 Birth of Spanish-Catalan-English composer Roberto Gerhard, in Valls. 

1898 Birth of composer and conductor Louis Cheslock. 

1899 Birth of English baritone Dennis Noble in Bristol. 

1899 Birth of cellist, composer and conductor Ricardo Lamote de Grignon in Barcelona 1902 Birth of composer Jenő Takács. 1906 Birth of Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich.

1906 Birth of Czech composer Jaroslav Jezek in Prague.  1907 FP of Jean Sibelius' Third Symphony, in Helsinki. 

1907 Birth of composer Jan Felderhof.

1908 Birth of Slovak composer Eugen Suchon in Pezinok. 

1911 Birth of American composer Lionel Nowak. 

1915 Birth of German soprano Gerda Lammers in Berlin.

1916 Birth of composer Tolia Nikiprowetzsy. 1916 Death of Czech band composer Julius Fucik.

1923 Birth of Czech bass-baritone Ladislav Mraz, in Strakonice. 

1925 FP of Paul Hindemith's Kammermusik No. 4, Op. 36, no. 3, conducted by Franz von Hoesslin, with Licco Amar the violin soloist in Dessau, Germany.

1927 Birth of English conductor Sir Colin Rex Davis in Weybridge. 

1932 Birth of Canadian pianist Glenn Herbert Gould in Toronto. 

1936 Birth of Italian bass Mario Rinaudo, in Chieti.

1936 FP of R. Vaughan Williams Five Tudor Portraits choral suite. Composer conducting in Norwich.

1937 Birth of composer Thomas Kessler. 1944 Birth of flutist Eugenia Zukerman in Cambridge MA.

1945 Birth of American composer Reynold Weidenaar.

1946 Death of German conductor Franz von Hoesslin in France. 

1946 Birth of English soprano Teresa Cahill, in Maidenhead. 

1951 Birth of Slovakian tenor Peter Dvorsky, in Partizánske. 

1955 Birth of American composer Robert Avalon.

1959 Birth of American composer Stella Sung.

1959 Death of Italian composer Ennio Porrino in Rome. 

1960 FP of Paul Ben-Haim's Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra, in Tel Aviv.

1962 FP of Walter Piston's Lincoln Center Festival Overture by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy, at the third concert scheduled at the new Philharmonic Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, at Lincoln Center in NYC. 

1966 FP of Dimitri Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 2. USSR State Symphony, with Mstislav Rostropovich the soloist and the composer's son, Maxim, conducting in Moscow. Was the occasion of his 60th birthday and was nominated as a Hero of Socialist Labor by the Soviet government. 

1973 Death of Russian soprano Beata Malkin in NYC. 

1980 FP of Leonard Bernstein's Divertimento for Orchestra, Boston.

1982 Birth of Chinese-American composer Na Rong.

1986 FP of Karel Husa's Concerto for Orchestra. New York Philharmonic, conducted by Zubin Mehta. 1997 Death of French composer and pianist Jean Françaix.

1997 FP of John Adams' Piano Concerto Century Rolls at Severance Hall, with pianist Emanuel Ax and the Cleveland Orchestra, conducted by Christoph von Dohnányi.

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Upcoming Performances by Dame Sarah Connolly

[NOTE: this post is now out of date. Check the schedule tag on my blog for the most recent version of this list.]

After the jump: an unofficial schedule of Dame Sarah Connolly’s future performances. Those of you in Britain may catch a performance in London, Oxford, Worcester, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Buxton, Deal, or Lewes. Those on the Continent may see her in Berlin, Vienna, Brussels, Barcelona, Rotterdam, Stuttgart, Bordeaux, Vilabertran (near Figueres, Catalunya), or La Foce (Siena). Plus, Dame Sarah’s agency has mentioned future performances in Paris, Madrid, and New York, though no details are available yet. Don’t live near one of these places? Take in a concert from afar: I am adding online broadcast and livestream details as they become available.

This is not an authoritative list. These are the upcoming performances by Dame Sarah Connolly that I have been able to learn about from Dame Sarah's website (not currently being updated), her agent's website (Askonas Holt), Operabase, Bachtrack, Dame Sarah's Twitter, and generally ferreting around the web.

Some of these listings are not yet officially confirmed; you should of course check official sources before making plans and be aware that cast changes and cancellations can happen at any time.

I have added links to venue, ticketing, and broadcast information where available. Tips on new information are always welcome! Please contact me via email (verdiprati [at] selveamene [dot] com), Tumblr messaging, or ask box (plain prose only in the ask box; anything with links or an email address will get eaten by Tumblr filters) with corrections or additions.

Brett Dean, Hamlet (Gertrude) at Glyndebourne, last performance on July 6, 2017. Also starring Allan Clayton (Hamlet), Barbara Hannigan (Ophelia), Rod Gilfry (Claudius), Kim Begley (Polonius), and John Tomlinson (Ghost of Old Hamlet). With the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.

[Livestream] The July 6 performance of Hamlet is scheduled for livestreaming to cinemas and online; the online stream will be free to watch and will remain online for a week. The streaming of the first part of the performance will be delayed about an hour in order to avoid imposing Glyndebourne’s traditional 90-minute “long interval” on online and cinema audiences; the second part will be relayed live or with minimal delay, according to my understanding. Hat tip to Avis Melodia for mentioning the livestream in the Sarah Connolly fan group on Facebook.

Recital at the Deal Festival, St George’s Church, Deal, Kent, July 8, 2017. With Joseph Middleton in a program titled “Love and Life.” Update: although Dame Sarah’s recital is still listed on the festival website as of this writing, the Astor Community Theatre has announced that she has withdrawn from the festival on advice of her doctor. Ruby Hughes will appear in recital with Joseph Middleton instead. Update update: although the recital date has come and gone, I want to note that I belatedly found an announcement about Dame Sarah’s withdrawal and Hughes’ substitution on the Deal Festival website.

Wagner, Das Rheingold (Fricka) at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusets, July 15, 2017. Update: as of July 4, Dame Sarah has been replaced by Stephanie Blythe in the role of Fricka. The BSO site has been updated to read, “Due to ill health, and on the advice of her doctor, Dame Sarah Connolly regretfully has had to withdraw from the BSO's performance of  Das Rheingold.” Operawire took note of the withdrawal and WBUR has published a short interview with Blythe about her stepping in. In a concert performance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons. Also starring Thomas J. Mayer (Wotan), Kim Begley (Loge), David Cangelosi (Mime), Jochen Schmeckenbecker (Alberich), Morris Robinson (Fasolt), Ain Anger (Fafner), Malin Christensson (Freia), Jacqueline Echols (Woglinde), Catherine Martin (Wellgunde), Renée Tatum (Flosshilde), Patricia Bardon (Erda), David Butt Philip (Froh), and Ryan McKinney (Donner).

[Broadcast] As usual, this Saturday night concert by the BSO will be broadcast live by WCRB [update: without Dame Sarah’s participation] and presumably will be made available for listening on demand afterward.

Recital at the Buxton Festival, Buxton, July 22, 2017. Update: Dame Sarah is no longer listed on the Buxton program; she seems to have been replaced by Sir Thomas Allen, who will be performing in recital with Joseph Middleton.

Solo performance in a fundraising concert for Common and Kind, Union Chapel, Islington, London, July 25, 2017. Update: Common and Kind has tweeted that “Sarah Connolly has a bruised cord and is unable to sing indefinitely,” which I take to mean that she has withdrawn from this performance. 

Torsten Rasch, A Welsh Night at the Three Choirs Festival, Worcester, July 26, 2017. Update: Susan Bickley’s name now appears on the Three Choirs website in place of Dame Sarah’s. In a concert with Strauss’s Metamorphosen and Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass. Conducted by Frank Beermann. A newly orchestrated version of Rasch’s song sequence A Welsh Night will be premiered at the 2017 Three Choirs Festival; Sarah Connolly performed the original version for mezzo-soprano and piano with Joseph Middleton at their 2015 Three Choirs recital.

Recital at Incontri in Terra di Siena, La Foce, Siena, Italy, August 5, 2017. With accompanist Julius Drake. Songs by Mahler, Berlioz, Poulenc, and Debussy. This is a small festival and advance booking is recommended.

Recital at the Schubertíada Vilabertran, Vilabertran (near Figueres), Catalunya, August 24, 2017. With Malcolm Martineau. Songs by Strauss, Zemlinsky, Eisler, Korngold, Copland, and Britten. Broadcast possibility: many recitals from the 2015 Schubertíada Vilabertran, where Connolly made her festival debut, were broadcast either live or deferred on Catalunya Música. There is a PDF on the CatMúsica website showing this recital on the schedule of summer festival recordings being made by the radio station, but it does not give an air date; the recital does not appear on this PDF schedule of broadcasts for July and August. We’ll have to keep an eye out for it in the coming months.

[New!] Songs by Bridge and Brahams in a joint recital with Nils Mönkemeyer (viola) and Marcelo Amaral (piano) at the Liederhalle, Stuttgart, September 14, 2017. Sponsored by the Internationale Hugo-Wolf-Akademie.

Mahler, Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection,” with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, September 20, 2017. Vladimir Jurowski conducts and Maria Bengtsson sings the soprano part. Also with the Rundfunkchor Berlin. Tickets go on sale July 17, 2017.

[Broadcast TBC] No details yet, but the Deutschlandradio Kultur logo appears on the page under the phrase “Concert with,” so I am assuming the concert will be broadcast either live or deferred.

Recital at Wigmore Hall, London, September 29, 2017. With Malcolm Martineau. The program includes songs by Strauss, Zemlinsky, Eisler, Korngold, Copland, and Britten.

Elgar, Sea Pictures, Royal Tunbridge Wells, October 1, 2017. With the Royal Tunbridge Wells Symphony Orchestra conducted by Roderick Dunk. In a concert with orchestral works by Kodály and Brahms.

Mahler, Symphony No. 3 at the Opéra National de Bordeaux, October 6 and 8, 2017. With the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine and the women of the Chœur de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux. Conducted by Paul Daniel.

Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde at Kings Place, London, October 14, 2017. With Andrew Staples and the Aurora Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Collon. Das Lied will be played in an arrangement by Iain Farrington for sixteen instruments. This concert, oddly enough, is part of the orchestra’s “Mozart’s Piano” series, pairing Das Lied with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 11.

G. Mahler, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, plus songs by A. Mahler, Zemlinsky and Korngold at the Oxford Lieder Festival, St John the Evangelist, Oxford, October 20, 2017. With Eugene Asti. This recital program perfectly fits the festival’s theme for 2017, “The Last of the Romantics—Mahler and Fin-de-Siècle Vienna.”

Wagner, Tristan und Isolde (Brangäne) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, November 28 and December 2, 4, 7, 10, 12, and 15, 2017. With Stefan Vinke (Tristan), Iréne Theorin (Isolde), Albert Dohmen (Marke), Greer Grimsley (Kurwenal), et al., in a production directed by Àlex Ollé and previously seen in Lyon. Musical direction by Josep Pons.

Handel, Ariodante (title role) at the Wiener Staatsoper, February 24 and 26 and March 1, 4, and 8, 2018. With Chen Reiss (Ginevra), Hila Fahima (Dalinda), Christphe Dumaux (Polinesso), Rainer Trost (Lurcanio), and Wilhelm Schwinghammer (Il Re di Scozia). In a new production directed by David McVicar with music is supplied by Les Arts Florissants conducted by William Christie. Note: although Christie, LAF, and many of the soloists from this Ariodante will be performing the opera in a concert tour following its staging in Vienna, Dame Sarah is not scheduled to join them; Kate Lindsey has been announced to take over the title role for the tour.

[Livestream] The opera is scheduled for livestreaming on Sunday, March 4. There is a fee of €14 to watch the livestream.

Mahler, Symphony No. 8 “Symphony of a Thousand” at de Doelen, Rotterdam, March 23 and 25, 2018. With the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The other soloists are Angela Meade, Erin Wall, Lisette Oropesa Erin Morley, Mihoko Fujimura, Michael Schade, Markus Werba, and Christof Fischesser. On choral duty are the Groot Omroep Koor, Rotterdam Symphony Chorus, Orfeon Donostiarra, and Nationaal Kinderkoor. Tickets go on sale May 15.

Mahler, Symphony No. 8 “Symphony of a Thousand” at BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, March 24, 2018. With the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra; same details as the Rotterdam performances listed above. Broadcast possibility: this concert is part of the 2018 Klarafestival sponsored by the Klara radio station, so it seems like a good candidate for broadcast.

[Masterclasses] Teaching duties for the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme at Snape Maltings in Aldeburgh, England, March 23-April 1, 2018. A course on Handel’s Theodora to be co-taught with conductor Christian Curnyn. Although this doesn’t really count as a performance by Sarah Connolly, I am adding it to my “unofficial schedule” of her work with the thought that fans who live in the area might want to attend some of the public masterclasses Sarah Connolly will be teaching or the culminating performance by young artists she will have coached. (Note that the first weekend of this program clashes with the Mahler 8 concerts in Rotterdam, above; it is possible the students will start out working with Christian Curnyn and will pick up with Sarah Connolly a few days into the program.)

Handel, Giulio Cesare (title role) at Glyndebourne, June 10 through July 28, 2018. In a revival of the legendary 2005 production by David McVicar, with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by William Christie. With Joélle Harvey as Cleopatra, plus Christophe Dumaux and Patricia Bardon reprising the roles of Tolomeo and Cornelia respectively; also starring John Moore (Achilla) and Kangmin Justin Kim (Nireno).

Wagner, Das Rheingold and Die Walküre (Fricka in both) at the Royal Opera, London, September 24 through October 28, 2018. A revival of Keith Warner’s Ring Cycle, with Antonio Pappano conducting. For cast and date details, see the ROH web pages linked above.

[Details TBA] Future appearances at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Opéra national de Paris, and the Teatro Réal in Madrid are mentioned in the current bio that can be downloaded from Dame Sarah’s page on the Askonas Holt website (click “Publicity Pack”).

Previous versions of this list can be found under the schedule tag on this blog. This version published on July 2, 2017. Edited July 4 to reflect Dame Sarah’s withdrawal from the Deal Festival and Tanglewood, and to add a link to the Saint John the Evangelist website. Edited July 7 to reflect Dame Sarah’s withdrawal from the Common and Kind concert and to add the Operawire link to the Tanglewood entry. Edited July 8 to reflect Dame Sarah’s withdrawal from the Buxton Festival. Edited July 10 to reflect the replacement of Lisette Oropesa by Erin Morley in the Mahler 8 tour and to (belatedly) add a link to the Deal Festival announcement of Dame Sarah’s withdrawal. Edited July 15 to add the Stuttgart recital and some updates to the Tanglewood entry. Edited July 23 to reflect Dame Sarah’s withdrawal from the Three Choirs concert. Edited August 4 to confirm that Dame Sarah’s recital with Malcolm Martineau at Vilabertran is scheduled for recording. Edited August 10 to add that it does not appear on the CatMúsica broadcast schedule for August. I may continue to edit this list if I receive new information.

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Instructions

General Information:

For this assignment, you must view one of the following approved online concerts listed below and write a report based on the instructions below:

Please click on the following link to view the selection of concerts: Virtual Concerts

1. Dudamel Conducts LA Phil in John still Williams Celebration

2. Boston Symphony Orchestra: Andris Nelsons’ Inaugural…

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0, 7, 21, 30

0: Height?

Norah is 5′3.

7: Have tattoos?

Norah is not against having tattoos, but she doesn’t currently have one.

21: What I love most about myself?

Norah loves that she is confident. When she was younger, she struggled a lot with body image and what it meant to be confident and feel good about oneself. As she’s gotten older she’s grown into herself and learned to love the things about herself she used to not like (her nose, her teeth, and the way she smiles).

30: What I hate the most about work/school.

It isn’t what she would really like to be doing and it’s far away from her hometown. She loves teaching a lot, and she loves being around students and the other teachers, but if she could be anything she would be a member of a Symphony Orchestra. Particularly the one back home in Boston because as a kid she would go to preformances with her dad and watch John Williams (yes, that John Williams) conduct.

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Peter Serkin, 72, Dies; Pianist With Pedigree Who Forged a New Path

Peter Serkin, a pianist admired for his insightful interpretations, technically pristine performances and tenacious commitment to contemporary music, died on Saturday morning at his home in Red Hook, N.Y., in Dutchess County, near the campus of Bard College, where he was on the faculty. He was 72.

His death, from pancreatic cancer, was announced by his family.

Mr. Serkin was descended from storied musical lineages on both sides of his family. His father was the eminent pianist Rudolf Serkin; his maternal grandfather was the influential conductor and violinist Adolf Busch, whose musical forebears went back generations.

By 12, Peter Serkin was performing prominently in public, and he soon seemed poised to continue the legacy of his father, who was known for authoritative accounts of the central European repertory.

His first two recordings, made for the RCA label when he was 18, confirmed this impression. One was a buoyant, lucid and probing account of Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations that many critics compared favorably to Glenn Gould’s influential version; the other was a glowing, preternaturally mature account of Schubert’s spacious late Sonata in G, Op. 78.

Yet, though he was proud of his heritage, Mr. Serkin found it a burden. Like many who came of age in the 1960s, he questioned the establishment, both in society at large and within classical music. He resisted a traditional career trajectory and at 21 stopped performing, going for months without even playing the piano.

He traveled to India, touching down in Nepal and Thailand, and lived for a while in Mexico with his wife at the time, Wendy Spinner, and their baby daughter.

Recalling those years in a 1987 interview with The Boston Globe, Mr. Serkin said that back then performing was often “a painful ordeal” for him, and that he could not bear all “that harping by musicians and critics on how you play, as if that’s the central issue.”

This pressure was compounded, he added, by the fact that his family “took music so seriously, in the Old World sense of being a kind of religion,” and maintained “such identification with our being musicians” that it was necessary “for me to just drop that.”

By challenging his legacy, he sought to claim it on his own terms, and contemporary music became central to his artistic identity. Yet Mr. Serkin disliked being called a “champion” of contemporary music, as if the music of his own time occupied some different realm and required expert advocates.

Throughout his career, he presented recital programs that juxtaposed the old and the new: 12-tone scores and Mozart sonatas; thorny pieces by the mid-20th-century German composer Stefan Wolpe and polyphonic works from the Renaissance. Admirers of his playing appreciated how he drew out allusions to music’s past in contemporary scores, while conveying the radical elements of old music.

He played almost all the piano works of Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Wolpe. He also introduced dozens of pieces, including major works and concertos, written for him by composers like Toru Takemitsu, Charles Wuorinen and, especially, his childhood friend Peter Lieberson.

Reviewing Mr. Serkin’s 1985 recording of Mr. Lieberson’s Piano Concerto No. 1, with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa, the critic Tim Page wrote in The New York Times that Mr. Serkin seemed to him “America’s pre-eminent young pianist — his intelligence and perceptivity invariably take the listener to the heart of the music.”

Peter Adolf Serkin (his middle name was in honor of his grandfather) was born in Manhattan on July 24, 1947, the fifth of seven children of Rudolf Serkin and Irene Busch Serkin. (A daughter died in infancy.) During his childhood he mostly lived on his parents’ farm in Guilford, Vt., not far from Marlboro College, the site of the summer Marlboro Music Festival, founded by a group of artists including Rudolf Serkin and his grandfather Adolf Busch.

Irene Serkin, like her father, played the violin, which was young Peter’s first instrument. But he was drawn more to the piano.

Nevertheless, Rudolf Serkin acknowledged that he had not given his son much encouragement early on. “I doubted he was talented,” he said in a 1980 New York Times Magazine profile of his son. “He was so full of tension when he played; I didn’t realize that was his real gift.” He said that having been compelled by his own father to be a musician, he “was reluctant to push Peter.”

At 11, Peter Serkin enrolled at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, where his father was teaching. (Rudolf Serkin later became the institute’s director.) There he studied with the master Polish-born pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski, who became a major influence, as well as the American virtuoso Lee Luvisi and his father.

After graduating at 18, Mr. Serkin took an apartment in New York, avidly listened to recordings by Frank Zappa and the Grateful Dead, and explored Buddhist and Hindu spiritual teachings. He found the pressure of playing in public, and simply of being a Serkin, almost crippling.

“Up until then I was playing concerts largely out of compulsion, and not much new music,” he said in a 1973 New York Times interview. “I had just fallen into it without ever deciding for myself that it was what I wanted to do.”

After his time off and restorative travels, he resumed performing with renewed satisfaction. That he had found the right balance was suggested by the success of two three-LP albums, both recorded in 1973, when he turned 26, both of which earned Grammy Award nominations.

The first offered Mozart’s Piano Concerto Nos. 14-19, with Alexander Schneider conducting the English Chamber Orchestra. The performance splendidly balanced Schneider’s Old World approach to Mozart with Mr. Serkin’s youthful, rethought playing.

The second was a complete account of Messiaen’s “Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus,” a set of 20 solo piano “contemplations” on the infant Jesus composed in 1944. It is music of extraordinary difficulty lasting two and a half hours, alive with cluster chords and evocations of bird calls, moments of mystical bliss and stretches of driving intensity.

In conjunction with the recording Mr. Serkin played the piece, from memory, more than two dozen times in concert halls and colleges, sometimes backed by a light show. Messiaen heard him play it at Dartmouth and was “really too kind,” the pianist recalled in the Boston Globe interview: “He told me that I respected the score, but that when I didn’t, it was even better.”

That same year he formed the chamber ensemble Tashi along with three like-minded colleagues: the clarinetist Richard Stoltzman, the violinist Ida Kavafian and the cellist Fred Sherry. The group’s signature piece was Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time,” an alternately meditative and ecstatic work in eight movements lasting nearly 50 minutes. Tashi performed it more than 100 times, often with its young players dressed in dashikis or tunics, and recorded it to acclaim in 1975. The group essentially disbanded in the late 1970s after several internal upheavals.

Though Mr. Serkin never completely shook off the early perception of him as “the counterculture’s reluctant envoy to the straight concert world,” as the Times critic Donal Henahan called him in an admiring 1973 profile, over time he reconciled to the ways, even the dress protocols, of that classical world and developed productive associations with artists like the Guarneri String Quartet, the mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (who had married Peter Lieberson) and the conductors Seiji Ozawa, Herbert Blomstedt, Robert Shaw and Pierre Boulez.

Having children also gave him an emotional mooring that he cherished, even during periods of marital strain. Karina Serkin Spitzley, the only child of his marriage to Ms. Spinner, which ended in divorce in 1979, survives him, along with four children from his second marriage, to Regina Touhey Serkin (from whom he was divorced in 2018): Maya, Elena, Stefan (named after Stefan Wolpe) and William Serkin; and two grandchildren. His brother, John, and his sisters Elizabeth, Judith and Marguerite also survive him. Another sister, Ursula, died last year.

Mr. Serkin relished teaching, and held posts at institutions including the Mannes School of Music and the Juilliard School in New York, and, in recent years, Bard. He so enjoyed spending summers teaching at the Tanglewood Music Institute that he bought a home in the Berkshires and lived there for years.

During the 1989-90 season, realizing a long-held ambition, he took a program of 11 works he had commissioned on an extended tour. The composers included the elder masters Takemitsu, Leon Kirchner, Hans Werner Henze, Alexander Goehr and Luciano Berio, as well as Mr. Serkin’s contemporaries Oliver Knussen, Bright Sheng, Christine Berl, Tobias Picker, Tison Street and Mr. Lieberson. To prepare, Mr. Serkin had played no solo recitals the previous season.

“Not many people would make that kind of sacrifice,” Walter Pierce, a concert presenter in Boston who arranged for Mr. Serkin to play the program at Jordan Hall, said at the time, since it represented a “year out of the circuit” and would cost an artist “a lot of money.”

To that Mr. Serkin answered: “Maybe I’ll pay some kind of price in my career, but I don’t even think about it. I’d rather deal with something I believe in.”

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PR: Shock And Awe soundtrack (Jeff Beal)

MUSIC.FILM RECORDINGS AND VARÈSE SARABANDE RECORDS TO RELEASE THE SHOCK AND AWE – ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK Original Music by Jeff Beal (July 13, 2018– Los Angeles, CA) – Today Music.Film Recordings and Varèse Sarabande releases the SHOCK AND AWE  – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally and on CD July 13, 2018. The album features original score composed by Emmy Award Winner Jeff Beal (AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER, HOUSE OF CARDS).

“Legendary director Rob Reiner used archival footage of George W. Bush, Colin Powell, and Donald Rumsfeld, to chilling effect, much like Oliver Stone did in JFK,” said Beal, who was greatly influenced by John Williams’ work on the aforementioned JFK.  “I imagine that SHOCK AND AWE is a bit of homage to his work; orchestral, harmonically complex, and using the tropes of ‘patriotic music’ trumpet, brass, drums, but with a sense of loss, gravitas and ache.” In 2003, the White House administration made a case for the invasion of Iraq. The facts didn’t add up, and only one team of journalists got the story right. SHOCK AND AWE is the true story of these journalists, and what it is like to hunt for the truth when the stakes are life, death, and American democracy. “Our film celebrates the real life journalists heroes who were striving to debunk the false information of Saddam’s ‘weapons of mass destruction’ used to justify the 2003 Iraq War, in the wake of 9/11,” Beal described. “Even though our film is essentially a docudrama, it also plays very much like a political thriller ala ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN and I wanted to write a visceral, suspenseful, and emotionally invested score.” Given the strained relationship between the press and politicians the past few years, the message of the film became very timely.  “Rob started making SHOCK AND AWE before the 2016 presidential election, By the time we were in post, Trump had won the presidency, and we all felt the message of the film was even more important and relevant, given the current debates about ‘fake news’ and objective facts. A five-time EMMY® winner, Beal’s approach is a favorite for more sophisticated works.  His TV credits include HBO’s ROME, CARNIVÀLE and the Netflix series HOUSE OF CARDS. His documentary work includes BLACKFISH, WEINER, THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES, AN INCONVENIENT SEQUEL: TRUTH TO POWER, Oliver Stone’s THE PUTIN INTERVIEWS, and BOSTON the recently released documentary about the history of the Boston Marathon.  Jeff’s upcoming projects include the documentaries THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING (directed by Nathaniel Kahn) and GENERATION WEALTH (directed by Lauren Greenfield), and the upcoming series GRAND HOTEL on ABC. Recently, Jeff’s performing, conducting, and composing worlds have begun converging.  He conducted The National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in the premiere of HOUSE OF CARDS IN CONCERT (represented by Columbia Artists Management), with further performances in Miami, The Netherlands, and Denmark. He also led the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra for the premiere of BLACKFISH live-to-picture and conducted the Boston Pops Orchestra live for the premiere of BOSTON. In May several of his pieces were performed including “The Salvage Men” by The Apollo Chorus (Chicago), the Brooklyn Youth Chorus premiering his piece “The Fire Brand” at BAM, and Oregon Ballet Theatre premiering the ballet Terra, choreographed by Helen Pickett. Castle Rock Entertainment, Vertical Entertainment, DirecTV Cinema present SHOCK AND AWE, currently viewable via DirecTV and opening in theaters on July 13, 2018. 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Music.Film Recordings is distributed worldwide by Universal Music Distribution, in partnership with iconic soundtrack label Varèse Sarabande Records wherever music is sold, downloaded, or streamed. Upcoming Music.Film Recordings titles include Sicario: Day of the Soldado composed by Hildur Guðnadóttir and Daniel Hart’s The Old Man & The Gun. For more information about Cutting Edge Group, visit http://www.cuttingedgegroup.com. For licensing requests, visit www.music.film. ABOUT VARÈSE SARABANDE RECORDS Founded in 1978, Varèse Sarabande is the most prolific producer of film music in the world, releasing the highest quality soundtracks from the world’s greatest composers. From current box office hits and top television series to the classics of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Varèse Sarabande’s catalog includes albums from practically every composer in every era, covering all of film history; from Bernard Herrmann, Alex North and Jerry Goldsmith to Alexandre Desplat, Michael Giacchino, and Brian Tyler. Varèse Sarabande releases deluxe and expanded editions of special soundtracks for the film music aficionado. The Varèse Vintage imprint specializes in releasing new and re-issued albums by classic pop, jazz and country artists. Varèse Sarabande Records is distributed by Universal Music Group. Follow:  twitter.com/varesesarabande Watch:  youtube.com/varesesarabande Listen:  open.spotify.com/user/varesesarabanderecords Like:  facebook.com/varesesarabanderecords Buy:  varesesarabande.com

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SERIE SONY CLASSICAL MASTERS

SONY CLASSICAL MASTERS VOLUMEN 17 

Publicamos una nueva edición de su serie Classical Masters, que reúne grabaciones clásicas (muchas de ellas recientemente remasterizadas) de algunos de los músicos más famosos del siglo XX a un precio muy económico. En esta ocasión, los coleccionistas podrán encontrar grabaciones realizadas por los grandes directores Pierre Monteux, Leonard Slatkin y Claudio Abbado, por el violonchelista Yo-Yo Ma y por el guitarrista John Williams, entre otras. A la venta el 27 de abril.

Ningún gran director fue más versátil que Pierre Monteux, cuyas grabaciones estéreo RCA se recopilan en la nueva reedición de Sony. Este legendario francés se hizo conocido en París colaborando con Stravinsky, Debussy y Ravel, y estrenó muchas de sus mejores obras, incluida Petrushka, incluida aquí en la incomparable grabación de la Boston Symphony de 1959. Monteux también era especialista en el repertorio francés, ruso y alemán, como se demuestra en esta caja con ocho CD que incluyen sus versiones de las tres últimas sinfonías de Tchaikovsky o la ópera Orfeo y Euridice de Gluck

Una vez más, la serie ofrece las piedras angulares del repertorio sinfónico, incluidos dos ciclos completos. A finales de la década de 1980, Günter Wand, uno de los intérpretes más respetados del repertorio austroalemán, grabó todas las sinfonías de Beethoven con su Orquesta Sinfónica de la Radio de Hamburgo (NDR). Todavía es un punto de referencia y ClassicsToday.com la calificó como “una de las ediciones más modernas de Beethoven”.

En las últimas décadas, el director estadounidense David Zinman elevó a la Tonhalle Orchestra de Zúrich a uno de los conjuntos de élite del mundo. Su conjunto completo de sinfonías de Beethoven ha alcanzado el estado de referencia, y el ciclo completo de Mahler, reeditado aquí, también ha sido ampliamente aclamado.

El nuevo lanzamiento reúne las grabaciones completas de  obras de Berlioz para RCA, con Charles Munch dirigiendo la Boston Symphony. Se incluyen las versiones mono y estéreo de Symphonie fantastique y Roméo et Juliette, así como las difíciles de encontrar Nuits d'été, con Victoria de los Angeles. Classics Today alabó con claridad la afinidad especial entre Munch y Berlioz. El conjunto de instrumentos de época Tafelmusik, con sede en Toronto, "ha construido en su campo especial una reputación tan sólida como la de la filarmónica de Nueva York o Berlín", declaró The Washington Post. En una caja de siete CD  se reeditan sus grabaciones de Haydn, que incluyen una amplia gama de sinfonías, de su período Sturm und Drang (Num. 41-65), las grandes Sinfonías de París (Num. 82-87) y las tres obras no menos milagrosas que las siguieron (Num. 88-90).

"Claudio Abbado y la Filarmónica de Berlín una vez más desafían el progreso inexorable de la actuación de la época en relatos estimulantes de Mozart, utilizando instrumentos modernos", opinó Gramophone sobre las grabaciones de los principios de los 90 que ahora se reeditan en cinco CD. Se incluyen la Sinfonía Concertante para violín y viola, la Música Funeraria Masónica, una serenata, así como la Misa en do menor.

Durante su carrera al frente de la Orquesta Sinfónica de St. Louis y la Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de

Washington, el director Leonard Slatkin llevó a estos conjuntos al estudio de grabación para tocar una gran parte del repertorio estadounidense. En una caja de 13 CD se recopilan ahora obras importantes de compositores como Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Walter Piston, Leonard Bernstein, William Schuman y John Corigliano, así piezas populares de John Philip Sousa, Virgil Thomson, Victor Herbert, Ferde Grofé, Leroy Anderson y Morton Gould.

Las famosas grabaciones de Bach de dos destacados instrumentistas también se presentan en este nuevo lanzamiento. Al describir la grabación de 1982 de las Solo Suites por Yo-Yo Ma la Penguin Guide destacó su “libertad rítmica característica”. Este ciclo, ganador de un Grammy, forma el corazón de la nueva edición de 6-CD  de Yo-Yo Ma de Sony, que también incluye las tres Sonatas para viola de gamba de Bach con el clavecinista Kenneth Cooper; obras corales de Bach y piezas orquestales; además de conciertos para violonchelo de Boccherini, en colaboración con Ton Koopman y la Orquesta Barroca de Amsterdam, entre otras piezas del compositor transalpino.

El guitarrista australiano John Williams ha sido universalmente reconocido como "un verdadero maestro", como lo calificó The Guardian. La pieza central de la nueva reedición de Sony de sus grabaciones de Bach está formada por las Suites para laúd. También se incluyen en estos 4 CD las versiones de Williams del Concierto para violín mayor, preludios y fugas, corales y movimientos de varias suites. "John Williams es un excelente técnico", escribió MusicWeb International, "y justificadamente merece los elogios que recibió durante su larga carrera. Su interpretación de estas obras es ejecutada con admirable fluidez”.

Finalmente, también se publica un regalo para los amantes de los grandes cantos: las grabaciones completas de RCA de Thomas Quasthoff en 4 CD, incluyendo Winterreise, Dichterliebe, op. 39 y Liederkreis, así como otras canciones famosas de Schubert y Schumann y un disco dedicado a las arias de Mozart. Al revisar una reedición anterior, Gramophone resumió muy bien lo que ha hecho que este admirable artista sea tan ampliamente admirado: "Aquí nos recuerdan que el eminente barítono bajo tiene casi todas las virtudes exigidas en prácticamente todo el repertorio incluido aquí. Su voz es impecable en producción tonal y garantía técnica, siempre canta con pensamiento para el texto y la palabra y la nota se vuelven uno. Estos activos están controlados por una mente aguda e inteligente y un impulso emocional que hace de cada lectura un sustento para el oído y la mente ".

CLAUDIO ABBADO CONDUCTS MOZART

YO-YO MA PLAYS BACH & BOCCHERINI

PIERRE MONTEUX - THE COMPLETE RCA STEREO RECORDINGS

CHARLES MUNCH CONDUCTS BERLIOZ

TAFELMUSIK PLAYS HAYDN SYMPHONIES

JOHN WILLIAMS PLAYS BACH

DAVID ZINMAN CONDUCTS MAHLER SYMPHONIES

THOMAS QUASTHOFF - THE COMPLETE RCA RECORDINGS

GÜNTER WAND CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN SYMPHONIES 1-9

LEONARD SLATKIN - THE AMERICAN COLLECTION

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September 02 in Music History

1397 Death of Italian composer and organist Francesco Landini. 

1661 Birth of German composer and organist Georg Bohm.

1716 Birth of composer Johann Trier.

1750 Birth of composer Pehr Frigel.

1806 Birth of wood and straw instrument virtuoso Michal Jozef Guzikov in Szklow. 

1813 Birth of bass-baritone Gustav Holzel.

1814 Birth of Hungarian composer Mihaly Mosonyi.

1863 Birth of Dutch composer Alphons Diepenbrock in Amsterdam. 

1863 Birth of French pianist Isidore Philipp in Pest. 

1871 Birth of baritone Kennerley Rumford.

1875 Death of American violinist and conductor Ureli Corelli Hill.

1888 Birth of Hungarian bass-baritone Friedrich Schorr in Nagyvarad. 

1892 Birth of composer Felix Wolfes.

1895 Birth of soprano Mercedes Llopart.

1896 Birth of soprano Rosetta Pampanini.

1900 Birth of bass Wilhelm Strienz.

1904 Birth of Swedish tenor Set Svanholm in Vasteras. 

1910 Birth of baritone Bruce Boyce.

1911 Birth of Chilean composer Rene Astaburuaga in Santiago.

1915 Birth of composer Hans Joachim Koellreutter.

1916 Death of tenor Max Schlosser.

1917 Birth of Brazilian guitarist Laurindo Almeida. 

1919 Birth of composer Gideon William Waldrop.

1924 FP of Rudolf Frim's Rose Marie, with great reviews, in NYC.

1927 Birth of composer Tzvi Avni.

1928 Birth of composer Miloslav Istvan.

1930 Birth of baritone Zdzislav Klimek.

1934 Birth of American composer Michael Sahl in Boston, MA.

1936 Birth of British composer David Blake in London.

1938 Birth of soprano Ruzena Maturova.

1942 Birth of American composer Greg A. Steinke.

1943 Birth of American cellist Gayle Smith in Los Angeles.

1945 Birth of soprano Sona Ghazarian.

1951 Birth of American composer Ira J. Mowitz.

1954 Birth of American composer Timothy Kucij in Whittier, CA.

1954 Birth of American composer and harpist Stephanie Bennett.

1956 Birth of English oboist and conductor Paul Goodwin.

1960 FP of W. Walton's Symphony No. 2 at the Edinburgh Festival by the Royal Liverpool Orchestra conducted by John Pritchard.

1963 Death of tenor Laszlo Szemere.

1966 FP of Nino Rota's ballet La Strada 'The Road' from his score for the Fellini film, at La Scala in Milan.

1970 Death of Dutch composer Kees van Baaren in Oegstgeest. 

1971 Birth of Hungarian composer Pèter Koszeghy in Balassagyarmat.

1972 FP of K. Penderecki's Cello Concerto, at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.

1973 Death of tenor Ralph Errolle.

1975 FP of Joonas Kokkonen's opera The Last Temptations in Helsinki.

1980 FP of Peter Maxwell Davies' opera The Lighthouse in Edinburgh.

1981 Death of Polish composer Tadeusz Baird in Warsaw. 

1992 FP of Aribert Reimann's opera Das Schloss 'The Castle', from the novel by Franz Kafka, at the Deutsche Opera in Berlin.

1996 Death of American composer Otto Luening at age 96, in NYC. 

1996 Death of American composer Lee Gannon, auto accident in Nashville, TN. 

1997 Death of Rudolph Bing, former director of the MET Opera.

1999 Death of baritone Giuseppe Modesti.

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Upcoming performances by Sarah Connolly

[NOTE: this post is now out of date. Check the schedule tag on my blog for the most recent version of this list.]

After the jump: an unofficial schedule of Sarah Connolly’s future performances. Those of you in Britain may catch a performance in London, Oxford, Worcester, Hove, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Buxton, Deal, Lewes, or Effingham (Surrey). Those on the Continent may see her in Berlin, Vienna, Brussels, Barcelona, Rotterdam, Bordeaux, Schwarzenberg, Vilabertran (near Figueres, Catalunya), or La Foce (Siena). Those of us on this side of the Atlantic can look forward to a concert in Lenox, Massachusetts. Plus! I am adding online broadcast details as they become available.

This is not an authoritative list. These are the upcoming performances by Sarah Connolly that I have been able to learn about from Connolly's website (not currently being updated), her agent's website (Askonas Holt), Operabase, Bachtrack, Connolly's Twitter, and generally ferreting around the web.

Some of these listings are not yet officially confirmed; you should of course check official sources before making plans and be aware that cast changes and cancellations can happen at any time.

I have added links to venue, ticketing, and broadcast information where available. Tips on new information are always welcome! Please contact me via email (verdiprati [at] selveamene [dot] com), Tumblr messaging, or ask box (plain prose only in the ask box; anything with links or an email address will get eaten by Tumblr filters) with corrections or additions.

Handel, Arias and Duets, Gala Concert of the Investec International Music Festival, St Theresa’s School, Effingham, Surrey, May 7, 2017. With Rosemary Joshua and The English Concert conducted by Harry Bicket.

Recital at the Brighton Festival, All Saints Church, Hove, May 11, 2017. With Joseph Middleton. Works by Schumann, Berlioz, Poulenc, Copland, and R. R. Bennett.

Brett Dean, Hamlet (Gertrude) at Glyndebourne, June 11 to July 6, 2017. Also starring Allan Clayton (Hamlet), Barbara Hannigan (Ophelia), Rod Gilfry (Claudius), Kim Begley (Polonius), and John Tomlinson (Ghost of Old Hamlet). With the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. Booking opens to the public on March 5, 2017.

[Livestream] The July 6 performance of Hamlet is scheduled for livestreaming to cinemas and online; the online stream will be free to watch. Hat tip to Avis Melodia for pointing this out in the Sarah Connolly fan group on Facebook.

Recital at Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Austria, June 19, 2017. With Graham Johnson. Various works by Schubert, Brahms, and Wolf. Sarah Connolly has withdrawn from this performance; her recital with Graham Johnson has been replaced with a recital by Tara Erraught and James Baillieu.

Recital at the Deal Festival, St George’s Church, Deal, Kent, July 8, 2017. With Joseph Middleton in a program titled “Love and Life.”

Wagner, Das Rheingold (Fricka) at Tanglewood in Lenox, Massachusets, July 15, 2017. In a concert performance with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons. Also starring Thomas J. Mayer (Wotan), Kim Begley (Loge), David Cangelosi (Mime), Jochen Schmeckenbecker (Alberich), Morris Robinson (Fasolt), Ain Anger (Fafner), Malin Christensson (Freia), Jacqueline Echols (Woglinde), Catherine Martin (Wellgunde), Renée Tatum (Flosshilde), Patricia Bardon (Erda), David Butt Philip (Froh), and Ryan McKinney (Donner).

[Confirmed! Broadcast] As usual, this Saturday night concert by the BSO will be broadcast by WCRB and presumably will be made available for listening on demand.

Recital at the Buxton Festival, Buxton, July 22, 2017. With Joseph Middleton. Songs by Schumann, Berlioz, Poulenc, Copland, and R. R. Bennett. (Thanks to an eagle-eyed Connolly fan for tipping me off to this listing!)

[Details TBA] Solo performance in a fundraising concert for Common and Kind, Union Chapel, Islington, London, July 25, 2017. Mentioned passim in a Facebook post by the charity.

Torsten Rasch, A Welsh Night at the Three Choirs Festival, Worcester, July 26, 2017. In a concert with Strauss’s Metamorphosen and Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass. Conducted by Frank Beermann. A newly orchestrated version of Rasch’s song sequence A Welsh Night will be premiered at the 2017 Three Choirs Festival; Sarah Connolly performed the original version for mezzo-soprano and piano with Joseph Middleton at their 2015 Three Choirs recital.

[Updated details!] Recital at Incontri in Terra di Siena [updated PDF link], La Foce, Siena, Italy, August 5, 2017. With accompanist Julius Drake. Songs by Mahler, Berlioz, Poulenc, and Debussy. Tickets went on sale April 1 and the festival website advises that “Booking is essential due to the limited number of seats.”

Recital at the Schubertíada Vilabertran, Vilabertran (near Figueres), Catalunya, August 24, 2017. With Malcolm Martineau. Songs by Strauss, Zemlinsky, Eisler, Korngold, Copland, and Britten. Broadcast possibility: many recitals from the 2015 Schubertíada Vilabertran, where Connolly made her festival debut, were broadcast either live or deferred on Catalunya Música; I’m hoping this recital from the 2017 festival will come up for broadcast, too.

[New!] Mahler, Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection,” with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, September 20, 2017. Vladimir Jurowski conducts and Maria Bengtsson sings the soprano part. Also with the Rundfunkchor Berlin. Tickets go on sale July 17, 2017.

[Broadcast TBC] No details yet, but the Deutschlandradio Kultur logo appears on the page under the phrase “Concert with,” so I am assuming the concert will be broadcast either live or deferred.

Recital at Wigmore Hall, London, September 29, 2017. With Malcolm Martineau. The program includes songs by Strauss, Zemlinsky, Eisler, Korngold, Copland, and Britten.

[New!] Elgar, Sea Pictures, Royal Tunbridge Wells, October 1, 2017. With the Royal Tunbridge Wells Symphony Orchestra conducted by Roderick Dunk. In a concert with orchestral works by Kodály and Brahms.

[New!] Mahler, Symphony No. 3 at the Opéra National de Bordeaux, October 6 and 8, 2017. With the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine and the women of the Chœur de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux. Conducted by Paul Daniel.

Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde at Kings Place, London, October 14, 2017. With Andrew Staples and the Aurora Orchestra conducted by Nicholas Collon. Das Lied will be played in an arrangement by Iain Farrington for sixteen instruments. This concert, oddly enough, is part of the orchestra’s “Mozart’s Piano” series, pairing Das Lied with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 11.

[New details!] Mahler, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, plus songs by Zemlinsky and Korngold at the Oxford Lieder Festival, Oxford, October 20, 2017. With Eugene Asti. This recital program perfectly fits the festival’s theme for 2017, “The Last of the Romantics—Mahler and Fin-de-Siècle Vienna.”

Wagner, Tristan und Isolde (Brangäne) at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, November 28 and December 2, 4, 7, 10, 12, and 15, 2017. With Stefan Vinke (Tristan), Iréne Theorin (Isolde), Albert Dohmen (Marke), Greer Grimsley (Kurwenal), et al., in a production directed by Àlex Ollé. Musical direction by Josep Pons.

Handel, Ariodante (title role) at the Wiener Staatsoper, February 24 and 26 and March 1, 4, and 8, 2018. With Chen Reiss (Ginevra), Hila Fahima (Dalinda), Christphe Dumaux (Polinesso), Rainer Trost (Lurcanio), and Wilhelm Schwinghammer (Il Re di Scozia). The production is directed by David McVicar and the music is supplied by Les Arts Florissants conducted by William Christie.

[Livestream] The opera is scheduled for livestreaming on Sunday, March 4. There is a fee of €14 to watch the livestream.

Mahler, Symphony No. 8 “Symphony of a Thousand” at de Doelen, Rotterdam, March 23 and 25, 2018. With the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The other soloists are Angela Meade, Erin Wall, Lisette Oropesa, Mihoko Fujimura, Michael Schade, Markus Werba, and Christof Fischesser. On choral duty are the Groot Omroep Koor, Rotterdam Symphony Chorus, Orfeon Donostiarra, and Nationaal Kinderkoor. Tickets go on sale May 15.

Mahler, Symphony No. 8 “Symphony of a Thousand” at BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, March 24, 2018. With the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra; same details as the Rotterdam performances listed above. Broadcast possibility: this concert is part of the 2018 Klarafestival sponsored by the Klara radio station, so it seems like a good candidate for broadcast.

[Masterclasses] Teaching duties for the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme at Snape Maltings in Aldeburgh, England, March 23-April 1, 2018. A course on Handel’s Theodora to be co-taught with conductor Christian Curnyn. Although this doesn’t really count as a performance by Sarah Connolly, I am adding it to my “unofficial schedule” of her work with the thought that fans who live in the area might want to attend some of the public masterclasses Sarah Connolly will be teaching or the culminating performance by young artists she will have coached. (Note that the first weekend of this program clashes with the Mahler 8 concerts in Rotterdam, above; it is possible the students will start out working with Christian Curnyn and will pick up with Sarah Connolly a few days into the program.)

Handel, Giulio Cesare (title role) at Glyndebourne, June 10 through July 28, 2018. In a revival of the 2005 production by David McVicar, with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment conducted by William Christie. With Joélle Harvey as Cleopatra, plus Christophe Dumaux and Patricia Bardon reprising the roles of Tolomeo and Cornelia respectively.

Wagner, Das Rheingold and Die Walküre (Fricka in both) at the Royal Opera, London, September 24 through October 28, 2018. A revival of Keith Warner’s Ring Cycle, with Antonio Pappano conducting. For cast and date details, see the ROH web pages linked above.

Previous versions of this list can be found under the schedule tag on this blog. This version published on April 9, 2017. I may continue to edit this list if I receive new information. Edited April 26 to add a link to the Wigmore Hall recital. Edited May 2 to add the Giulio Cesare revival at Glyndebourne (yayayayayyyyy!!!). Edited May 4 to add the casting of Wilhelm Schwinghammer in the Vienna Ariodante and details of Connolly’s participation in the Oxford Lieder Festival. Edited May 19 to add the concert at Royal Tunbridge Wells. Edited May 30 to add the Mahler 3 in Bordeaux. Edited June 18 to reflect Connolly’s withdrawal from the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg and to confirm the WCRB broadcast of Das Rheingold.

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FULL LIST OF WINNERS AT THE 59TH GRAMMY IN AMERICA

          Sunday 12th day of February 2017 was a great day in the music industry globally, as the 59th Annual Grammy Awards was held at the Staple Center, Los Angelis, United State of America. The Grammy Awards recognizes the best recordings, compositions and artists; and the award night is usually preceded by nominations for various categories of the award.

  Adele won the highest number of awards at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards for the period between October 1, 2015 to 30 September, 2016. Beyonce was one of the

leading winners on the night of the awards.

  The categories of awards and names of the awardees are listed below:

    Album Of The Year

Won by Adele, 25

  Song Of The Year

Won by Adele, “Hello”

  Best Rap Album

Won by Chance The Rapper, Coloring Book

  Best Urban Contemporary Album

Won by Beyoncé, Lemonade

  Best Country Solo Performance

Won by Maren Morris, “My Church”

  Best Rock Song

Won by David Bowie, “Blackstar”

  Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

Won by Twenty One Pilots, “Stressed Out”

  Best New Artist

Won by Chance The Rapper

  Producer of the Year, Non-Classical

Won by Greg Kurstin

  Best Pop Vocal Album

Won by Adele, 25

  Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Won by Willie Nelson, Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin

  Best Pop Solo Performance

Won by Adele, “Hello”

  Best Musical Theater Album

Won by The Color Purple

  Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media

Won by Miles Ahead (Miles Davis and various artists)

  Best Metal Performance

Won by Megadeth, “Dystopia”

  Best Rap Song

Won by Drake, “Hotline Bling”

  Best Rap/Sung Performance

Won by Drake, “Hotline Bling”

  Best Rap Performance

Won by Chance the Rapper, “No Problem” [featuring Lil Wayne & 2 Chainz]

  Best R&B Album

​ Won by Lalah Hathaway – Lalah Hathaway Live

  Best Comedy Album

Won by Patton Oswalt, Talking for Clapping

  Best Reggae Album

Won by Ziggy Marley, Ziggy Marley

  Best Regional Roots Music Album

Won by Kalani Pe’a, E Walea

  Best Folk Album

Won by Sarah Jarosz, Undercurrent

  Best Contemporary Blues Album

Won by Fantastic Negrito, The Last Days of Oakland

  Best Traditional Blues Album

Won by Bobby Rush, Porcupine Meat

  Best Bluegrass Album

Won by O’Connor Band With Mark O’Connor, Coming Home

  Best Americana Album

Won by William Bell, This Is Where I Live

  Best American Roots Song

​ Won by Vince Gill, songwriter (The Time Jumpers), “Kid Sister”

  Best American Roots Performance

Won by Sarah Jarosz, “House of Mercy”

  Best Tropical Latin Album

Won by Jose Lugo & Guasábara Combo, Donde Están?

  Best Regional Mexican Music Album

Won by  Vicente Fernández – Un Azteca En El Azteca, Vol. 1 (En Vivo)

  Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album

Won by iLe, iLevitable

  Best Latin Pop Album

Won by Jesse & Joy, Un Besito Mas

  Best Country Album

​ Won by Sturgill Simpson, A Sailor’s Guide to Earth

  Best Country Song

Won by Lori McKenna, songwriter (Tim McGraw) – “Humble and Kind”

  Best Country Duo/Group Performance

​ Won by Pentatonix – “Jolene” [featuring Dolly Parton]

  Best Roots Gospel Album

Won by Joey+Rory – Hymns

  Best Latin Jazz Album

Won by Chucho Valdés, Tribute to Irakere: Live in Marciac

  Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

Won by Ted Nash Big Band, Presidential Suite: Eight Variations on Freedom

  Best Jazz Instrumental Album

Won by John Scofield, Country for Old Men

  Best Jazz Vocal Album

Won by Gregory Porter, Take Me to the Alley

  Best Improvised Jazz Solo

Won by John Scofield, soloist,  “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”

  Contemporary Instrumental

Won by Snarky Puppy, Culcha Vulcha

  Best Dance Recording

Won by The Chainsmokers, “Don’t Let Me Down” [ft. Daya]

  Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

Won by Dorothea Röschmann; Mitsuko Uchida, accompanist – Schmann & Berg (tie)

Ian Bostridge; Antonio Pappano, accompanist (Michael Collins, Elizabeth Kenny, Lawrence Power & Adam Walker), Shakespeare Songs (tie)

  Best Classical Compendium

Won by Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor; Tim Handley, producer – Daugherty: Tales Of Hemingway; American Gothic; Once Upon A Castle

  Best Classical Instrumental Solo

Won by Zuill Bailey; Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor (Nashville Symphony) – Daugherty: Tales Of Hemingway

  Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance

Won by Steve Reich

  Best Choral Performance

​ Won by Krzysztof Penderecki, conductor; Henryk Wojnarowski, choir director (Nikolay Didenko, Agnieszka Rehlis & Johanna Rusanen; Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra; Warsaw Philharmonic Choir) – Penderecki Conducts Penderecki, Volume 1

  Best Opera Recording

Won by James Conlon, conductor; Joshua Guerrero, Christopher Maltman, Lucas Meachem, Patricia Racette, Lucy Schaufer & Guanqun Yu; Blanton Alspaugh, producer (LA Opera Orchestra; LA Opera Chorus) – Corigliano: The Ghosts Of Versailles

  Best Orchestra Performance

Won by Andris Nelsons, conductor (Boston Symphony Orchestra) – Shostakovich: Under Stalin’s Shadow – Symphonies Nos. 5, 8 & 9

  Producer of the Year, Classical

Won by David Frost

  Best Engineered Album, Classical

Won by Mark Donahue and Fred Vogler, Corigliano: The Ghosts of Versailles

  Best Music Film

Won by The Beatles, The Beatles: Eight Days a Week the Touring Years

  Best Spoken Word Album

Won by Carol Burnett, In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox

  Best Children’s Album

Won by Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, Infinity Plus One

  Best World Music Album

Won by Yo-Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble, Sing Me Home

  Best Contemporary Christian Music Album

Won by Hillary Scott & the Scott Family, Love Remains

  Best Gospel Album

Won by Kirk Franklin, Losing My Religion

  Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song

Won by Hillary Scott & the Scott Family; Bernie Herms, Hillary Scott & Emily Weisband, songwriters – “Thy Will”

  Best Gospel Performance/Song

​ Won by Tamela Mann; Kirk Franklin, songwriter – “God Provides”

  Best New Age Album

Won by White Sun – White Sun II

  Best Surround Sound Album

​ Won by Ludovic Morlot & Seattle Symphony, Dutilleux: Sur Le Même Accord; Les Citations; Mystère De L’instant & Timbres, Espace, Mouvement

  Best Remixed Recording

Won by André Allen Anjos, remixer (Bob Moses), “Tearing Me Up (RAC Remix)”

  Best Historical Album

Won by Steve Berkowitz & Jeff Rosen, compilation producers; Mark Wilder, mastering engineer (Bob Dylan) – The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 12 (Collector’s Edition)

  Best Album Notes

Won by Ken Bloom & Richard Carlin, album notes writers (Eubie Blake & Noble Sissle) – Sissle and Blake Sing Shuffle Alon

  Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package

Won by Gérard Lo Monaco, art director (Edith Piaf) – Edith Piaf 1915-2015

  Best Recording Package

Won by Jonathan Barnbrook, art director (David Bowie), Blackstar

  Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals

Won by Jacob Collier, arranger (Jacob Collier), “Flintstones”

  Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella

Won by Jacob Collier, arranger (Jacob Collier), “You and I”

  Best Instrumental Composition

Won by Ted Nash, composer (Ted Nash Big Band), ”Spoken at Midnight”

  Best Song Written for Visual Media

Won by Max Martin, Shellback & Justin Timberlake, songwriters (Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, Gwen Stefani, James Corden, Zooey Deschanel, Walt Dohrn, Ron Funches, Caroline Hjelt, Aino Jawo, Christopher Mintz-Plasse & Kunal Nayyar), Track from: Trolls, “Can’t Stop the Feeling!”

  Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media

Won by John Williams, composer, Star Wars: the Force Awakens

    Best Recording Package

Won by David Bowie, Blackstar

  Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical

Won by David Bowie, Blackstar

  Best Gospel Performance/Song

​ Won by Tamela Mann, Kirk Franklin, “God Provides”

  Best Music Video

​ Won by Beyoncé, “Formation”

  Best Dance/Electronic Album

Won by Flume, Skin

  Best Country Album

​Won by Sturgill Simpson, A Sailor’s Guide To Earth

  Best R&B Performance

​ Won by Solange, “Cranes In The Sky”

  Best R&B Song

Won by Maxwell, “Lake By The Ocean”