A series of concerts recorded live in the station's very own Clark Performance Studio. Jennifer Foster hosts these sessions featuring both established local musicians as well as some of the area's "hidden treasures." Exciting performances are augmented by insightful conversations on the artists' music and lives.

Jennifer Foster presents a reprise of the special recorded in 2007.

Set 1: Shirley Gilpin, flute; Betsey Sesler, harp; Nick Lampo, cello:

Silver Bells
Carol of the Bells
Jingle Bells

Set 2: Quadzilla, The Monster Quartet
http://www.quadzillasings.com/

Jingle Bells
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
Angels We Have Heard on High
Silent Night
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)

Set 3: Shirley Gilpin, flute; Betsey Sesler, harp; Nick Lampo, cello:

I Wonder As I Wander
Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella
O Come Little Children

Set 4: VOX vocal ensemble; David Tang and Peppie Calvar, directors
http://www.firebirdartsalliance.org/aboutus.php

Eric Whitacre: Lux Aurumque

Set 5: Guitarist Adam Whiting
http://www.adamwhiting.net/

Silent Night

Set 6: Pomodoro (Tamsin Simmill, alto; Henry Lebedinsky, chamber organ; Barbara Blaker Krumdieck, baroque cello)
http://www.saintalbans-davidson.org/staff.htm

Chiara Cozzolani: Ecce annuntio vobis

Set 7: Henry Lebedinsky and The Beggar Boys
http://cdbaby.com/cd/beggarboys

Lebedinsky: Eight Candles

Set 8: VOX vocal ensemble; David Tang and Peppie Calvar, directors
http://www.firebirdartsalliance.org/aboutus.php

Glory, Glory, Glory to the Newborn King (arr. Moses Hogan)

Listen Now

New music from Winston-Salem composers, Ken Frazelle, William Stevens III and William Stevens IV. Plus music by Paul Schoenfield.

Kenneth Frazelle: Vanishing Birds: Carolina Parakeet (intro), Red-Cockaded Woodpecker, The Piping Plover, Parakeeto
Marilyn Taylor, soprano; Kenneth Frazelle, piano

Songs that celebrate, and lament, endangered and extinct birds of the southeastern United States. Read more about these birds at WDAV's Blog, Classical Musings

Paul Schoenfield: Four Souvenirs: Tango, Tin-Pan Alley
Paul Schoenfield: Partita: Nigun
Paul Schoenfield: Cafe Music: Rubato
Opus Two

William Stevens III: Quodlibet
Laura Stevens, flute; David Kirby, clarinet; Joseph Meyer, violin; Evan Richey, cello

William Stevens IV: Aria from Insomnia
Evan Richey, cello; Fred Pivetta, piano

Kenneth Frazelle: Elixir
Kenneth Frazelle, piano

Elixir was written for Frazelle's friend Jeffery Kahane, who celebrated his fiftieth birthday in September of 2006.  The premiere took place at a gala hosted by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Frazelle's work is in the cantabile tradition of the Chopin Nocturnes.