Nativity Season on DZFE

Posted on Nov 30, 2018

Join us for a meaningful journey through the Nativity Season!

The Focus on the Family Theater adaptation of CS Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia has been a highlight of our Nativity Season for the past seven years. This year, it culminates with The Last Battle. Cycle 1 begins December 1 (Sat 2100).

Front acts to our Nativity Season proper, beginning Advent Sunday, December 2, are two special programs airing also on the evening of December 1.

Following NIGHT LIGHTS (Sat 1800), join Dee Alexander for HOLIDAY JAZZ (Dec 1, Sat 1900).

With support from emcee and Chicago radio luminary Richard Steele and longtime collaborators pianist Miguel de la Cerna, bassist Junius Paul and drummer Yussef Ernie Adams, the beloved Chicago vocalist and WFMT Radio Network Jazz Network host Dee Alexander performs favorites including “White Christmas”, “Coventry Carol”, “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” and renditions of spirituals inspired by Chicago gospel legend Mahalia Jackson.

Also from our partner, the WFMT Network comes the 2018 edition of GIVING THANKS TO MUSIC (Dec 1, Sat 2000).

Host Nadia Sirota, creator of the Peabody Award-winning Meet the Composer podcast, invites several musical artists, many of whom you and your audiences hear through their recordings each day, to choose a piece of music that illustrates the profound value that classical music has had for them in their lives.

From 5 December, DZFE presents its annual CHRISTMAS TAPESTRY (Wed 1300, Sat 1900) series of masterworks for the seasons. This year, the series is about Origins — unearthing the early hymns, canticles and themes of Christmas, and newer works with connections to them.

We hear two choirs are coming to carol this December on MAESTRO FILIPINO (Sat 1600, Wed 200, Thu 1200).

The sacred music program SING FOR JOY once again has a special Christmas edition which airs Christmas day (Tue 200, 1400); and you can expect a slew of Christmas programs from other program partners, including Robert Aubry Davis’ MILLENNIUM OF MUSIC (Wed 1600, Fri 1100, Mon 2400), which draws from centuries of Christmas music-making.

Don’t forget to tune in on New Year’s Eve, when we cross over into 2019 with our yearly BEETHOVEN’S NINTH (Dec 31, Mon 2300)!

A blessed Nativity Season from all of us at DZFE!