KENNEDY CENTER TONIGHT: CHRISTMAS AT KENNEDY CENTER (TV)
Summary
One in this series of performing arts programs. Highlights of this Christmas concert include the following: the Choral Arts Society sings "Joy to the World"; Leontyne Price sings "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" and "Angels We Have Heard on High" with the Choral Arts Society, and sings "O Jesulein Suess" ("O Sweet Little Jesus") alone; flutist Paula Robison and guitarist Eliot Fisk perform a French carol, "He Is Born, the Holy Child," "Greensleeves," and "Silent Night"; Price and the Choral Arts Society sing "He Shall Feed His Flock like a Shepherd" and "His Yoke Is Easy" from George Frideric Handel's "Messiah"; intermission program on a sing-along "Messiah" performance at the Kennedy Center; Norman Scribner and the Choral Arts Society perform Richard Dirksen's "Welcome All Wonders"; and Price sings "Mary Had a Baby" and "O Holy Night" with the Choral Arts Society, and sings "Sweet Little Jesus Boy" a cappella.
Details
- NETWORK: PBS
- DATE: December 22, 1982 8:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:57:50
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T83:0238
- GENRE: Music
- SUBJECT HEADING: Choirs (music); Christmas - 1982; Flute music; Guitar music; Operas/Oratorios - Excerpts
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1981-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Dale Bell … Executive Producer
- Linda Blythe … Producer
- Catherine Newman Hughes … Associate Producer
- Rodney Greenberg … Director
- John O'Toole … Writer
- Norman Scribner … Music (Misc. Credits), Music Director
- Richard Thomas … Host
- Leontyne Price … Guest, Singer
- Choral Arts Society of Washington … Guest
- George Frideric Handel
- Eliot Fisk
- Richard Dirksen
- Paula Robison