Christmas Specials on KNIN Channel 9

Program Details:

A Christmas Bell

With the Mormon Tabernacle Choir & Orchestra at Temple Square
Featuring Claire Bloom and Renée Fleming, Craig Jessop and Mack Wilberg Conducting

British Actress, Claire Bloom, has appeared in numerous stage, film, and television productions. Her reading of a wonderful Christmas story A Christmas Bell for Anya is a touching performance. Renée Fleming is delightful and charming as she performs the musical selections listed below with the Choir.

Musical selections include: Deck the Halls; Sleigh Ride; Poor Mary; and Russian Christmas Music. Organ solo: Hark the Harold Angels Sing.

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Featuring Walter Cronkite's incomparable narration of a World War One Christmas story and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s stirring rendition of “Silent Night.”

December 1914 was grim for the thousands of soldiers who had dug into the frozen trenches on either side of Flanders Field. What lay between them in the early months of the First Great War was a field of sorrow — No Man's Land — littered with barbed wire and decaying corpses.

Somehow, amidst the fear and anger, a miracle occurred. As Christmas Day approached, the weapons of war fell silent, men ventured out of the trenches, gifts were exchanged, and the sober duty of remembering the dead was commenced. For two days, the spirit of Christmas filled the air, and a remarkable "Christmas Truce" brightened spirits. When night fell, and that memorable Christmas slipped into the past, one last sound broke the silence: a chorus, from either side, singing, in native tongue, "Silent Night.”

Nearly a century later, this remarkable story is retold by Walter Cronkite and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square.

Musical Selections include Joy to the World; I Saw Three Ships; Silent Night, Holy Night; Angels from the Realms of Glory.

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A Christmas Celebration

Featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir & Orchestra at Temple Square
With Special Guests: American soprano Frederica von Stade and Welsh Baritone Bryn Terfel.

These inspirational guests perform Angels from the Realms of Glory and more. Other music selections include Joy to the World;
The First Noel; O, Come, All Ye Faithful; Still, Still, Still.

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We Need a Little Christmas

Featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir & Orchestra at Temple Square
With Special Guest: Angela Lansbury.

Angela Lansbury narrates A Christmas Story and sings Not While I’m Around. Other musical selections include: I Saw Three
Ships; Angel’s Carol; We Need a Little Christmas; Hark! The Herald Angels Sing and more.

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Celebrate Christmas

Featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir & Orchestra at Temple Square
With Special Guests: Lyric Soprano Audra McDonald And Narration by Peter Graves.

McDonald performs soulful tones of Sweet Little Jesus Boy and Children, Go Where I Send Thee, Rise up Shepherd and Follow, I Wonder as I Wander and Go Tell it on the Mountain. Other musical selections include: Carol to the King; Infant Holy, Infant Lowly, a Polish Carol; and Angels from the Realms of Glory, a French Carol.

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Ring Christmas Bells

Featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir & Orchestra at Temple Square

The story told of a village where the church bells stopped ringing. The story unfolds into a delightful Christmas message when a young boy named Pedro hears the bells for the first time in years.

Musical selections include: O Come, All Ye Faithful; Shepherd’s Pipe Carol; Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella; Still, Still, Still; I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day; and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.

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