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Sunday, Dec. 17, 6 p.m.
HANUKKAH LIGHTS 2006, with Murray Horwitz and Susan Stamberg
Four authors explore Hanukkah traditions in original stories commissioned expressly for "Hanukkah Lights."
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Sunday, Dec. 17, 7 p.m.
GOLDEN DREYDL: A KLEZMER NUTCRACKER FOR CHANUKAH
Award-winning family entertainment featuring the music of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky as interpreted by Shirim Klezmer Orchestra, with original story and narration by Ellen Kushner.
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Wednesday, Dec. 20, 9 a.m.
HEARING AMERICA: A CENTURY OF MUSIC ON THE RADIO
One hundred years ago this Christmas Eve, shipboard technicians listening for Morse code messages on their newly installed wireless telegraphs heard something incredible: music. Men on ships from the North Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico made up the audience for the first successful radio transmission of music and voice. This new documentary explores the history of music on the radio and how it became not only the economic engine of a major American industry, but an engine for cultural and political change in American life.