Tagged: Holiday Special

Airs Monday, December 31 at 7:00 p.m.  
Repeats Tuesday, January 1 at 6:00 p.m.
Help us roast 2012 to a crisp with The Capitol Steps and their annual year-in-review awards ceremony called "Politics Takes a Holiday!"  This year will feature all new awards, such as: 
"Best Use of $3 billion Dollars to Run for President," 
"Worst Place in Public to Admit You Had a Binder Full of Women," 
"Most Prostitutes to Ever Fit into the Secret Service's Hotel," and 
"Worst Hair Cut Ever to Demand to See Anyone's Birth Certificate." 
Go ahead, post on Facebook (hopefully you didn't invest in it) and tell your friends all about it!  If there is anything Congress can agree on, it is The Capitol Steps' one hour long special will have you laughing harder than Joe Biden at a Vice Presidential debate. So laugh away at 2012, because unlike any Presidential election, laughter is free. 

Airs Friday, December 28 at 12:00 noon
Please join host Peter Van De Graaff as he guides you through music of the 16th and 17th centuries by composers such as Michael Praetorius, Thomas Ravenscroft, Elizabeth Poston, Stephen Paulus, Herbert Howells, J Heinrich Schütz, Giovanni Gabrieli, Claudio Monteverdi and Peter Cornelius, among others. Brass instruments have long been associated with ceremony and celebration. Ubiquitous in Renaissance court pageantry, their connection to royalty and wealth lent an air of respectability to any occasion. Courts and churches capitalized upon the exalted status of brass instruments, flaunting their virtuoso players and composers in order to enhance their reputations. 

Airs Wednesday, December 26 at 8:00 p.m. An hour-long Kwanzaa celebration in story and song, again hosted by Madafo Lloyd Wilson. This year's program features youth as the special guest griots, reading their own original and traditional stories. Familiar and favorite elements of Griot will also be in place with plenty of music, and an original composition by the show's poet laureate, Beverly Fields Burnette.