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Perhaps no one is more excited about the Christmas season than kids.

Classical IPR has created a playlist of holiday favorites performed by young voices.

No matter how you're spending your Thanksgiving this year, Classical IPR has a day of special music programming to keep you company. 

Repose has been a listener favorite since the 1980s.

Listen every weeknight at 10 p.m. on Classical IPR, with new episodes every Saturday night at 10 p.m.

This week's playlists are available below.

Today's playlist featured The Prayer of Thanksgiving, often known to many as "We Gather Together." This Christian hymn was written by Dutch composer and poet, Andrian Valerius to honor the Dutch victory over the Spanish forces in the battle of Turnout.  At the turn of the twentieth century, it became popular in the United States, and is often associated with Thanksgiving Day services and celebrations. 

1. Johann Sebastian Bach/trans. Feruccio  Busoni, Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, Vikingur Olaffson

Each week, Interlochen Center for the Arts campus safety officer Kevin LaRose records a video of himself in a different location on the Interlochen campus.

Watch this week's video below.

Where's Kevin? What instrument is he playing?

E-mail your answer to: classicalipr@interlochen.org - we'll send you a CD!

Last week, Kevin played a chord organ in the Dendrinos Chapel!

Here's this week's video - good luck!

Just like humans, chickadees are social.

They split up into pairs during the breeding season, but this time of year, they  form flocks with other chickadees and often with other birds such as nuthatches and small woodpeckers, and they move through the forest in a group.

By definition, a forest is full of trees, and sight lines are limited.

Occasionally, a little chickadee suddenly realizes that it cannot see its flockmates (if that's a word).

What happens when you take popular songs from the last half century and rework them for classical instruments?

In this curated playlist, Classical IPR offers you musical selections from blues, hip-hop, rock, pop and country, all reimagined for classical musicians. 

"Bohemian Rhapsody" for piano duo, Metallica for cello quartet, Britney Spears for ukulele orchestra, Dr. Dre for string trio, Nirvana for symphony orchestra - it's all here.

Repose has been a listener favorite since the 1980s. Tune in every weeknight at 10 p.m. on Classical IPR. See all of this week's playlists below.

Each week, Interlochen Center for the Arts campus safety officer Kevin LaRose records a video of himself in a different location on the Interlochen campus.

Watch this week's video below.

Do you know where Kevin is? What instrument is he playing?

Email us your answer at classicalipr@interlochen.org - we'll send you a CD!

This week's video is below - good luck!

This year, "the gales of November came early."   

In his haunting ballad “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” Gordon Lightfoot sang of a very real phenomenon:  40% of all Great Lakes shipwrecks have occurred during the month of November.

The Great Lakes hold vast volumes of water, and well into autumn, that water retains some of the heat it absorbed last summer. 

In November, when lakes are still relatively warm, the air is light as it rises above the water surface, creating what meteorologists call "stationary low pressure.”

IPR's music director Amanda Sewell recently gave a talk about music and art in Nazi Germany.

It was part of the Coffee@Ten series from Crooked Tree Arts Center.

In the talk, Sewell presented several examples of music and art that highlighted Nazi values and then asked participants to consider the troubling legacy of these items in the 21st century.

The entire talk is available to view below.

Please note: the lecture contains some graphic imagery and topics that may not be suitable for all audiences.

  Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, who died Sunday at 80 after battling pancreatic cancer for nearly two years, once said he always wanted to conduct an orchestra. He finally got a chance to fulfill that dream 26 years ago with a regional orchestra in western Pennsylvania.

The Deseret News described that night in a write-up from Nov. 8, 1994:

Repose has been a listener favorite since the 1980s. Tune in every weeknight at 10 p.m. on Classical IPR. See all of this week's playlists below.

Featured on today's program was Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring.  This compositon won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize in Music. 

1.      John Lennon and Paul McCartney, arr. Peter Breiner,  Beatles Concerto Grosso No. 2 in the style of Vivaldi, Peter Breiner and His Chamber Orchestra

2.     Aaron Copland, Lincoln Portrait, James Earl Jones, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz

3.     Eric Whitacre, Ghost Train Triptyche, Rutgers Wind Ensemble, William Berz

4.     Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Quartet in F major, Boston Symphony Chamber Players