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WPR 2015 Thanksgiving Program Schedule

Thursday, November 26 

9am - 12pm: Morning Music Thanksgiving special with host Grady Kirkpatrick featuring roots music, Native American and Wyoming artists along with the Arlo Guthrie Thanksgiving classic Alice’s Restaurant beginning at 11am.

3pm:Backstory- American As Pumpkin Pie: A History of Thanksgiving - The History Guys search for the true roots of Thanksgiving. They discover that the holiday we celebrate today begins not with the Pilgrims, but with the Victorians, who in the midst of the Civil War sought a national holiday honoring home and family. But did Thanksgiving strengthen the Union, as its proponents had hoped? What relation do Indians have to the holiday in reality - and in myth? And what does football have to do with any of it?

Friday, November 27

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Mark and Maggie O'Connor at Grand Teton Music Festival.

8pm: The Grand Teton Music Festival with Mark O’Connor- American Classics - Fiddler Mark O’Connor melds aspects of America’s rich folk tradition with jazz to create a distinct new take on classical music.  Together with his wife, violinist Maggie O’Connor, he presents an evening of some of his original works including Appalachia Waltz and Emily’s Reel.  You’ll also hear St. Louis Blues and Ashokan Farewell.

Repeats Sunday November 29 at 4pm on Classical Wyoming.

Classical Wyoming

Thursday, November 26

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Servicemen eating a Thanksgiving dinner after the end of World War I (1918)

9am-11am: Giving Thanks - With music and stories for Thanksgiving, it's Giving Thanks including two special guests: an artist in the kitchen, and an artist at the piano: Christopher Kimball, founder, editor, and publisher of Cook's Illustrated Magazine, and host of America's Test Kitchen. He'll take us to his Vermont farm for a New England Thanksgiving, and talk about the experiences for which he's most grateful. Stephen Hough, world famous concert pianist, composer, prize-winning poet, and MacArthur genius. He'll share his wonderful essay "Thanksgiving for Thanksgiving" which he wrote for the London Telegraph, and we'll hear an excerpt from his favorite Thanksgiving author Willa Cather, plus his new Grieg album. Also, Patrick Stewart reads autumn poems from John Keats and Antonio Vivaldi.

Sunday, November 29

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7pm: Advent Voices - Advent is a time of quiet contemplation and waiting. It's waiting for darkness to become light and for hopes to be realized. Throughout the centuries, Advent has been observed musically in sacred and secular ways. Join Lynne Warfel for an hour of the most beautiful vocal music inspired by and written for Advent.