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| Happy holidays from WSBE Rhode Island PBS! Whether you trim a Christmas tree, or light a menorah, or mark winter solstice warming by a yule log, these weeks in December and early January encompass days and nights rich with tradition shared with family and friends. We wish you much joy at this time! |
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This brand new, high definition program takes viewers into the heat and heart of the Blenko glassworks to see how the beautiful, all-handmade glassware is created. Each piece is unique and so are the artisans and members of the Blenko family who continue this proud 100-year tradition.
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Viewers experience how Blenko glass is truly hand-made in
the little town of Milton, West Virginia:
from mixing the raw materials, to blowing, finishing, and shipping.
We also have the pleasure of meeting many of the talented crafts people who make each piece of glassware beautiful and unique.
This remarkable program includes the opportunity to own an original Blenko glass art vase, made just for Rhode Island PBS.
Tune in Wednesday, December 5 at 9:30 p.m. to see the story.
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NetWorks: 2011 Encore and 2012 Premiere
Create visual portraits of local, world-class artists as they work in their studios, sharing their talents and describing what inspires them in their own words. Great idea.
That is NetWorks, a project developed and produced by Dr. Joseph A. Chazan, and Umberto Crenca, the artistic director of AS220, the creative art space in the heart of downtown Providence, Rhode Island.
On December 22 and 29 at 7 p.m., Rhode Island PBS encores NetWorks 2011 on Rhode Island Stories. In advance of the premiere of the collection of a dozen new portraits in NetWorks 2012, the encore of NetWorks 2011, produced by artist RIchard Goulis, celebrates Rhode Island visual artists Andrew Moon Bain, Nilton Cardenas, Barnaby Evans, Nancy Friese, Philip Jamoulis Jameson, Shawn Kenney, Scott Lapham, Janet Prip, Andrew Raftery, Duane Slick, Esther Solondz, Mark Taber, and Laura Travis.
Networks 2012 premieres on January 5 at 7 p.m. on Rhode Island Stories.
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Rhode Island PBS features many of your favorite, classic Christmas specials this year throughout December. Here are a few of the new ones for 2012.
 Heirloom Meals: Christmas (Thursday, 12/20 at 8:00 p.m.) Hosted by culinary artist and public-radio personality Carole Murko, Heirleem Meals: Christmas celebrates the holiday season by delving into America's rich and diverse culinary history and honoring tried-and-true recipes and dining traditions. Murko seeks to "savor yesterday's traditions today" while paying tribute to the dying art of cooking from scratch. She contrasts the Mexican-American tradition of making tamales on Christmas Eve with the old-world Austrian-American custom of preparing a Christmas goose. Other unique recipes include a sweet potato cake, holiday-themed lollipops and a closely guarded family eggnog. Murko also visits the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, to tour a special exhibit of works related to Charles Dickens and Christmas.
National Christmas Tree Lighting 2012 (Thursday, 12/20 at 9:00 p.m.) Celebrating its 90th year, the lighting of the National Christmas Tree signals the start of the holiday season across the country.
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 Christmas With Annie Moses Band (Thursday, 12/20 at 10:00 p.m.) Filmed at Collins Auditorium on the campus of Lipscomb University in Nashville, this concert includes such classic Christmas songs and Annie Moses Band originals as "O Come, O Come Emmanuel," "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," "When the Christmas Baby Cries," "Hark!"
 Christmas With the Mormon Tabernacle Choir - Jane Seymour (Sunday, 12/23 at 9:00 p.m. & Monday, 12/24 at 10:00 p.m.) Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actress Jane Seymour and Grammy Award-winning baritone Nathan Gunn join the renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square in a magnificent Christmas special featuring some of the season's best-loved songs.
 Night Before Christmas Carol (Monday, 12/24 at 9:00 p.m.) Renowned Dickens scholar and author Dr. Eliot Engel, crafts this entertaining study that complements every holiday schedule. Filmed in the spirit of a classic BBC-style presentation, actor David zum Brunnen portrays Charles Dickens -- and seventeen other familiar characters from the ghostly classic, A Christmas Carol.
 Christmas At Luther: Tidings of Comfort and Joy (Monday, 12/24 at 11:00 p.m.) Holiday music, 500 choristers, a symphony orchestra, thousands in the audience and glowing candlelight capture the wonder and joy of the season as Luther College's internationally-acclaimed musicians mark 32 years of sharing the seasonal gift of music with their annual Christmas concert.
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I, Claudius Returns after 36 years
 The original landmark 1976 series I, Claudius returns to Rhode Island PBS, beginning 12/12/12 at 2 p.m.
It stars Derek Jacobi as Claudius, with Siân Phillips, Brian Blessed, George Baker, John Hurt, and Patrick Stewart. I, Claudius will make its Rhode Island PBS prime time premiere on January 3 at 10 p.m.
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| Great Performances at the Met in December
Every Saturday night on Learn is a night at the opera, with your own front-row seat. The curtain rises at 8 p.m. (unless otherwise noted).
December 1 - Le Comte Ory
A trio of bel canto stars-Juan Diego Flórez, Diana Damrau, and Joyce DiDonato-headline the Met's first-ever production of Le Comte Ory, Rossini's final comic masterpiece. Click for a preview.
Renée Fleming sings one of her signature roles, the elegant Countess in Richard Strauss's Capriccio. Andrew Davis, who led the Met premiere of the opera in 1998, returned to conduct its first revival. Click for a preview.
December 15 - Il Trovatore
Verdi's Il Trovatore stars four of the world's most celebrated interpreters of the leading roles and conducted by Marco Armiliato. Click for a preview.
December 22 - Anna Bolena (7:30 p.m.)
The Metropolitan Opera premieres of Donizetti's Anna Bolena, starring soprano Anna Netrebko in her highly anticipated first North American performance of the tour-de-force title role. The opera, a compelling dramatization of the tragic final days of Anne Boleyn - whose husband Henry VIII spurns her and has her sentenced to death - is directed by David McVicar and conducted by Marco Armiliato. Click for a preview.
December 29 - Don Giovanni
Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads his first Met performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni in a new production directed by Tony Award winner Michael Grandage in his Met debut. The classic tale of lust, heartbreak, and revenge stars charismatic Polish baritone Mariusz Kwiecien in his first-ever Met performances of the notorious title character. Click for a preview.
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