THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, December 22, 1995 TAG: 9512200148
SECTION: CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER PAGE: 07 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY ERIC FEBER, STAFF WRITER
LENGTH: Medium: 74 lines
What would the Christmas season be without music? And Chesapeake's own radio station, WFOS-FM 88.7, is scheduling a real musical gift for listeners.
The radio station of the Chesapeake school system will have an array of musical and comedy treats to help keep you inspired, laughing and entertained while you wrap those last-minute gifts.
This morning at 11:05 a.m., the station will have you splitting your sides as it revives that Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll radio classic, ``The Amos 'n' Andy Show.''
In today's seasonal episode Andy plays a department store Santa so he can earn enough money to buy Amos' daughter Arabella a doll.
The following Saturday, the station will help you swing your way through those last-minute shopping trips when it airs at 4:05 p.m., ``Saturday Bandstand,'' hosted by Annalisa Murden.
This Saturday's show will feature swinging seasonal songs from the big band era along with traditional favorites and even a few novelty tunes including ``All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth'' by Spike Jones, the Singing Dogs and the horrendous ``Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer.''
Murden will round things out with a World War II era Bing Crosby Show and a Dec. 24, 1946, Red Skelton Show.
Following Saturday Bandstand, the station will air ``Discurio'' at 7 p.m., featuring Christmas music by composer/arranger/conductor John Rutter. The program will include traditional holiday songs along with original tunes by Rutter.
On Christmas Eve, WFOS will broadcast a seasonal ``Operetta for All'' with Bob Deal as host from 12:05 to 3 p.m. Deal will feature a variety of holiday songs and melodies including performances by John Williams and the Boston Pops, always a yuletide favorite.
You say you like a little more soul in your Christmas music? Have no fear, WFOS has that, too.
From 4:05 until 7 p.m. on Christmas Eve, hosts Larry Eberhardt and Jason Campen will present ``A Doo-Wop Christmas.'' The two will offer a rare holiday treat featuring dozens of street corner soul and rock vocal harmony renditions of traditional carols. Happy holidays, bay-buh!
Rounding out the Eve, starting at 7 p.m., host Vince Brown will offer five hours worth of beautiful traditional holiday music including Vivaldi's ``Gloria'' and Charpentier's ``Midnight Mass.''
The big day, Dec. 25, will start off at 6 a.m. with four hours of more traditional music hosted by Jayne Smith. She'll offer hourly weather checks but no network news until 11 a.m.
At 10 a.m. the station will present a ``Christmas Concert'' from Radio Deutsche Welle featuring baroque vocal music from St. Severin's Church in Cologne, Germany.
After the German treat, listeners will be treated to a few seasonal laughs at 11:15 a.m. when ``Old Time Radio'' presents a Dec. 25, 1949, episode of the ``Phil Harris/ Alice Faye Show,'' featuring Jack Benny playing Santa for the Harris children.
What's a Christmas without that traditional ballet score, ``The Nutcracker?''
The station will air at 2:05 p.m. the complete Tchaikovsky work as performed by Mariss Jansons directing the London Philharmonic. That major work will be followed by host Vince Brown offering more appropriate holiday music from 4 until 8 p.m.
Christmas Day will then be rounded out with Johann Sebastian Bach's Mass In B Minor, BWV 232, featuring The Bach Ensemble on original instruments of the period conducted by Joshua Rifkin with sopranos Judith Nelson and Julianne Baird, countertenor Jeffrey Dooley, tenor Frank Hoffmeister and bass Jan Opalach. MEMO: For more information about WFOS holiday programs, call the station at
547-1036.
by CNB