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In a classic 1940’s radio-hour atmosphere, the Dakota Valley Symphony and Chorus fill the studio with warm, candlelit sound as actors Jake Endres, Gary Briggle, and Joni Griffith bring Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to life—Pausing for smiles and shivers as the orchestra paints each transformation in rich orchestral color and the chorus answers with clean, heartfelt harmonies. Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols follows like a festive procession of Christmas melodies, swelling and turning with communal joy, then settling back into reverent glow as the story deepens. Gustav Holst’s Christmas Day rises with ceremonial grace, and In the Bleak Mid-Winter arrives in quiet, radiant stillness—voices centered and tender, making the radio seem suddenly close and intimate. With John Rutter’s carols bringing a brighter lift, their crisp, modern warmth threading through the older tradition, until Dickens’ moral light feels fully kindled—culminating in a final, gently triumphant choral-and-orchestral chord that fades into the soft static of holiday night.