Wednesday, December 23, 2009

'Christmas at Belmont' with Trisha Yearwood on PBS is a Wednesday TV pick

at Belmont' An evening of traditional, classical and world music featuring Belmont University alumna Trisha Yearwood, more than 400 student...


'Christmas

at Belmont'

An evening of traditional, classical and world music featuring Belmont University alumna Trisha Yearwood, more than 400 student voices and the Nashville Children's Choir. This annual musical special was taped at the Schermerhorn Symphony Center in Nashville, Tenn. 8 tonight, KCTS (seattletimes.com/tvlistings).

Doug Knoop, Seattle Times staff

Also on today

"The 11th Annual A Home for the Holidays with Faith Hill," 8 p.m. (CBS): Hill, who was adopted as an infant, sings in support of more than 129,000 children in the United States foster care system. Mary J. Blige, Reba McEntire, Shakira, Carrie Underwood and Michael Franti, also an adoptee, perform, while Jenna Elfman and Nia Vardalos share stories about adoption.

"Holiday Switch" (2007), 8 p.m. (Lifetime): A penny-pinching wife and mother (Nicole Eggert) married to a blue-collar worker stumbles into her high school boyfriend, who is now wealthy, and wonders if she made the wrong decision when she took another date to the prom.

"La Boheme — The Movie," 9 p.m. (KCTS): Opera lovers know the Russian soprano Anna Netrebko and the Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón as the Dream Team, and they're back together as Mimi and Rodolfo in this "Great Performances" presentation of Robert Dornheim's lush film adaptation of Puccini's "Bohème."

"Dark Passage" (1947), 9 p.m. (TCM): A San Francisco art student hides a fugitive recovering from underworld plastic surgery.

"The Polar Express" (2004), 10 p.m. (ABC Family): A train conductor guides a boy who doubts the existence of Santa Claus by locomotive to the North Pole in this animated film, based on the children's book by Chris Van Allsburg.

"Spectacle: Elvis Costello With,... " 10 p.m. (Sundance): A jam session with singer-songwriter Nick Lowe; the New Orleans pianist Allen Toussaint; the singer-songwriter Richard Thompson; and the drummer Levon Helm from the Band.

The New York Times


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