I’m sure many of you have been swept into the Christmas maelstrom by now. I’ve got so much to do myself, I shouldn’t even be hosting this program.

Be that as it may, I hope I am able to provide a warm soundtrack to your morning, as you dash to wrap everything up at work or spend a good part of your day in the car, running next-to-last-minute errands. (There’s still tomorrow, you know.)

In case you haven’t heard the news, Marvin Rosen has been kind enough to switch with me this week. So Classical Discoveries will be heard tomorrow morning, as opposed to today, from 5:30 to 11 ET. Tune in then to hear the third leg of Marvin’s Christmas Trilogy, which will include music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque eras. Knowing Marvin, he’ll range a great deal further than Schütz and Praetorius.

I’ll be your host this morning, mixing up a fruit cake full of holiday light music, classic film scores, transporting choral performances, Christmas songs sung by some of the great opera singers, candied sackbuts and crumhorns, some musical sleigh-rides, seasonal works by contemporary composers, and a garland of cozy Christmas nostalgia.

Everybody likes fruit cake, right? RIGHT?

Join me from 6 to 11 ET, on WPRB 103.3 FM and at wprb.com, for a full morning of egg nog and gingerbread. You’ll find me standing under the mistletoe, on Classic Ross Amico.