On a recent recording, and in concerts this month, Baranski reads Dickens’s holiday classic with the Skylark Vocal Ensemble.

As we learn from the surprising journeys of several holiday classics, the term defies easy definition. One Christmas I found myself on London’s Oxford Street, admiring the twinkly decorations and ...

LONDON — Marley was dead, to begin with, and 180 years later "A Christmas Carol" has transformed the holiday we celebrate this week. Originally published in 1843, Charles Dickens' novel of a bitter, ...