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The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert on WRTI: Waltzing from Vienna to Broadway

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Verizon Hall on December 31, 2015

We're welcoming 2022 with a Philadelphia Orchestra rebroadcast of 2018's New Year's Eve concert that takes you from the shimmering grandeur of Vienna, to the bright lights of Broadway, to the serene beauty of Helsinki. Listen on WRTI, Sunday, Jan. 2nd at 1 PM and Monday, Jan. 3rd at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. Violinist Kimberly Fisher is soloist.

We're so lucky to live and work in a city whose cultural crown jewel is one of the world’s greatest and storied orchestras: The Philadelphia Orchestra. For more than a century, this legendary orchestra has been a cultural ambassador to the world, its concerts sold out, from New York to Paris to Berlin to Vienna to Shanghai, to Tokyo, to wherever it travels.

As we ring in a new year, get ready for new broadcasts of The Fabulous Philadelphians in concert on WRTI with host Melinda Whiting. Susan Lewis is producer/lead interviewer.

PROGRAM:

J. Strauss, Jr. - Overture to Die Fledermaus

Anderson - The Waltzing Cat

Sibelius - Valse triste

Bernstein - Paris Waltz, from Candide

Brahms - Selections from Liebeslieder Waltzes

J. Strauss, Jr. - “Voices of Spring” Waltz

Intermission

J. Strauss, Jr. - “Champagne” Polka

Kreisler - “Liebesfreud,” for violin and orchestra

Kreisler - "Liebesleid,” for violin and orchestra

Kreisler - Schön Rosmarin,” for violin and orchestra

  • Kimberly Fischer, violin

Rodgers - “The Carousel Waltz,” from Carousel

Tchaikovsky - Waltz, from Swan Lake

J. Strauss, Jr. - “On the Beautiful Blue Danube” Waltz

J. Strauss, Sr. - “Radetzky” March

Listen to The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcasts, every Sunday at 1 pm on WRTI 90.1, streaming online at WRTI.org, on our mobile app! and your favorite smart speaker. Listen again on Mondays at 7 pm on WRTI HD-2 and for up to two weeks after broadcast on WRTI Replay.

Gregg was the host of WRTI's morning drive show from 2012 until his retirement from WRTI in January, 2021. He began producing and hosting The Philadelphia Orchestra In Concert broadcasts in 2013, joining the Orchestra in Hong Kong for the first-ever live international radio broadcasts from that island in 2016, and in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem for two historic broadcasts in 2018. You can still hear Gregg as host of the Orchestra broadcasts every Sunday and Monday on WRTI.