Wanamaker Organ Hour
Co-hosts, Jill Pasternak and Peter Richard Conte
First Sunday of each month, 5 to 6 pm
Listen to recordings by Peter Richard Conte, Macy's Grand Court organist, from Macy's in downtown Philadelphia. Peter chats about his music with Jill Pasternak back at the WRTI studio. The Wanamaker Organ Hour is produced with the cooperation of the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ.
Watch and LIsten: CBS News segment about Wanamaker Organ
Sunday, October 2
5 to 6 pm
In this month's program, you'll hear Dudley Buck's Variations on the Last Rose of Summer, and works by Sir Arthur Sullivan and Leo Sowerby.
The program also features an appearance by cellist Deborah Reeder, who will play Max Bruch's Kol Nidre, and Ernest
Bloch's Prayer from Jewish Life with Peter Richard Conte
at the organ. To all of our listeners celebrating the Jewish High
Holidays, we wish you a Happy and Healthy New Year!
Watch and Listen: Ernest Bloch's Prayer from Jewish Life - cellist Amit Peled
with pianist Stefan Petrov
Sunday, September 4
5 to 6 pm
Highlights from Wanamaker Organ Day (June 24, 2011)
Recorded live at Macy's Center City with Jill Pasternak
Read about Organ Day 2011
Sunday, August 7
5 to 6 pm
Student performances
Tune in to hear student performances from the combined Wanamaker Organ/Kimmel Center summer organ camp programs. Students share various pieces from their pipe organ repertoire, following their weeklong, intensive technique and pedagogical instruction taught by Peter Richard Conte and Alan Morrison. Don't miss this memorable broadcast by tomorrow's rising organ stars!
Includes performances by Wanamaker Organ student grant recipients: Michael Bennett, Monica Czausz, Peter Carter, Shane Murphy, Philip Fillion, and Griffin McMahon.
Sunday, June 5
5 to 6 pm
Student performances
Alan Morrison's students from the Curtis Institute of Music perform on the Wanamaker Organ.
Sunday, January 2
5 to 6 pm
Students from the Macy's/Kimmel Center Youth Summer Organ Camp
Performances by:
Karen Christianson, Griffin McMahon, Michael Bennett,
Maria Markevitch, Bryan Anderson, and Deniz Uz
Sunday, December 5
5 to 6 pm
Organist Peter Richard Conte plays Christmas favorites!
Sunday, November 7
5 to 6 pm
Sunday, October 3
5 to 6 pm
A Grand Celebration - Historic Grant Court Concert
The Philadelphia Orchestra and The Wanamaker Organ
at Macy's Center City
Rossen Milanov, Conductor
Peter Richard Conte, Grand Court Organist
After
a wait of over 80 years, the vast tonal palette of The Philadelphia
Orchestra is joined - once again - with the world's greatest symphonic
pipe organ for this historic concert! Recorded live, September 27,
2008, this broadcast includes Joseph Jongen's Symphonie concertante,
which was commissioned specifically for the Wanamaker Organ and The
Philadelphia Orchestra in the 1920s, but never performed together until
this "Grand Celebration." What a treat!
Read Kile Smith's great CD review of A Grand Celebration
Sunday, August 1
5 to 6 pm
Students from the Macy's/Kimmel Center Youth Summer Organ Camp
Performances by:
Karen Christianson, Griffin McMahon, Michael Bennett,
Maria Markevitch, Bryan Anderson, and Deniz Uz
Sunday, July 4
5 to 6 pm
July 4th Celebration
Grand Court organist Peter Richard Conte and Jill Pasternak celebrate
the Independence Day holiday in an encore presentation of patriotic
music from the July 2006 edition of The Wanamaker Organ Hour.
Sunday, June 6
5 to 6 pm
Guest Organist Daniel Roth
Preview of Organ Day 2010 at Macy's Downtown - June 26th
French organ virtuoso and composer Daniel Roth, titular organist at Saint-Sulpice in Paris, is Jill and Peter's esteemed guest this month.
Watch and Listen: Daniel Roth plays the Cavaille-Coll Organ at St. Ouen
Information about Daniel Roth
Sunday, April 4
5 to 6 pm
Works for Easter and Springtime
Peter Richard Conte, Grand Court Organist
Program:
Herbert Howells: Sarabande for the Morning of Easter
Pietro Mascagni: Easter Sequence from Cavalleria Rusticana (transcribed by Peter Richard Conte)
Ralph Kinder: In Springtime
Scott Joplin: Sunflower Slow Drag (transcribed by Peter Richard Conte)
Alfred Hollins: A Song of Sunshine
Fritz Kreisler: Liebesfraud (transcribed by Petre Richard Conte)
Marcel Dupre: Crucufixion from Symphonie-Passion
Marcel Dupre: Ressurection from Symphonie-Passion
Sunday, February 7
5 to 6 pm
A Grand Celebration - Historic Grant Court Concert
The Philadelphia Orchestra and The Wanamaker Organ
at Macy's Center City
Rossen Milanov, Conductor
Peter Richard Conte, Grand Court Organist
After a wait of over 80 years, the vast tonal palette of The Philadelphia Orchestra is joined - once again - with the world's greatest symphonic pipe organ for this historic concert! Recorded live, September 27, 2008, this broadcast includes Joseph Jongen's Symphonie concertante, which was commissioned specifically for the Wanamaker Organ and The Philadelphia Orchestra in the 1920s, but never performed together until this "Grand Celebration." What a treat!
Listen: Music from A Grand Celebration with Peter Richard Conte playing the Wanamaker Organ along with The Philadelphia Orchestra
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