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The 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, 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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