© 2024 WRTI
Your Classical and Jazz Source
Donate
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

The Ney: An Ancient Flute Celebrated in a Modern Work

WRTI Your Classical and Jazz Source | By Susan Lewis
Published September 22, 2014 at 6:30 AM EDT

The flute is one of the oldest musical instruments, with its earliest versions found thousands of years ago in different cultures. As WRTI’s Susan Lewis reports, a recently composed flute concerto celebrates one of its ancient bamboo ancestors.

On Sunday, September 28, 2014, on WRTI, Jeffrey Khaner and The Philadelphia Orchestra perform Behzad Ranjbaran’s Flute Concerto.

RanjberanFlute052614SLLF.mp3
Listen to WRTI's Susan Lewis talk with composer Behzad Ranjbaran and soloist Jeffrey Khaner, the Philadelphia Orchestra's Principal Flute.
Tags
Arts Desk The WRTI Philadelphia Orchestra Page!Behzad RanjbaranJeffrey KhanerNey
Susan Lewis
Susan writes and produces stories about music and the arts. She’s host and producer of WRTI’s TIME IN online interview series, and contributes weekly intermission interviews for The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series. She’s also been a regular host of WRTI’s Live from the Performance Studio sessions.
See stories by Susan Lewis