Gregg Whiteside
Classical HostGregg 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.
Before arriving in Philadelphia, Gregg was the national voice of live broadcasts of the New York Philharmonic, and produced and hosted intermission features at The Metropolitan Opera, while hosting the morning show at WQXR in NYC for many years.
Gregg also narrated the PBS special Pavarotti and the Italian Tenor, Classic Views video magazine, the feature film Royal Kalibur, and the documentary Montserrat Caballe, Beyond Music.
Gregg hosted live, national 9/11 tributes from Riverside Cathedral in New York, and Manhattan’s Pierpont Morgan Library, along with F. Murray Abraham and George Plimpton.
In addition to Hong Kong, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Gregg has produced and hosted live broadcasts abroad from London, Venice, Vienna, Hamburg, and Haifa.
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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. -
Join us on Sunday, Dec. 26th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Dec. 27th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 for this Philadelphia Orchestra concert from early 2017 featuring works by six French composers: Chabrier, Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Canteloube, Ravel and Florent Schmitt. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. -
Join us on Sunday, Dec. 12th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Dec. 13th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2, when Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Philadelphians in an all-Mozart concert from 2019, with soloists from the ranks of The Philadelphia Orchestra, First Associate Concertmaster Juliette Kang, and Principal Viola C.J. Chang. -
Join us on Sunday, Dec. 5th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Dec. 6th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 when conductor Nicholas McGegan—best known as a baroque and classical specialist—will be on the podium to conduct this 2018 concert broadcast featuring music not only of the baroque era, but also later re-imaginings of that past. -
Join us on Sunday, Nov. 28th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Nov. 29th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 to hear this Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcast from 2018 that brings you a work the Orchestra has performed as often as any in its history, the Symphony No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. -
Lahav Shani succeeded Zubin Mehta as music director of the Israel Philharmonic in 2020, and became principal conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic back in 2018, taking over from Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Join us on Sunday, Nov. 21st at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Nov. 22nd at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 to hear his Philadelphia Orchestra debut from March of that year. -
Join us on Sunday, November 14th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, November 15th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 for an unforgettable Philadelphia Orchestra In Concert broadcast from 2017 featuring music by Mozart, Tchaikovsky, and the East Coast premiere of an organ work by the Texan Wayne Oquin. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. -
Join us on on Sunday, November 7th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, November 8th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2, to hear a Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcast from 2017 that brings you a work very familiar through recordings, but not often performed in the concert hall: Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis. -
What a concert we have in store for you in this week's broadcast of The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Stéphane Denève. The celebrated violinist Gil Shaham is soloist and brings you all the passion, energy, and virtuoso fireworks of Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major. Listen on October 31st at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and on November 1st at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2. -
Join us on Sunday, October 24th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, October 25th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 to hear a 2019 performance of Hannibal Lokumbe's self-proclaimed gift to Philadelphia: Healing Tones, and Jean Sibelius's Symphony No. 2, which has become a signature piece for the Orchestra.
