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Melinda Whiting
Classical HostMelinda has worked in radio for decades, hosting and producing classical music and arts news. An award-winning broadcaster, she has created and hosted classical music programs and reported for NPR, WQXR—New York, WHYY–Philadelphia, and American Public Media. WRTI listeners may remember her years hosting classical music for WFLN and WHYY.
Currently the host of The Philadelphia Orchestra In Concerton WRTI, Melinda has in the past served as the national radio voice of the New York Philharmonic and the Saint Louis Symphony. For many years she was a frequent host, producer, and editor on the daily public radio music program Performance Today. She also produced a national concert series from the Marlboro Music Festival.
While continuing her radio career, Melinda was editor in chief of Symphony, the bimonthly magazine of the League of American Orchestras. During her tenure, the magazine won several ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards for excellence in music journalism. She then took a hiatus from the airwaves while serving the Curtis Institute of Music as vice president for communications and senior editor.
Trained as a singer, Melinda also performed professionally for many years with early music ensembles and chamber choirs in New York, Washington, and Philadelphia. She is a member of the board of directors of the Theodore Presser Foundation and formerly served on the board of Network for New Music, as an officer of the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia, and a member of the Diocesan Council of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey.
Melinda returned to radio at WRTI in Spring 2017 and has served as WRTI’s midday host since 2021.
Hear Melinda as host of Classical Weekdays on WRTI-FM, weekdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and as host of The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert, Sundays from 1 to 3 p.m. on WRTI-FM and Mondays from 7 to 9 p.m. on WRTI HD-2.
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Join us on Sunday, July 28 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, July 29 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Carl Orff’s rousing and colorful Carmina Burana, with three Philadelphia-based choirs and three sterling soloists joining the fun.
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Join us on Sunday, July 21 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, July 22 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when the Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto, featuring pianist Haochen Zhang, and his Symphony No. 7 in A Major, with guest conductor Nathalie Stutzmann.
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Join us on Sunday, July 14 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, July 15 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert features Brahms' Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, and spotlights violinist Joshua Bell in works by Henri Vieuxtemps and Ernest Chausson.
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Join us on Sunday, May 19 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, May 20 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Mozart’s Symphony No. 39, plus the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi and The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires by Astor Piazzolla.
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Join us on Sunday, May 12 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, May 13 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you the profoundly moving German Requiem by Johannes Brahms. As a prelude, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a choral piece by Luis Ernesto Peña Laguna commissioned for performance alongside Brahms' masterwork.
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Join us on Sunday, May 5 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, May 6 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert features Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin, Petrushka by Igor Stravinsky, and the Symphony No. 2 by Kurt Weill. The Marcus Roberts Trio adds extra improvisatory flair to the Rhapsody, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony, a concerto for the Chinese traditional pipa by Zhao Jiping, and a rediscovered treasure by Polish composer Feliks Nowowiejski.
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Gil Shaham is featured as both violin soloist and leader of the Orchestra in this all-Mozart program on The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert. Join us on Sunday, June 30 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, July 1 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2.
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In Fanfare this week: Yo-Yo Ma joins forces with Kathryn Stott, Alarm Will Sound plays Steve Reich, and Jasper Quartet performs music with (and by) Derek Bermel.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a program of Mozart and Price, plus a world premiere by French-Argentine composer Esteban Benzecry. Yannick Nézet-Séguin is on the podium, and welcomes his frequent collaborator, Hélène Grimaud, as piano soloist.