Susan Lewis
Consulting ProducerSusan is a consulting producer for The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series on WRTI, and contributes weekly intermission interviews with conductors and artists featured in the broadcasts.
In her more than 15 years at WRTI, Susan has interviewed a wide range of leading artists including conductors and composers: Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Simon Rattle, Wynton Marsalis, Marin Alsop, and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Christoph Eshenbach, Hannibal Locumbe, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jennifer Higdon, Donald Nally, John Adams, Valerie Coleman, Mason Bates; instrumentalists and vocalists: Yo-Yo Ma, Lang Lang, Itzak Perlman, Helene Grimaud, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Sharon Isbin, Andre Watts, Mark O’Connor, Angel Blue, Lawrence Brownlee, Jason Vieaux, Sarah Chang, and groundbreaking ensembles, including Imani Winds, PRISM Quartet, LA Guitar Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, and The Crossing, as well as people from the world of literature, theater and fine arts, including architect Frank Gehry, actors Dule Hill, Anna Deveare Smith, and playwrights Terry Teachout and the late Terrence McNally.
She has authored many stories about music and the arts for WRTI, and produced and was host of WRTI’s TIME IN online interview series. She also hosted WRTI’s Live from the Performance Studio sessions.
Susan came to radio with a background in journalism, speechwriting, and law, which she practiced in New York City; she also taught entertainment law at Rutgers Law School in Camden. A former freelance writer and columnist for Philadelphia Magazine, she’s also the author of Reinventing Ourselves after Motherhood and a book of essays titled, What is a Kiss, Anyway?
She lives in suburban Philadelphia with her husband, goldendoodle, and whichever of her four grown kids pop in to visit.
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Join us on Sunday, Dec. 18 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, Dec. 19 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a performance recorded live in May. Xian Zhang conducts.
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Join us on Sunday, Jan. 14 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, Jan. 15 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you an encore presentation from 2022 of works by Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky. Nathalie Stutzmann conducts.
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Join us on Sunday, Dec. 4 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, Dec. 5 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a performance recorded live in May, 2022. Fabio Luisi conducts works by Tchaikovsky and Carl Nielsen.
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Join us on Sunday, Nov. 27 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, Nov. 28 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcast brings you “American Masters,” from October of the Orchestra’s 2021/2022 season, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
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Join us on Sunday, Jan. 7 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, Jan.. 8 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a stunning performance recorded live in April, 2022. Stéphane Denève conducts.
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Join us on Sunday, Nov. 13 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a performance recorded live in April, 2022.
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Join us on Monday, April 1 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 for an encore presentation of The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert. Former Principal Guest Conductor Nathalie Stutzmann is on the podium and celebrated pianist Emanuel Ax returns to perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major.
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Join us on Sunday, April 7 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, April 8 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you an encore performance from the 2021-22 season.
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Join us on Sunday, Oct. 23 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a performance recorded live in February, 2022.
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Join us on Sunday, March 24 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, March 25 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you works by Florence Price, Valerie Coleman, Samuel Barber and Matthew Aucoin.