Arts Desk
Throughout the week
Listen to WRTI's Arts Desk features for a daily look into music in the Philadelphia region.
Latest Episodes
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Jim Cotter speaks with Philadelphia Singers Music Director David Hayes ahead of the group's revival of Randall Thompson's under-appreciated Requiem.Susan…
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Jim Cotter speaks with the renowned German pianist Christian Zacharias.Susan Lewis takes a look at The Philadelphia Wind Symphony. The recently formed…
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Pianist Nikolai Lugansky--Barnes' Pres. Derek Gillman--Georg Philipp Telemann--Phila. History MuseumDavid Patrick Stearns profiles Nikolai Lugansky. The Russian pianist performs Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No.2 in concerts with The Philadelphia…
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David Patrick Stearns profiles composer Steve Mackey as the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia readies the world premiere of Mackey's Tonic.Susan Lewis…
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Jim Cotter speaks with Lewis Tanner Moore. The renowned local arts collector is the grand nephew of Henry Ossawa Tanner the subject of a major…
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Susan Lewis provides background information and insight into Handel's Messiah. (Originally published in…
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A conversation with Yannick Nezet-Seguin. The Philadelphia Orchestra released details of its music director designate's first season in late January,…
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WRTI's Jim Cotter speaks with Jeri Lynne Johnson, music director of the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra.
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David Patrick Stearns speaks with contemporary composer and conductor Pierre…
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Jim Cotter speaks with Michael Taylor, the Philadelphia Museum of Art curator of Marcel Duchamp: Etant donnes.…