The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert
SUNDAY, 1 TO 3 PM ON WRTI-FM; MONDAY, 7 TO 9 PM ON WRTI HD-2
Join us on Sunday afternoons and Monday evenings to hear The Philadelphia Orchestra, led my Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, in live, recorded concerts from Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center.
The ensemble has a long and venerable history of radio broadcasts, as the first orchestra with its own commercially sponsored national radio series, beginning in 1929 on NBC. This weekly series of radio broadcasts marks the return of the Orchestra to the airwaves. WRTI's Gregg Whiteside is host.
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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. -
Composer and jazz trumpeter Hannibal Lokumbe wrote Healing Tones as a hymn to Philadelphia in 2019. It's an oratorio-like work that celebrates the healers among us, including midwives, doctors, artists, and musicians.
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Join us on Sunday, Oct. 17th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Oct. 18th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 to hear The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcast from 2019, showcasing the “King of Instruments” in all its glory.
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While the history of the organ is steeped in majesty and tradition, modern organs are being used to express a range of new sounds. WRTI’s Susan Lewis spoke with soloist James McVinnie in 2019 about the organ and its starring role in Nico Muhly’s concerto, Register.
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I just got off an uplifting Zoom call with Iranian-Canadian composer Iman Habibi, who was speaking to me from a backstage dressing room at Verizon Hall, as The Philadelphia Orchestra rehearsed onstage.
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Viva España! Join us on Sunday, October 10th at 1 PM on 90.1, and Monday, October 11th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2, as our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcast, recorded live in 2019, pulsates with the rhythms and evocative harmonies of Spain.
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Joaquin Rodrigo wrote Concierto Andaluz in 1967 for the Romero Quartet, an ensemble that's known as the "The Royal Family of the Guitar." WRTI's Susan Lewis spoke with the Grammy-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, whose members were mentored by the Romeros.
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Join us on Sunday, October 3rd at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, October 4th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 as one of the biggest stars in the opera world today joins Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphians.
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Ernest Chausson's Poeme de l'amour et de la mer is a 19th-century song cycle about love, loss, and the sea and illustrates the way music and poetry can move us.
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An instrument dating from ancient times, the flute turned out to be the ideal voice to express what was in the heart and mind of composer Samuel Jones. Here's the story of his Flute Concerto, premiered in 2018 by The Philadelphia Orchestra.
