Join us on Sunday afternoons and Monday evenings to hear The Philadelphia Orchestra, led by Music and Artistic Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, in concerts from Marian Anderson Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.
The ensemble has a 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. Melinda Whiting is our host, Alex Ariff is the senior producer and broadcast engineer.
Listen at 90.1 FM, on the WRTI mobile app, or on your smart speaker. And you can listen on-demand for up to two weeks via each episode's landing page or on WRTI Replay.
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We’re already barreling toward the end of January, and we have a really cool slate of performances this weekend. -
Meet 16-year-old bassist Cheo Mangum, a junior at The Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA), a 2025-2026 Ensemble Arts Philly All-City Jazz Fellow, and a member of the Temple Music Prep Community Music Scholars Jazz Ensemble, and of a jazz quartet through the MIC'd Up Philly program. -
Join us on Monday, Jan. 19 at 3 p.m. for a live broadcast of The Philadelphia Orchestra's 36th annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Tribute Concert, led by guest conductor Thomas Wilkins and featuring works by Carlos Simon, George Gershwin, and Samuel Barber. -
Fanfare this week features Opera Philadelphia's modern take on Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, a rare recital from lyric tenor Matthew Polenzani, and more. -
December drops us into a holiday bounty, with Lyric Fest's Fascinating Rhythm, Philadelphia Ballet's production of The Nutcracker, Carols by Candlelight and more. -
Join us on Sunday, Feb. 22 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 for the final concert of the 2024-25 season, as Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads works by Mozart, St-Georges and Prokofiev — along with Shostakovich's first Cello Concerto, featuring Sheku Kanneh-Mason. -
Join us on Sunday, Jan. 11 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Jan. 12 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a program of Stravinsky and Bartók, plus a new work by Canadian composer Barbara Assiginaak from the 2024/2025 season. Yannick Nézet-Séguin is on the podium, joined by first associate concertmaster Juliette Kang as soloist. -
This week's Fanfare features two separate performances with star pianists, a special concert and symposium on the women of the Baroque era and more. -
Join us on Sunday, Feb. 15 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2, as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a program pairing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Florence Price's Piano Concerto, featuring Lara Downes. -
This week's Fanfare brings a haunting opera performance, a visit from violinist Lisa Batiashvili, a vocal offering from Variant 6 and more.
