Carl Maria von Weber

On Sunday, Aug. 16 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Aug. 17 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2, The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a program featuring the the Overture to Weber’s Der Freischütz, the Symphony in E minor (“Gaelic”) by Amy Beach, and Franz Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2.

Before Richard Strauss, before Richard Wagner, more than Hansel and Gretel, and even more than Mozart, the most German opera is, and always will be, Der…

It’s an odd name for an odd work that almost wasn’t written. But it premiered 72 years ago this week, and as WRTI’s Kile Smith reports, this piece by Paul…