Claude Debussy

Join us on Sunday, Jan. 26 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Jan. 27 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings an encore presentation of Debussy’s La mer, plus the world premieres of the Nomad Concerto for violin and orchestra by Mason Bates, featuring soloist Gil Shaham; and a Concerto for Orchestra by Valerie Coleman.

Join us on Sunday, Dec. 1 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Dec. 2 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Sergei Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony, a new organ concerto by French composer Guillaume Connesson, and Claude Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.

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