David Serkin Ludwig

Join us for The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert on Sunday, May 17 at 1 p.m. on WRTI-FM and Monday, May 18 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads Igor Stravinsky’s complete ballet The Firebird, Franz Berwald’s Symphony No. 3 (“Singulière”), Une Barque sur l’Océan by Maurice Ravel, and the premiere performance of a bassoon concerto by David Ludwig, featuring principal bassoon Daniel Matsukawa.

David Serkin Ludwig, described by The Philadelphia Inquirer as "a composer with something urgent to say," has a new monodrama set to a text by poet Katie…