John Williams

With the 2024 Summer Olympics underway in Paris, we've highlighted some of our favorite classical anthems to accompany all the action.

This week in Fanfare: Paavo Järvi leads The Philadelphia Orchestra in a concert of Prokofiev and Debussy, among other exalted highlights.

Whether we’re talking Marlboro or the Main Line, this week’s concert calendar is absolutely stacked. As always, Fanfare is here to help.

This year saw many classical music highlights in Philadelphia and beyond. Our hosts picked some of their favorites.

On a new album, the classical stars revisit the concerto Williams composed specifically for Ma, as well as some of Williams' most affecting film scores.

If you watch the Olympic Games, surely you recognize the heroic Olympic theme song that’s played on TV. But do you know the story behind this piece of music? Who composed it? How did it become so symbolic of the Olympics? Well, here’s the inside scoop.

From an ancient buried past in Pompeii, to an outer-worldly future, The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert on WRTI transports us to different worlds this…

When can music composed for a film stand on its own? WRTI’s Susan Lewis reports on how John Williams’ suite from Close Encounters of the Third Kind…

It's enchanted and enchanting music played by The Philadelphia Orchestra on WRTI, Sunday, October 25th at 1 PM on 90.1 and Monday, October 26th at 7 PM on…

Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony highlights this Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert re-broadcast from 2016 on Sunday, October 4th at 1 PM on WRTI and Monday,…