Messiah

WRTI is happy to bring you this festive 2018 concert broadcast of The Philadelphia Orchestra performing Handel’s Messiah on Easter Sunday, April 17th from 1 to 4 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, April 18th from 7 to 10 PM on WRTI HD-2.

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Although Handel’s Messiah is now regularly performed during the Christmas holidays, the work was actually premiered in the spring before Easter. WRTI’s…

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Jim Cotter speaks with the renowned German pianist Christian Zacharias.David Patrick Stearns profiles Joshua Smith as the principal flute of The Cleveland…