Samuel Barber

Damon Gupton will conduct the annual celebration of famed civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life and legacy. The concert will be broadcast live on WRTI starting at 3 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 20.

Join us on Sunday, March 24 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, March 25 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you works by Florence Price, Valerie Coleman, Samuel Barber and Matthew Aucoin.

August 9, 2021. She's the eldest of seven in an increasingly famous English family of musical siblings. Isata Kanneh-Mason's idea for her second solo…

Join us on Sunday, July 4th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, July 5th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 to hear a Philadelphia Orchestra concert from 2017. It's works…

Join us Sunday, Feb. 7th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, Feb. 8th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 to hear this stunning Philadelphia Orchestra concert broadcast…

We have ourselves a very unique Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcast on Sunday, February 23rd at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, February 24th at 7…

While Samuel Barber is best known for his moving Adagio for Strings, first performed in a radio broadcast in November of 1938, he wrote a lot of other…

He was awarded, and accepted, and acquainted with success. Samuel Barber had so much success that it might be more proper to say that he endured, rather…

WRTI continues its series of concert broadcasts of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra with Music Director Louis Scaglione on the podium. This Sunday it's…

When Samuel Barber’s violin concerto was rejected by the man for whom it was commissioned in 1939, he turned to his alma mater — The Curtis Institute of…