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TIME IN with Composer and Choral Director Rollo Dilworth: Bringing People Together Through Song

By • Feb 4, 2021

Rollo Dilworth pours his heart into teaching, conducting, and writing music for choral singers—and the choral music world loves him back. Typically logging over 100,000 miles a year, he travels the world to conduct and work with choirs of all ages. In this TIME IN interview, he talks about how the shutdown has reinforced his purpose in life, to use music to bring people together and promote social justice.

Classical Album of the Week: Contralto Nathalie Stutzmann Sings AND Conducts Baroque Works

By • Jan 20, 2021

January 18, 2021. As the newly appointed principal guest conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra, Nathalie Stutzmann can now add an additional honor to her resumé—her newest album, Contralto, with her Baroque ensemble Orfeo 55.

Classical Album of the Week: Paquito D'Rivera on Conductor Wayne Marshall's Homage to Gershwin

By • Oct 31, 2020

October 12, 2020. The clarinetist and saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera, winner of a dozen Grammy awards, has nothing but superlatives for Wayne Marshall, chief conductor of the WDR Funkhausorchester in Cologne. D’Rivera’s contribution to Born to Play—Marshall’s swan song after a decade with the orchestra—complements the main course, works by George Gershwin.

This Week with Yannick on WRTI 90.1: Episode 6, Mozart and His Contemporaries

By WRTI Staff • Aug 12, 2020

Join us on Sunday, August 16th at 12 PM on WRTI 90.1 to hear Episode 6 of “This Week with Yannick,” an eight-week radio series, hosted and curated by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

This Week with Yannick on WRTI 90.1: Episode 3, Music that Celebrates Spirituality

By WRTI Staff • Jul 22, 2020

Join us on Sunday, July 26th at 12 PM on WRTI 90.1 to hear Episode 3 of “This Week with Yannick,” an eight-week radio series, hosted and curated by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin Hosts New Radio Series on WRTI 90.1: "This Week with Yannick"

By WRTI Staff • Jul 14, 2020
George Etheredge

Yannick Nézet-Séguin—Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera, The Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Orchestre Métropolitain of Montreal—has spent his career building connections between orchestras, singers, and audiences. Yannick now brings his passion for building connections through music outside of the concert hall and onto the airwaves on WRTI 90.1.

How Music Responds on WRTI: A Conversation with Conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson

By • Jun 17, 2020
Courtesy of Jeri Lynne Johnson

In 2008, African-American conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson founded Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra, an ensemble of classically trained musicians from diverse cultures and ethnicities as a model for the 21st century. She shared with WRTI's Susan Lewis her thoughts about the possibilities for change in classical music culture.


Marin Alsop On Her Swing Orchestra And Stepping Down From The Baltimore Symphony

By & • Apr 18, 2020

In this time of social distancing, hunkering down and chatting remotely, we might learn some new things about each other. For example, you might know Marin Alsop as the longtime music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, one of the leading figures in classical music around the world and a frequent guest on Weekend Edition. But you might not know that back in the 1980s, she also led a swing band.

She's a Rising Star on the Podium: Meet Mirga!

By • Apr 14, 2020
Vern Evans

Music was her family business, but conducting became her very own dream job. Now known worldwide, Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla turned to conducting when she was 11 because she was too old to begin studying an instrument. And look where she is now...

Classical Album of the Week: An Oratorio Inspired by Underground Railroad Conductor William Still

By • Feb 24, 2020

February 24, 2020. As WRTI continues to mark Black History Month, we feature an album that celebrates, through contemporary music, the writings of the 19th-century Philadelphia abolitionist William Still. 

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