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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. 

He Went from Medicine to Music: How Conductor Kensho Watanabe Reorchestrated His Career

By • Aug 26, 2019
Andrew Bogard

As he wrapped up his third and final year as assistant conductor at The Philadelphia Orchestra, Kensho Watanabe talked with Susan Lewis about his unusual path to the podium.

The Crossing on WRTI 90.1: Songs In Memory of the Esteemed Choral Conductor, Joseph Flummerfelt

By • Jun 13, 2019
Rider University

Join us on Saturday, June 15th from 4 to 6 PM to hear the GRAMMY-winning choir, The Crossing, sing "For Joe," a recollection honoring the life of Joseph Flummerfelt, the distinguished American choral conductor who passed away on March 1st at age 82.

Listen: An Interesting Chat With The Innovative Conductor and Composer Esa-Pekka Salonen

By • Mar 19, 2019
Minna Hatinen

Passionate about music since he was a child, Esa-Pekka Salonen— incoming music director of the San Francisco Symphony in 2020, and prolific, internationally acclaimed composer—finds personal meaning in the music of others, and discovers new insights into his own music when colleagues conduct it. WRTI's Susan Lewis has more.

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