Jennifer Montone

The Philadelphia Orchestra In Concert on WRTI: Yannick Conducts Haydn and Bruckner

By • Nov 17, 2020
Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Orchestra

Back in January, 2016, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra launched a three-week Music of Vienna series, and one of those concerts—both here in Philadelphia at Verizon Hall and at Carnegie Hall in New York—Yannick conducted two works composed nearly a century apart: Haydn’s 103rd symphony, and Bruckner’s 4th.

The Philadelphia Orchestra In Concert on WRTI 90.1: Bach and Bruckner, Music of Faith

By • May 4, 2019
Jan Regan/Philadelphia Orchestra

The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcast for Sunday, May 5th at 1 PM brings us music by two composers born almost 150 years apart, and both of whose music expresses profound religious faith.

Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians Playing Chamber Concert To Benefit Local Syrian Refugees

By • Apr 30, 2018

A small group of musicians from The Philadelphia Orchestra are organizing a chamber music concert to benefit local Syrian refugees on May 7th at 6 pm at the Philadelphia Ethical Society on Rittenhouse Square.

Looking Back at the Philadelphia Orchestra's Edited Visit to Mongolia

By David Patrick Stearns • Jun 19, 2017
Jan Regan / Philadelphia Orchestra

The Philadelphia Orchestra is back from its debut in Mongolia, where planned full-orchestra concerts needed to be canceled due to a nation-wide financial crisis. Instead, a contingent of 18 musicians spent two days in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar. Now, the Philadelphia Inquirer's David Patrick Stearns asks what this could lead to.

The Philadelphia Orchestra In Concert on WRTI: Music of Vienna, Part II, Sept. 4th at 1 PM

By • Sep 2, 2016
Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Orchestra

Vienna was a hotbed of musical evolution, and the second concert in the Philadelphia Orchestra’s three-part series of the Music of Vienna shows us how far the symphony traveled in that time. On Sunday, September 4th at 1 pm, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphians bring you two symphonies composed about 80 years apart: Joseph Haydn’s 103rd, the famous “Drumroll” Symphony, and Anton Bruckner’s 4th.

The Philadelphia Youth Orchestra in Concert on WRTI: January 10th at 4 PM

By Jack Moore • Jan 7, 2016
Courtesy of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra

Some of the most talented young musicians in our region are members of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, now in its 76th season. Join us on Sunday, January 10th at 4 pm to hear The PYO's opening concert of the season, recorded at the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall.

Eschenbach Returns, Montone Plays Strauss: The Philadelphia Orchestra on WRTI, August 23, at 1 PM

By • Aug 18, 2015
Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia Orchestra

Join us on Sunday, August 23 at 1 pm for The Philadelphia Orchestra In Concert on WRTI. In this January, 2015 concert, Christoph Eschenbach, Philadelphia Orchestra music director from 2003 to 2008, returns to Verizon Hall to lead this all-German program. And the Orchestra’s principal horn Jennifer Montone plays the Richard Strauss Horn Concerto No. 1.