WRTI Spotlight

Join us on Sunday, May 15th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, May 16th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 to hear Yannick Nézet-Séguin conduct the Orchestra’s historic reunion with live audiences in the concert hall in Fall, 2021 after the pandemic shutdown.

When I recently mentioned offhandedly to my colleagues at WRTI that this is my 50th year on the air, they were doubtful that could possibly be true for someone of my youthful appearance. “Prove it," they challenged. This two-part “scrapbook” is the proof.

Join us on Sunday, May 8th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, May 9th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 when The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a performance from the Orchestra’s 2021/2022 season, recorded live in February.

Astral artist Rachel Lee O’Brien stopped by WRTI’s Performance Studio recently and shared a program of music for harp celebrating her Appalachian roots. She was accompanied by Angela Massey on flute. Both are featured here in our video series, WRTI Presents ASTRAL.

I Never Saw Another Butterfly by Philadelphia composer and cantor Charles Davidson, is a setting of poems by children imprisoned in Theresienstadt; only 100 of the 15,000 children there survived.

Join us on Sunday, May 1 at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, May 2 at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 when The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a performance from the Orchestra’s 2021/2022 season, recorded live in February.

Join us on Sunday, April 24th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, April 25th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 when The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a performance from the Orchestra’s 2021/2022 season, recorded live in January.

Our beloved “BP with the GM”—Bob Perkins with the Good Music—is turning off his mic on weeknights starting on June 30th after a long and storied career. But don’t fret, you can still lend him your finely tuned ears every Sunday from 9 AM to 1 PM for Sunday Jazz Brunch on WRTI 90.1.

Passover begins on Friday night at sundown, and Jews around the world will be celebrating the exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt with a special family meal, called a Seder. Join us on WRTI to hear music for Passover and learn more about the holiday.

Join us for our annual broadcast of Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion on Good Friday, April 15th from noon to 3 PM. This year we'll hear a 1999 recording from the Bach Collegium Japan conducted by Masaaki Suzuki.