Melinda Whiting

3 days ago | wrti.org | Melinda Whiting

Join us on Sunday, April 27 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, April 28 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when the Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you music by American masters Margaret Bonds and William Grant Still, as well as Yuja Wang in Tchaikovsky. Opening the program, music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the orchestra the Montgomery Variations by Margaret Bonds.

2 weeks ago | wrti.org | Melinda Whiting

Join us on Sunday, April 20 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, April 21 at 7 p.m. as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a complete concert performance of Handel’s Messiah from The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2023/2024 season, with the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir and a quartet of stellar soloists: soprano Lucy Crowe, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, tenor Spencer Britten, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn. Music and artistic director Yannick Nézet-Séguin is on the podium.

2 weeks ago | wrti.org | Melinda Whiting

Join us on Sunday, April 13 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you works by Gustav Mahler and Jake Heggie. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Mahler’s last completed symphony, the Ninth in D major. The program opens with Songs for Murdered Sisters by one of today’s most celebrated composers of vocal music, Jake Heggie. Heggie’s work features Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins, who commissioned this searing song cycle as a memorial tribute to his sister, Nathalie.

2 months ago | wrti.org | Melinda Whiting

WRTI continues a special mini-series on The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert, “From the Vault,” on Sunday, Feb 16 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, Feb 17 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2. This week’s archival performances from 2019, conducted by music and artistic director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, include generous excerpts from Sergei Prokofiev’s legendary ballet Romeo and Juliet, as well as a recently rediscovered Funeral Song by Igor Stravinsky.

2 months ago | wrti.org | Melinda Whiting

As we’ve been leading up to the Super Bowl, it’s been a quiet week in Philadelphia… or at least, an intimate one. This week’s picks are all in the chamber music realm, offering considerable variety. Spotlight: Roderick Williams and Julius Drake – Wednesday, Perelman TheaterIf you haven’t heard the English singer Roderick Williams – well, simply put, you should.