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2 weeks ago | 
wrti.org | Melinda Whiting
Join us on Sunday, May 25 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, May 26 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a program of Brahms, Korngold, and Bent Sørensen from the 2024/2025 season, led by Dallas Symphony Orchestra music director Fabio Luisi. Johannes Brahms revered the music of the past and carried its legacy forward in his own works. From the moment he set to work on his Fourth Symphony, he had a plan for its powerful finale.
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3 weeks ago | 
wrti.org | Melinda Whiting
Join us on Sunday, May 18 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, May 19 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a Baroque and Classical program from the 2024/2025 season, featuring works by Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, and Franz Joseph Haydn.
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3 weeks ago | 
wrti.org | Melinda Whiting
Join us on Sunday, May 18 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, May 19 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a Baroque and Classical program from the 2024/2025 season, featuring works by Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, and Franz Joseph Haydn.
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1 month ago | 
wrti.org | Melinda Whiting
Join us on Sunday, May 11 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, May 12 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a program of Ravel, Holst, and Alfredo Casella from the 2024/2025 season. The brilliantly scored orchestral suite The Planets, by English composer Gustav Holst, has long been renowned for its vibrant orchestration and astute characterizations of the mythical gods for whom the planets are named.
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1 month ago | 
wrti.org | Melinda Whiting
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1 month ago | 
wrti.org | Melinda Whiting
Join us on Sunday, May 4 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, May 5 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a performance from the Orchestra’s 2024/2025 season, recorded live in January.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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2 months 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.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
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.
