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The Chamber Orchestra Of Philadelphia On WRTI: Mozart, Brosse, and Antheil on May 19th

Dave Conant — Sun, 19 May 2013 01:20:31 +0000

Join us on Sunday at 5 pm for our monthly Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia broadcast. Music Director Dirk Brossé conducts, with soloists Elissa Lee Koljonen, violin, and Roberto Diaz, viola.

Program:

MOZART: Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major, K.364
Elissa Lee Koljonen, violin
Roberto Diaz, viola
Dirk Brossé, conductor

ANTHEIL: Serenade for String Orchestra
Dirk Brossé, conductor

The Karrin Allyson & Bill McGlaughlin "Diamond Session" On WRTI: Sunday, June 9th At 4 PM

Maureen Malloy — Wed, 08 May 2013 19:44:18 +0000

Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist and pianist Karrin Allyson and radio personality Bill McGlaughlin (who is also a musician, conductor, and composer!) visited the WRTI performance studio last month and treated a few lucky guests to an amazing show. It was a fantastic afternoon in celebration of WRTI's 60th Anniversary! Join us to hear a broadcast of the session on Sunday, June 9th at 4 pm.

AVA Opera Theater And A Verdi Favorite! May 5th At 3 PM

Jack Moore — Sat, 04 May 2013 21:29:56 +0000

Join us on Sunday at 3 pm as Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts (AVA) presents Giuseppe Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera. Drama takes center stage in this opera of political intrigue, based on a true historical event: the assassination of King Gustav III of Sweden. The king falls in love with the wife of his best friend and most trusted advisor. A love triangle turns deadly as jealousy leads to conspiracy, murder, and betrayal at a masked ball. Sunday, May 5, 3 to 6 pm.

The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia And A Program Of Freedom: April 21, 4:30 PM

Jack Moore — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 19:58:25 +0000

Ignat Solzhenitsyn, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia's conductor laureate, is on the podium for this month's broadcast. Maestro Solzhenitsyn has devised a program with a connection to the idea of freedom that he explains as follows:

The Crossing Performs Thomas Lloyd's "Bonhoeffer" on WRTI

Jim Cotter — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:50:04 +0000

Listen on Sunday, April 14th, 4 to 6 pm, as The Crossing chamber choir sings the broadcast premiere of Thomas Lloyd's concert-length work, Bonhoeffer. The concert was recorded at the Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral this past March.

Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia: Leshnoff and Mendelssohn, March 24, 5 PM on ENCORE!

Dave Conant — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 13:11:41 +0000

Tune in on Sunday, March 24th for our monthly broadcast of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. Music Director Dirk Brosse will conduct the ensemble in the world premiere of Jonathan Leshnoff's Cello Concerto, featuring renowned Russian cellist Nina Kotova. The program also includes Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 1. Sunday, March 24th, 5 to 6 pm.

http://youtu.be/K3ENRbIVZR0

Keeping Score: 13 Days When Music Changed Forever, March 24 at 4 PM

Jack Moore — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:51:07 +0000

It was April 7, 18o5: Beethoven turned the music world on its ear at the premiere of what - up until that time - was the longest, most complicated symphonic work ever composed. His 3rd symphony, the Eroica, changed our idea of what music could express.

Instead of classical form and rarified beauty, the symphony laid out the full range of human feelings and emotions. The first public performance of Beethoven's Eroica is the theme for this Sunday's show. March 24, 4 to 5 pm.

Mendelssohn and Schumann: Symphony in C on ENCORE!

Jack Moore — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 13:18:48 +0000

WRTI presents Symphony in C under the baton of Music Director Rossen Milanov on March 17th at 4 pm. Written when Mendelssohn was only 17, his Midsummer Night's Dream Overture was the first "concert overture" - a work not intended to introduce a dramatic presentation, but to represent, complete in itself, a literary work, or story, or place.

Academy of Vocal Arts on WRTI: Massenet's DON QUICHOTTE, March 10th, 3 pm

Jessica Schultz — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:54:07 +0000

Join us on Sunday afternoon for an AVA Opera special broadcast! Jules Massenet's DON QUICHOTTE is a lyrical ode to the chivalrous idealist Don Quixote. Loosely based on the popular Cervantes novel, the opera is immediately inspired by Le chevalier de la Longue Figure, a play by the poet Jacques Le Lorrain. The tale of Don Quixote meets the music of Massenet, complete with Spanish serenades and a profoundly poignant finale.

Keeping Score: 13 Days When Music Changed Forever on ENCORE!

Jack Moore — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 14:02:21 +0000

It's August 8, 1803, and Parisian Piano Maker Sebastien Erard Gives One of His Sturdy New Creations to Beethoven - a new piano! With this instrument, the composer was able to set aside his forte piano and write more expressive and emotional music, beginning with the Waldstein Sonata.