Susan Lewis
Consulting ProducerSusan is a consulting producer for The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series on WRTI, and contributes weekly intermission interviews with conductors and artists featured in the broadcasts.
In her more than 15 years at WRTI, Susan has interviewed a wide range of leading artists including conductors and composers: Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Simon Rattle, Wynton Marsalis, Marin Alsop, and Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Christoph Eshenbach, Hannibal Locumbe, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Jennifer Higdon, Donald Nally, John Adams, Valerie Coleman, Mason Bates; instrumentalists and vocalists: Yo-Yo Ma, Lang Lang, Itzak Perlman, Helene Grimaud, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Sharon Isbin, Andre Watts, Mark O’Connor, Angel Blue, Lawrence Brownlee, Jason Vieaux, Sarah Chang, and groundbreaking ensembles, including Imani Winds, PRISM Quartet, LA Guitar Quartet, Eighth Blackbird, and The Crossing, as well as people from the world of literature, theater and fine arts, including architect Frank Gehry, actors Dule Hill, Anna Deveare Smith, and playwrights Terry Teachout and the late Terrence McNally.
She has authored many stories about music and the arts for WRTI, and produced and was host of WRTI’s TIME IN online interview series. She also hosted WRTI’s Live from the Performance Studio sessions.
Susan came to radio with a background in journalism, speechwriting, and law, which she practiced in New York City; she also taught entertainment law at Rutgers Law School in Camden. A former freelance writer and columnist for Philadelphia Magazine, she’s also the author of Reinventing Ourselves after Motherhood and a book of essays titled, What is a Kiss, Anyway?
She lives in suburban Philadelphia with her husband, goldendoodle, and whichever of her four grown kids pop in to visit.
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Join us on Sunday, March 17 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, March 18 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a performance recorded live in January, 2022.
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Join us on Sunday, Oct. 2 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a performance recorded live in January, 2022.
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Join us on Sunday, Sept. 25 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, Sept. 26 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a performance recorded live in January, 2022.
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Join us on Sunday, September 18th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, September 19th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a performance recorded live in December, 2021.
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Join us on Sunday, April 14 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, April 15 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you an encore presentation of a concert from the 2021-22 season, with Nathalie Stutzmann conducting works by Franz Schubert and Missy Mazzoli.
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Join us on Sunday, August 21st at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, August 22nd at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcast brings you a performance recorded live in November, 2021.
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Join us on Sunday, August 14th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, August 15th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcast brings you a performance recorded live in November, 2021 and conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
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As part of our video series, WRTI Presents Astral, Cuban-American cellist Thomas Mesa recently visited the WRTI Performance Studio and played three works that use the cello’s unique voice to respond to the pandemic and social turmoil.
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Join us on Sunday, July 10th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, July 11th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a performance with soaring melodies recorded live in April 2022 featuring works by Vivaldi, Kreisler, and Chevalier de Saint-Georges. Gil Shaham is leader and soloist.
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Astral Artist Brittany Lasch stopped by WRTI’s Performance Studio recently with pianist Thomas Weaver. Both are featured here in our video series, WRTI Presents ASTRAL.