Crossover

Join Jill Pasternak for highlights from interviews with three opera icons: Tenor Stephen Costello, baritone Thomas Hampson, and tenor Salvatore Licitra who died tragically this past September in a Vespa accident; he was only 43 years old. Jill interviewed him in 2005.

Enjoy Opera Day on WRTI!

Philadelphia Orchestra Principal Harpist Elizabeth Hainen is Jill Pasternak's guest this week.

Elizabeth Hainen's website

Join Jill Pasternak as she interviews multiple Grammy Award-winning guitarist Sharon Isbin. Her latest CD, Sharon Isbin & Friends: Guitar Passions is highlighted.

• More about Sharon Isbin Here

Organist Marilyn Keiser is Jill Pasternak's guest this week. She'll be in Philadelphia performing on the Kimmel Center's Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ on November 5th.

More Information:

• Marilyn Keiser's website

Jill Pasternak and Maureen Malloy bring you a conversation with legendary jazz instrumentalist, band leader, and arranger Jimmy Heath. Jimmy and his brother, Albert "Tootie" Heath, will perform at the Kimmel Center on October 15th in the first installment of the Jazz Up Close series.

• More about Jimmy Heath

Join Jill Pasternak when she speaks with members of the India Music and Dance Society (SRUTI) about the two styles of Indian classical music, Carnatic and Hindustani, and about upcoming performances of this music at the Independence Seaport Museum on September 3rd and 4th.

More Information:

• India Music and Dance Society

In an interview from 2009, Jill Pasternak speaks with Dan Franklin Smith about his work as music director of the chamber ensemble Elysium, and his career as a concert pianist.

• Dan Franklin Smith's website

Join Jill Pasternak for a candid interview from 2010 with the distinguished pianist Garrick Ohlsson. Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess.

• Watch and Listen: Garrick Ohlsson plays Chopin Etude Op.10, No.1

Jill Pasternak interviews iconic film composer Michel Legrand. He has over 200 film scores to his credit, including the soundtrack for The Thomas Crown Affair featuring the standard, "The Windmills of Your Mind."

• Michel Legrand's website

Vocalist Anna Bergman, whose versatile career spans from Broadway to opera to cabaret, speaks with Jill Pasternak about her recent performance in honor of HM Queen Elizabeth's birthday, and more!

• Anna Bergman's website