Join us on Sunday afternoons and Monday evenings to hear The Philadelphia Orchestra, led by Music and Artistic Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, in concerts from Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.
The ensemble has a venerable history of radio broadcasts, as the first orchestra with its own commercially sponsored national radio series, beginning in 1929 on NBC. This weekly series of radio broadcasts marks the return of the Orchestra to the airwaves. Melinda Whiting is our host, Alex Ariff is the producer, and Susan Lewis is lead interviewer.
Listen at 90.1 FM, on the WRTI mobile app, or on your smart speaker. And you can listen on-demand for up to two weeks via each episode's landing page or on WRTI Replay.
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This week in Fanfare: Paavo Järvi leads The Philadelphia Orchestra in a concert of Prokofiev and Debussy, among other exalted highlights.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a program of Mozart and Price, plus a world premiere by French-Argentine composer Esteban Benzecry. Yannick Nézet-Séguin is on the podium, and welcomes his frequent collaborator, Hélène Grimaud, as piano soloist.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra's main concert hall will soon be renamed Marian Anderson Hall, honoring a legendary contralto and civil rights icon — and a lifelong Philadelphian.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert presents Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 (“Titan”) with guest conductor Rafael Payare, as well as a new piano concerto composed by Jimmy López Bellido for Javier Perianes.
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If one ever needed proof of Philadelphia as a thriving center of classical music, they need only to consider this week's lineup in Fanfare.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, a recent work by Indian-American composer Reena Esmail, and Haydn’s First Cello Concerto, featuring principal cellist Hai-Ye Ni. Guest conductor David Robertson is on the podium.
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Whether we’re talking Marlboro or the Main Line, this week’s concert calendar is absolutely stacked. As always, Fanfare is here to help.
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The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Haydn’s Horn Concerto No. 1, featuring Jennifer Montone, and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 6. On the podium is acclaimed guest conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.
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"The rhythm is really what makes it magical," says pianist Marcus Roberts of Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue,' first heard a century ago. Before he performed the piece with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Roberts stopped by WRTI to talk about its legacy with Nate Chinen.
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Daniel Matsukawa, principal bassoon of The Philadelphia Orchestra, performs a concerto by Clarice Assad — part of our new episode of The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert, also featuring music by Rachmaninoff and Berio.