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.
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Join us on Sunday, April 13 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Mahler's Symphony No. 9 in D major and a moving new work by Jake Heggie: Songs for Murdered Sisters, performed by baritone Joshua Hopkins with a libretto by Margaret Atwood. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the program.
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Join us on Sunday, April 6 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, April 7 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a France-focused program from the 2024/2025 season featuring Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz, and the Cello Concerto written in 2008 by Guillaume Connesson, featuring soloist Gautier Capuçon.
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Bassist Endea Owens specializes in the kind of buoyant uplift that just won’t quit. You can see her putting it into practice on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, or with her band The Cookout. At the 2025 Winter Jazzfest, we talked about her TV gig, her sense of mission, and her resilient journey.
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