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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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Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia OrchestraJoin 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. -
Stuttgart Radio Symphony/The Philadelphia OrchestraJoin 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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