The Philadelphia Orchestra Performs for the President of Mongolia

His Excellency President Elbegdorj — the leader of the growing democracy situated between China and Russia — spent last Friday, September 23rd in Philadelphia, following the conclusion of his work at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

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Setting the Stage with Richard Wagner

On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, this Saturday at 5 pm on WRTI... Looking over the landscape of American orchestral music covering the 19th and into the 20th centuries as we have been, we see two names—not American—looming large. One is Beethoven, the other, Wagner. They are still huge now; imagine them in the eyes of American musicians then.

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The Wanamaker Organ with Four Hands and Flugelhorn Sunday at 5 PM on WRTI

This week on the Wanamaker Organ Hour, host Peter Richard Conte welcomes back organist and flugelhornist Andrew Ennis as special guest. On the broadcast will be music they’ve performed on the Wanamaker Organ as soloists and together in four-hand arrangements. Plus, Peter accompanies Andrew on flugelhorn, the softer, mellower cousin of the trumpet, on a few works.

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Which Comes First in Creating an Opera? Words or Music?

Opera is emotion magnified; at any given moment the mood pervading the stage is in stark relief. How does this enthralling amalgam of music, story, and feeling, come together? WRTI’s Meridee Duddleston asked this question of operatic proportion to notable librettist Mark Campbell.

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Tunes that Made the '20s Roar!

A new book looks into the tunes that put the "roar" in "The Roaring Twenties." WRTI's Susan Lewis spoke with the author of Tunes of the Twenties and All That Jazz: The Stories Behind the Songs. Radio Script [Music: “Jelly Roll Blues,” Jelly Roll Morton, 1915]New Orleans–style music ushered in the decade. Jelly Roll Morton’s “Jelly Roll Blues” was published in 1915 and recorded in 1926, when the music business was shifting its focus from sales of sheet music to sales of records.Bob Rawlins: Now the real market for a song is not for the parlor, but for the professional singer or musician; now the composers could really get into it and write more complicated melodies. Musician and Rowan University music professor Bob Rawlins is the author of Tunes of the Twenties, a compilation of stories and information on 250 songs, from the '20s as well as years on either side of that decade. It was, says Rawlins, an era of experimentation.Rawlins: They were exploring the creative possibilities before

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Today is iPad Pro Tuesday!

Pledge today only and you could win the newest version of Apple’s incredibly popular iPad! It’s a 9.7 inch, 32 GB Apple Wi-Fi iPad Pro. It's thin, light, fast, and the most powerful of all the iPads available.

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Missy Mazzoli’s Breakthrough in BREAKING THE WAVES

Opera Philadelphia’s latest new opera Breaking the Waves turned into one of the company’s big successes. The Philadelphia Inquirer’s David Patrick Stearns considers how this story of a Scottish woman whose marital devotion takes her to a sordid end could be something to sing about.

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