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Mozart and Beethoven in Concert at the Met

February 24, 2024, 12:00 pm

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin led the Met Orchestra and Chorus in A Concert for Ukraine at the Metropolitan Opera on March 14, 2022. Soloists for Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 were soprano Elza van dan Heever, mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, tenor Piotr Beczała, and bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green. (Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera)

Two concert presentations of pivotal classical works. In performances from February 2023 and March 2022, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Golda Schultz, Emily D’Angelo, Dmytro Popov, Vladyslav Buialskyi, Elza van den Heever, Jamie Barton, Piotr Beczała, and Ryan Speedo Green.

Meet the Host

Debra Lew Harder joined the on-air staff of WRTI in 2016. She hosted and produced a range of programming across WRTI on-air and digital platforms, such as Midday Classics and Saturday Morning Classical Coffeehouse, in addition to serving as an artist interviewer for the Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcasts. She is a concert pianist who has performed with orchestras and in recitals, including at Wigmore Hall in London, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, and Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia. She has also recorded two solo piano albums.

Lew Harder holds Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine degrees from Kent State University and Northeast Ohio Medical University. She practiced as an emergency room physician before earning a second doctorate in music from the Ohio State University, where she studied piano with the American virtuoso Earl Wild.

Lew Harder served on the applied music faculty of Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges, and she is the co-director of Medicine + Music, a co-curricular program at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University that works closely with medical students through coachings, rehearsals, workshops, and performance opportunities to enhance their happiness and development as physicians.

Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho

Mozart and Beethoven in Concert at the Met