On the Air

Beginning September 27, 2021, Debra will launch the Metropolitan Opera’s 2021-22 season as their new Radio Host, the fifth full-time radio host in the Met’s 90-year broadcast history.


Use the Met Opera Calendar to find out when Debra will be on the air next.

Online

Released in 2007, Debra Lew Harder Plays Chopin and Prokofiev is available for purchase on Amazon as well as streaming on Spotify.


Footage of selections from her concert and conversation program, "The Human Need for Melody," and conversing with former colleague Susan Lewis at the WRTI Performance Studio.


Footage of the lyrical first movement of Beethoven's late Sonata, Op. 110, performed at Temple University's Rock Hall in the fall of 2018.


Debra’s arrangement of Duke Ellington’s “Solitude,” originally written in 1934. He said he composed it "in 20 minutes in Chicago, standing up against the glass office enclosure waiting for another band to finish recording.”


Recorded at home, early in the pandemic. A little Liszt, Bach, and Joplin to beat the virus. Painting by Antonio Fink.