Out To Lunch - New Orleans Business Podcast

It’s New Orleans: Out to Lunch

Hosted ByPeter Ricchiuti

OUT TO LUNCH finds the country's most entertaining finance professor Peter Ricchiuti conducting business New Orleans style: over lunch. Each week Peter invites guests from the New Orleans business world to join him, sometimes for fine dining others for pizza. From CEO's to startups, managers, musicians, biomed needle-movers, Silicon Bayou success stories and entrepreneurs of all stripes put aside the elevator pitch and the talking points and actually enjoy themselves. It's business, New Orleans style.
You can also hear the show on WWNO 89.9FM.

Naked Philharmonic – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

May 26, 2016 Out to Lunch Comments Off on Naked Philharmonic – Out to Lunch – It’s New Orleans

On May 22, 1796, while George Washington was still president, the first opera performance in America was staged here in New Orleans.

These days most of us think of New Orleans music as small bands playing jazz and funk. But orchestral music has been played here continuously from that night in 1796.

carlos miguel prieto

Today, Carlos Miguel Prieto leads a classical music orchestra, the Louisiana Philharmonic. 

jonathan freilich

Guitarist, composer and co-founder of The New Orleans Klezmer All Stars, Jonathan Freilich is the founder and leader of The Naked Orchestra.

The LPO plays 120 performances a year and is the orchestra for the New Orleans Opera and Ballet companies.

The Naked Orchestra has been playing since 1997 and features some of New Orleans greatest jazz musicians.

peter ricchiuti, jonathan freilich, carlos miguel prieto

On this edition of Out to Lunch, Carlos Miguel Prieto and Jonathan Freilich talk with Peter Ricchiuti about a different side of the New Orleans music business.

Photos at Commander’s Palace by Alison Moon.