Steve J. Sherman
Join us on Sunday, June 28 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, for Part Two of The Philadelphia Orchestra at 125, which celebrates a milestone, examining the evolution of “the Philadelphia Sound” and the conductors who have nurtured it.
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Listen to The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert on Demand
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Eugene Ormandy Collection of Photographs, 1880-1992, University of PennsylvaniaJoin us on Sunday, June 28 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, June 29 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 for an encore presentation: Part Two of The Philadelphia Orchestra at 125, which celebrates a milestone, examining the evolution of “the Philadelphia Sound” and the conductors who have nurtured it. -
Christoph Köstlin/Deutsche GrammophonJoin us on Sunday, June 14 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, June 15 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads The Philadelphia Orchestra in Stravinsky's revolutionary Le Sacre du Printemps and Ravel's 'Mother Goose Suite,' and Seong-Jin Cho performs Shostakovich's first Piano Concerto.
Emmet Cohen from inside the WRTI Performance Studio
Watch pianist Emmet Cohen and tenor saxophonist Tivon Pennicott play a deconstructed version of Cohen's "Universal Truth" suite.
The Late Set Podcast
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When Chris Speed formed Yeah No in the late 1990s, there was no lane for its hybrid style. Things are different now for Speed and his bandmates — trumpeter Cuong Vu, bassist Skúli Sverrisson, and drummer Jim Black — but their rapport is as deep and distinctive as ever. Before a reunion show at Solar Myth, Speed and Black sat down with Nate Chinen to talk about that journey, and share their views on the current scene. -
Miles Davis is a source of endless fascination — so for his centennial episode, we decided to sit down and compare highlights, including some of the less celebrated turns and pivots in a famously forward-thinking career.
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The record executive was instrumental in shepherding the successful careers of a number of monumental music stars, including Aretha Franklin, Bruce Springsteen, Janis Joplin, Billy Joel and Whitney Houston. -
When Bobbi I. Booker thinks about Father's Day, she thinks about music, and the men in her life who showed how to engage with it. She offers her reflections in advance of a special edition of Spirit Soul Music, airing Sunday from 6 to 9 a.m. -
Tune in on Saturday, June 20 at 12 p.m. to hear La Scala's production of Shostakovich's opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, as a part of the WFMT Opera Series.
