The most crucial figure in the development of mallet percussion was Clair Omar Musser, a native of Lancaster County. His legacy lives on at a remarkable facility at Kutztown University, where we recently joined Gary Burton for a tour.
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Join us on Sunday, April 19 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, April 20 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 and Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Four Winds, featuring Orchestra principals. Esa-Pekka Salnonen conducts.
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Join us on Sunday, April 12 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, April 13 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Ravel, Strauss and Bruch, with violinist Gil Shaham and conductor Stéphane Denève.
Béla Fleck at Vintage Instruments
Watch the banjo virtuoso's full conversation with Nate Chinen, for The Late Set.
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Tomeka Reid embraces the cello’s full range—earthy to ethereal—on dance! skip! hop!. In our studio, she talks dance, AACM mentors, early inspirations, and her work as an educator and advocate.
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The Pulitzer-winning composer, whose unconventional music reflects the rugged landscapes he lives in, talks about his relationship to nature and his new piece Horizon.
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Whether you like the intimacy of chamber music, the radiance of a choir, the promise of a new opera, or the surge of a full orchestra, this week has something for you.
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Philly Jazz Month presses on, bringing the Germantown Jazz Festival, saxophonists Tia Fuller and María Grand, and the heavyweight bass duo of Christian McBride and Edgar Meyer.