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.
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Tune in on April 5 and 6 for The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert to hear a complete concert performance of Handel's Messiah
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Join us for a special two-week series on The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert as we celebrate the ensemble's 125th anniversary. We'll explore the evolution of “the Philadelphia Sound” across the tenure of its eight music directors.
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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In the hands of Béla Fleck, a banjo is a skeleton key, capable of unlocking almost any musical door. For this episode, he joins us in the banjo parlor at Vintage Instruments to talk musical legacies, personal histories, and how his perspective has changed (and how it hasn’t) over the course of a nearly five-decade career.
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Ryan Speedo Green assumes the title role in Don Giovanni, broadcast live via the Met Opera's Saturday matinee series on April 11.
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On a new album, the experimental vocal group Roomful of Teeth and songwriter Gabriel Kahane take up residence in a multidimensional hotel with a time-traveling elevator and a quirky clientele.
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This Saturday's broadcast of 'The Met Opera on WRTI' will feature a 1968 performance of Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda in celebration of the opera's 150th anniversary.
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