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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.
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Eugene Ormandy Collection of Photographs, 1880-1992, University of PennsylvaniaJoin 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. -
Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia OrchestraYannick Nézet-Séguin leads generous excerpts from Sergei Prokofiev’s legendary ballet Romeo and Juliet, as well as a recently rediscovered Funeral Song by Igor Stravinsky.
Béla Fleck at Vintage Instruments
Watch the banjo virtuoso's full conversation with Nate Chinen, for The Late Set.
The Late Set Podcast
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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. -
Mark Turner is a modern master, a tenor saxophonist whose influence on the jazz tradition can hardly be overstated. So we're thrilled to talk with him about his new ECM album, Patternmaster, and some of the speculative fiction (and actual music) that inspired it.
WRTI News Stories
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Tune in this Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on 90.1 FM, and streaming at wrti.org, to hear the new episode of The Late Set Radio Hour, featuring pianist and composer Renee Rosnes. -
This Saturday's broadcast of 'The Met Opera on WRTI' will feature Giuseppe Verdi's tragic opera, La Traviata. -
Meet 17 year-old violist Isaiah Rose, a Philadelphia Music Alliance for Youth (PMAY) artist, and member of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, and Settlement Music School’s Advanced Study program.
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