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Listen to The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert on Demand
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Jeff Fusco/The Philadelphia OrchestraJoin us on Sunday, Feb. 22 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Feb. 23 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 for the final concert of the 2024-25 season, as Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads works by Mozart, St-Georges and Prokofiev — along with Shostakovich's first Cello Concerto, featuring Sheku Kanneh-Mason. -
Allie Ippolito/The Philadelphia OrchestraJoin us on Sunday, Feb. 15 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, Feb. 16 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2, as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a program pairing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with Florence Price's Piano Concerto, featuring Lara Downes.
The Late Set Podcast
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Search high and low, in this world and beyond, and you won't ever find another Sun Ra. So we're excited about the broadcast premiere of Sun Ra: Do the Impossible on PBS. Our own Nate Chinen is a commentator in the film — and so is our guest this episode, the author and critic Marcus J. Moore, who brings a multilayered appreciation of Sun Ra's artistry to our conversation. Space is the Place! -
How do we feel about this year’s Grammy Awards? We'll attempt to answer that question before diving deep into a conversation with bassist Dezron Douglas, conducted onstage before a recent quartet show at Solar Myth.
WRTI News Stories
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On his new album, the violinist completely rethinks The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams, and leans into old folk songs with the help of Sam Amidon. -
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell lavished money on the Interlochen Center for the Arts to gain access, documents show. In the process, two teenagers were pulled into their orbit. -
Edward Gorey's classic children's book The Gashlycrumb Tinies inspired Carla Kihlstedt to create a song cycle for singing violinist and chamber orchestra. She's about to perform that piece, 26 Little Deaths, twice in the Philadelphia area, courtesy of Network for New Music.
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