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Leading The Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski developed a signature sound that has been revered and nurtured by his successors.
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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. -
Jessica Griffin/Philadelphia OrchestraMendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3, Haydn’s Symphony No. 92, a witty tone poem by Peter Maxwell Davies, and the premiere performance of a Flute Concerto by Iranian-American composer Behzad Ranjbaran, featuring principal flute Jeffrey Khaner.
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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This week begins on the Ides of March, and there's a bit of heaviness in some of the sung works. There are also big stars in town, video game music, and the first of a series of concerts among the art at Philadelphia's newest museum. -
Tune in on Saturday, March 14 at 1 p.m. to hear WRTI's live broadcast of Puccini's Madama Butterfly, from The Metropolitan Opera. -
Who said you can never go home again? This week we have resounding evidence to the contrary.
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