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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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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.
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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.
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This week in Moment's Notice: Irreversible Entanglements, a Bill Frisell birthday duet, and John Pizzarelli salutes Tony Bennett. -
Fanfare covers a two-week period, with choice offerings from PCMS, the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, Vox Ama Deus and more. -
One of the most celebrated classical artists of our time, pianist Víkingur Ólafsson opens a dialogue with Beethoven on his new album, 'Opus 109.' Before his concert in Philadelphia, he talked with Zev Kane about time travel, synesthesia, and the wonders of Icelandic moss.
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