Herbie Hancock presides over the International Jazz Day All-Star Global Concert in Chicago on Thursday, April 30 at 8 p.m. ET. Watch the video stream here at WRTI.
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Listen to The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert on Demand
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Allie Ippolito/The Philadelphia OrchestraJoin us on Sunday, April 26 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, April 27 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 for Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra performing Jennifer Higdon's Concerto for Orchestra, Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini, and the Sibelius Violin Concerto with Lisa Batiashvili as soloist. -
Jessica Griffin / The Philadelphia OrchestraJoin us on Sunday, April 19 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, April 20 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 and Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Four Winds, featuring Orchestra principals. Esa-Pekka Salnonen conducts.
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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We're getting ready to celebrate International Jazz Day, at a moment of roiling global tensions. It feels like a great time to connect with Kresten Osgood — a Danish drummer, composer and commentator, host of the podcast Dangerous Sounds. -
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Chicago is hosting this year's International Jazz Day. NPR's A Martinez speaks with Nate Chinen, who is covering the event for Philadelphia's WRTI jazz station. -
Closing out April is soloist Leila Josefowicz with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Shakespeare productions from Curtis Opera Theatre and the Philadelphia Ballet, and violinist Itzhak Perlman. -
Jazz Appreciation Month concludes with local jazz performances by artists from across the globe.
