Tune in on Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on 90.1 FM, and streaming at wrti.org, as The Late Set Radio Hour brings us to the Louis Armstrong House Museum in Corona, Queens — and on a listening tour of Satchmo's career.
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Listen to The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert on Demand
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Eugene Ormandy Collection of Photographs, 1880-1992, University of PennsylvaniaJoin us on Sunday, June 28 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, June 29 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 for an encore presentation: Part Two of The Philadelphia Orchestra at 125, which celebrates a milestone, examining the evolution of “the Philadelphia Sound” and the conductors who have nurtured it. -
Christoph Köstlin/Deutsche GrammophonJoin us on Sunday, June 14 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, June 15 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads The Philadelphia Orchestra in Stravinsky's revolutionary Le Sacre du Printemps and Ravel's 'Mother Goose Suite,' and Seong-Jin Cho performs Shostakovich's first Piano Concerto.
Emmet Cohen from inside the WRTI Performance Studio
Watch pianist Emmet Cohen and tenor saxophonist Tivon Pennicott play a deconstructed version of Cohen's "Universal Truth" suite.
The Late Set Podcast
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When Chris Speed formed Yeah No in the late 1990s, there was no lane for its hybrid style. Things are different now for Speed and his bandmates — trumpeter Cuong Vu, bassist Skúli Sverrisson, and drummer Jim Black — but their rapport is as deep and distinctive as ever. Before a reunion show at Solar Myth, Speed and Black sat down with Nate Chinen to talk about that journey, and share their views on the current scene. -
Miles Davis is a source of endless fascination — so for his centennial episode, we decided to sit down and compare highlights, including some of the less celebrated turns and pivots in a famously forward-thinking career.
WRTI News Stories
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Freedom means many different things, and as we barrel toward America’s 250th, we’re giving some thought about what it means to our music. You could do worse than to peruse what’s happening on the scene in the coming week, as laid out in Moment's Notice. -
Tune into WRTI on July 5 from 3-6 p.m. to hear a special Independence Day edition of Sunday Classical: New Releases. Host Mark Pinto will be playing highlights from new albums, many of which focus on America's 250th anniversary. -
This month's edition of Fanfare is a little different. Zev Kane provides a detailed programming overview of Sounds of America, WRTI's special programming for Independence Day weekend.
