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The Metropolitan Opera is back on WRTI! Saturday, December 4th at 1 PM, tune in for a performance of Matthew Aucoin's new opera, Eurydice, an intriguing updated version of the Orpheus myth. Here, the composer talks with us about the power of music and words, grief and love, and about the ways in which the story speaks to us today.
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Swift's reverence for this music’s history and her respect for its composers and lyricists asserts itself with every old show tune or standard she dusts off and makes devastatingly hip again—or for the first time. -
Composer Wynton Marsalis shares his inspiration for his expansive and lyrical Blues Symphony. This recording captures the excitement of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s performance in December, 2019.
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"Books to Movies" week on Flix@5 starts on September 13th, and the music from two of the films we're featuring remind me of sunny days in Spain back in the 1980s, and trying my hand at the most Spanish of spectacles.
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We mark the 20th Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a special Saturday Classical Coffeehouse program for reflection, remembrance, and healing, hosted by Mike Bolton.
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Trinity Church Wall Street commissioned Robert Moran’s Trinity Requiem for the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 destruction of New York’s World Trade Center. On the 20th anniversary, the music still resonates deeply.
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Listen on Sunday, Sept. 12th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Sept. 13th on WRTI HD-2 and the WRTI Classical Stream.
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Schaap was one of the leading jazz scholars in America and the genre's foremost evangelist. He died at 70, after a long battle with cancer.
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When it comes to the tradition of innovative Philadelphia tenor saxophonist-composers, Odean Pope is heavenly high atop that list. Growing up,…
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Pianist Orrin Evans likes to refer to his extended music family as “The Village.” It’s an inviting and inclusive term that encompasses not only his…
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