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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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The wooden vessel is called "Noah's Violin." As it floated through Venice's Grand Canal on Saturday, members of the string quartet on board serenaded viewers with their own (real) instruments. -
At a time in which we’ve been largely deprived of two of life’s great privileges — international travel and the chance to dance collectively — Lise de la Salle’s dazzling new album When Do We Dance? miraculously captures the essence of both.
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He appeared on more than 200 albums and toured the world playing with some of the greatest jazz, pop, R&B, and soul artists of our era.
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Join us on Sunday, September 19th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, September 20th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 to hear a 2017 Philadelphia Orchestra concert conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. It brings us works by two composers born almost 150 years apart, whose music expresses profound religious faith.
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Join us September 18th at 11 AM during Saturday Morning Classical Coffeehouse to hear four of Astral’s stellar musicians in an intriguing, high-energy program. WRTI’s Debra Lew Harder is your host.
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History has painted composer Anton Bruckner as a simple man who gave the world complex and innovative symphonies. Bruckner’s 8th symphony, which premiered in December of 1892, is a spiritual masterpiece.
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A founder of the Newport Folk Festival, the Newport Jazz Festival and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival — and perhaps the most important jazz impresario of all time — died Monday.
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There are certainly unique and flavorful totems of what it means to be Philadelphian: soft pretzels, cheese-steaks and everything Tastykake. You can get…
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As Philadelphia’s fifth Poet Laureate, Trapeta Mayson merges her love of art with her love of community through words often accompanied by jazz music. Her…
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