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Marty Sohl / Met Opera/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. -
Randy Beach/Early music has been a lifelong passion of conductor Nicholas McGegan. It’s also informed the efforts of composers known for quite different styles,…
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May 6, 2018. Releasing an album that contains six original compositions, a couple of standards, a Lennon/McCartney interpretation, and a trip to church is… -
A small group of musicians from The Philadelphia Orchestra are organizing a chamber music concert to benefit local Syrian refugees on May 7th at 6 pm at…
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April 30, 2018. What a fascinating study of an instrument not frequently heard in a solo role: the viola! On Motherland, superstar violist David Aaron…
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April 30, 2018. In his heyday, trumpeter Eddie Henderson was a famous multitasker. He practiced general medicine by day, and played jazz at night. Eddie’s…
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Described as "a first class talent" with “poetic use of color and confidently expressive phrasing,” by The Philadelphia Inquirer, Ching-Yun Hu’s star has…
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The great Ella Fitzgerald was born on April 25th, 1917, and died in 1996. As WRTI’s Susan Lewis reports, "The Queen of Jazz" - also called "The First Lady…
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Though she was blessed with impeccable intonation, a distinctive sound, and a superb sense of timing, Ella Fitzgerald was hindered in her early years by…
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The second movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7—the Allegretto—has captivated listeners since the symphony’s 1813 premiere, when it was so popular that…
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April 23, 2018. We all know Van Morrison as a crooner, just different from the ones heard regularly on WRTI. On You’re Driving Me Crazy, Van Morrison…
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Frank Zappa (1940-1993) became famous as a rock musician whose lyrics had the ability to shock. Less well-known was the wide range of his musical…
