Classical Guitar Alive

Thursday, 9 to 9:58 pm on HD-2 and the classical stream

Join host Tony Morris to hear the best recordings of works for classical guitar.

Classical and World Music Come Together for Guitarist Jason Vieaux

By • Apr 23, 2017

He won the 2015 Grammy award for "Best Classical Instrumental Solo" for his album, Play, and he collaborates with musicians in a wide variety of styles. WRTI’s Susan Lewis has more on classical guitar virtuoso Jason Vieaux.


This Is Not The Musical Theme You'd Expect for 'The Deer Hunter'

By Kile Smith • Oct 25, 2015

The violence in this Vietnam War film is noteworthy even among war films, and is controversial for a depiction of something no one has said they have ever witnessed: a scene where North Vietnamese soldiers force prisoners to play Russian roulette.

Now Is the Time Theme Music

By Kile Smith • Jun 16, 2013

Now is the Time—contemporary American music on WRTI-HD2 and online, Saturday nights at 9—ought to have theme music, I thought in the weeks leading up to our first broadcast on June 1st, 2008. I started looking through works of mine, as I did with the theme for Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, to see if anything would fit.

I looked over everything that had survived ritual burning up to that point, and the only piece that came close was a curious Four Hymns for Four Guitars, written in, wow, 1985 for the amiable Philadelphia Guitar Quartet. Wonderful guys all, astute musicians, and very helpful when I was working on it.