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Coming up on Now is the Time...Recent opera by Daron Hagen, commissioned by University of Nevada Las Vegas. This Sunday, April 1st at 10 pm on HD-2 and…

WRTI's Susan Lewis looks at the history of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, and how it continues to serve both the scientific community…

David Patrick Stearns profiles the composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, who conducts The Philadelphia Orchestra this week.

If classic jazz has a contemporary voice, it's that of guitarist, vocalist and bandleader John Pizzarelli. He's fashioned an ultra-cool style that's both modern and rooted in the jazz tradition. Here, the John Pizzarelli Trio swings on "Here Comes the Sun" before Pizzarelli and McPartland perform "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning."

Vocalist and composer Gregory Porter has released his much-awaited sophomore album, Be Good, the follow-up to Water, which made huge waves in the jazz…

The WRTI Spring Member Drive raised over $250,000 because of the commitment of over 2,400 new and renewing members who invested in classical music and…

A transposed tenor on pop, an inspiring orchestra on tour and the iPad on music stands: all the classical music news that's fit to link.

Popular culture would have it that, according to Mayan lore, the world will end in December, 2012. A new exhibition at the University of Pennsylvania…

Pianist and competition founder Van Cliburn, one of classical music's megastars, has 150 items going to auction at Christie's, from silver owned by the Russian tsars to his mother's Steinway piano. The sale is expected to bring in more than $3 million.

In Boston, three professors and musical virtuosos meet weekly to give concerts of free improvisation — and have for four decades. One fan tells us about how she saw The Fringe so many times, the manager of the club finally offered her a job tending bar.