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Operavores, this is for you! WRTI's annual Opera Day is coming up on Saturday, November 13th from 6 AM to 6 PM with a special theme: The Greatest Moments in Opera. It will be a celebration of the tremendous passion, drama, humor, humanity, and richness that opera has to offer.

For almost 60 years, the only recording on which Hasaan Ibn Ali’s piano playing could be heard was 1964’s The Max Roach Trio Featuring The Legendary Hasaan, an album for which Hasaan—one of the most enigmatic figures in all of Philadelphia jazz lore—did not receive top billing even though he wrote all the music.

Acclaimed Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov’s most recent album, Bach: The Art of Life, takes a personal look at J.S. Bach—the husband and father—through his music. It also includes works by his sons, and music from a notebook of compositions created for his family's studies and entertainment.

Batiste is one of several real-life musicians who consulted on the new Pixar film, about a middle-school band teacher who ends up in a fantastical realm called The Great Before.

There's always so much to prepare for Thanksgiving, but one thing you can check off your "To Do" list is finding just the right music for your holiday celebration. WRTI has that taken care of! So, be our guest all day long.

Deep in the heart of Texas, the Kronos Quartet reflects on race relations and social unrest with At War with Ourselves – 400 Years of You, by composer Michael Abels and poet Nikky Finney.

Iconic jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter has completed a long-held dream, an opera based on the mythic Greek character Iphigenia, with help from singer and bassist Esperanza Spalding.

Jazz Historian WILL FREIDWALD. Hes the author of books like –Jazz Singing: Americas Greatest Voices from Bessie Smith to Bebop to Beyond—, –Sinatra! The Song is You: A Singers Art— and a contributor to Tony Bennetts autobiography –The Good Life.— Most recently, he wrote the liner notes for Mosaic Records release of –The Complete Columbia Mildred Bailey Sessions,— a comprehensive 10 disc set of the legendary singers recordings. He talks today about Baileys influence in American music.

The Harlem Renaissance gave birth to a movement that was social, political, and artistic. To be in Harlem in the 1920s and '30s was to experience everything from the poetry of Langston Hughes to the music of Duke Ellington. Liane talks to Shawn Amos, who produced a new four-CD box set that captures the sounds of the period, and updates them with new readings. It's called Rhapsodies in Black: Words and Music from the Harlem Renaissance. (9:30) (NOTE: Rhapsodies in Black is available on Rhino Records #R2-79874).

Critic Milo Miles reviews a new 3-CD set Demons and Angels (Shanachie) collecting the recordings of blues guitarist Rev. Gary Davis.