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Bassist Ben Williams is a rising jazz star. He won the 2009 Thelonious Monk Competition and received a recording contract for his debut album, State of Art, which was released this summer. Williams brought his band Sound Effect to perform two songs from that album at the NPR Music offices.

Since girls in the U.S. began having the public ceremony 100 years ago, more and more women have taken on a larger role in Jewish life, including becoming rabbis.

Watch violinist Daniel Hope play Beethoven from the composer's own birth house in Bonn, Germany.

The ebullient nonagenarian's new recording features music she's been playing for nearly a century.

The late Icelandic composer's magnum opus unfolds like a ritual, combining a potent mix of tradition and technology.

Netrebko and Gergiev dip into Russian politics, Elgar reemerges and Mahler rocks Caracas: all the news that's fit to link.

While Russian artists and institutions grapple with how they are viewed internationally, American cultural organizations make what amounts to foreign policy decisions.

Join us on Sunday, September 18th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, September 19th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a performance recorded live in December, 2021.

The conductor has announced his diagnosis with an aggressive form of brain cancer and plans to step down as the group's artistic director.

We're spotlighting women in classical music and jazz on International Women's Day with an all-day celebration of women classical composers and jazz artists.