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The tribute project Anything Mose! breathes new life into the music of the late Mose Allison. We peer inside his blend of blues and jazz with ironic lyrics, and get stories from Allison's widow.

Join us on Sunday, April 7 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, April 8 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you an encore performance from the 2021-22 season.

On a new album, Odesa, written in tribute to his father, the pianist, former child prodigy and composer also paints a portrait of the album's namesake, currently in the midst of a Russian invasion.

Join us on Monday, April 1 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 for an encore presentation of The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert. Former Principal Guest Conductor Nathalie Stutzmann is on the podium and celebrated pianist Emanuel Ax returns to perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major.

In music of translucent constancy, the Pulitzer-winning composer finds philosophical questions — and comfort — in the Old Testament.

Bucking the trend for atonal music, the American was a proud purveyor of lyrica opera. Hoiby, whose songs were championed by Leontyne Price, was not a jet-setting star, but preferred to compose in the country.

The trio of players, all from Detroit, along with producer and author Sue Mingus, will be celebrated in a tribute concert next spring.

Pianist Joan Stiles is known for her brilliant playing, painted by a deep understanding of the roots of jazz. As a full-time educator, Stiles has been presenting the music of Mary Lou Williams for the past decade. She also knows how to swing on a Monk tune or two.

Blending jazz, soul, Brazilian vocalese and classical, Spalding creates music with broad appeal. With Chamber Music Society, the bassist and composer harkens back to her classical music training with a string section.

On Sept. 12, 1910, Gustav Mahler introduced his Symphony No. 8 -- a massive, hulking work featuring an enormous double chorus and the largest orchestra ever put on stage at the time. Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas says he thought it was the most "grotesque assemblage of noises" he had ever heard. But many years later, he has recorded a Grammy-winning version of the symphony.