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Terence Blanchard made history last season when his opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones was the first work by a Black composer staged by the Metropolitan Opera. And the Met has asked for more.

As an improviser, on piano and vibraphone, and as co-founder of the Creative Music Studio, Karl Berger had an outsize influence on the jazz avant-garde. He died on April 9, at 88.

Let the new music sextet yMusic serenade you with a light-as-air track from a forthcoming album.

National Symphony Orchestra Music Director Gianandrea Noseda is reshaping the ensemble's sound with the help of 17th and 18th century instruments he purchased secretly.

Gretchen Parlato's new album 'Lean In' highlights her deep simpatico with West African guitarist Lionel Loueke — and explores the ins and outs of motherhood. She opened up about that subject in a recent conversation with WRTI.

Fieldwork, Chucho Valdés and Keyon Harrold are among the highlights in Moment's Notice, WRTI’s weekly digest of jazz listings in the Philadelphia area.

New recordings of old jazz performances at Baltimore's now-closed Famous Ballroom are being released for the first time.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin calls the Ninth Symphony "Mahler at his purest." Hear a sublime 2019 performance in this encore presentation of The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert on WRTI.

In its Tiny Desk performance, the trio makes music strictly for the moment — creating a shared language in real time.

A new production of Mozart's 'Don Giovanni,' directed by Ivo van Hove and conducted by Nathalie Stuzmann, has earned acclaim. WRTI's own Mike Bolton explores the opera's themes, and its complex moral web.