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The Black Music City project has announced that for a second year it will provide grants to Black creatives to produce more new artistic works inspired by Philadelphia’s rich Black music history. With additional funding being sought, it is anticipated that a total of nearly $100,000 will be awarded.

Throw on Joey DeFrancesco’s new album, More Music, and you’re met almost immediately with the sound of an organ. Of course you are; DeFrancesco’s the most celebrated jazz organist in the world—what’d you expect? But this organ, this organ player… something sounds different, more subdued—earth tones compared to the boisterous musical pastels and neons we’ve grown accustomed to hearing from DeFrancesco.

Pianist Isata and cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason are British sibling classical virtuosos. Still in their twenties, the star soloists have just released their first joint album.

Today is the second annual noncomMUSIC alliance Public Radio Music Day!

Liane speaks with Weekend Edition Sunday music director Ned Wharton about the latest crop of new releases on CD.

A new album, marking the Russian composer's 90th birthday, is packed with probing works for huge symphonic forces.

The Metropolitan Opera is back on WRTI! Saturday, December 4th at 1 PM, tune in for a performance of Matthew Aucoin's new opera, Eurydice, an intriguing updated version of the Orpheus myth. Here, the composer talks with us about the power of music and words, grief and love, and about the ways in which the story speaks to us today.

"I predicted the pandemic wouldn't change live music," says Rio Sakairi, Artistic Director for the NYC jazz club. "And it hasn't."

Harmony Holiday believes the best jazz of 2021 reclaimed a spiritual genius, after what seems like decades of efforts to anesthetize it.

Nostalgia tends to dominate our respective listening habits. This year saw the excavation of various titles from the annals of time.