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This week offers an embarrassment of riches in Philadelphia, with a jam-packed schedule of live classical music in nearly every shape and size imaginable. Zev Kane has all the details, in Fanfare.

Tempesta di Mare, Philadelphia's Baroque Orchestra, performs 'Juditha Triumphans' on March 16, with WRTI's Meg Bragle in the title role. The fascinating history behind Vivaldi's oratorio still carries lessons for us today.

On Sunday, Jan. 5 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Jan. 6 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2, The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Leif Ove Andsnes in Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto, and Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra. Dalia Stasevska is on the podium.

A new case taking on affirmative action in higher education is set to be heard in the Supreme Court this fall. In 2003, the court ruled that universities could consider racial diversity in admissions. But today the make-up of the court is very different. Host Michel Martin discusses the case with two law school deans.

Joseph Daley's Tuba Trio, the 34th anniversary of Chris' Jazz Cafe and more, in this week's edition of Moment's Notice from WRTI.

The Exit Zero Jazz Festival returns to Cape May, while Cuban pianist Harold López-Nussa rolls into Chris' Jazz Cafe. All that and more in this week's Moment's Notice, from WRTI.

We’re looking at another stacked week ahead for live jazz in Philadelphia. Take note of four stunning collective trios — Tarbaby, Even Odds, Wonderful Sound 3, and Fieldwork — as well as guitar hero Al Di Meola, now on the comeback trail.

A klezmer trombonist with a history of community building in Philly, Dan Blacksberg runs a series called Encounters at Studio 34 — a yoga studio that he routinely transforms into a laboratory for sound.

Join us on Sunday, February 24, 5 to 6 pm as host Bob Craig welcomes Marc Myers, author of a newly published book, Why Jazz Happened - a comprehensive…

Join Jill Pasternak and Wanamaker Grand Court Organist Peter Richard Conte in our monthly program, recorded at Macy's Center City, on the world-famous…