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Meet clarinetist Zakyya McClenny, a graduating senior from the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts, who will attend the Peabody Institute in the fall as a music education major.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with guitarist Pat Metheny about his new album "MoonDial."

Louis Cole is a prolific musician known primarily as a drummer, but whose music over the past decade has fallen in the nexus of jazz, funk and rock. Now he's in a whole new space.

This week's Fanfare brings plenty as the season winds down, including a dual opera performance from the Circus Opera Company, a second concert from PCMS celebrating Maurice Ravel's 150th birthday, and more.

In 1989, Trump took out full-page newspaper ads demanding the death penalty "for roving bands of wild criminals." The Detroit Opera decided to program this work long before the presidential election.

He is no longer actively performing, but as Keith Jarrett ushers in his ninth decade, he's still releasing new recordings — in this case, a track from 'New Vienna,' the latest document from his final European tour. Learn more and listen here.

Pianists Jenebah Kanneh-Mason and Leif Ove Andsnes, harpist Ashley Jackson, and ensembles like Takács Quartet and the NDR Radiophilharmonie are among the highlights in our new-releases edition of Sunday Classical for May 2025. Join host Mark Pinto on WRTI on May 4 from 3-6 p.m. to hear selections from these albums.

In a fraught moment for two institutions behind the awards, this year's NEA Jazz Masters ceremony celebrated musicians who have upheld the genre's legacy while looking anxiously toward an uncertain future.

This week's Moment's Notice brings a monumental four night celebration of Orrin Evans' 50th birthday, alongside performances from Nubya Garcia, Bobby Zankel and his Wonderful Sound 3, Eight Eight Time, and more.

"Opera is a collision, and it was conceived as a real innovation," says Anthony Roth Costanzo, leader of Opera Philadelphia, whose 2025-26 season was designed with those ideals in mind.