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Join us on Sunday, Aug. 17 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Aug. 18 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Saint-Saёns' "Organ" Symphony, Bartók's Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin, and Bohuslav Martinů's Rhapsody-Concerto, featuring principal viola Choong-Jin Chang.

Join us on Sunday, Aug. 3 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, Aug. 4 10 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you an encore presentation of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2, with Seong-Jin Cho, and Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 — the first performance from the Orchestra's 2024-25 season.

The South African pianist and Zulu healer guides us through a meditation on stillness and an invocation of Blackness.

This week's Moment's Notice features artists in places we don't often see: Snarky Puppy at Longwood Gardens, the Hiruy Tirfe Quartet at Love City Brewing, Bobby Zankel and the Warriors of the Wonderful Sound at Hawthorne Park and more.

David F. Gibson, whose precise and hard-driving beat powered legacy editions of the Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Cab Calloway orchestras, and other bands big and small, died on July 30. He was 72.

Trumpeter Josh Lawrence has become a stalwart on the scene, through an affiliation with Orrin Evans and an appointment at Ensemble Arts Philly. On his crisp new album, he traces a line that connects Frédéric Chopin and Thelonious Monk.

What is your ideal summer-jazz heat signature? Cool and refreshing, like a standard sung by Stacey Kent? Or bright and blazing, like an uptempo blues by the Marel Hidalgo Organ Trio?

Oscar Peterson's centennial is Friday, Aug. 15. Tune in to WRTI all week to hear selections from throughout his career, including a special one-hour tribute during Bob Craig's Sunday Jazz Brunch on Aug. 17.

For Leonard Bernstein, a dog was always man's best friend. So it's only fitting that the conductor's birthday falls next to National Dog Day — a prompt to consider some lively music Bernstein composed with particular pooches in mind.

On the new album Woodland Songs, Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate and the Dover Quartet collaborate on music with deep American roots.