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Both Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan recorded Gershwin songbook albums in the late 1950s. The first hour of Voices in Jazz this week will feature…

This avant-garde musical about the last days in the life of Edgar Allan Poe is reviewed by WRTI's Lesley Valdes. Presented in the 2012 Live Arts Festival.…

The hymn "Be Still My Soul" was one of the songs that Dave Douglas' mom asked him to play at her funeral. Now, he's recorded the tune. But well before he even heard the melody, it had already seen many different lives.

WRTI's Lesley Valdes provides the back story of Winslow Homer's The Life Line, which is on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in a special exhibition…

The long-running jazz festival is set to go on this weekend for the 55th year. As always, new talent will be there — including these emerging vocalists. Artistic director Tim Jackson breaks down some of the performers he picked.

Guaraldi had range, as well as an instrumental hit right when jazz was vanishing from AM radio.

In recent times, Philadelphians have been made well aware of the fiscal challenges of sustaining a symphony orchestra. Now, around the country, other…

Nineteenth and early 20th-century American artist Winslow Homer painted civil war scenes, landscapes, and seascapes, but his tour de force was a close up…

The Opera Company of Philadelphia is furthering its commitment to the creation of new American works with the recruitment of star baritone Nathan Gunn to…

Some rough-and-tumble opening chords can mean only one thing to opera lovers - Puccini’s La Boheme. The iconic work is back in Philadelphia for what could…