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An extra day. How will you use it? Here are 24 ideas. None of them takes longer than an hour. And if you don't have time to get to everything on the list, don't worry. Maybe in 2016.

From fully staged operas to intimate chamber pieces — at seaside settings and mountain vistas — summer festivals this year offer a broad array of modern music.

Bop Goes the Opera - In 2002, the brilliant saxophonist Joe Lovano took the jazz-meets-classical music concept outside of the box when he recorded jazz…

February 22, 2021. BRUITS, a new album by the trailblazing woodwind quintet Imani Winds, tackles issues of race and social justice with three contemporary…

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with violinist Davyd Booth, who was part of the Philadelphia Orchestra's historic 1973 tour of China.

Drummer Johnathan Blake has always carried a musical torch for his father, the late violinist John Blake, Jr. With a forthcoming Blue Note album, 'Passage,' he pays his most direct homage yet.

In this monthly issue of Fanfare, several festivals take place, the Delaware Valley Opera Company puts on Le nozzi di Figaro, and The Philadelphia Orchestra diverts from its seasonal schedule.

It's another great week of shows — we've got another tour continuation, a work night on the town, and as I like to offer you, something to stretch your ideas of what classical music can be.

This week's Fanfare brings holiday cheer through its spectacular selection of performances, including Barbara Hannigan & Bertrand Chamayou, Sheku & Isata Kanneh-Mason, Alisa Weilerstein & the Ariel Quartet, and more.

Greg Bryant, the former host of WRTI's Evening Jazz, relocated to Los Angeles at the end of last year. He brings us this report on jazz musicians displaced and otherwise impacted there by devastating wildfires, and how the scene is responding.