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  • Lionel Loueke.
    Lionel Loueke Trio On JazzSet
    Loueke is one of the most distinctive artists on the world-music scene. Loueke gets African-style rhythms going, tapping on his guitar and using his effects pedals at the Kennedy Center.
  • Classical Crib Sheet: Top 5 Stories This Week
    The FAA changes its tune regarding instruments on planes, the passing of "conduction" innovator Butch Morris, the stats on coughing at concerts and what the New Jersey Symphony board wasn't told about Richard Dare. Plus: violinist vs. composer and a music retailer's staff retaliates on Twitter.
  • Amidst Strikes, Lockouts and Deficits, Some Good News From The Orchestra World
    Today, many orchestras around America are experiencing extreme financial problems. Yet, as WRTI’s Jim Cotter reports, one ensemble is bucking the…
  • Andre Watts: A Favorite Son Of Philadelphia
    Andre Watts is among the most popular soloists with Philadelphia Orchestra audiences. As WRTI’s Jim Cotter reports, the pianist was just back in his home…
  • Bill Frisell.
    Bill Frisell On Piano Jazz
    Frisell has been on the cutting edge of jazz guitar since his arrival on the scene in the early 1980s. With amazing technique and a creative mind, he has incorporated the whole of American music in his work, relying on country, blues, rock and jazz. Hear an interview and performance.
  • The Cresset Stone on Now is the Time
    The violin takes on many guises on Now is the Time, Sunday, February 3rd at 10 pm. A “Fantasy for Violin” is what Michael Horvit calls his Daughters of…
  • Stride piano pioneer James P. Johnson had dreams of becoming a successful symphonic composer.
    Treasures In The Attic: Finding A Jazz Master's Lost Orchestral Music
    The man who wrote "The Charleston" also had orchestral music played at Carnegie Hall. Baltimore Symphony conductor Marin Alsop retraces her detective work in uncovering lost symphonic works by jazz piano pioneer James P. Johnson.
  • Wayne Shorter turns 80 this year. His newest album is called <em>Without a Net</em>.
    Wayne Shorter On Jazz: 'How Do You Rehearse The Unknown?'
    Shorter says that in combos led by John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Art Blakey, he learned a crucial rule of being an effective bandleader: Leave the musicians alone.
  • Afghanistan's youth orchestra performs in Kabul on Jan. 31. The orchestra is coming to the U.S. and will appear at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center.
    From A Land Where Music Was Banned — To Carnegie Hall
    The Taliban tried to ban all music in Afghanistan. But now, 48 young Afghans — boys and girls — make up an orchestra that is coming to the U.S. to perform at a couple of the most prestigious venues in America.
  • Composer Mohammed Fairouz, whose hour-long chamber opera <em>Sumeida's Song</em> recently appeared on recording and on stage.
    Lean But Seen: The Joy Of Smaller Opera
    A intense but modestly scaled new opera called Sumeia's Song, written by rising young Arab-American composer Mohammed Fairouz, offers clues into how chamber-sized presentations can be successfully both financially and artistically. And Philip Glass' new Walt Disney opera streams for free Wednesday.
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