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MacFarlane is best known for creating the animated TV shows Family Guy, American Dad! and The Cleveland Show. But he's also a singer whose new album features songs from the Great American Songbook.

As the new concert season gets underway, composers and orchestra administrators say they are feeling a shift in whose music gets heard.

We ranked our 50 favorite records of the year, from hip-hop to classical and everything in between.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s contract at The Philadelphia Orchestra has been extended through 2030. He talked with WRTI's Susan Lewis about the news, and his bond with a city that loves him back.

After a year defined by emergence and creative combination, our critics zoom in on their own listening to choose one inescapable album and song each.

You may be familiar with Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann. But did you know Mendelssohn's sister Fanny and Schumman's wife Clara were accomplished composers, too?

In an era when some classical musicians are struggling, New York-based flutist Claire Chase, the founder of the International Contemporary Ensemble, is keeping very busy.

In Jim White's drumming, there's a restless wonder. On this 8 Tracks, we lead off with a sprawling rocker by his band Dirty Three, but also feature new music by Chappell Roan and Amber Mark.

Pianist and adopted Philadelphian Luke Carlos O'Reilly suffered a concussion after a fall last month. But he has recovered enough to play an album-release show this week, for his breakthrough trio release 'Leave the Gate Open.'

The Temple University Jazz Band took first place in the prestigious 2026 National Collegiate Jazz Championship, at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. Read our coverage — and hear the three arrangements the band played in competition, recorded at their winter concert.