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Three-time Pulitzer-winning playwright Edward Albee once vowed to keep writing until he was "90 or gaga." As WRTI’s Jim Cotter reports, this most…

WRTI's Jazz Hot 11 is a weekly countdown of your favorite new jazz releases in rotation. This week's Hot 11: 1. Pete Smyser - Boulevard of Broken Dreams -…

The biennial Philadelphia Flamenco Festival, the second so far, continues through March 16th. Check it out here! But be prepared. Flamenco has a tendency…

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…

This Sunday at 1 pm it's the third and final week of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s January Tchaikovsky Celebration on WRTI. The young Russian conductor…

Born in North Carolina in 1926, saxophone player and composer John Coltrane spent over a decade in Philadelphia and then moved to New York. WRTI's Susan…

With the 2014 release of Kin (??), Pat Metheny adds one more notch—another restlessly searching album that marks the zone between all jazz, all rock and…

Hungarian pianist and composer Bela Bartok was born on March 25th in the year 1881. As WRTI’s Susan Lewis reports, he is revered by a prominent…

There's an interesting mix on this month's APPLAUSE with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. One of Joseph Haydn's best-loved symphonies, and the…

Jonas Kaufmann stars in the title role of Massenet's sublime adaptation of Goethe's revolutionary and tragic romance, opposite Sophie Koch as Charlotte.…