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Join Jill for an encore broadcast spotlighting renowned jazz vocalist Jackie Ryan, and featuring songs of love! Ryan has shared the stage and recording…

The entrance to the Museum of the Olympic Games in Olympia, Greece, is cordoned off last month, after two hooded thieves broke into the museum and made away with more than 70 ancient objects. The stolen loot included chariots, horses and a gold ring that was more than 3,000 years old. Greeks say such sites are vulnerable because of cutbacks that have reduced the number of guards.

With Cutbacks, Greeks Say Antiquities Are At Risk

Greece has been making big cutbacks to its public sector as part of across-the-board austerity measures. This means there are fewer guards protecting the country's cultural heritage, and two recent thefts point to the dangers.

JAZZ: The 1959 Sound

This has been an important year for jazz anniversaries: Blue Note turned 70, Prestige turned 60 and, of course, Miles Davis' Kind of Blue turned 50. All…

Symphonic and Guitar is Maya Le Roux Obradovic's latest CD.

Serbian Classical Guitarist and Composer Maya Le Roux Obradovic

Join Jill Pasternak when she interviews Serbian guitarist and composer Maya Le Roux Obradovic. Her latest CD - Symphonic and Guitar - is filled with her…

The Philadelphia Singers on WRTI

WRTI brings you The Philadelphia Singers in a recorded concert from the Kimmel Center on Sunday, August 2nd from 3 to 5 pm. The acclaimed ensemble's…

Works by French Composers Camille Saint-Saens and Paul Jeanjean

Works by Camille Saint-Saens and Paul JeanjeanOn this all-French program we feature three solo instruments with orchestra, or is it four? Camille…

Concert Review: The Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Works by Verdi and Rachmaninoff at the Mann Center

Lesley Valdes, WRTI's critic-at-large, reviews a June 28th performance of The Philadelphia Orchestra at the Mann Center featuring soloist Angela Brown,…

Gustavo Dudamel, age 28, begins his tenure as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the fall of 2009.

Red-Hot Gustavo Dudamel: A Documentary About Classical Music's New Rock Star

Called "the most talked-about young musician in the world" by The New York Times and "the most astonishingly gifted conductor I have ever come across" by…

Lorin Maazel has stepped down as music director of the New York Philharmonic after 7 years at the podium.

Conductor Lorin Maazel

The distinguished conductor, violinist, and composer Lorin Maazel, known for his perfect pitch and photographic memory, has stood as one of the master…

Golden Fall, 1940 Joseph Stella, American (born Italy) The C.K. Williams, II Collection

PMA Modern Art--Music & Reading Terminal Market--Simeone Found. Museum--Free Library of Phila.

Jim Cotter takes a walk through Adventures in Modern Art: The Charles K. Williams II Collection, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and speaks with its…

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