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WRTI 90.1 brings you music to welcome the season of warm breezes, the lark, the snowdrop, and crocus. Here are 10 of our favorite works that sound like…

Moment's Notice this week is an inspired grab bag, featuring a former prodigy, some avant-garde veterans and much more.

Meet 16-year-old cellist and pianist Nina Braum-Bharti, member of the Musicopia String Orchestra and a mezzo in the Germantown Friends School A Capella.

The Maria Schneider Orchestra, the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, and Melissa Aldana are among the offerings in this edition of Moment’s Notice, WRTI’s weekly digest of jazz listings in the Philadelphia area.

John T.K. Scherch (JohnTK@wrti.org) shares the morning’s musical and other offerings weekdays on WRTI 90.1. Previously, he was the first new host on WBJC in Baltimore in nearly 20 years, hosting the evening, Sunday afternoon, and request programs, and he is also an alumnus of U92, the college radio station of West Virginia University and a consecutive national Station of the Year winner.

The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Haydn’s Horn Concerto No. 1, featuring Jennifer Montone, and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 6. On the podium is acclaimed guest conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla.

Jazz percussionist Mongo Santamaria dies on Feb. 1 at 85. Santamaria scored a Top-10 hit with his version of Herbie Hancock's jazz-funk classic "Watermelon Man" in 1963. He also wrote the song "Afro Blue," later performed and made famous by John Coltrane. NPR's Elizabeth Blair has a remembrance.

Could anyone have predicted the first and second place finishers in this year's NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll? The poll master certainly didn't — and he voted for both of them.

In Moment's Notice this week: singer Laurin Talese graces the Barnes Foundation's First Friday series, Kassa Overall brings 'CREAM' to Solar Myth, and jazz enlivens the Doylestown Arts Festival.

Jim Cotter speaks with pianist and FROM THE TOP host Christopher O'Riley. Susan Lewis takes us to the Mutter Museum.By Jim…