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Here's the impressive story of a young Russian clarinetist who moved all the way to Philadelphia at age 17 for musical training and is now a rising star -…

The Basie Band produced a number of sidemen and arrangers who later went on to lead their own big bands. This week you'll hear some of these well-known…

WRTI's Jazz Hot 11 is a weekly countdown of your favorite new jazz releases in rotation.This week's Hot 11:1. South Florida Jazz Orchestra - Daahound -…

It’s the composer/electric guitarist Steven Mackey on Now is the Time, Sunday, November 25th at 10 pm. Performed by eighth blackbird, Lonely Motel: Music…

The story of Cremona's rise to pre-eminence as the epicenter for the creation of great cellos, violas and violins begins with Nicola Amati in the early…

It’s not settled whether 19th-century pianist and composer Frederic Chopin was born on February 22nd, or March 1st, 1810. But as Susan Lewis reports, one…

Today, orchestra audiences know the concertmaster as the violinist who precedes the conductor onstage, and helps the orchestra tune – a sign that the…

While many people still attend concerts in traditional halls, classical music is also being played in more informal settings - and in combination with…

Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin would seem to be taking The Philadelphia Orchestra back to 1930. That was the year the late Leopold Stokowski, heard…

His name is YannickNezet-Seguin, but in a New York Times profile recently, he was nicknamed "Mighty Mouse" by the opera star Joyce DiDonato. After all,…