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Friends of our program honor a handful of departed artists, celebrating their lives in an episode filled with insight, humor and plenty of music.

Love. It smacks us in the head, simmers when it’s cooking, and smolders when it’s over. The music we associate with love does, too. We asked WRTI hosts to…

Join us Sunday at 4 pm, as we broadcast the first concert of the 2017-18 season of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra. It’s a program filled with virtuoso…

Music was her family business, but conducting became her very own dream job. Now known worldwide, Mirga Gražinyte-Tyla turned to conducting when she was 11 because she was too old to begin studying an instrument. And look where she is now.

Just in time for Valentine's Day, Nellie McKay brings an odd bittersweetness, and maybe a whiff of sublimated tragedy, to this jazz standard.

Violinist Joshua Bell is in town playing Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto with The Philadelphia Orchestra, where he made his first major concert debut at the…

The jazz saxophonist Nubya Garcia isn't a pyrotechnics specialist or a speed demon; her main concern is the strength of her bond with the groove.

Join us for the second live broadcast in our series celebrating the 165th anniversary of Steinway & Sons pianos, featuring the Greek pianist Maria…

Even before "talking pictures," a piano or small orchestra played a key role in the movies. And long after the era of silent films, the importance of…

Philadelphia Orchestra First Associate Concertmaster Juliette Kang is soloist in a performance of Max Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, as WRTI’s Philadelphia…