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Arts Desk

Classical Album of the Week: Violinist Hilary Hahn's Dream Program Comes Together With 'Paris'

Susan Lewis

May 17, 2021. Recorded before the 2020 shutdown, and released with the end of the pandemic almost in sight, Hilary Hahn’s album Paris reminds us of the…

WRTI Spotlight

The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert on WRTI: Yannick Conducts Three Works Composed in Paris

Gregg Whiteside

Join us on Sunday, April 11th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, April 12th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 to hear this Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcast…

Chinese conductor Jiajing Lai performs in the first edition of La Maestra, an international competition for women conductors, held at the Philharmonie de Paris this September.

WRTI Picks from NPR Music

Women Conductors Are The Rule, Not The Exception, At A New Classical Event

Eleanor Beardsley

La Maestra, held in Paris this September, is the first fully realized competition solely for women conductors — an effort to help balance a male-dominated field.

Arts Desk

The Jazz, Art, and Culture of the Roaring '20s that Influenced Albert Barnes and Leopold Stokowski

Susan Lewis

In the 1920s, French classical composers were traveling to New York to hear jazz. Albert Barnes was going to Paris to buy paintings and African art, and…