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Saxophonist Joey Berkley lost his ability to play due to the muscular disorder focal dystonia, but experimental treatment has given him enough flexibility to record a comeback album titled A Suite Life.
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10 Days in a Madhouse, composed by Rene Orth with libretto by Hannah Moscovitch, premiered last fall to sellout crowds. Now, they've won MCANA's Best New Opera award for it, the third such award for an Opera Philadelphia commission.
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WRTI is proud to premiere "Heard But Not Seen," the lead single to George Burton's new album, "White Noise," releasing on September 20th via Porge Records.
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This Sunday, July 28, we’re excited to introduce Sunday Classical with Astral, a new feature for WRTI’s Sunday Classical program.
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With the 2024 Summer Olympics underway in Paris, we've highlighted some of our favorite classical anthems to accompany all the action.
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Join us on Sunday, July 28 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, July 29 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Carl Orff’s rousing and colorful Carmina Burana, with three Philadelphia-based choirs and three sterling soloists joining the fun.
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The future is now in Moment's Notice, as acclaimed young women instrumentalists Sarah Hanahan, Haley Brinnel and Summer Camargo hold the spotlight.
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The award for lifetime artistic achievements will also recognize jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer Arturo Sandoval. The Apollo Theater will receive a special Honors as "an iconic American institution."
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The songleader, civil rights activist and scholar died Tuesday at the age of 81.
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"Overall, I am most interested in telling stories," Homer Jackson, director of the Philadelphia Jazz Project, once explained. Since his passing on July 13, Philly's cultural scene is left to remember him as one of its most devoted connectors and chroniclers.