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Composer Wynton Marsalis shares his inspiration for his expansive and lyrical Blues Symphony. This recording captures the excitement of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s performance in December, 2019.

"Books to Movies" week on Flix@5 starts on September 13th, and the music from two of the films we're featuring remind me of sunny days in Spain back in the 1980s, and trying my hand at the most Spanish of spectacles.

We mark the 20th Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks with a special Saturday Classical Coffeehouse program for reflection, remembrance, and healing, hosted by Mike Bolton.

Trinity Church Wall Street commissioned Robert Moran’s Trinity Requiem for the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 destruction of New York’s World Trade Center. On the 20th anniversary, the music still resonates deeply.

Listen on Sunday, Sept. 12th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, Sept. 13th on WRTI HD-2 and the WRTI Classical Stream.

Schaap was one of the leading jazz scholars in America and the genre's foremost evangelist. He died at 70, after a long battle with cancer.

Perspectives, a 2017 commission by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Métropolitain, was performed by The Philadelphia Orchestra in 2018. You can hear it on WRTI on September 12th and 13th.

Klezmer music so beautifully expresses the joys and pains of life. WRTI's Debra Lew Harder takes us into its rich world and heritage with esteemed Klezmer…

What’s a kid from West Chester, PA know about the soul of New Orleans jazz? A little more than you’d think.

Piano Lessons is a compilation of recordings made by Eschenbach during the 1960s and ‘70s, before his first conducting appointment in 1981.