William Grant Still

Samuel Barber's Adagio, Aaron Copland's Fanfare and William Grant Still's Hymn: these are among WRTI's classical selections for Memorial Day.

From Clara Schumann to Amy Beach to Pauchi Sasaki, our Mother's Day playlist spotlights a colorful array of musical offerings.

Join us on Sunday, April 27 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, April 28 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you music by American masters Margaret Bonds and William Grant Still, as well as Yuja Wang in Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1.

Damon Gupton will conduct the annual celebration of famed civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life and legacy. The concert will be broadcast live on WRTI starting at 3 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 20.

Join us on Sunday, May 26 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, May 27 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you an encore performance that opened the Orchestra's 2023/2024 season.

On 'Ennanga,' harpist Ashley Jackson explores music by William Grant Still, Alice Coltrane, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and Brandee Younger. It's "a gemlike offering," says Nate Chinen in our Album of the Week review.

The Catalyst Quartet has been all about elevating music previously excluded from the canon — in this case, exceptional string quartets by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, George Walker, and William Grant Still.

A visionary with seemingly boundless energy, pianist Lara Downes is clearing new paths in the classical music landscape, expanding minds and spurring…

Langston Hughes, an enduring icon of the Harlem Renaissance, is best-known for his written work, which wedded his fierce dedication to social justice with…

February 4, 2019. Trained as a classical violinist, Rachel Barton Pine grew up listening to the blues, and one day was thrilled to discover the two genres…