Although the snowstorm is over, this week's edition of Fanfare forecasts a flurry of exciting musical performances.

At WRTI, we have specific rooting interests at the 2026 Grammy Awards — focused on jazz and classical music, with a foothold in Philadelphia. Here are our nominees.

Join us on Feb. 1 from 3-6 p.m. for Sunday Classical: New Releases as we listen to Nobuyuku Tsujii's interpretation of The Nutcracker, Ensemble Ouranos' take on Samuel Barber, and the the world premiere recording of the earliest complete opera by a Black American composer.

We’re already barreling toward the end of January, and we have a really cool slate of performances this weekend.

Heavy snowfall and Arctic temps are here, but some blazing music is just ahead.

The Temple University Jazz Band took first place in the prestigious 2026 National Collegiate Jazz Championship, at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. Read our coverage — and hear the three arrangements the band played in competition, recorded at their winter concert.

The new episode of The Late Set Radio Hour, airing Sunday at 8 p.m. ET, features a conversation with Michael Mayo, who is up for two Grammy Awards.

Meet 16-year-old bassist Cheo Mangum, a junior at The Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA), a 2025-2026 Ensemble Arts Philly All-City Jazz Fellow, and a member of the Temple Music Prep Community Music Scholars Jazz Ensemble, and of a jazz quartet through the MIC'd Up Philly program.

Freedom and form have always found active equilibrium in the music of Dave Douglas. His new album, Four Freedoms, considers that balancing act — along with an idea first voiced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and worth revisiting now.

Can a week ever be too jam-packed with talent? This is a good week to find out, and Moment's Notice has the intel.