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Chick Corea composed "The Visitors" on a commission for the classical piano phenom Kirill Gerstein and a mutual friend, the jazz vibraphone legend Gary Burton. Its release on ECM honors some fond personal history, as Gerstein and Burton recently explained in an interview with WRTI.
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Lars GundersenJoin us for The Philadelphia Orchestra on Sunday, July 13 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, July 14 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as Danish violinist and conductor Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider does double duty, performing Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D Major, and conducting Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7 in D Minor. -
Jessica Griffin/The Philadelphia OrchestraListen to The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert on Sunday, July 6 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, July 7 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as Marin Alsop makes her first appearance in Philadelphia as principal guest conductor — leading Brahms's Haydn Variations; a world premiere by Gabriela Lena Frank; and Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, featuring Randall Goosby.
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The Late Set Podcast
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We’ve reached the midpoint of 2025, and listened our way through well over a hundred albums. In this episode, we’re sharing half a dozen of our favorites. -
Pianist-composer Amaro Freitas creates music with a vivid sense of place. His native Brazil pulses through his most recent album, Y'Y, which mixes jazz with Afro-Brazilian and indigenous music, and the sounds of the Amazon. Freitas discusses this and more with Josh Jackson, in a deeply searching conversation recorded backstage at New York's Winter Jazzfest earlier this year.
WRTI News Stories
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The small plastic instrument has long been the go-to instrument in elementary schools. But it is capable of so much more than "Hot Cross Buns." -
The Library of Congress' new collection includes more than 5,000 items from the Broadway legend, including ideas for Sweeney Todd lyrics and notes for Glynis Johns as she sang "Send in the Clowns." -
Another departure from the Kennedy Center: Composer, pianist, educator and bandleader Jason Moran announced on social media that he is no longer the artistic director for jazz. Moran joined the Kennedy Center in 2011.
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