Join us on Sunday, April 20 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, April 21 at 7 p.m. as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a complete concert performance of Handel’s Messiah from The Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2023/2024 season, with the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir and a quartet of stellar soloists.
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Join us on Sunday, April 13 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Mahler's Symphony No. 9 in D major and a moving new work by Jake Heggie: Songs for Murdered Sisters, performed by baritone Joshua Hopkins with a libretto by Margaret Atwood. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the program.
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Join us on Sunday, April 6 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, April 7 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a France-focused program from the 2024/2025 season featuring Symphonie fantastique by Hector Berlioz, and the Cello Concerto written in 2008 by Guillaume Connesson, featuring soloist Gautier Capuçon.
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As Thanksgiving rolls around, it’s a good time to ask: what are we grateful for? Here at The Late Set, our first answer is you, our listener. So we decided to spend this holiday episode answering your questions.
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“I’m a jazz musician first, I feel,” says Bilal. Maybe this comes as news to the many admirers who know him as an ethereal singer with a shape-shifting R&B profile, or as one of the original catalysts for neo-soul. On a compelling new album, Adjust Brightness — his first studio release in almost a decade — Bilal explores a galactic sweep of sound, making genre distinctions feel all the more irrelevant to any conversation.
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WRTI's own Josh Lee leads two bands this coming weekend, while Christian McBride brings the funk and Carlos Niño taps into the cosmos.
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"Our version of 'Freedom Day' acknowledges the expansion of what it means to be free in current times," Terri Lyne Carrington tells WRTI. Her simmering version of the Max Roach classic features Christie Dashiell on vocals.
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One of the first modern women composers to reach international acclaim, Gubaidulina wrote bold music, inspired by Eastern and Western philosophies, and the joy of sound itself.
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