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Immanuel Wilkins' 'Blues Blood' is set to simmer at the Penn Museum

For Farrah Rahaman, the scholar bringing Immanuel Wilkins to the Penn campus, his project Blues Blood "feels big and stirring like the ocean." That seems even truer with the venerable poet Sonia Sanchez and author Imani Perry in the mix.

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The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert

Yuja Wang plays Tchaikovsky, on a program featuring Still and Bonds
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Our Spring Drive starts this week. You can make it LOUDER too!
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From the Germantown Jazz Fest to Immanuel Wilkins to The Ancients
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Yuja Wang plays Rautavaara, while Garrick Ohlsson plays Beethoven

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Handel’s Messiah for Easter

Melinda Whiting

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.
Jessica Griffin

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Yannick leads stirring works of loss, by Mahler and Jake Heggie

Melinda Whiting

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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The Late Set Podcast

Deep River: Gary Bartz

Ahead of his induction as an NEA Jazz Master, alto saxophonist Gary Bartz joins us on The Late Set to share some profound musical insights.
BONUS: I Hear a Rhapsody

Marcus Roberts was recently in town to perform Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' with The Philadelphia Orchestra, and he stopped by our studio to talk about it. In this bonus episode of The Late Set, we feature that interview along with our own thoughts about the 'Rhapsody,' which can still inspire heated debate.

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WRTI Young Artist Spotlight: Bassist Luke Halpern

Lydia Veilleux

Meet double bassist Luke Halpern, a senior at Friends' Central School and Principal Double Bassist of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra.
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Bunky Green, jazz educator and daring alto saxophonist, dies at 91

Nate Chinen

Alto saxophonist Bunky Green spent decades as an unsung hero in modern jazz, but an acknowledged legend in jazz education. Then came a pair of acclaimed albums made with noted protégés. Green died on March 1 at 91.
The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert

Yannick leads Mahler's Symphony No. 3, featuring Joyce DiDonato

Melinda Whiting

Join us on Sunday, March 16 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, March 17 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you a single work: Mahler’s massive Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and three local choirs: the Philadelphia Boys’ and Girls’ Choirs, and the women of the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir.