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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!
WRTI Spotlight

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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The Philadelphia Orchestra

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

Deeds, Not Words

For a Max Roach centenary, there's no better guest than Nasheet Waits.
Our Year in the Rearview

For our final episode of 2023, we’re talking about the albums we can’t let go. One of them was Rivers in Our Veins, by drummer and composer Allison Miller, who joins us in conversation.

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Arts Desk

Christian McBride on his "all-in" band, Ursa Major, and a new single

Nate Chinen

Bassist Christian McBride has formed a new band, Ursa Major, around an ideal of stylistic flexibility. It features younger players who grew up watching his peer group stretch, as he explains in this conversation with WRTI's Nate Chinen.
The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert

The Philadelphia Orchestra season opener: Beethoven and Bruckner

Melinda Whiting

Join us on Sunday, March 9 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, March 10 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2, with Seong-Jin Cho, and Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 — the first in a fresh series of performances from the 2024-25 season.
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Alexander Claffy's all-star quintet, the Matthew Shipp Trio, and more

Nate Chinen

Spring won’t be here for another couple of weeks, but we can already sense a spirit of renewal in the air. What better way to celebrate that feeling than in a cozy room with some incredible music?