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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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Our Spring Drive starts this week. You can make it LOUDER too!
The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert

Yuja Wang plays Tchaikovsky, on a program featuring Still and Bonds
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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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Allie Ippolito

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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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The Philadelphia Orchestra

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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Year in Review, with Immanuel Wilkins

We're looking back at the stories, themes and other highlights from a jam-packed year — including Blues Blood, an album by our guest, alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins.
Behold the Mayo

The jazz vocal tradition is always evolving, but rarely does that notion feel truer than in the output of Michael Mayo, who stopped by our studio to talk about his dynamic second album, Fly.

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Jazz at the Grammy Awards: this year, the story remains the same

Nate Chinen

If the winners circle for jazz felt familiar at the Grammys this year, there's good reason. So what's the problem?
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After 138 years, a Black composer's magnum opus finds a stage

Matt Bloom

Morgiane, perhaps the oldest opera by a Black American, finally receives its full public performance, shedding light on the forgotten heyday of opera in New Orleans.
The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert

The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert kicks off a four-part archival series, From the Vault

Melinda Whiting

WRTI presents a special four-week series on The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert, beginning Sunday, Feb 9 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, Feb 10 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2. “From the Vault” features a broad variety of music, including several solo turns by celebrated orchestra principals and a couple of world-premieres commissioned by the orchestra.