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This week's Fanfare brings a whopping eight events to the table, including a performance from Yuja Wang and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, a concert with Michelle Cann & Imani Winds, two operas in Don Giovanni and L'Amico Fritz and more.
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Allie Ippolito/The Philadelphia OrchestraJoin 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/The Philadelphia OrchestraJoin 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 holidays are upon us, and so are the holiday tunes. Who better to join us than a pair of sublime vocalists with soulful new Christmas albums, Gregory Porter and Samara Joy? -
What does it mean to pick a winner in jazz? We're considering that question in this episode of The Late Set — with an assist from Joshua Redman, whose career got off to a big start when he won the Thelonious Monk Jazz Saxophone Competition precisely 30 years ago.
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Join us on Sunday, March 30 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, March 31 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Copland, Bernstein, and Betsy Jolas. Guest conductor David Robertson is on the podium, and British pianist Nicholas Hodges is featured. -
This week's Fanfare brings delightful performances at both the front and back end of the week, including from Kronos Quartet, Zoltán Fejérvári and more. -
A former prodigy. A legend's progeny. A free-improvising rock star. It's all in the mix this week — and as always, Moment's Notice is here to fill you in.
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