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Farrah Rahaman and Immanuel Wilkins attend the Special Merit Awards Ceremony and Nominees Reception during the 67th Annual GRAMMY Awards on Feb. 1, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.

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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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Allie Ippolito

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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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Deeds, Not Words

For a Max Roach centenary, there's no better guest than Nasheet Waits.
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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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Bid farewell to the Wanamaker Organ with a daylong swan song

After two decades, Macy's Center City is closing its doors, and the future of the Wanamaker Organ is uncertain. Send the iconic instrument off with a free all-day concert on Saturday, March 22, featuring Peter Richard Conte and others.
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Joe Patti's Exit Interview: a radio man reflects on a legendary career

Tyler McClure

He's been the man behind the signal at WRTI for more than 25 years. Now Joe Patti is retiring from the radio game — but first, he shares personal insights on the station, the larger industry, and the changes he's seen over a distinguished career.
The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert

Roderick Cox leads Saint-Saёns' "Organ" Symphony, Bartók & more

Melinda Whiting

Join us on Sunday, March 23 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, March 24 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you Saint-Saёns' "Organ" Symphony, Bartók's Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin, and Bohuslav Martinů's Rhapsody-Concerto, featuring principal viola Choong-Jin Chang.