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WRTI's logo: From Ellington to Ormandy, and back.

How jazz rescued Classical music

The death and rebirth of Classical music radio

Thanks to deregulation, Classical music radio has struggled since the ’90s. But thanks to some shrewd managers at WRTI and an unlikely musical ally— jazz— it’s now flourishing in Philadelphia.

Clarence Faulcon

Articles 5 minute read
Britten: One man who appreciated dedicated amateurs.

Choral Arts celebrates Britten’s 100th

The people's composer

Benjamin Britten cherished the amateur choral and instrumental groups that play an important role in British social life. Choral Arts celebrated his 100th birthday with a concert that captured that spirit.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 4 minute read
Wile E. Coyote would have made a great musician.

Between composers and musicians

It’s all in the timing

A while back, some composers began writing exact durations, in seconds, over their musical notations. But timing is what musicians do. Take that away from them and you take the music away from them.
Kile Smith

Kile Smith

Articles 3 minute read
Honeck's flourishes weren't all necesary, but neither were Ormandy's.

Manfred Honeck’s Philadelphia debut

Fresh wind from Pittsburgh

The Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck has excited audiences from Vienna to Pittsburgh with his flashy renditions and dramatic gestures. This weekend Philadelphians caught the fever as well.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 2 minute read
Yuja Wang reached a level that eluded even Horowitz.

Yuja and Yannick do Rachmaninoff

She’s young, she’s stylish, and she gets Rachmaninoff

Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto is one of the most technically challenging compositions in the piano literature. Yuja Wang transcended technique to reveal the very soul of the tormented composer’s music
Victor L. Schermer

Victor L. Schermer

Articles 4 minute read
DuPlantis: Echoes of Danny Kaye.

Orchestra 2001 and Network For New Music

91 years of novelty

The works presented at these two concerts spanned 91 years but were linked by a common interest in novelty, exploration and the relationship between words and music. The oldest piece looked peculiar in 1922 and still does.
Tom Purdom

Tom Purdom

Articles 4 minute read
Not quite in Daddy's footsteps.

Joshua Redman Quartet at Annenberg

Everything you wanted to know about sax

Joshua Redman can hit notes you’d swear couldn’t possibly come out of a tenor sax. At the Annenberg Center, his post-bop incarnation delivered a tight and virtuosic 90-minute set.
Judy Weightman

Judy Weightman

Articles 2 minute read

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Jacqueline Woodley, center, as the bride: New light on an old theme.  (Photo: Dominic M. Mercier.)

Opera Philadelphia’s ‘Svadba-Wedding’ (2nd review)

A Slavic wedding with a feminist twist

Ana Sokolović manages to pack in a broad range of emotions in a brief package, with a bewitching combination of daring modernism and traditional Balkan folk music.

Articles 3 minute read
Handshake 2

Kile Smith reflects on a performance of his symphony

Hearing the right words

Kile Smith was worried about the first performance of his symphony in 12 years, but the concert went well, and the comments afterward were perceptive and kind; one comment in particular.
Kile Smith

Kile Smith

Articles 2 minute read
Preparing the bride for her wedding

'Svadba-Wedding' by Opera Philadelphia (1st review)

A Balkan bachelorette party

Composer Ana Sokolovic revisits the same material that Stravinsky did a century ago — a peasant wedding — but creates a different choral universe.
Steve Cohen

Steve Cohen

Articles 2 minute read