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Slimmed-Down Gramophone Awards Honor Home Team 27 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
The British classical magazine Gramophone announced today the latest round of winners of its annual awards, now in their 90th year.
Jazz Hot 11 Countdown: August 26, 2013 27 Aug 2013 | 08:55 am
WRTI's Jazz Hot 11 is a weekly countdown of your favorite new jazz releases in rotation. This week's Hot 11:
San Francisco Opera: Wagner's DIE WALKURE, August 31, 1 PM 27 Aug 2013 | 01:24 am
A wounded deity comes to realize the limits of his power in the heartbreaking second installment of the cycle. Wotan, king of the gods, strives to undo the curse of the ring by fathering a pure-of-hea...
Branford Marsalis' Birthday 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
On August 26, 1960, Branford Marsalis was born. Learn more about Branford Marsalis here.
The Jazz Sanctuary: Bringing People Together Through Music 26 Aug 2013 | 04:41 pm
Music lives in South Philadelphia through The Jazz Sanctuary, an organization that takes jazz into to houses of worship and other nontraditional venues. As WRTI’s Susan Lewis reports, founder Alan Seg...
Tapping Into Regional Traditions: Woodmere's Annual Juried Exhibition 26 Aug 2013 | 04:36 pm
The Woodmere Art Museum in Chestnut Hill has an enviable collection of art in the realist tradition, from the 1800s to the present. It also has a renowned annual juried show which, this year, as WRTI’...
Harpist Edna Phillips And The Philadelphia Orchestra: One Woman In A Hundred 26 Aug 2013 | 03:32 pm
A recently published biography reveals what it was like to be the first woman to enter the all-male sanctum of The Philadelphia Orchestra in the 1930s. WRTI’s Meridee Duddleston discovered the powerfu...
Berceuse Fantasque on Now Is the Time 25 Aug 2013 | 10:18 pm
You might call these fantastic lullabies on Now Is the Time, Sunday, August 25th at 10 pm. The birth of a friend's daughter inspired Rick Sowash's Lullabye for Kara for cello and piano. Steven Gerber'...
Atheists Take Old Hymns Out Of The Chapel And Into The Streets 25 Aug 2013 | 09:03 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr4raP3NBaA
Wayne Shorter's Birthday 25 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
On August 25, 1933, Wayne Shorter was born. Learn more about Wayne Shorter here.
