WRTI-FM (Philadelphia, PA)

WRTI (90.1 FM) is a community-focused radio station located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It operates as a part of Temple University.

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

3 days ago | wrti.org | Melinda Whiting

Join us on Sunday, April 27 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, April 28 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when the Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you music by American masters Margaret Bonds and William Grant Still, as well as Yuja Wang in Tchaikovsky. Opening the program, music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the orchestra the Montgomery Variations by Margaret Bonds.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Handel’s Messiah for Easter

2 weeks ago | wrti.org | 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: soprano Lucy Crowe, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, tenor Spencer Britten, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn. Music and artistic director Yannick Nézet-Séguin is on the podium.
Watch the Temple Jazz Faculty Sextet perform "Fly with the Wind"

2 weeks ago | wrti.org | Alex Ariff

When the faculty members of the Jazz Studies program at Temple University walk out onto a stage, they’re not just representing Owl Nation. They’re carrying on a lineage. Collectively, their shared experience extends as far back as the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, through the “Queen of Organ,” Shirley Scott, and on to Terence Blanchard and Branford Marsalis.
Yannick leads stirring works of loss, by Mahler and Jake Heggie

2 weeks ago | wrti.org | Melinda Whiting

Join us on Sunday, April 13 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1 as The Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert brings you works by Gustav Mahler and Jake Heggie. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Mahler’s last completed symphony, the Ninth in D major. The program opens with Songs for Murdered Sisters by one of today’s most celebrated composers of vocal music, Jake Heggie. Heggie’s work features Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins, who commissioned this searing song cycle as a memorial tribute to his sister, Nathalie.
A Sonny Sharrock tribute, Minas' 40th anniversary, and 'New Dawn'

2 weeks ago | wrti.org | Nate Chinen

Did you know that spring’s wondrous bounty isn’t just a matter of daffodils and baseball training? Allow me to submit this week’s calendar, which yields amazing jazz offerings of all kinds. We’re not even listing the Nels Cline Consentrik Quartet, which sold out its Saturday show at Solar Myth in advance. Look at what we do have and see if you can’t find a good fit.
Opera Philadelphia announces an intrepid 30th anniversary season

3 weeks ago | wrti.org | Nate Chinen

Anthony Roth Costanzo has a fond story to tell from last year, which was his first as president and general director of Opera Philadelphia. As the company was preparing to stage The Listeners, a brilliantly searching contemporary opera by Missy Mazzoli, a musician in the orchestra made a left-field suggestion: why aren’t we buying ads on the Bigbelly trash bins all over the city?
Record Store Day Preview

3 weeks ago | wrti.org | Nate Chinen

April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and we’re celebrating just as we always do, by chasing down live music and supporting the scene. But we’re also looking ahead to Record Store Day, which falls on April 12. It will bring a fresh bounty of new releases — including a customary haul of archival discoveries in deluxe editions. So for this episode, we’re talking all about RSD: the ins and outs, the ups and downs.
Jean-Yves Thibaudet: Tiny Desk Concert

4 weeks ago | wrti.org | Tom Huizenga

When Jean-Yves Thibaudet visited NPR to play a Tiny Desk, everything about him was stylish. His shoes were custom made for him by the late Vivienne Westwood, his jacket was by Simon Porte Jacquemus, his necklace, Cartier. When he sat down to play, arguably only one thing seemed to be missing: a shiny, 9-foot grand piano. But Thibaudet, like many great pianists who have graced our office space, understands the vibe of our beloved little concert series.
Steve Lehman Trio +1 untangles 'The Music of Anthony Braxton'

1 month ago | wrti.org | Nate Chinen

A former prodigy. A legend’s progeny. A rock star turned free-improv catalyst. It’s all in the mix this week on the Philly jazz scene — and as always, Moment’s Notice is here to fill you in and catch you up. Whatever your tastes, there’s something here for you.
Branches and Paths, with Renee Rosnes

1 month ago | wrti.org | Nate Chinen

Renee Rosnes has traced a momentous musical trajectory over the last 40 years. A pianist and composer of exceptional insight, she’s served apprenticeships with Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter and Ron Carter, and earned rare stature among her peers. Almost a decade ago, she formed Artemis, an all-women cohort that just released its third album, Arboresque. Rosnes also has a new solo release, Crossing Paths — her first full-length album of Brazilian music, a longtime source of inspiration.