
For International Women's Day, a feast of classical music by women
2025年3月5日 · Other prominent contemporary composers — such as Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, Caroline Shaw and Tania León — will be heard throughout both broadcasts. On Saturday, Thorvaldsdóttir’s “Hear us in the heavens,” sung by the Reykjavik Schola Cantorum, will be played shortly after 8 a.m. Shaw’s “and the swallow,” sung by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, will lead us into the 10 o ...
Susan Alcorn, a boundless pioneer on pedal steel guitar, is dead at …
2025年2月5日 · She picked up the guitar at 13, and began frequenting blues clubs after her family moved to a Chicago suburb in 1970. She switched to pedal steel while in college, and began playing with country-western bands around the city — an activity that only accelerated after her family relocated to Houston, TX in the early ‘80s.
Ricercar Consort, Richard Goode, Pierre-Laurent Aimard and more
2025年3月2日 · Richard Goode — Friday, Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center. Pianist Richard Goode is a sensitive and subtle musician — and one of today’s finest recitalists. This is a great chance to hear him in his core repertoire, including sonatas by …
Best of 2024: The WRTI Jazz Team shares our top albums and shows
2024年12月18日 · Maurice Browne. Album: Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, Tyshawn Sorey, Compassion Compassion by Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh, and Tyshawn Sorey is to me a jazz trio masterpiece that’s redefining modern jazz. With stunning chemistry, innovative compositions, and deep emotional vibes, this album hits hard on themes of empathy and connection.
Swing into the yuletide spirit with WRTI's holiday jazz schedule
2024年12月18日 · 9 to 10 p.m. — A Jazz Piano Christmas. Your favorite holiday classics as you’ve never heard them! The Kennedy Center and NPR present A Jazz Piano Christmas, the annual sell-out event featuring jazz-infused renditions of the season’s most-loved music.This year, we spotlight Cuban pianist and composer Roberto Fonseca, acclaimed composer and bandleader Kris Davis, and heralded newcomer ...
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Bob Perkins, a legend of jazz radio at WRTI and beyond, dies at 91
2025年1月19日 · For Bob Perkins, making music was making magic.“That’s what a musician does, to me. When he or she stands up and takes a solo,” he said in 2020. “And it’s all coming out and improvised from the mind to the hand.”
Behold the Mayo | WRTI
2024年12月10日 · The jazz vocal tradition is always an evolving proposition, but rarely does that notion feel truer or more affirming than in the output of Michael Mayo.Fly, his sterling second album, captures the forces of energy and creativity that he brings to the art form, on reimagined standards as well as smart original songs.Michael stopped into WRTI during a recent swing through town, straight from the ...
Valentin Kovalev with Amy Yang, Gil Shaham Plays Dvořák, & more
2024年12月1日 · Spotlight: Valentin Kovalev, saxophone, Amy Yang, piano — Tuesday, American Philosophical Society When saxophonist Valentin Kovalev visited WRTI’s studios for a conversation with John T.K. Scherch this summer, he described the “immediate impression” that the “shiny golden instrument” made when he first heard it being played in a …
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