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John Abercrombie helped define the sound of jazz guitar: from jazz-rock fusion to funky organ combos to the distinctive less-is-more sound he created on dozens of albums for the ECM label.

Rachmaninov's Francesca da Rimini is one of at least a dozen plays and as many operas based on Dante's brief episode about Francesca da Rimini and the…

Expand your palette with music from movies about the great painters. Ross Amico will be your host for selections from “The Agony and the Ecstasy” (Alex…

This Monday (828) at 1 PM hear two motets:Guest conductor Scott Alan Jarrett leads the Trinity Baroque Choir & Orchestra on this edition of Bach at 1.

Wednesday (8-30) at noon we'll hear the Chopin Sonata and Beethoven's 3rd Sonata for piano and cello from the graduation recital of cellist Will Chow.…

Singer-songwriter Lady Lamb offers a manifesto for Tender Warriors with her latest album. She’s in our studio.

NPR's Scott Simon talk with legendary break dancer Richard "Crazy Legs" Colón about New York City's biggest break dancing competition and the early days of the dance form.

The Philadelphia Orchestra recently announced it had received a $5 million gift from the Wyncote Foundation to support programming that will highlight the…

Watch Wadada Leo Smith play a tribute to Emmett Till while floating down the same river where, over 60 years earlier, Till's lifeless 14-year-old body was found.

This week we have selections from Giordano's Madame Sans-Gens. In 1999, near the end of her active singing career, Mirella Freni recorded this live…