Interviews

A Tempo (12/27) wraps up its series on holiday season performance traditions with a look at the Philly Pops, whose musicians have worked for its survival after financial challenges threatened its status as a local tradition three years ago.

In its series on holiday season traditions, A Tempo (12/20) features a conversation about the Metropolitan Opera's family-friendly production of Mozart's The Magic Flute.

A Tempo (12/3) features a conversation about the discovery of a document that might represent some of the oldest known pre-cursors of Western music notation, and also includes a preview of this year's Make Music Winter program scheduled for the Winter Solstice.

A Tempo this week (11/29) looks at the story and tradition behind Tindley Temple's 68th presentation of this seasonal favorite.

A Tempo (11/22) kicks off its annual series exploring how some performing arts organizations are bringing a local or creative touch to classic holiday traditions with Nimbus Dance's Jersey Nutcracker.

Pianist Steven Spooner in music and conversation this Friday (11/14, rebroadcast Saturday 11/15).

A Tempo chats with Ian Koebner, who was recently named Inaugural Chair and Endowed Professor of Arts in Health at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, about the connections between the arts and wellness.

A Tempo (11/8) covers a recent conference on the connection between the arts and wellness.

A Tempo (11/1) visits a new exhibit at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts that traces the personalities, productions and progress of Black theater, and how that helped shape American musical theater.

A Tempo (10/25) gets a preview of the upcoming exhibit 'The Magical Flute: Beauty, Enchantment and Power' at the Musical Instrument Museum.