You know Freda Payne's voice from the smash hit “Band of Gold,” which topped the pop charts here and in the U.K. in 1970. During her long career, she has also made appearances on TV and in film. And now, for the third time, she's portraying Ella Fitzgerald onstage in Ella: First Lady of Song at Delaware Theatre Company in Wilmington.

Praised by The New York Times for his “rich, glowing voice and elegant legato,” and by The Wall Street Journal as “a powerful bass-baritone,” South African opera singer Musa Ngqungwana joins us for a LIVE broadcast from the WRTI Performance Studio, Wednesday, May 9 at 12:10 pm. Debra Lew Harder hosts.

Known especially for his New World Symphony and Slavonic Dances, Czech composer Antonín Dvořák wrote a song about motherhood for piano and voice that has become a standard for opera singers around the world.

Israeli conductor Lahav Shani becomes chief conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic in September, taking over from Yannick Nézet-Séguin.  Join us on WRTI 90.1, Sunday, May 13th from 1 to 3 pm to hear his Philadelphia Orchestra debut from this past March.

You’ve heard her stunning harp solos in Philadelphia Orchestra concerts. Now, principal harpist Elizabeth Hainen joins us LIVE from the WRTI Performance Studio for a program of enchanting and brilliant harp music.

Join us Sunday from 4 to 6 pm for another virtuoso program of orchestral works from the extraordinary group of young instrumentalists making up one of the nation’s premier organizations for young musicians, the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra. 

April 30, 2018.  What a fascinating study of an instrument not frequently heard in a solo role:  the viola!  On Motherland, superstar violist David Aaron Carpenter shows us the range and depth of his instrument.

April 30, 2018. In his heyday, trumpeter Eddie Henderson was a famous multitasker. He practiced general medicine by day, and played jazz at night. Eddie’s new release Be Cool is a multitasker of an album.