Sunday, April 12
3 to 5 pm
New York Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta, conductor
PercaDu, percussionists

Program:
Avner Dorman: Spices, Perfumes, Toxins!? (U.S. Premiere)
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra

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MINAS is celebrating 25 years of spreading the joy of Brazilian music to Philadelphians. Join Orlando Haddad and Patricia King at the World Cafe Live for two shows on Saturday, April 11th - at 7:30 pm there will be a concert/dinner, and at 10:30 pm a Brazilian groove dance party. There's even more MINAS to look forward to this year! They have two CDs slated for release in the coming months.

This week's show is a premiere of sorts. Our guest Gabriela Imreh is an outstanding pianist, and she and her husband, conductor Daniel Spalding are detectives as well. Imreh shares the fascinating story of their precious discovery--Vittorio Giannini's Piano Concerto, a major work that she went on to record. The Concerto had almost been forgotten since its first performance in 1937; Imreh and her husband brought it back to life. Hear their story on this week's Crossover.

Hamlet's an exhausting and compelling fellow in the Lantern Company's production with Geoff Sobel in the title role. Sobel, a very physical actor keeps the brooding prince restlessly in motion, while making Shakespeare's thoughts his own.

Hamlet, Lantern Theater Company

In April, WRTI is paying homage to jazz artists who helped make the American art form so widely recognized. Each week we'll spotlight different artists who were the masters of their crafts, starting off with a rhythm-filled week of the finest drummers in jazz. We'll then move to the horn players, the pianists, and the masters of the reeds. In honor of Duke Ellington's birthday, we'll showcase the great bandleaders. And finally, vocalists will serenade you through your weekends.

You could win a pair (2) of reserved box?tickets to the Mann Center for the Performing Arts, for the Herbie Hancock and Lang Lang Concert with The Philadelphia Orchestra on July 30th.?

A pair (2) of reserved box concert tickets will be given away in the sweepstakes.? The estimated fair market value of this item is $150. Ten winners in all. ??No substitution of a cash value prize will be permitted.? If the winner declines the prize, no other prize will be offered.

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Join us on Sunday, April 26th at 8 pm for a toast to the late Dr. Harrison Ridley, Jr., who passed away in February. During The Historical Approach to the Positive Music, Jeff Duperon will be your host for a dual tribute: our tribute to Harrison with highlights from the archives of his show, and a tribute to one of Harrison's favorite musicians, Duke Ellington.

Tune in or listen online on Wednesday, April 1st between 6 am and 6 pm to hear many of the beloved Russian composer's works, including some of his famous solo piano compositions.

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" -- Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

A Taste of What You'll Hear on April 1st:

Jim Cotter speaks with legendary playwright Edward Albee. The Philadelphia Theater Company is presenting his At Home at The Zoo.

Jason Peifer visits the Pearl S. Buck House in Bucks County. An exhibition that includes the long-lost manuscript of Buck's famous novel The Good Earth has opened at the National Historic Landmark home.

Susan Lewis visits the Sketch Club and the Plastic Club on Philadelphia's historic Camac Street, also known as the "Avenue of the Artists."

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Sunday, March 29
3 to 5 pm
New York Philharmonic
Lorin Maazel, conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

Program:
Barber: School for Scandal Overture
Gershwin: Concerto in F
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

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