Maestro Rossen Milanov--Something Intangible--The Audition--Free Library of...
Jim Cotter speaks with Rossen Milanov. He conducts both Camdens Symphony in C with Astral Artists, and The Philadelphia Orchestra in upcoming concerts at the Kimmel Center. Jason Peifer visits the...
View ArticlePMA Modern Art--Music & Reading Terminal Market--Simeone Found. Museum--Free...
Jim Cotter takes a walk through Adventures in Modern Art : The Charles K. Williams II Collection, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and speaks with its organizer Innis Shoemaker. David Patrick Stearns...
View ArticleThe Life and Work of 19th-Century English Writer Charles Dickens
Two hundred years after his birth, the author of A CHRISTMAS CAROL, GREAT EXPECTATIONS, and OLIVER TWIST is now the subject of a year-long celebration at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
View ArticleCharles Dickens at the Free Library of Philadelphia
WRTIs Susan Lewis looks at the life and legacy of Charles Dickens as the Free Library of Philadelphia continues its year-long Dickens celebration with special exhibits and programming.
View ArticleThe Life and Legacy of Charles Dickens
As the Free Library of Philadelphia continues its celebration of A Year of Dickens , WRTI's Susan Lewis considers the lasting appeal of the 19th-century writer - 200 years after his birth. The...
View Article"One Book" We're Reading This Year in Philadelphia: The Yellow Birds
The Free Library of Philadelphia's One Book, One Philadelphia selection for 2014 is The Yellow Birds, written by Kevin Powers, an Iraq War veteran. He says he didn't set out to write a sweeping epic...
View ArticlePhiladelphia Premieres: Josef Suk, Vitezslav Novak
On Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection, Saturday August 2nd, 5-6 pm... The gentleman from Philadelphia was heir to a textile business but his passion was music. An amateur violinist and violist,...
View ArticleA Young Composer Inspired by One Book, One Philadelphia's 'Orphan Train'
Curtis Institute of Music composition student TJ Cole is only 21, but she already has a string of impressive commissions under her belt. Last year she was chosen to write a piece of music based on the...
View ArticlePhiladelphia is Firing Up for Cold Mountain!
It's a novel, a film, an opera, and now it's the recently announced One Book, One Philadelphia selection for 2016. The Free Library and the City of Philadelphia officially kicked off the yearly...
View Article'Cold Mountain' Author Charles Frazier On His Book And Its Reincarnations
This year’s One Book One Philadelphia selection is Charles Frazier’s novel Cold Mountain. From now until March 30th, the Free Library will host a series of reading groups, lectures, cooking classes and...
View ArticleCurtis Composer’s Creativity Sparked by COLD MOUNTAIN
“Opera’s where my heart is,” said Rene Orth this January, and in June, Opera Philadelphia announced her appointment as its new Composer in Residence . She will be the sixth composer to hold that...
View ArticleA Young Composer Inspired by the 2017 One Book, One Philadelphia Selection
This year’s One Book, One Philadelphia features the novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time , by Mark Haddon. There’s a musical analog to this imaginative tale; Curtis Institute of...
View ArticleWatch and Listen: Philadelphia Flute Quartet Live from the WRTI Performance...
The Philadelphia Flute Quartet brings its distinctive sound to our WRTI performance studio on Thursday, November 1 at 12:10 pm for a live broadcast of contemporary music. The quartet performs...
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