Where Music Lives: At Bunker Hill Presbyterian Church In Washington Township, NJ
A concert series in southern New Jersey’s Washington Township attracts top-notch performers from the region, across the river, New York, and all around. The Music at Bunker Hill concerts take place in...
View ArticleThe Business Behind The Music
In the early 1900s, royalties from sales of sheet music produced a steady source of income to composers and music publishers. But radio changed all that. WRTI’s Meridee Duddleston sat down with a legal...
View ArticleWhere Music Lives: On, And At, WRTI
Music lives on - and at - WRTI, where throughout 2013 we're celebrating our 60th anniversary. "The Diamond Sessions” - a series of classical and jazz performances recorded live before audiences at the...
View ArticleMusic Lives In The Voices Of The Greater South Jersey Chorus
What does it take to make a chorus come together? The pressure of an impending performance? The skill and sensibility of a conductor? The intrinsic beauty of the music? WRTI’s Meridee Duddleston...
View ArticleMusic Lives In David Michie's Charming Violin Shop Off Rittenhouse Square
Music lives in a quaint, historic building on Philadelphia’s Locust Street, just a few doors down from the Curtis Institute of Music, where David Michie restores and sells violins and bows, drawing...
View ArticleWhere Music Lives: At LaRose Jazz Club and Wherever You Find Tony Williams
Music lives at LaRose Jazz Club in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. That's where sax player and local jazz legend Tony Williams has a steady Monday night gig. WRTI’s Meridee Duddleston spends...
View ArticleWhere Music Lives: At Bunker Hill Presbyterian Church In Washington Township, NJ
Music Lives in Gloucester County, New Jersey, where WRTI’s Meridee Duddleston finds a concert series that focuses on bringing music to a previously underserved community.A concert series in southern...
View ArticleScience Of Jazz: A Mapping App Merges Art And Technology
A smartphone app developed at Drexel University deconstructs music into discernible elements like tone, intensity, and rhythm, and facilitates a fuller way of experiencing a live performance. Drexel...
View ArticleWhat Do You Know About Handel's Water Music?
George Frideric Handel was born in Germany in 1685, and moved to Britain as a young man. He spent his most productive years there, and became a naturalized British subject in his early 40s. His...
View ArticleWhere Music Lives: In A Jazz Past Resurrected
Philadelphia's jazz roots live in all quarters of the city. WRTI's Meridee Duddleston tracks the telltale signs of the city's jazz past, through a digital endeavor.A worldwide and community-based...
View ArticleA Philadelphia Favorite: Composer Jennifer Higdon
Philadelphia’s Jennifer Higdon is among the most-frequently performed living American composers. Her works have been performed around the world and recorded on dozens of CDs. Higdon received a Pulitzer...
View ArticleWhere Music Lives: High Above The Banks Of The Schuylkill In Laurel Hill Mansion
Among the seven historic homes in Fairmount Park that served as summer homes for the wealthy, only one is a regular venue for the kind of music their original inhabitants might have enjoyed. Chamber...
View ArticleWhere Music Lives: At The Shore, Equidistant Between Philadelphia And NYC
Music lives in Ocean County, New Jersey where the Garden State Philharmonic opens its arms to existing and future generations of music lovers, forging a classical path between the metropolises of...
View ArticleThe Musical Treasure-Trove At The Library Of Congress
A manuscript of a J.S. Bach cantata casts a new light on how Bach intended the piece to be played. A singer gains insight from a line in a Porgy and Bess manuscript that differs from the final lyrics....
View ArticleAt Classical Concerts: A Whole Lot Of Coughing Going On!
Why do people cough during classical music concerts? Is it a physical reflex or is there something else going on? WRTI’s Meridee Duddleston takes a look at some recent researchHiccups and sneezes are...
View ArticleWhere Music Lives: At WRTI!
Music lives at WRTI, where throughout 2013 we're celebrating our 60th anniversary. "The Diamond Sessions” - a series of classical and jazz performances, recorded live before audiences at the WRTI...
View ArticleHarpist Edna Phillips And The Philadelphia Orchestra: One Woman In A Hundred
A recently published biography reveals what it was like to be the first woman to enter the all-male sanctum of The Philadelphia Orchestra in the 1930s. WRTI’s Meridee Duddleston discovered the powerful...
View ArticleCan You Hear Us Now? The Reverb Really Makes A Difference
Lovers of classical music and jazz, musicians and composers, are acutely tuned in to the acoustics of a performance space. WRTI’s Meridee Duddleston looks at the acoustical demands of a concert...
View ArticleThat Charming Violin Shop Off Rittenhouse Square
Music lives in a quaint, historic building on Philadelphia’s Locust Street, just a few doors down from the Curtis Institute of Music, where David Michie restores and sells violins and bows, drawing...
View ArticleThe Business Behind The Music
In the early 1900s, royalties from sales of sheet music produced a steady source of income to composers and music publishers. But radio changed all that. WRTI’s Meridee Duddleston sat down with a legal...
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