Like I mentioned before, WHYY’s Peter Crimmins covered the parade for our radio news department and was kind enough to snap a couple of pictures of the event.  One of my favorites is this beauty, juxtaposing the “high culture” and “elite Philadelphia” represented by the Kimmel Center with the art and culture of the city’s [...]

A program that trumpets the healing power of music is in full swing this holiday season.  WXPN’s “Musicians On Call” relies on volunteers to perform for patients at four Philadelphia-area health centers.  WHYY’s Jennifer Lynn visited the Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania to catch the program in action.
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Give yourself a couple of days to digest your Thanksgiving feast, and then stave off the work week after a four day holiday by treating yourself to El Guincho at the Barbary on Sunday evening. The Spanish artist is a cross between an unusually eclectic DJ and general party provocateur. It took a long time for [...]

So-called “Adult Alternative” rock public radio station WXPN is losing one of its top DJs to what may be the grand-daddy station of the radio format, Minnesota’s 89.3 The Current. Jim McGuinn originally came to XPN two years ago when his Y-Rock station merged with WXPN. Y-Rock got its own HD radio and web streams, and [...]

If you can brave the cold there’s plenty to do before the holiday season descends in full force immediately after Thanksgiving (I think Christmas technically starts the second you put down your fork after your Thanksgiving feast).
Tonight is the end of Chile week here in the city. Claudia Acuña, a jazz singer from the South [...]

You’ve still got a few more hours to snatch up the remaining tickets to the Philadelphia debut of Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra at the Kimmel Center tonight. Dudamel’s tour with the Israeli Philharmonic received rapturous reviews for their New York City concerts earlier this week. 
Dudamel, only 27 years old, is best known as [...]

Tomorrow morning on WHYY’s Morning Edition, Arts and Culture reporter Alex Schmidt will have a story about the announced line-up for the Spectrum’s final concert season.
While announcing the acts that will take the stage before the nearly 40-year-old buildings ultimate demise, concert promoter Larry Magid reminisced about some of the legendary acts that have come [...]

WHYY’s Alex Schmidt has a story running tomorrow on 91FM with more details but the word coming from the Philly Orchestra is that James Undercofler will be stepping down at the end of his contract next summer.
Undercofler will have completed three years at the helm of the Orchestra having followed the 16-year tenure of former [...]

As a companion to Alex Schmidt’s piece about the discovery and performance of this long silent piece by influential composer Samuel Barber, here is his Prelude for Organ in its entirety as performed by Paul Jacobs, Chair of the Organ Department at Juilliard.
Click here to play the entire piece.
Image of Samuel Barber by photographer Carl [...]

WHYY’s Alex Schmidt filed a story about last night’s announcement of the 2008 Barrymore Awards.  In the piece she references several of the theater companies which are in line for the most awards.  After the jump, you can see the complete list of nominees.
[Source: The Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia]