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Philadelphia Orchestra cellist Bob Cafaro performs at Jefferson Station in Philadelphia as part of the
Music
Philadelphia
Transportation

Philadelphia musicians bring Bach to commuters to honor composer’s 334th birthday

Philadelphia joins cities across the globe with free public performances of Bach to celebrate the composer’s 334th birthday.

6 years ago

Steven Rishard (left), Suli Holum and PJ Barth in Theatre Horizon's production of
Shapiro on Theater
Performing Arts

The many facets of ‘The Few,’ at Theatre Horizon

The ‘Few,’ by MacArthur “genius grant” fellow Samuel D. Hunter, strikes common chords about loneliness and connection and continues through April 7.

6 years ago

90-year-old pianist Leon Fleisher will perform a pair of concerts this weekend with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra. (Chris Hartlove)
Aging
Music
Performing Arts

90-year-old pianist performs with the Delaware Symphony in Wilmington and Lewes

Nationally renowned pianist Leon Fleisher continues his 90th birthday celebration with a pair of performances in Delaware.

6 years ago

The Fox Studios sign is pictured at the entrance to the lot, Tuesday, March 19, 2019, in Los Angeles. Disney's $71.3 billion acquisition of Fox's entertainment assets is set to close around 12 a.m. EDT on Wednesday. (Chris Pizzello/AP Photo)
Movies

In end of 20th Century Fox, a new era dawns for Hollywood

When the Walt Disney Co.'s $71.3 billion acquisition of Fox is completed at 12:02 a.m. Wednesday, the storied lot will no longer house one of the six major studios.

6 years ago

The ensemble of
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Performing Arts

An off-season Fringe, with the spotlight on local successes

The new High Pressure Fire Service Festival, geared to locally based performers, runs through most of June, with a new show opening each month.

6 years ago

Workman hoist the White Water sculpture off of its base to a flat bed truck.  White Water, a sculpture by Philadelphia artist Robinson Fredenthal is moved from the garden behind the Wells Fargo building in Old City to its new home at the Woodmere Art Museum in Chestnut Hill. (Jonathan Wilson for WHYY)
Public Spaces
Sculpture

How a massive Robinson Fredenthal sculpture moved to Chestnut Hill in the dead of night

The “White Water” sculpture had been in downtown Philadelphia for 40 years. It now lives on the front lawn of the Woodmere Museum.

6 years ago

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A photo of surf guitarist Dick Dale (with guitar) and his band, the Del-Tones.
NPR
Music

Dick Dale, surf guitar legend, dead at 81

Dick Dale, the surf rock pioneer who took reverb to new levels, died on Saturday night

6 years ago

Nat 'King' Cole having a smoke while disembarking from a plane in 1963. (Evening Standard/Getty Images)
NPR
History
Music

Nat King Cole still remains ‘one of the great gifts of nature’ 100 years later

The jazz legend and barrier breaker was born on March 17, 1919 in Montgomery, Ala.

6 years ago

The Trocadero theater on Arch Street in Chinatown. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Business
Performing Arts
Philadelphia

Kung fu to zombies, remembering the Trocadero

Philly’s 150-year-old Chinatown concert venue will close at the end of the month.

6 years ago

Bria Blauvelt rehearses with the newly formed Whistling Orchestra of Philadelphia. She traveled from her home in Egg Harbor Township for the opportunity to put her talent to work with a group. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Higher Education
Music

Will whistle for work: Orchestra whistles tribute to Philly’s labor history

Temple art gallery has commissioned a UK artist to compose and assemble an orchestra of local whistlers in Philadelphia.

7 years ago

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Philadelphia singer-songwriter Birdie Busch at her home studio in Germantown. Busch wrote eight original songs inspired by the art of women in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and will perform them Friday night at the museum. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Gender
Music
Visual Arts

Women artists celebrated in song at Philly Museum of Art

Birdie Busch will perform a suite of songs based on female artists in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

7 years ago

Equality Labs, an organization of Delit people (
Religion
Social Justice
Visual Arts

Asian Arts Initiative showcases art striving to cast out caste system

The Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia is exhibiting work by a group of Dalit, once known as “untouchables,” to protest that social hierarchy.

7 years ago

Terry Lee Barrett hosted “Caribbean Rhythms” on WRTI FM, from 1987 to 1995. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Music
Philadelphia

Archives of radio show illuminate Philly’s love affair with reggae of ‘80s and ‘90s

Recordings of the “Caribbean World Rhythms” radio show bring back the bright, sun-splashed sounds of reggae.

7 years ago

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Laylah Amatullah Barrayn has been traveling to Senegal since 1999 to take pictures of the Baye Fall, a Sufi sect of Islam.
Her images are on view at the African American Museum in Philadelphia in the exhibit,
International
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Two visions of African spirituality at the African American Museum

A photojournalist and a fine-art photographer collaborate on a dual exhibition of the Baye Fall of Senegal and the indigenous deities of Sierra Leone.

7 years ago

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About 2,000 people attended the Snow Jam concert headlined by O.A.R. in the debut concert at the 76ers Fieldhouse in Wilmington last month. (Courtesy of BPG Sports)
Delaware
Music
Performing Arts

At Wilmington’s 76ers Fieldhouse, hoops make way for hoopla of concerts, celebrities

The new Wilmington sports arena for the 76ers G League team drew well for an O.A.R. concert. Rap queen Cardi B will host a party there in April.

7 years ago

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