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Members of both the Glee Club and the Penn Sirens.
Education

After 159 years, the UPenn Glee Club goes co-ed

The all-male singing group is considered an unofficial ambassador of the Ivy League school, even as it excluded women’s voices.

5 years ago

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Lang Lang and Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Radio Times
Community

Regional Roundup – 04/12/21

This week; the sudden resignation of Camden's mayor, who's on Pennsylvania's judicial election ballot, and Beethoven in Beijing.

Air Date: April 12, 2021

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DMX performs during the BET Hip Hop Awards in Atlanta on Oct. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
Community

Rapper-actor DMX, known for gruff delivery, dead at 50

The Grammy-nominated performer died after suffering “catastrophic cardiac arrest,” according to the hospital in White Plains, New York, where he died.

5 years ago

Richard Thompson's new memoir is called
Radio Times
Arts & Entertainment

Richard Thompson

Legendary guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson joins Marty to talk about his memoir "Beeswing" which chronicles his early years with Fairport Convention.

Air Date: April 9, 2021 10:00 am

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John Prine performs at the Americana Honors & Awards show
Arts & Entertainment

Remembering John Prine with the superfan author of a new book about the songwriter

Morning Edition host Jennifer Lynn spoke with Bruce Rits Gilbert about his new book, “John Prine One Song at a Time.”

5 years ago

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SnackTime, a Philadelphia 10-man brass band playing in Rittenhouse Park. (Photo Courtesy of SnackTime)
PlanPhilly
Community
Eyes on the Street

Dear Rittenhouse neighbors, please quit over-policing musicians in a public park

Residential groups and local businesses are using their influence to limit one band’s outdoor music performances in Rittenhouse Park.

5 years ago

Community Conversations
Community

Vulnerable venues: The effort to preserve Philly’s stages

Promoters and musicians discuss efforts to preserve Philadelphia’s vulnerable venues and the future of live entertainment.

5 years ago

Taller Puertoriqueño was one of the places that connected Alba Martínez to Philly's local Latino communities when she moved to the city from Puerto Rico. | Taller Puertoriqueño fue uno de los lugares que conectó a Alba Martínez con las comunidades latinas locales de Filadelfia cuando se mudó a la ciudad desde Puerto Rico. (Bernardo Morillo/WHYY)
PlanPhilly
Arts & Entertainment
Bilingual version

La Gua Gua 47: A salsa song compuesta por una latina poderosa, Alba Martínez

La Gua Gua 47— the 47 Bus —honors the summer day in 1985 when Martínez rode SEPTA to the heartbeat of Philadelphia’s caribeña community.

5 years ago

Listen 4:52
Taller Puertoriqueño was one of the places that connected Alba Martínez to Philly's local Latino communities when she moved to the city from Puerto Rico. | Taller Puertoriqueño fue uno de los lugares que conectó a Alba Martínez con las comunidades latinas locales de Filadelfia cuando se mudó a la ciudad desde Puerto Rico. (Bernardo Morillo/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment
Version en Español

La Gua Gua 47: Una canción de salsa compuesta por una latina poderosa, Alba Martínez

La Gua Gua 47— the 47 Bus —honors the summer day in 1985 when Martínez rode SEPTA to the heartbeat of Philadelphia’s caribeña community.

5 years ago

Listen 4:52
Taller Puertoriqueño was one of the places that connected Alba Martínez to Philly's local Latino communities when she moved to the city from Puerto Rico. | Taller Puertoriqueño fue uno de los lugares que conectó a Alba Martínez con las comunidades latinas locales de Filadelfia cuando se mudó a la ciudad desde Puerto Rico. (Bernardo Morillo/WHYY)
Arts & Entertainment
English version

La Gua Gua 47: A salsa song written by SEPTA stan and Latina powerhouse Alba Martínez

“La Gua Gua 47” — the 47 Bus — honors the summer day in 1985 when Martínez rode SEPTA to the heartbeat of Philadelphia’s caribeña community.

5 years ago

Listen 4:52
(photo courtesy of Cephascrispus/Creative Commons)
Radio Times
Lifestyle

A year without concerts

We discuss the ways in which the pandemic has affected the lives of musicians, and the efforts to get Spotify to pay musicians more for their streams.

Air Date: March 18, 2021 10:00 am

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James Levine conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

James Levine, former Met Opera music director, is dead at age 77

Levine's singular tenure at the Metropolitan Opera ended in a flurry of accusations of sexual abuse.

5 years ago

Rebekkah Lee Krumenacker appears in the Open Stage production of
Arts & Entertainment

Philly arts institutions use COVID downtime to focus on accessibility and diversity

One silver lining of the yearlong pandemic is many theater companies have started putting plays and performances online.

5 years ago

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Three of the women who sing about their plight — and their hopes — on the album I've Forgotten Now Who I Used To Be. Their names are withheld to protect their physical safety because they have been accused of witchcraft. (Marilena Umuhoza Delli)
NPR
Arts & Entertainment

Banished ‘witches’ sing of their pain — and their dreams

An estimated 1,000 women in northern Ghana have fled their homes because of witchcraft accusations — and the fear that they will be physically attacked as a result.

5 years ago

Adam Weiner (right) and Will Donnelly of Low Cut Connie . (Emad Hasan0
Arts & Entertainment

Philly musicians scream, sweat, strip to rock out in a lockdown

“When there is an audience, I am involved with the audience and I thrive off their participation. But it's the music that ultimately injects that electricity into me,”

5 years ago

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