At The Academy, The Birth Of Wire Transmission Of Music
Eighty years ago, Leopold Stokowski and pioneering sound engineers turned the Academy of Music into a multi-media hub for broadcast music. Jack McCarthy has the story of Bell Labs, Disney, and the first stereo broadcast performances > more
South Broad, North Broad, And The Rite Of Spring
It had its US orchestral premier at the Academy of Music, its US ballet premier at the Metropolitan Opera, and now it returns tomorrow night for a multi-media, dance, and orchestral spectacle at the Academy. Jack McCarthy has the story > more
There Was No End To The Music
How do we remember and preserve the legacy of John Coltrane and what was, in the 1940s-1960s, one of the top jazz communities in the world? Rob Armstrong helps us launch the discussion with this first in a series of articles we're producing with the website All About Jazz--a portrait of Coltrane immersed in his city > more
With Historic Church, Wei Wants A Way Out
Hope for the resale of the Church of the Assumption on Spring Garden, the portraiture of Brewerytown, classical music in Philadelphia’s history, and Thaddeus Squire talks co-working spaces > more
Immigrants, Schoolkids, Buddhists and All That Jazz
What's the (extraordinary) story behind Philadelphia's first Buddhist Temple, at 12th and Washington? The Shadow knows! > more
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