Every day, 90.9 broadcasts classical music and jazz through well-curated playlists and programs.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Classical Roots concert comes to 90.9 FM Friday morning 3/6/26 at 10:40a.m.. WRCJ’s Cecelia Sharpe speaks with conductor Thomas Wilkins about the DSO’s Classical Roots tradition and music by Black composers on concert stages everywhere… Listen HERE
The A2SO brings you an extra special Valentines Day concert for 2026 – and an exciting second half to the 2025-26 season. Peter speaks with A2SO Executive Director Sarah Calderini about the concert with violinist Danny Koo and Music Director Earl Lee. Listen to the interview HERE
Cecelia Sharpe speaks with Kaneza Schaal, Director of Detroit Opera’s double-bill production “Highways and Valleys” featuring the music of William Grant Still and Kurt Weill. Listen to their talk HERE
Cecelia Sharpe speaks with Executive Director Anna Glass about the Dance Theatre of Harlem’s performance at the Detroit Opera House, November 15 & 16, 2025. Listen to the interview HERE
The Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra’s new season opens September 12, 2025. 90.9 WRCJ’s Peter Whorf and orchestra Executive Director Sarah Calderini talk about a few highlights. Listen HERE
Pianist and composer Jason Moran is the Artist-in-Residence for the 2025 Detroit Jazz Festival. Get to know him better in this interview with 90.9 WRCJ’s John Penney. Listen to their talk HERE
Here is a segment 90.9 WRCJ’s John Penney put together in remembrance of Detroit-born Sheila Jordan who passed away recently at the age of 96. She was a jazz singer, songwriter, pianist, music educator, NEA Jazz Master and pioneered a bebop and scat jazz singing style. Listen HERE
90.9 WRCJ’s Linda Yohn speaks with engaging and entrancing French jazz singer Tatiana Eva-Marie. She performed at the 2025 Detroit Jazz Festival in Hart Plaza! Tatiana also has a new album out, A Whole New World, which covers Disney tunes with fresh “jazz manouche” arrangements. Listen to their talk HERE
Randall Goosby returned to Detroit to play Florence Price with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra January 31 – February 2, 2025. It’s a reunion with 90.9 WRCJ’s Peter Whorf who heard Goosby play the Price Violin Concerto No. 2 in Amsterdam last spring. Listen to the interview HERE
2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of English Author Jane Austen! Listen to this little feature by 90.9 WRCJ’s Christa Grix for a bit of history. LISTEN HERE