This Friday, Oct 31 at 10:40am, we’ll have a live broadcast of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Hear Mozart’s overture to one of his most beloved comic operas, Brahms’s monumental First Piano Concerto played by Kirill Gerstein and an early work by Schoenberg full of lush harmonies. Principal Guest Conductor Tabita Berglund leads the orchestra. Hosted […]

Johann Sebastian Bach’s “The Well-Tempered Clavier” a two-volume collection of 24 preludes and fugues in every major and minor key, is a foundational work in classical music, demonstrating a revolutionary tuning system for keyboard instruments. 90.9 WRCJ’s Haley Taylor talks with pianist Christopher O’Riley about his newly-released recording of Book II, where he explores the […]

2025 is the 300th anniversary of the Anna Magdalena Notebook. The lavish notebook was a gift from Johann Sebastian Bach to his second wife Anna Magdalena. Who was she and what did the book contain? Listen to find out! 2025 is also the 20th anniversary of 90.9 WRCJ going on the air. LISTEN HERE

2025 marks the 150th anniversary of Georges Bizet’s opera masterpiece “Carmen”. Scandalous when it was first performed, Bizet sadly didn’t live to see it become appreciated. In this feature by Christa Grix, hear more of the story including some of the famous people who did recognize it’s beauty. Listen HERE

2025 is the 20th anniversary of 90.9 WRCJ and would be the 150th birthday of conductor Pierre Monteux. He led orchestras like the Boston Symphony and the Metropolitan Opera but had a unpopular debut in Paris of the Rite of Spring. Hear more in this feature from our very own Christa Grix. Listen HERE

The 2025 Detroit Jazz Festival took place over Labor Day Weekend and featured world-class talent of jazz legends, rising stars, legacy and homecoming artists. Located at Hart Plaza, Campus Martius Park, Cadillac Square and the Gretchen C. Valade Jazz Center, the lineup included more than 60 performances as remarkable and diverse as the genre itself, […]

2025 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of jazz pianist and composer Oscar Peterson. Hear a bit of his story and how he was influenced by classical music in this little feature from our very own Christa Grix. Listen HERE

We hope you got a chance to visit the 2025 Michigan Jazz Festival. It was their 30th anniversary! The festival was at the Vistatech Center on the campus of Schoolcraft College. John Penney was an emcee through out the day, meanwhile we had a 90.9 WRCJ table set up with goodies and we were fortunate […]

90.9 WRCJ’s Haley Taylor speaks with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Music Director & Conductor Jader Bignamini. The Orchestra performs a 150th birthday celebration for Ravel which includes Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, Piano Concerto in G and Bolero. Listen to them discuss the concert HERE

Did you get a chance to visit the 2024 Detroit Jazz Festival? There was lots of great music! We had our tent setup in Hart Plaza. Hopefully you were able to come by and get some of the goodies we were handing out. 90.9’s Linda Yohn, John Penney and Maxine Michaels were on stage emceeing […]