This summer, it'll be our pleasure to take you on a musical road trip -- a virtual tour of the United States of Music. On Friday's Performance Today, we'll start our trip in New York City with the people and the place behind Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Leonard Bernstein: Overture to Candide
London Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Reaching for the Note
Deutsche Grammophon 459552
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Aria from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
Kimberly Patterson, cello; Patrick Sutton, guitar
Strings Music Festival, Strings Music Pavilion, Steamboat Springs, CO
Philip Glass: Concerto for Saxophone Quartet: Movement 1 and Movement 4
Amstel Saxophone Quartet
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Leonard Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
New York Philharmonic; Alan Gilbert, conductor
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY
Hour 2
Claude Debussy: Suite Bergamasque: 2. Menuet
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Jean-Yves Thibaudet: Debussy: Images, Etudes
London/Decca 460 247
Pablo de Sarasate: Nouvelle fantaisie sur Faust, Op. 13
Livia Sohn, violin; Pedja Muzijevic, piano
Spoleto Festival USA, Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC
Viet Cuong: Moth
Brooklyn Wind Symphony; Jeff W. Ball, conductor
The Midwest Clinic, McCormick Place, Chicago, IL
Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G Major
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Mariss Jansons, conductor
Culture and Congress Centre, Lucerne, Switzerland
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American Public Media’s Performance Today® is America’s most popular classical music radio program and a winner of the 2014 Gabriel Award for artistic achievement. The show is broadcast on hundreds of public radio stations across the country, including at 1 p.m. central weekdays on Minnesota Public Radio. More information about our stations can be found at APM Distribution.
Performance Today® features live concert recordings that can’t be heard anywhere else, highlights from new album releases, and in-studio performances and interviews. Performance Today® is based at the APM studios in St. Paul, Minnesota, but is frequently on the road, with special programs broadcast from festivals and public radio stations around the country. Also, each Wednesday, composer Bruce Adolphe joins host Fred Child for a classical musical game and listener favorite: the Piano Puzzler.
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