Poster Catfish Row
Catfish Row, Charleston, S.C.
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Performance Today®

Exploring Catfish Row

On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll take a trip to Catfish Row to explore the alleys and atmosphere that inspired George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Plus, we'll hear some Gershwin from the Spoleto Festival in Charleston.

Episode Playlist

Hour 1

Johan Halvorsen: Bojarenes Inntogsmarsj (Entry March of the Boyars)
Norwegian Radio Orchestra; Ari Rasilainen, conductor

Heitor Villa-Lobos: String Quartet No. 1
Cuarteto Latinoamericano
The Flagler Museum Music Series, The Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, FL

Johannes Brahms: Six Pieces for Piano, Op. 118; No. 1-3, No. 5-6
Orion Weiss, piano
Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, The Mar-a-Lago Club, Palm Beach, FL

Hour 2

George Gershwin (arr. Jascha Haifetz): It Ain't Necessarily So
Livia Sohn, violin; Pedja Muzijevic, piano
Spoleto Festival USA, Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC

Randall Woolf: Righteous Babe
Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Pedja Muzijevic, piano
Spoleto Festival USA, Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC

Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Oboe d'amore in A Major, BWV 1055R
James Austin Smith, oboe d'amore; Livia Sohn, violin; Geoff Nuttall, violin; Lesley Robertson, viola; Christopher Costanza, cello
Spoleto Festival USA, Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC

George Gershwin (arr. Jascha Haifetz): Summertime
Livia Sohn, violin; Pedja Muzijevic, piano
Spoleto Festival USA, Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC

Svante Henryson: Off Pist
Todd Palmer, clarinet; Christopher Costanza, cello
Spoleto Festival USA, Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC

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