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Philip Glass is 81 years old, and has been an active composer for nearly 60 years. For Glass, the years mean nothing; the thrill of creating music -- and then hearing it performed -- never gets old. On this weekend's edition of Performance Today, hear the world premiere performance of the "Annunciation" Piano Quintet by Philip Glass, performed by pianist Paul Barnes and the Chiara Quartet.

Composer Maurice Greene and George Frederic Handel had a relatively pleasant relationship... until Greene got a job that Handel had wanted. On Friday's Performance Today, music by Maurice Greene, frenemy of George Frederic Handel.

Sergey Taneyev's Symphony No. 4 is a great piece of Romantic Russian music, and it's not played nearly often enough. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra play it in concert in Rotterdam.

Composer Jessie Montgomery says she's made an attempt to answer the question: "What does an anthem for the 21st century sound like in today's multi-cultural environment?" Hear Montgomery's answer - a rhapsody on the Star Spangle Banner - on the Wednesday's Performance Today.

In 1829, composer Felix Mendelssohn went on a walking tour of Scotland. He sent a musical sketch in a letter back to his family, and those notes turned out to be the beginnings of his "Scottish Symphony." Join us for Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 3, on Tuesday's Performance Today.

Philip Glass is 81 years old, and has been an active composer for nearly 60 years. For Glass, the years mean nothing; the thrill of creating music -- and then hearing it performed -- never gets old. On Monday's Performance Today, hear the world premiere performance of the "Annunciation" Piano Quintet by Philip Glass, performed by pianist Paul Barnes and the Chiara Quartet.

Composer George Walker celebrated his 96th birthday this week. He's busy as ever, hard at work on a new symphony. On this weekend's Performance Today, George Walker tells us about his life, his music, the secret to his vitality... and his tomatoes.

On Friday's Performance Today, we'll meet Xiaoxuan Li, winner of the 2018 Cleveland Piano Competition for Young Artists, followed by a movement from his Cleveland performance of Chopin's Concerto No. 2.

Conductor Roderick Cox is a trailblazer.