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Violinist Maria Ioudenitch is Performance Today's Young Artist in Residence. Maria joins Fred Child in the Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser studio in St. Paul, Minnesota. Learn more about Maria Ioudenitch and hear her perform music by Tchaikovsky, Clara Schumann, Sarasate, and more.
When Claude Debussy wrote music for the ballet "Jeux," he was picturing a game of tennis between two women and one young man. In tennis, "love" means nothing; in Debussy's music, love is everything. On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll hear romance and seduction on the courts, from a concert by the New York Philharmonic.
Alan Page played in nine Pro Bowls with the Minnesota Vikings. He then served over twenty years as an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court. Now, he has a performance with the Minnesota Orchestra under his belt. On Tuesday's Performance Today, Alan Page narrates "Lincoln Portrait" by Aaron Copland, from a concert in Minneapolis.
On Monday's Performance Today, hear a composition by Valerie Coleman named "Portraits of Josephine"... inspired by the life and times of one of the most famous entertainers of the 20th Century: Josephine Baker.
Pianist Kirill Gerstein says George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue effortlessly shifts between classical and jazz. It reminds him of... a goldfish. On this weekend's edition of Performance Today, we speak with Kirill Gerstein and hear live music from his new album "Gershwin."
In 1868, Edvard Grieg traveled to the Norwegian countryside where he spent some of his down time writing what's become one of the most iconic piano concertos of all time. On Friday's Performance Today, Pianist Javier Perianes plays Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara was 28 years old when he wrote his Symphony No. 1. It's a fascinating piece that is simply not played often enough, and so.... On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear the Buffalo Philharmonic, in concert, playing Rautavaara's Symphony No. 1.
Pianist Kirill Gerstein says George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue effortlessly shifts between classical and jazz. It reminds him of... a goldfish. On Wednesday's Performance Today, we speak with Kirill Gerstein and hear live music from his new album "Gershwin."
When pianist Liza Stepanova was a girl, she loved going to art museums where she felt creatively inspired. These days, she often plays music with connections to visual art. On Tuesday's Performance Today, Liza Stepanova plays music by Debussy, inspired by Japanese artwork.
