Over the span of two centuries, the Bach family produced more than 50 musicians and composers. On Friday's Performance Today, we have music by Bach -- but not the guy who immediately comes to mind when you hear that name. We'll travel to Denmark to hear an overture by Johann Bernhard Bach, Johann Sebastian Bach's lesser-known second cousin.
Ferruccio Busoni's Piano Concerto is a massive, ambitious piece of music for full orchestra, 48 male singers, and a really, really good pianist. On Thursday's Performance Today, we'll hear it from a concert in Warsaw, featuring Garrick Ohlsson and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra.
Every week, composer Bruce Adolphe joins us for a musical game. Play along; see if you can name the tune, and the composer whose style Bruce is mimicking. On Wednesday's Performance Today, we'll play the Piano Puzzler, plus we'll hear highlights from concert halls around the world.
Ostensibly, the piano is the featured instrument in Richard Strauss' Burlesque for Piano and Orchestra -- but the timpani often steal the show. It's a wild, audacious, entertaining piece by the young Strauss, and on Tuesday's Performance Today, we'll hear it from a concert in Hamburg, Germany.
Violinist Hannah White was 14 years old when she took home the gold medal in the Junior Division of the 2015 Sphinx Competition. On Monday's Performance Today, we'll hear her prize-winning performance of a Mozart Violin Concerto from Orchestra Hall in Detroit.
The aria "Ah! mes amis" from the opera Daughter of the Regiment is notoriously difficult to sing; there are nine high Cs in the final minute. On this weekend's Performance Today, we'll hear our current Young Artist in Residence, American tenor Jack Swanson, hit every single one of them.
The aria "Ah! mes amis" from the opera Daughter of the Regiment is notoriously difficult to sing; there are nine high Cs in the final minute. On Friday's Performance Today, we'll hear our current Young Artist in Residence, American tenor Jack Swanson, hit every single one of them.
Creating heartfelt emotion in abstract music is no small task. According to tenor Jack Swanson, it requires finding an internal place of relaxation capable of tapping into the same emotions the music evokes. On Thursday's Performance Today, Swanson joins Fred in the studio for music and conversation as our latest Young Artist in Residence.
When Jack Swanson was in high school, he heard Luciano Pavarotti sing and he was blown away. Then and there, Swanson decided that he too would be a singer. And a singer he is! On Wednesday's Performance Today, tenor Jack Swanson will join Fred in the studio as our new Young Artist in Residence.
